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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 25, 2014
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| US 08894584 | Swoboda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marek Swoboda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Matias Gabriel Hochman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Mark Evan Mattiucci (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Frederick J. Fritz (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shuntcheck, Inc. (Bensalem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek Swoboda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Matias Gabriel Hochman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Mark Evan Mattiucci (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania); Frederick J. Fritz (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for measuring quantitative CSF flow in shunt tubing implanted under the skin. The system includes an array of thermosensors clustered in three sections, cooling device, placed on the skin surface and an associated data acquisition and analysis device. Two sensor sections are placed over the shunt on the skin and measure real time temperature responses related to CSF movement. One array placed adjacent the cooling device collects data on thermal properties of skin including skin thermal condictivity, specific heat, diffusivity, perfusion, and thermal inertia. The method involves assessing thermal properties of skin and measuring CSF flow in shunt tubing. The method is useful for shunt patency assessment, CSF valve adjustment procedures and CSF flow measurements related to CSF over drainage. Alternatively, only one section of sensors need be used when determining relative CSF flow, without the need to determine thermal skin properties and by applying the cooling device continuously. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/698689 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/031 (20130101) A61B 5/032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/168 (20130101) A61M 5/16836 (20130101) Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/684 (20130101) |
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| US 08894633 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shane M. Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mark Rentschler (Boulder, Colorado); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane M. Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Mark Rentschler (Boulder, Colorado); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to modular medical devices, including various devices with detachable modular components and various devices with pivotally attached modular components. Additional embodiments relate to procedures in which various of the devices are used cooperatively. Certain embodiments of the medical devices are robotic in vivo devices. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/971917 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/1 |
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| US 08894751 | Galbraith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. McGowan (Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania); Evonne A. Baldauff (Eight Four, Pennsylvania); Elise Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); David K. Walker (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Separation Design Group LLC (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. McGowan (Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania); Evonne A. Baldauff (Eight Four, Pennsylvania); Elise Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); David K. Walker (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Lightweight, portable oxygen concentrators that operate using an ultra rapid, sub one second, adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials are disclosed. The amount of sieve material utilized is a fraction of that used in conventional portable devices. This dramatically reduces the volume, weight, and cost of the device. Innovations in valve configuration, moisture control, case and battery design, and replaceable sieve module are described. Patients with breathing disorders and others requiring medical oxygen are provided with a long lasting, low cost alternative to existing portable oxygen supply devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/499943 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 16/101 (20140204) A61M 16/0672 (20140204) A61M 2016/1025 (20130101) A61M 2205/8206 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 53/0415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/0473 (20130101) B01D 2253/108 (20130101) B01D 2253/304 (20130101) B01D 2256/12 (20130101) B01D 2257/102 (20130101) B01D 2259/4541 (20130101) |
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| US 08894891 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenhao Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Numpon Insin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenhao Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Numpon Insin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanomaterial can include an outer layer including a ligand. The ligand can include a first monomer unit including a first moiety having affinity for a surface of the nanocrystal, a second monomer unit including a second moiety having a high water solubility, and a third monomer unit including a third moiety having a selectively reactive functional group or a selectively binding functional group. The ligand can be a random copolymer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857430 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/54 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/3322 (20130101) C08G 65/33306 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08894985 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ernst V. Arnold (Hagerstown, Maryland); Blaine G. Doletski (Elkridge, Maryland); Robert E. Raulli (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amulet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernst V. Arnold (Hagerstown, Maryland); Blaine G. Doletski (Elkridge, Maryland); Robert E. Raulli (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions comprising carbon-based diazeniumdiolates attached to hydrophobic polymers that releases nitric oxide (NO). The carbon-based diazeniumdiolated polymers release NO spontaneously under physiological conditions without subsequence nitrosamine formation. The present invention also relates to methods of preparing the carbon-based diazeniumdiolated polymers, compositions comprising such polymers, methods of using such compositions, and devices employing such polymer compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940208 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/655 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) A61L 31/10 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/6854 (20130101) C08G 64/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08894997 | Crowe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James E. Crowe (Nashville, Tennessee); Christopher F. Basler (Hastings on Hudson, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Crowe (Nashville, Tennessee); Christopher F. Basler (Hastings on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to particular monoclonal antibodies and fragments thereof that find use in the detection, prevention and treatment of influenza virus infections. In particular, these antibodies may neutralize or limit the replication of H1N1 influenza virus. Also disclosed are improved methods for producing such monoclonal antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/318020 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 08895002 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Herbert Y. Lin (Watertown, Massachusetts); Jodie Babitt (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts); Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert Y. Lin (Watertown, Massachusetts); Jodie Babitt (Newton Highlands, Massachusetts); Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a hemojuvelin (HJV) fusion protein (e.g., a human HJV.Fc) protein, polynucleotides and vectors encoding such proteins, and methods for making such proteins. Also provided are methods for treating iron-related disorders which include administration of a HJV fusion protein to a patient in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/595423 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) |
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| US 08895006 | Tumer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nilgun Tumer (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Xiao-Ping Li (Flemington, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nilgun Tumer (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Xiao-Ping Li (Flemington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for treatment of toxin poisoning are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/412601 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 39/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/25 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/25 (20130101) G01N 2333/415 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) G01N 2800/42 (20130101) |
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| US 08895018 | Vandenbark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by 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 Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for the treatment of subjects with cognitive or neuropsychiatric impairment induced by substance addiction and for increasing cognitive function in a subject with substance addiction. In some embodiments, the methods include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule including covalently linked first, second, and third domains; wherein the first domain is an MHC class II β1 domain and the second domain is an MHC class II α1 domain; or wherein the first domain is an MHC class I α1 domain and the second domain is an MHC class I α2 domain; and wherein the third domain is covalently linked to the first domain and comprises an antigen of the central or peripheral nervous system. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/924252 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0007 (20130101) A61K 39/0007 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/605 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895020 | Hansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ted Hansen (St. Louis, Missouri); Yik Yeung Lawrence Yu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted Hansen (St. Louis, Missouri); Yik Yeung Lawrence Yu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Single chain trimer (SCT) molecules are disclosed, comprising an MHC antigen peptide sequence, a β2-microglobulin sequence and a full-length MHC class I heavy chain sequence, joined by linker sequences. Further described are nucleic acids encoding single chain trimers. Methods for expansion of antigen-specific T cell populations using single chain trimer molecules are also disclosed. In some configurations, these methods comprise co-culturing, in a first stage, CD8+ T cells from a donor with antigen presenting cells comprising an MHC antigen peptide, and co-culturing, in a second stage, the CD8+ T cells with cells comprising an SCT which has an MHC antigen peptide sequence identical to the sequence of the antigen peptide in the first stage. The methods can provide 10,000-100,000 fold expansion of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells within about 28 days after establishing culture, and can yield over 1 billion antigen-specific CD8+ T cells expanded from an individual donor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397377 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/70539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/62 (20130101) |
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| US 08895032 | Lee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Choon Young Lee (Mount Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Central Michigan University (Mount Pleasant, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choon Young Lee (Mount Pleasant, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are dendritic nano-antioxidant compounds according to Formula I, which may further comprise active agents covalently or non-covalently attached. Further provided are compositions comprising the disclosed compounds. Also disclosed are cosmetic compositions and dietary supplements comprising the compounds according to Formula I. The invention additionally provides methods of reducing free radicals or oxidative stress in a cell, a method of treating a subject, and a method of treating a condition comprising administering the compounds according to Formula I. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/749022 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/30 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/411 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 2800/57 (20130101) A61K 2800/522 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 19/00 (20130101) A61Q 19/08 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 215/50 (20130101) C07C 217/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 219/28 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08895062 | De Leeuw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik P. H. De Leeuw (Baltimore, Maryland); Wuyuan Lu (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik P. H. De Leeuw (Baltimore, Maryland); Wuyuan Lu (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides surface-layer protein coated microspheres for delivery of a therapeutic agent to the intestine. These surface-layer protein coated microspheres generally include a core encapsulated by a microsphere which is coated by surface layer protein. The core includes a therapeutic agent, such as a defensin. The invention also includes methods of making and using the surface-layer protein coated microspheres of the invention for administering therapeutic agents to a subject in need thereof. The invention also includes pharmaceutical dosage units that include the surface-layer protein coated microspheres of the invention. The invention further includes various labeled defensins for use in the study of the properties and actions of defensins, and further includes the use of defensins, particularly HD5α in the treatment of inflammatory conditions of the bowel, such as Crohn's disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162011 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5052 (20130101) A61K 9/5068 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 38/1729 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) |
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| US 08895242 | Messmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley T. Messmer (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley T. Messmer (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates to a nanoparticle platform based on the unique and varied properties of DNA. Circular DNA can be replicated using a strand displacing polymerase to generate long linear concatamers of controllable length that spontaneously fold into a ball conformation due to internal base-pairing. These balls of DNA are discreet particles that can be made in variable sizes on a nanometer size scale in a scalable manner. The particles can be used in a variety of manners, discussed herein, including specific targeting, drug delivery to cancer cells, and diagnostics. Nanoparticles may also serve as multifunctional platforms for the integration of many currently used cancer therapeutic techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/502729 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 2039/64 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/51 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2330/31 (20130101) C12N 2330/50 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2015/0038 (20130101) |
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| US 08895284 | Grozinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina M. Grozinger (Urbana, Illinois); Christian A. Hassig (Somerville, Massachusetts); Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides histone deacetylase class II nucleic acids and polypeptides, methods and reagents for their use, and related compounds including small molecule libraries containing class II histone deacetylase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/888937 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) C12N 9/80 (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 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6875 (20130101) |
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| US 08895295 | Ririe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirk M. Ririe (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gary Clark Kessler (Bountiful, Utah); David E. Jones (Clearfield, Utah); Mark Aaron Poritz (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biofire Diagnostics, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk M. Ririe (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gary Clark Kessler (Bountiful, Utah); David E. Jones (Clearfield, Utah); Mark Aaron Poritz (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, containers, and methods are provided for performing biological analysis in a closed environment. Illustrative biological analyses include high density nucleic acid amplification and detection and immuno-PCR. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/515123 |
| 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 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/16 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/049 (20130101) B01L 2400/0478 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54386 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2035/00544 (20130101) |
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| US 08895300 | Schulz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Viacyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C Schulz (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for production of undifferentiated or differentiated embryonic stem cell aggregate suspension cultures from undifferentiated or differentiated embryonic stem cell single cell suspensions and methods of differentiation thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/672688 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0676 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/16 (20130101) C12N 2501/41 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/117 (20130101) C12N 2501/195 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2509/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08895301 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Su-Chun Zhang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Xiaoqing Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Su-Chun Zhang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Xiaoqing Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A transcription factor both necessary and sufficient for human neuroectoderm specification, Pax6, as well as applications thereof, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/360326 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0618 (20130101) C12N 5/0623 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2501/40 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2502/99 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/08 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08895308 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fei Ran (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are compositions and methods related to components of a CRISPR complex particularly comprising a Cas ortholog enzyme. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293498 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895309 | Kaspar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian K. Kaspar (Westerville, Ohio); Jerrry R. Mendell (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Kaspar (Westerville, Ohio); Jerrry R. Mendell (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for inhibiting myostatin, a regulator of muscle mass, for muscle enhancement (including inducing hypertrophy and/or hyperplasia) as well as improving muscle function (including decreasing atrophy and/or increasing endurance, force and/or strength). Some of the methods involve delivering genes to cells using viral vectors such as a recombinant Adeno-associated virus (rAAV), lentivirus or equine-associated virus, or using other delivery techniques known in the art in order to inhibit myostatin. Examples of genes to be delivered are genes encoding proteins such as Follistatin, Follistatin-related gene-1 (FLRG-1), growth differentiation factor associated protein-1 (GASP-1) and myostatin precursor propeptide. In other methods of the invention, expression of proteins such as activin IIb and myostatin is inhibited by oligonucleotide techniques to effect muscle enhancement. All the methods have applications in the treatment of musculoskeletal and neurodegenerative disorders among others, as well as enhancing muscle in livestock. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/516995 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/456 |
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| US 08895312 | Burke 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) | Peter Burke (Irvine, California); Katayoun Zand (Irvine, California); Ted Pham (Westminster, California); Antonio Davila (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Douglas Wallace (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device for mitochondria analysis includes an inlet coupled to a first access channel, an outlet coupled to a second access channel, and a plurality of trapping channels fluidically coupled at one end to the first access channel and fluidically coupled at an opposing end to the second access channel, each trapping channel has a cross-sectional dimension about 2 μm in one direction and a cross-sectional dimension between about 0.45 and about 0.75 μm in a second direction. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/963813 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
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| US 08895502 | Fleming et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherry Fleming (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Tomich (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Therapeutic peptides (and peptoids) for preventing or inhibiting tissue damage associated with ischemia and/or reperfusion are provided, along with peptides (and peptoids) for preventing or inhibiting cancerous tissue growth. The peptides are derived from β2-glycoprotein I. Pharmaceutical and veterinary compositions comprising the peptides are also provided. Methods of using the peptides to prevent or inhibit tissue damage associated with ischemia and/or reperfusion and/or to prevent or inhibit tissue damage or the growth of cancerous tissue are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/782881 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895507 | Barres et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California); Cagla Eroglu (Burlingame, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California); Cagla Eroglu (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Soluble proteins, e.g. Hevin, can trigger synapse formation; and other soluble proteins, e.g. SPARC antagonize this activity. Such proteins are synthesized in vitro and in vivo by astrocytes. Methods are provided for protecting or treating an individual suffering from adverse effects of deficits in synaptogenesis, or from undesirably active synaptogenesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148166 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5032 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) G01N 2333/4727 (20130101) |
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| US 08895511 | Zakharenko |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanislav S. Zakharenko (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislav S. Zakharenko (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention embraces methods for the diagnosis and treatment of learning or mental disorders, as well as the identification of agents useful in the treatment of such disorders based upon the identified involvement of Sarcoplasmic Ca2+-ATPase type 2 Protein in synaptic plasticity and neurotransmitter release in 22q11 deletion/DiGeorge Syndrome. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/511388 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — 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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/91205 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101) |
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| US 08895521 | Klinman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Igal Gery (Bethesda, Maryland); Chiaki Fujimoto (North Bethesda, 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) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Igal Gery (Bethesda, Maryland); Chiaki Fujimoto (North Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions are disclosed that are of use for the treatment of uveitis. These compositions include a suppressive oligonucleotide. These compositions including an immunosuppressive oligonucleotide can be used for the treatment of uveitis, including anterior, posterior, and diffuse uveitis. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579518 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/117 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/18 (20130101) C12N 2310/151 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) |
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| US 08895524 | Cullen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan R. Cullen (Durham, North Carolina); Jennifer Lin Umbach (Durham, North Carolina); Donald M. Coen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martha F. Kramer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Igor Jurak (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Knipe (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan R. Cullen (Durham, North Carolina); Jennifer Lin Umbach (Durham, North Carolina); Donald M. Coen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martha F. Kramer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Igor Jurak (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Knipe (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to micro RN As and, in particular, to viral microRNAs expressed by Herpes Simplex Vims 1 (HSV-1) or Herpes Simplex Virus 2 (HSV-2), to agents that inhibit such microRNAs and to methods of treatment based on the use of such agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/736025 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/1133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) |
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| US 08895525 | Ying et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shao-Yao Ying (San Marino, California); Shi-Lung Lin (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shao-Yao Ying (San Marino, California); Shi-Lung Lin (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Patterns of microRNA (miRNA) expression are correlated to the degrees of tumor cell differentiation in human prostate cancer. MiRNAs can complementarily bind to either oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes, resulting in targeted gene silencing and thus changes of cellular tumorigenecity. Using miRNA microarray analysis, 8 down-regulated and 3 up-regulated known miRNAs in androgen-independent human prostate cancer cell lines, such as LNCaP C4-2B and PC3, compared to those androgen-dependent cell lines, such as LNCaP and PC3-AR9 were consistently detected. Fluorescent in-situ hybridization assays in human prostate cancer tissue arrays containing sixty patients at different stages also showed the same miRNA expression patterns in hormone-refractory prostate carcinomas (HRPC) compared to androgen-sensitive non-cancerous prostate epithelium. In-vitro tumorigenecity assays using one of the identified miRNAs, mir-146a, were performed to provide validation of its function in prostate cancer. Gain-of-function transfection of mir-146a markedly suppressed its targeted ROCK1 gene expression in androgen-independent PC3 cells, consequently resulting in reduced cancer cell proliferation, invasion and metastasis to human bone marrow endothelial cell monolayers. Since ROCK1 is the key kinase for activating hyaluronan-mediated HRPC transformation in vivo and in PC3 cells, mir-146a should function as a tumor-suppressor gene in modulating the ROCK1-associated tumorigenecity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/740334 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08895545 | Pauls et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Affinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Toronto, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Debiopharm International SA (Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heinz W. Pauls (Oakville, Canada); Jailall Ramnauth (Brampton, Canada); Peter Sampson (Oakville, Canada); Andras Toro (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In part, the present invention is directed to antibacterial compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/644351 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 43/90 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 498/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08895561 | Scott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cellceutix Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts); Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cellceutix Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Scott (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Katie Freeman (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Haizhong Tang (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Gill Diamond (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for killing or inhibiting the growth of a Candida or Aspergillus species or preventing or treating a mammal having candidiasis (oral and/or disseminated) or an Aspergillus infection. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/744517 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/28 (20130101) C07C 217/20 (20130101) C07C 237/08 (20130101) C07C 279/08 (20130101) C07C 279/12 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/86 (20130101) C07D 239/26 (20130101) C07D 239/28 (20130101) C07D 239/38 (20130101) C07D 249/06 (20130101) C07D 277/28 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 307/91 (20130101) C07D 333/20 (20130101) C07D 333/76 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895576 | Castro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alfredo C. Castro (Winchester, Massachusetts); Michael J. Grogan (Winchester, Massachusetts); Karen J. McGovern (Groton, Massachusetts); Martin R. Tremblay (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo C. Castro (Winchester, Massachusetts); Michael J. Grogan (Winchester, Massachusetts); Karen J. McGovern (Groton, Massachusetts); Martin R. Tremblay (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating various conditions using derivatives of cyclopamine having the following formula: |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475352 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/17 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/664 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/4355 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/04 (20130101) C07D 491/10 (20130101) C07D 491/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 491/107 (20130101) Steroids C07J 69/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08895579 | Swanson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey T. Swanson (Oak Park, Illinois); Martin B. Gill (Indianapolis, Indiana); Ryuichi Sakai (Hakodate, Japan); Masato Oikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey T. Swanson (Oak Park, Illinois); Martin B. Gill (Indianapolis, Indiana); Ryuichi Sakai (Hakodate, Japan); Masato Oikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are heterotricyclic compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, and methods for selectively antagonizing a glutamate receptor. The pharmaceutical compositions may include and the methods may utilize heterotricyclic compounds that are glutamate analogues which have specificity for AMPA receptors. The pharmaceutical compositions may be utilized to treat or prevent neurological diseases or disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/052742 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/407 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895597 | Recinos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Violette Renard Recinos (Highland Heights, Ohio); Betty Tyler (Catonsville, Maryland); Sarah Brem Sunshine (Pikesville, Maryland); Henry Brem (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Violette Renard Recinos (Highland Heights, Ohio); Betty Tyler (Catonsville, Maryland); Sarah Brem Sunshine (Pikesville, Maryland); Henry Brem (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The additive effect of combined intracranial carmustine (“BCNU”) with intracranial temozolomide (“TMZ”), and particularly in combination with radiation (“XRT”), in the treatment of two rat intracranial glioma models, the 9L gliosarcoma and the F98 glioma, demonstrates that local delivery of both drugs, especially in combination with radiation, is far more effective than delivery of either drug alone or one systemically and one locally, either with or without radiation. The triple therapy showed a significant improvement in survival when compared to controls (p=0.0004), local BCNU (p=0.0043), oral TMZ (p=0.0026), local TMZ (p=0.0105), and the combinations of either BCNU and XRT (p=0.0378) or oral TMZ and local BCNU (p=0.0154). |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/163223 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/175 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/175 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08895598 | Einav et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shirit Einav (Los Altos Hills, California); Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Robert McDowell (San Francisco, California); Wenjin Yang (Foster City, California); Hadas Dvory-Sobol (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shirit Einav (Los Altos Hills, California); Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Robert McDowell (San Francisco, California); Wenjin Yang (Foster City, California); Hadas Dvory-Sobol (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating a host infected with a virus from the Flaviviridae family of viruses, methods of identifying a candidate agent for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/678014 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/67 (20130101) A61K 31/67 (20130101) A61K 31/7056 (20130101) A61K 31/7056 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 2770/24222 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/186 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08895607 | Esslinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael P. Kavanaugh (Missoula, Montana); Brent Lyda (Billings, Montana); Nicholas R. Natale (Missoula, Montana); Stephanie Lynn Martinelli (Burbank, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Sean Esslinger (Missoula, Montana); Michael P. Kavanaugh (Missoula, Montana); Brent Lyda (Billings, Montana); Nicholas R. Natale (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a compound of Formula (I) or (II) or a salt thereof, wherein R is described herein. The compounds are novel hydroxy-proline analog inhibitors of the ASCT1 and ASCT2 neutral amino acid transporters. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/549779 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895608 | 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 | 13/642822 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/36 (20130101) A61K 31/38 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/64 (20130101) C07D 333/34 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08895699 | Verdine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory L. Verdine (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian E. Schafmeister (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel stabilized crosslinked compounds having secondary structure motifs, libraries of these novel compounds, and methods for the synthesis of these compounds libraries thereof. The synthesis of these novel stabilized compounds involves (1) synthesizing a peptide from a selected number of natural or non-natural amino acids, wherein the peptide comprises at least two moieties capable of undergoing reaction to promote carbon-carbon bond formation; and (2) contacting the peptide with a reagent to generate at least one crosslinker and to effect stabilization of a secondary structure motif. The present invention, in a preferred embodiment, provides stabilized p53 donor helical peptides. Additionally, the present invention provides methods for disrupting the p53/MDM2 binding interaction comprising (1) providing a crosslinked stabilized a-helical structure; and (2) contacting the crosslinked stabilized a-helical structure with MDM2. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680905 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 1/047 (20130101) C07K 1/113 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/4746 (20130101) |
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| US 08895701 | Benezra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Benezra (New York, New York); Erik Henke (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Benezra (New York, New York); Erik Henke (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Conjugates for the efficient delivery of sequence-specific antisense to cells of a selected type for the inhibition of a target protein have the general formula: peptide-HBL-antisense in which the peptide is a homing peptide which directs the conjugate to cells of a particular type, antisense is an antisense oligonucleotide having a sequence selected to provide sequence-specific inhibition of the target protein, and HBL is a heterobifunctional linker having reactivity towards amino and sulfhydryl groups. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829783 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/001 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/341 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) |
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| US 08895704 | Sass et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Morphotek, Inc. (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morphotek, Inc. (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip M. Sass (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Nicholas C. Nicolaides (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Luigi Grasso (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Marc Berger (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Tao Sai (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are antibodies that specifically bind and neutralize Staphylococcus enterotoxin B. In addition, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, and cells that express such antibodies are provided. Also provided are methods for treating diseases mediated by, and for neutralizing Staphylococcus enterotoxin B. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/943060 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/1271 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/567 (20130101) |
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| US 08895717 | Sood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anil K. Sood (Pearland, Texas); Gabriel Lopez-Berestein (Bellaire, Texas); Charles N. Landen (Pearland, Texas); Arturo Chavez-Reyes (Monterrey, Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil K. Sood (Pearland, Texas); Gabriel Lopez-Berestein (Bellaire, Texas); Charles N. Landen (Pearland, Texas); Arturo Chavez-Reyes (Monterrey, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the fields of molecular biology and drug delivery. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods for the delivery of a siNA (e.g., a siRNA) to a cell via a neutral (non-charged) liposome. These methods may be used to treat a disease, such as cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/911639 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/0025 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) |
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| US 08895739 | Schafmeister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian E. Schafmeister (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Zachary Z. Brown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian E. Schafmeister (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Zachary Z. Brown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized bis-peptides as well as other amide-containing compounds are obtained by acylation of hindered amines. The functionalized bis-peptides are useful as shape-programmable nanostructures that are immune to denaturation and that contain arrays of functional groups having designed catalytic, protein-binding and/or sensor capabilities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006912 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/22 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/06034 (20130101) |
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| US 08895746 | Turkson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Turkson (Orlando, Florida); Patrick Gunning (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds S3I-201.1066 (Formula 1) and S3I-201.2096 (Formula 2) as selective Stat3 binding agents that block Stat3 association with cognate receptor pTyr motifs, Stat3 phosphorylation and nuclear translocation, Stat3 transcriptional function, and consequently induced Stat3-specific antitumor cell effects in vitro and antitumor response in vivo. |
| FILED | Sunday, November 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/076247 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/451 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895752 | Rossignol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jean-Francois Rossignol (St. Petersburg, Florida); J. Edward Semple (Tampa, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Romark Laboratories L.C. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Francois Rossignol (St. Petersburg, Florida); J. Edward Semple (Tampa, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of alkylsulfonyl-substituted thiazolide compounds is described. These compounds show strong activity against hepatitis virus. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/353686 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08895918 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhiping Zhang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhiping Zhang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to ion generation using modified wetted porous materials. In certain aspects, the invention generally relates to systems and methods for ion generation using a wetted porous substrate that substantially prevents diffusion of sample into the substrate. In other aspects, the invention generally relate to ion generation using a wetted porous material and a drying agent. In other aspects, the invention generally relates to ion generation using a modified wetted porous substrate in which at least a portion of the porous substrate includes a material that modifies an interaction between a sample and the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/119548 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/168 (20130101) H01J 49/0409 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/0431 (20130101) |
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| US 08896842 | Bower et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley A. Bower (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina); Pete Huening (Clayton, North Carolina); Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley A. Bower (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Robert H. Hart (Cary, North Carolina); Pete Huening (Clayton, North Carolina); Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for imaging a sample are provided. The system includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging portion having an associated OCT path defined by one set of optical elements between an OCT signal delivery optical fiber and the sample; an image capture portion having an associated image capture path defined by a second set of optical elements between an image capture device and the sample, different from the OCT path; and an illuminator portion having an associated illumination path defined by a third set of optical elements between an illumination source and the sample. The OCT path, the image capture path, and the illuminator path have at least one optical element in common, and the respective paths differ from each other by at least one optical element. The OCT path and the image capture path share a common intermediate conjugate image plane. Focal control is achieved for the OCT path and the image capture path concurrently through adjustment of one or more common optical elements distal to the common intermediate conjugate plane, such that focal control requires no differential adjustment between optical elements not in common to both paths. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/198117 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/14 (20130101) A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897854 | Renshaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry F. Renshaw (Salt Lake City, Utah); Douglas G. Kondo (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are systems and methods of identifying bipolar disorder in a person. One such method includes acquiring 31P spectroscopic imaging data from a region of interest in a brain of the person and subsequently analyzing the 31P spectroscopic imaging data to obtain a signal intensity and a concentration for one or more phosphorus metabolites. A reduced concentration the one or more phosphorus metabolites, such as inorganic phosphate, in the brain can indicate bipolar disorder in the person. Frontal lobe inorganic phosphate concentration in medication-free adolescents can indicate bipolar depression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653311 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4076 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) |
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| US 08897863 | Linker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Thor Linker (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying a target arrhythmia, for example, atrial fibrillation, with very high specificity includes obtaining heart rhythm data such as EKG data, selecting and analyzing a segment of the data for arrhythmia, if an arrhythmia is found then reanalyzing the segment of data for a hidden regularity that would indicate the data is not the target arrhythmia. If no hidden regularity is found, then identifying the segment as the target arrhythmia. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/886240 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7221 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); Steven W. Burd (Cheshire, Connecticut); Bessem Jlidi (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Dennis M. Moura (South Windsor, Connecticut); Christopher R. Brdar (Portland, Connecticut); Leong Ma (South Glastonbury, Connecticut); Fernando K. Grant (South Windsor, Connecticut); Jodie L. Herrmann (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Kelly A. Vanston (West Hartford, Connecticut); Matthew J. Westergard (Wethersfield, Connecticut); George F. Titterton, III (Hebron, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); Steven W. Burd (Cheshire, Connecticut); Bessem Jlidi (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Dennis M. Moura (South Windsor, Connecticut); Christopher R. Brdar (Portland, Connecticut); Leong Ma (South Glastonbury, Connecticut); Fernando K. Grant (South Windsor, Connecticut); Jodie L. Herrmann (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Kelly A. Vanston (West Hartford, Connecticut); Matthew J. Westergard (Wethersfield, Connecticut); George F. Titterton, III (Hebron, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An augmentor for a gas turbine engine includes an augmentor spray bar with a spray bar outlet, and an augmentor spray bar tip. The spray bar tip includes a tip body, a tip bushing and a tip support strut. The tip body includes a first flow passage extending therethrough between a tip inlet and a tip outlet, wherein the tip inlet is connected to the spray bar outlet. The tip bushing includes a bushing bore. The tip body extends through the bushing bore defining a second flow passage between the tip body and the tip bushing. The tip support strut connects the tip body to the tip bushing across the second flow passage. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/273974 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/192 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08893554 | Stambaugh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig T. Stambaugh (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature-compensated pressure sensor system includes a pressure sensing element, a temperature sensing device, and a temperature compensation network. The pressure sensing element provides a first voltage output representative of a sensed pressure value. The temperature sensing device provides a second voltage output representative of a sensed temperature value. The temperature compensation network is connected to receive the first voltage output provided by the pressure sensing element and the second voltage output provided by the temperature sensing device. The temperature compensation network provides a temperature compensated voltage representative of sensed pressure, wherein the second voltage output passively biases the temperature compensation network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/682507 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08893593 | Homes |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Homes (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Homes (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments pertain to a tool that includes a first arm and a second arm that is rotatably connected to the first arm. The first arm includes an opening and the second arm includes a projection that engages threads on a fastener which is installed within the opening in the first arm. During operation of the tool, a fastener is inserted into the opening in the first arm. Pressure is applied to bring the first and second arms together such that the projection engages the threads of the fastener and then deforms the threads. The first arm may include a plurality of threaded openings such that each opening is adapted to receive a different diameter fastener. In addition, the second arm may include a plurality of projections such that each projection is a different size and is aligned relative to one of the openings in the first arm. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/895937 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Making Forged or Pressed Metal Products, e.g Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts or Wheels B21K 1/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 39/30 (20130101) |
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| US 08893604 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy P. Gray (Southfield, Michigan); James R. Mason (Livonia, Michigan); Charles E. Dean (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jacob P. Warren (Milford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy P. Gray (Southfield, Michigan); James R. Mason (Livonia, Michigan); Charles E. Dean (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jacob P. Warren (Milford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject munitions deployment platform for an Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System munitions set provides prepositioned compartments to receive the ALICE packs of the munitions set to ensure that they are positioned and aligned for proper deployment. The pre-positioned compartments ensure that when the APOBS is deployed, the front edge of the rear ALICE pack properly engages the rear edge of the front ALICE pack providing a fulcrum aiding rotation of the rear pack allowing it to clear the engaging elements to lift the rear pack off the platform and into the air where it further functions as a drogue to assist in extending the charge line over the chosen target line. Combining the subject platform with a vehicle, or with a towed wagon, allows a Soldier to remain in a safe location while remotely positioning the munitions set to clear a minefield or other anti-personnel obstacle. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/755383 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 11/16 (20130101) |
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| US 08893954 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aeroprobe Corporation (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aeroprobe Corporation (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Patrick Schultz (Blacksburg, Virginia); Kevin D. Creehan (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-temperature friction-based coating method termed friction stir fabrication (FSF) is disclosed, in which material is deposited onto a substrate and subsequently stirred into the substrate using friction stir processing to homogenize and refine the microstructure. This solid-state process is capable of depositing coatings, including nanocrystalline aluminum and/or metal matrix composites and the like, onto substrates such as aluminum at relatively low temperatures. A method of making rod stock for use in the FSF process is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/163253 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/128 (20130101) B23K 20/1225 (20130101) B23K 20/1275 (20130101) Alloys C22C 29/00 (20130101) C22C 32/00 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 24/06 (20130101) C23C 24/045 (20130101) C23C 26/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08894004 | Scott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Michael Scott (Ridgecrest, California); Philip Thomas Aberer (Ridgecrest, California); Neil Randall Japp (Ridgecrest, California); Nicholas Cody McGaha (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Obliquely folding articulating wing mechanisms that include a wing rotatingly connected to a base. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915318 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 3/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08894365 | Smith |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darren M. Smith (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren M. Smith (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flowpath assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of flowpath insert ducts arranged in a cascade configuration. Each flowpath duct includes a radially inward wall, a radially outward wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall. A flowpath volume is defined between the inward, outward, first side and second side walls. The first side wall of a given one of the plurality of flowpath insert ducts is positioned adjacent to the second sidewall of an adjacent one of the plurality of flowpath insert ducts in the cascade configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/172128 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 25/26 (20130101) |
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| US 08894592 | Amundson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kurt Amundson (Berkeley, California); Russdon Angold (American Canyon, California); Nathan Harding (Oakland, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of California at Berkekey (Berkeley, California); Ekso Bionics, Inc. (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Amundson (Berkeley, California); Russdon Angold (American Canyon, California); Nathan Harding (Oakland, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lower extremity exoskeleton includes: at least one power unit; two leg supports designed to rest on the ground; two knee joints configured to allow flexion and extension between respective shank and thigh links of the leg supports; an exoskeleton trunk rotatably connectable to the leg supports; and two hip actuators configured to create torques between the exoskeleton trunk and the leg supports. In use, the hip actuators create a torque to move the leg supports backward relative to the exoskeleton trunk during a stance phase, which pushes the exoskeleton trunk forward. A second torque may be used to move the leg supports forward relative to the exoskeleton trunk into a swing phase. Additionally, a swing torque may be generated during the swing phase to move the leg support forward relative to the exoskeleton trunk. This results in decreased oxygen consumption and heart rate of a user wearing the exoskeleton. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/468487 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — 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 5/0102 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 3/008 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08894739 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Curtis E. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Kelvin T. Higa (Ridgecrest, California); Roger M. Sullivan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis E. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Kelvin T. Higa (Ridgecrest, California); Roger M. Sullivan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A process to increase the fluidity of metal powders by surface modification with alkylsilane reagents. This invention generally discloses that the most efficient process results from treatment with methyltrichlorosilane in hexane. In particular, the fluidity of aluminum powders having mean diameters smaller than 10 micrometers was considerably improved by the process of embodiments of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/890440 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/255 |
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| US 08894765 | Hackenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Edward F. Alberta (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRS Technologies, Inc. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Edward F. Alberta (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A PIN-PMN-PT ferroelectric single crystal and a method of manufacture are disclosed. The PIN-PMN-PT ferroelectric single crystal is oriented and polarized along a single crystallographic direction. The PIN-PMN-PT ferroelectric single crystal ferroelectric has increased remnant polarization. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945390 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08894783 | Dixon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George P. Dixon (Ridgecrest, California); Eddie R. Celestine (Ridgecrest, California); Will Carey, Jr. (Ridgecrest, California); Henry J. John, Jr. (Jacksonville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Dixon (Ridgecrest, California); Eddie R. Celestine (Ridgecrest, California); Will Carey, Jr. (Ridgecrest, California); Henry J. John, Jr. (Jacksonville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an apparatus for explosively dispersing particles of reactive metals into the atmosphere to form a fuel-air explosive. Also, this invention relates to a composition, which enhances the performance of metal augmented charge (MAC) devices. The metal augmented charge (MAC) includes flaked aluminum powder and polytetrafluorethylene. The MAC is pressed into solid billets. A preferred embodiment of the present invention involves a system with heavy-walled warhead, which comprises a canister and a cylinder of MAC disposed in the canister, so that said cylinder is in contact with the interior wall of the canister. Further, a high explosive is disposed in the cylinder with a fuze in direct contact with the high explosive, in such a way that the fuze detonates the high explosive. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405802 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/52 (20130101) F42B 35/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08894791 | White |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Owen White (Orillia, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Owen White (Orillia, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are disclosed for manufacture of a composite structure, such as a composite rotor blade spar or composite rotor blade. A first mold may define a first mold surface and a second mold may include a rigid layer and a heated layer secured to the rigid layer and defining a second mold surface. A plurality of heating elements embedded in the second mold may be activated according to different temperature progressions to cure portions of the uncured composite rotor blade positioned coextensive therewith. In some embodiments, the second mold defines a root portion and first and second branch portions. A shear web placed between the branch portions may be bonded to a blade skin positioned within the mold. The rotor blade may include a rotor blade spar having leading and trailing edge fairings secured thereto or the blade spar may define a complete airfoil contour. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373439 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/242 |
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| US 08894849 | Shelley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Shelley (Dayton, Ohio); Abinash Agrawal (Fairborn, Ohio); Ke Qin (Fairborn, Ohio); Garrett Struckhoff (Fairborn, Ohio); Carl Enfield (Crozet, Virginia); James Waldron (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Christina Powell (Springfield, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shelley (Dayton, Ohio); Abinash Agrawal (Fairborn, Ohio); Ke Qin (Fairborn, Ohio); Garrett Struckhoff (Fairborn, Ohio); Carl Enfield (Crozet, Virginia); James Waldron (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Christina Powell (Springfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved upward flow constructed wetland cell for treatment of water contaminated with chlorinated aliphatics is disclosed. The improvements include adding ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms to the methane-oxidizing microorganisms already present in an oxygenated root zone and adding improved pore-water sample chambers for measuring the performance of the constructed wetland cell. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/412606 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 3/301 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 3/303 (20130101) C02F 3/327 (20130101) C02F 2101/36 (20130101) C02F 2103/06 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 49/10 (20130101) E21B 49/083 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/12 (20130101) G01N 1/16 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 210/903 (20130101) |
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| US 08894882 | Pan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhengwei Pan (Bogart, Georgia); Wuzhao Yan (Anhui, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengwei Pan (Bogart, Georgia); Wuzhao Yan (Anhui, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphors based on doping of an activator (an emitter) into a host matrix are disclosed herein. Such phosphors include alkaline gallate phosphors doped with Cr3+ or Ni2+ ions, which in some embodiments can exhibit persistent infrared phosphorescence for as long as 200 hours. Such phosphors can be used, for example, as components of a luminescent paint. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/394629 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/22 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/60 (20130101) C09K 11/68 (20130101) C09K 11/602 (20130101) C09K 11/681 (20130101) C09K 11/684 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/685 (20130101) |
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| US 08894891 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenhao Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Numpon Insin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenhao Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Numpon Insin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanomaterial can include an outer layer including a ligand. The ligand can include a first monomer unit including a first moiety having affinity for a surface of the nanocrystal, a second monomer unit including a second moiety having a high water solubility, and a third monomer unit including a third moiety having a selectively reactive functional group or a selectively binding functional group. The ligand can be a random copolymer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857430 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/54 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/3322 (20130101) C08G 65/33306 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08894934 | Pang 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) | Lin Pang (San Diego, California); Haiping Matthew Chen (La Jolla, California); Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatus, material and systems are described for implementing a three-dimensional composite mushroom-like metallodielectric nanostructure. In one aspect, a surface plasmon based sensing device includes a substrate and a layer of an anti-reflective coating over the substrate. The surface Plasmon based sensing device includes a dielectric material on the anti-reflective coating shaped to form a 2-dimensional array of nanoholes spaced from one another. Also, the surface Plasmon based sensing device includes a layer of a metallic film formed on the 2-dimensional array of nanoholes to include openings over the nanoholes, respectively, wherein the sensing device is structured to support both propagating surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves and localized surface plasmon resonant (LSPR) modes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/970583 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895158 | Trexler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Dajie Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Lisa A. Kelly (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jennifer L. Sample (Bethesda, Maryland); John M. Brupbacher (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Dajie Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Lisa A. Kelly (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jennifer L. Sample (Bethesda, Maryland); John M. Brupbacher (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An article includes a substrate with a plurality of independent taggant layers that each include metal oxide nanocrystals doped with at least one Lanthanide element. Each taggant layer includes metal oxide nanocrystals doped with a different Lanthanide element than each other taggant layer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/566074 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895196 | Unlu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Murat Unlu (Doraville, Georgia); Paul Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); Hyea Kim (Atlanta, Georgia); Junfeng Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Irene Anestis-Richard (Villa Rica, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Unlu (Doraville, Georgia); Paul Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); Hyea Kim (Atlanta, Georgia); Junfeng Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Irene Anestis-Richard (Villa Rica, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell (100) includes a cation exchange membrane (110), a first anion exchange membrane (120) and a second anion exchange membrane (130). The cation exchange membrane (110) has a first side and an opposite second side. The first anion exchange membrane (120) has a first exterior surface and an opposite first interior surface disposed along at least a portion to the first side of the cation exchange membrane (110). A catalyst (140) is embedded along the first exterior surface. The second anion exchange membrane (130) has a second exterior surface and an opposite second interior surface disposed along at least a portion to the second side of the cation exchange membrane (110). A catalyst (142) is embedded along the second exterior surface. A stack of fuel cells (700) include a first fuel cell (701) with an acidic first anode (714) that is electrically coupled to an alkaline second cathode (722) of a second fuel cell (720). |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/496677 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/16 (20130101) H01M 8/1023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1039 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) Y02E 60/527 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895248 | Tatavarthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aparna Tatavarthy (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Andrew C. Cannons (Tampa, Florida); Loree C. Heller (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aparna Tatavarthy (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Andrew C. Cannons (Tampa, Florida); Loree C. Heller (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of detecting the presence of Salmonella in a sample using novel oligonucleotide sequences. Also presented is a kit for putting the method into practice and novel nucleic acid sequences for ompF. The ompF gene was found to be 100% inclusive for Salmonella species and 100% exclusive for non-Salmonella species for the strains tested thus making it an excellent marker for identification of both the species of Salmonella: S. enterica and S. bongori. Two hundred and eighteen isolates belonging to Salmonella enterica (subspecies I-VI) and Salmonella bongori were examined using novel primers designed to detect the ompF gene. The target was present in all the 218 Salmonella isolates including all the subspecies of Salm. enterica and Salm. bongori. The ompF gene was absent in 180 non-Salmonella strains tested. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/309063 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895312 | Burke 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) | Peter Burke (Irvine, California); Katayoun Zand (Irvine, California); Ted Pham (Westminster, California); Antonio Davila (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Douglas Wallace (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device for mitochondria analysis includes an inlet coupled to a first access channel, an outlet coupled to a second access channel, and a plurality of trapping channels fluidically coupled at one end to the first access channel and fluidically coupled at an opposing end to the second access channel, each trapping channel has a cross-sectional dimension about 2 μm in one direction and a cross-sectional dimension between about 0.45 and about 0.75 μm in a second direction. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/963813 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895342 | Stan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cells having a heterojunction middle subcell and a graded interlayer, and methods of making same, are disclosed herein. The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a solar cell using an MOCVD process, wherein the graded interlayer is composed of (InxGa1-x)yAl1-yAs, and is formed in the MOCVD reactor so that it is compositionally graded to lattice match the middle second subcell on one side and the lower third subcell on the other side, with the values for x and y computed and the composition of the graded interlayer determined so that as the layer is grown in the MOCVD reactor, the band gap of the graded interlayer remains constant at 1.5 eV throughout the thickness of the graded interlayer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/473802 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/076 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 331/078 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Y02E 10/548 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895352 | Babich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Katherina Babich (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alessandro Callegari (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhihong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Edward Kiewra (Hopewell Junction, New York); Yanning Sun (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherina Babich (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alessandro Callegari (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhihong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Edward Kiewra (Hopewell Junction, New York); Yanning Sun (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for forming a thin coating of a material on a carbon-based material are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a thin coating on a surface of a carbon-based material is provided. The method includes the following steps. An ultra thin silicon nucleation layer is deposited to a thickness of from about two angstroms to about 10 angstroms on at least a portion of the surface of the carbon-based material to facilitate nucleation of the coating on the surface of the carbon-based material. The thin coating is deposited to a thickness of from about two angstroms to about 100 angstroms over the ultra thin silicon layer to form the thin coating on the surface of the carbon-based material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476676 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02376 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 29/66742 (20130101) H01L 29/78684 (20130101) H01L 29/78687 (20130101) |
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| US 08895577 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tom Yao-Hsiang Wu (San Diego, California); Yongkai Li (San Diego, California); Alex Cortez (San Diego, California); Yefen Zou (San Diego, California); Pranab Mishra (San Diego, California); Xiaoyue Zhang (San Diego, California); Nicholas Valiante (Emeryville, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Yao-Hsiang Wu (San Diego, California); Yongkai Li (San Diego, California); Alex Cortez (San Diego, California); Yefen Zou (San Diego, California); Pranab Mishra (San Diego, California); Xiaoyue Zhang (San Diego, California); Nicholas Valiante (Emeryville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel class of compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with Toll-Like Receptors, including TLR7 and TLR8. In one aspect, the compounds are useful as adjuvants for enhancing the effectiveness of a vaccine (formula I) wherein: X3 is N; X4 is N Or CR3; X5 is —CR4═CR5. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/867752 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/12 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 471/14 (20130101) C07D 491/056 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08895673 | Johnson 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) | Jeremiah Johnson (Los Angeles, California); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for preparing degradable model networks from any monomer functionality with any degradation methodology. It is based on the use of Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization and CLICK chemistry to form the desired product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/770373 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 222/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 283/00 (20130101) C08F 290/06 (20130101) C08F 290/061 (20130101) C08F 293/005 (20130101) C08F 2438/01 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/78 (20130101) |
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| US 08895717 | Sood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anil K. Sood (Pearland, Texas); Gabriel Lopez-Berestein (Bellaire, Texas); Charles N. Landen (Pearland, Texas); Arturo Chavez-Reyes (Monterrey, Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil K. Sood (Pearland, Texas); Gabriel Lopez-Berestein (Bellaire, Texas); Charles N. Landen (Pearland, Texas); Arturo Chavez-Reyes (Monterrey, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the fields of molecular biology and drug delivery. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods for the delivery of a siNA (e.g., a siRNA) to a cell via a neutral (non-charged) liposome. These methods may be used to treat a disease, such as cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/911639 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/0025 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) |
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| US 08895730 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); Ramamurthi Kannan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Matthew Dalton (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing a two-photon active tris(diarylamino-9,9-di(R)fluorenyl)-1,3,5-triazine compound having the structure: where Y is hydrogen, a thermally self-polymerizable acrylic, or a methacrylic group; R is an alkyl group of the formula —CmH2m+1, wherein the subscript m ranges from 1 to 6, or an alkylether group of the formula —(CH2CH2O)pMe, wherein the subscript p ranges from 1 to 5; R′ is an alkyl group; and the R′—(OY)x groups are attached to the phenyl rings of the triarylamine moiety either in a para position or a meta position and the subscript x ranges from 1 to 3. The compound may be synthesized by (a) synthesizing a diarylamine intermediate, (b) synthesizing a brominated 1,3,5-triazine intermediate as a three-arm core structure, and (c) forming the two-photon active tris(diarylamino-9,9-di(R)fluorenyl)-1,3,5-triazine compound by covalently joining the diarylamine and each arm of the three-arm core structure and removing the acetone protecting groups. The diarylamine intermediate may be synthesized by protecting tris-1,1,1-(hydroxymethyl)ethane, via a ketal formation with acetone, as an acetonide derivative; furnishing bromophenoxy-methyltrimethyl-1,3-dioxane from the acetonide derivative; and arylating aniline with the bromophenoxy-methyltrimethyl-1,3-dioxane. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/047460 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 251/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895736 | Stern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alfred G. Stern (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Craig J. Diamond (Bryans Road, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred G. Stern (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Craig J. Diamond (Bryans Road, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for synthesizing energetic compounds and intermediates thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for synthesizing adamantanes and intermediates that are useful in such synthesis. Synthesized intermediates are useful in the synthesis of bicyclic and tricyclic substituted adamantanes. Examples of various intermediates are: acyclic 2-nitromalonaldehyde intermediates, 2,6,9-tri-substituted-4,8-dinitro-2,6,9-triazabicyclo[3.3.1]nona-3,7-dienes and 2,6-dinitro-4,8,9,10-tetra-aza-4,8,9,10-tetra-substituted adamantanes. Intermediates synthesized according to the methods of the present invention are useful toward the synthesis of tetraaza-adamantanes, which can serve as precursors to potentially superior new high-energy-density compounds (HEDCs). |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932930 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/08 (20130101) |
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| US 08895739 | Schafmeister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian E. Schafmeister (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Zachary Z. Brown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian E. Schafmeister (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Zachary Z. Brown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized bis-peptides as well as other amide-containing compounds are obtained by acylation of hindered amines. The functionalized bis-peptides are useful as shape-programmable nanostructures that are immune to denaturation and that contain arrays of functional groups having designed catalytic, protein-binding and/or sensor capabilities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006912 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/22 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/06034 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895742 | Newkome et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George R. Newkome (Medina, Ohio); Charles N. Moorefield (Akron, Ohio); Pingshan Wang (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio); Sinan Li (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Newkome (Medina, Ohio); Charles N. Moorefield (Akron, Ohio); Pingshan Wang (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio); Sinan Li (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method and nanocomposite for the reversible assembly of nanotubes, such as oxidized single wall carbon nanotubes, based on metal coordination. The method produces a thermally stable, neutral nanocomposite possessing enhanced mechanical, electrical, physical and chemical properties for example. Disassembly can be provided by treatment with a competing ligand compound. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910772 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895908 | Barry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William D. Barry (Billerica, Massachusetts); Robert Winkler (Swanzey, New Hampshire); John R. Franzini (Hollis, New Hampshire); Kenneth D. Cleveland (Nashua, New Hampshire); Adam Butland (Hudson, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Barry (Billerica, Massachusetts); Robert Winkler (Swanzey, New Hampshire); John R. Franzini (Hollis, New Hampshire); Kenneth D. Cleveland (Nashua, New Hampshire); Adam Butland (Hudson, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A low cost, lightweight frangible wing slot seal can be applied to a guidance wing slot of a folding fin aerial rocket or missile, providing a barrier against exposure of internal missile components to external contaminants, while allowing unhindered deployment of missile guidance wings simply by bursting through the seals. The simple design is nearly foolproof, and has no impact the likelihood of weapon failure. The seal is a flexible sheet which is sufficiently thin so as not to exceed the required volume envelope of the missile. The sheet includes a burst seam, which is breached when impacted by the leading edge of a deploying wing. No additional wing deployment force is required, and after deployment the seal has minimal impact on the aerodynamic performance of the wing. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/376846 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896020 | Schowalter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Juan Carlos Rojo (South Beach, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm−2 or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974710 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/003 (20130101) C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896346 | Lewis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Lewis (Decatur, Alabama); Joey R. Haddock (Decatur, Alabama); Dane R. Walther (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lewis Innovative Technologies (Moulton, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Lewis (Decatur, Alabama); Joey R. Haddock (Decatur, Alabama); Dane R. Walther (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-modifying FPGA system includes an FPGA and a configuration memory coupled to the FPGA for providing the FPGA with configuration data including SAFE configuration data and dormant configuration data. The SAFE configuration data is initially loaded to the FPGA and the FPGA is configured to a safe operating mode. Upon a determination to proceed to a next step of self modification, dormant configuration data contained in the configuration memory is loaded into the FPGA and the FPGA is configured to a secure operating mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/421052 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896836 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shin-Juh Chen (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for monitoring gas velocity, temperature, and pressure in combustion systems and flow devices, in particular at inlets and isolators of scramjet engines. The invention employs wavelength modulation spectroscopy with first harmonic detection and without the need to scan the full absorption spectra. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868326 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/61 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/3504 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896912 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Shah (Maitland, Florida); Martin C. Richardson (Geneva, Florida); Konstantin Vodopyanov (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for wavelength tunable output from a broadband spectrum using a quasi phase-matched optical parametric amplifier/difference frequency generator (CQPM OPA/DFG)-based apparatus involves changing the relative timing of a pump pulse with respect to a seed pulse. The temporal variation varies the location of the spatial/temporal overlap of the spectrally narrow pump pulse over the spectrally broad seed spectrum occurring within the CQPM nonlinear medium. This overlap position determines the portion of the seed pulse that is phase-matched as the signal in the OPA or the seed for DFG. Piezo-electric fiber stretchers may be employed to vary the relative pulse timing and enables tuning of the output from the OPA or DFG without the use of any moving parts. Associated apparatus is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199452 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/10038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897452 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Wu (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Ryan Lee Hagelstrom (Chaska, Minnesota); Edward Raymond Mandy (Victoria, Minnesota); Ranga Sri Ramanujan (Medina, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Wu (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Ryan Lee Hagelstrom (Chaska, Minnesota); Edward Raymond Mandy (Victoria, Minnesota); Ranga Sri Ramanujan (Medina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for conducting encrypted communication in a network and a network having a plurality of nodes organized into a plurality of groups which initiates encrypted communication between a first one of the plurality of nodes of a first one of the plurality of groups and a second one of the plurality of nodes of the first one of the plurality of groups different from the first one of the plurality of groups using a group key and initiates encrypted communication between a third one of the plurality of nodes of the first one of the plurality of groups and a fourth one of the plurality of nodes of a second one of the plurality groups different from the first one of the plurality of groups using a session key. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/283205 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897458 | Parkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York); Mark DeWilde (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Red Tail Hawk Corporation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Parkins (Ithaca, New York); Mark DeWilde (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An earplug which conforms to the concha of the ear and extends into the ear canal. The construction consists of a flexible outer skin with at least one filler material, preferably two or more materials of varying hardness, to form an essentially solid structure except for sound channels, or electronics packages, or other devices, parts and cavities that may be located within the flexible skin. The flexible skin can be fabricated using a rapid-prototyping printing process. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/430065 |
| ART UNIT | 2653 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| 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 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0059 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/652 (20130101) H04R 25/658 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897606 | Asghari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mehdi Asghari (Pasadena, California); Dazeng Feng (El Monte, California); Po Dong (Arcadia, California); Roshanak Shafiiha (La Canada-Flintridge, California); Shirong Liao (Mira Loma, California); Ning-Ning Feng (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kotura, Inc. (Monterey Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehdi Asghari (Pasadena, California); Dazeng Feng (El Monte, California); Po Dong (Arcadia, California); Roshanak Shafiiha (La Canada-Flintridge, California); Shirong Liao (Mira Loma, California); Ning-Ning Feng (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The ring resonator includes waveguides configured to guide light signals. The waveguides include an input waveguide and one or more loop waveguides. One of the loop waveguides is a primary loop waveguide that is optically coupled with the input waveguide at a wavelength of light. A tuner is configured to tune the wavelength at which the light is optically coupled from the input waveguide into the primary loop waveguide. One or more light detectors are each configured to provide an output indicating an intensity of light guided in one of the one or more loop waveguides. Electronics are configured to tune the tuner in response to the output from the light detector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928076 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/2257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2201/122 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897657 | Sluz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph E. Sluz (Ellicott City, Maryland); Juan C. Juarez (Windsor Mill, Maryland); David W. Young (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Sluz (Ellicott City, Maryland); Juan C. Juarez (Windsor Mill, Maryland); David W. Young (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | To stabilize power to an optical multimode receiver a multimode variable optical attenuator is connected to the receiver with the attenuator's voltage being controlled using a feedback signal provided by an output detector, the signal being processed using a control algorithm based on proportional-integrate-differential theory. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/029768 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/674 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2581 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08898016 | Kaehler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Applied Minds, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Minds, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Kaehler (Los Feliz, California); Kjerstin Williams (Los Angeles, California); Mark E. Duttweiler (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A plan through a space having a near field and a far field is determined. Using a sensor device, measurements of the far field are obtained and stored in an electronic memory. A processor uses the measurements to determine the viability of each far field plan among a plurality of candidate far field plans. The processor also determines a flexibility score for each of the candidate far field plans and selects a composite plan comprising the viable far field plan having a highest flexibility score among the viable candidate far field plans. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/926922 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — 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 21/3407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08898097 | Brezzo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard V. Brezzo (Somers, New York); Leland Chang (New York, New York); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Robert K. Montoye (Rochester, Minnesota); Bipin Rajendran (White Plains, New York); Jae-sun Seo (White Plains, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard V. Brezzo (Somers, New York); Leland Chang (New York, New York); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Robert K. Montoye (Rochester, Minnesota); Bipin Rajendran (White Plains, New York); Jae-sun Seo (White Plains, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable neural network circuit is provided. The reconfigurable neural network circuit comprises an electronic synapse array including multiple synapses interconnecting a plurality of digital electronic neurons. Each neuron comprises an integrator that integrates input spikes and generates a signal when the integrated inputs exceed a threshold. The circuit further comprises a control module for reconfiguring the synapse array. The control module comprises a global final state machine that controls timing for operation of the circuit, and a priority encoder that allows spiking neurons to sequentially access the synapse array. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/587594 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08898269 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Matthew Duggan (Surrey, United Kingdom); Vasileios Pappas (Elmsford, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York); Kristian Jon Stewart (Surrey, United Kingdom); Murtaza Zafer (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Matthew Duggan (Surrey, United Kingdom); Vasileios Pappas (Elmsford, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York); Kristian Jon Stewart (Surrey, United Kingdom); Murtaza Zafer (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Network management data is managed by determining that a first version and a second version of a set of network management data have been created. The set of network management data is associated with a plurality of managed entities in a network. First and second network graphs are created based on the first version and second version of the set of network management data, respectively. The first and second network graphs include a first and second set of entities in the plurality of managed entities, respectively. A similarity metric is assigned between at least one or more entities in the first and second set of entities. At least a first entity in the first set of entities and at least a second entity in the second set of entities are determined to be identical entities based on the similarity metric being one of equal to and above a first given threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/047267 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 41/145 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08898285 | Tingstrom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel James Tingstrom (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Joyce (Ithaca, New York); Matthew A. Stillerman (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Kurt Brueckner (Ithaca, New York); Haim Yehuda Bar (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel James Tingstrom (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Joyce (Ithaca, New York); Matthew A. Stillerman (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Kurt Brueckner (Ithaca, New York); Haim Yehuda Bar (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure is directed to techniques for providing version control functionality for web services of one or more service oriented architecture (SOA) systems. According to these techniques, a version control service (VCS) may receive an indication of a version update for a first web service. In response to the received request, the VCS determines whether the version update, if executed within the SOA system, will cause a change in operation of a second web service. If the version update will cause a change, VCS provides an indication of the determined change to a user. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/917356 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30309 (20130101) G06F 17/30899 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08898299 | Atkins 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) | Mark G. Atkins (Arvada, Colorado); James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering incident pools including creating a pool of incidents, the pool having a predetermined initial period of time; assigning each received incident to the pool; assigning, by the incident analyzer, to each incident a predetermined minimum time for inclusion in a pool; extending for one or more of the incidents the predetermined initial period of time of the pool by a particular period of time assigned to the incident; determining whether conditions have been met to close the pool; and if conditions have been met to close the pool determining for each incident in the pool whether the incident has been in the pool for its predetermined minimum time for inclusion in a pool; and if the incident has not been in the pool for its predetermined minimum time, evicting the incident from the closed pool and including the incident in a next pool. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/782431 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/542 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/20 (20130101) G06Q 10/0631 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/2602 (20130101) |
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| US 08898468 | Reddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ranga Reddy (Asbury Park, New Jersey); Thomas Kiernan (Little Silver, New Jersey); Apurva N. Mody (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranga Reddy (Asbury Park, New Jersey); Thomas Kiernan (Little Silver, New Jersey); Apurva N. Mody (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, authentication, confidentiality, and privacy are enhanced for a wireless network of cognitive radios by encryption of network management and control messages as well as data traffic, thereby protecting information pertaining to node identification, node location, node-sensed incumbent transmissions, CRN frequency channel selections, and such like. During initial network registration, a temporary ID can be issued to a node, and then replaced once encrypted communication has been established. This prevents association of initial, clear-text messages with later encrypted transmissions. Elliptic curve cryptography can be used for mutual authentication between subscribers and the base station. ECC-based implicit digital certificates can be embedded in co-existence beacons used by CRN nodes to coordinate use of frequency channels, thereby preventing denial of service attacks due to transmitting of falsified beacons. Similar certificates can be embedded within identity beacons used to protect certain incumbents from interference by the CRN. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959732 |
| ART UNIT | 2497 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 3/25 (20130101) H04K 3/65 (20130101) H04K 2203/18 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0822 (20130101) H04L 9/0891 (20130101) H04L 9/3066 (20130101) H04L 9/3247 (20130101) H04L 9/3263 (20130101) H04L 63/0823 (20130101) H04L 2209/80 (20130101) H04L 2463/062 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/02 (20130101) H04W 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08893512 | Donahoo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric E. Donahoo (Chuluota, Florida); Christopher W. Ross (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric E. Donahoo (Chuluota, Florida); Christopher W. Ross (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressor bleed cooling fluid feed system for a turbine engine for directing cooling fluids from a compressor to a turbine airfoil cooling system to supply cooling fluids to one or more airfoils of a rotor assembly is disclosed. The compressor bleed cooling fluid feed system may enable cooling fluids to be exhausted from a compressor exhaust plenum through a downstream compressor bleed collection chamber and into the turbine airfoil cooling system. As such, the suction created in the compressor exhaust plenum mitigates boundary layer growth along the inner surface while providing flow of cooling fluids to the turbine airfoils. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/280474 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 6/08 (20130101) F02C 7/12 (20130101) F02C 7/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08893711 | Kennedy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cheryl E. Kennedy (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl E. Kennedy (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved solar collectors (40) comprising glass tubing (42) attached to bellows (44) by airtight seals (56) enclose solar absorber tubes (50) inside an annular evacuated space (54. The exterior surfaces of the solar absorber tubes (50) are coated with improved solar selective coatings {48} which provide higher absorbance, lower emittance and resistance to atmospheric oxidation at elevated temperatures. The coatings are multilayered structures comprising solar absorbent layers (26) applied to the meta surface of the absorber tubes (50), typically stainless steel, topped with antireflective Savers (28) comprising at least two layers 30, 32) of refractory metal or metalloid oxides (such as titania and silica) with substantially differing indices of refraction in adjacent layers. Optionally, at least one layer of a noble metal such as platinum can be included between some of the layers. The absorbent layers cars include cermet materials comprising particles of metal compounds is a matrix, which can contain oxides of refractory metals or metalloids such as silicon. Reflective layers within the coating layers can comprise refractory metal silicides and related compounds characterized by the formulas TiSi. Ti3SiC2, TiAlSi, TiAN and similar compounds for Zr and Hf. The titania can be characterized by the formulas TiO2, Ti3O5. TiOx or TiOxN1-x with x 0 to 1. The silica can be at least one of SiO2, SiO2x or SiO2xN1-x with x=0 to 1. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/745319 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/055 (20130101) F24J 2/485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F24J 2/4652 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/281 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/44 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08893878 | Sprouse |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth M. Sprouse (Canoga Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Sprouse (Canoga Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump system includes a pump that includes a first belt and a second belt that are spaced apart from each other to provide generally straight sides of a passage there between. There is an inlet at one end of the passage and an outlet at an opposite end of the passage, with a passage length that extends between the inlet and the outlet. The passage defines a gap distance in a width direction between the straight sides at the passage inlet. A hopper includes an interior space that terminates at a mouth at the passage inlet. At least one screw is located within the interior space of the hopper and includes a screw diameter in the width direction that is less than or equal to the gap distance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/171904 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 3/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10J 3/50 (20130101) C10J 3/78 (20130101) C10J 2200/156 (20130101) |
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| US 08894367 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Nan Jiang (Jupiter, Florida); John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida); Ronald J. Rudolph (Jensen Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Mikro Systems, Inc. (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Nan Jiang (Jupiter, Florida); John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida); Ronald J. Rudolph (Jensen Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-scale turbulation features, including first turbulators (46, 48) on a cooling surface (44), and smaller turbulators (52, 54, 58, 62) on the first turbulators. The first turbulators may be formed between larger turbulators (50). The first turbulators may be alternating ridges (46) and valleys (48). The smaller turbulators may be concave surface features such as dimples (62) and grooves (54), and/or convex surface features such as bumps (58) and smaller ridges (52). An embodiment with convex turbulators (52, 58) in the valleys (48) and concave turbulators (54, 62) on the ridges (46) increases the cooling surface area, reduces boundary layer separation, avoids coolant shadowing and stagnation, and reduces component mass. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/884464 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/60 (20130101) F05D 2250/70 (20130101) F05D 2250/181 (20130101) F05D 2250/611 (20130101) F05D 2250/711 (20130101) F05D 2250/712 (20130101) F05D 2260/2212 (20130101) F05D 2260/22141 (20130101) |
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| US 08894580 | Kisner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Kisner (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hector J. Santos-Villalobos (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An inspection system includes a plurality of acoustic beamformers, where each of the plurality of acoustic beamformers including a plurality of acoustic transmitter elements. The system also includes at least one controller configured for causing each of the plurality of acoustic beamformers to generate an acoustic beam directed to a point in a volume of interest during a first time. Based on a reflected wave intensity detected at a plurality of acoustic receiver elements, an image of the volume of interest can be generated. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/870604 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/00 (20130101) G01N 29/069 (20130101) G01N 29/262 (20130101) G01N 2291/106 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 15/89 (20130101) G01S 15/8913 (20130101) G01S 15/8915 (20130101) G01S 15/8927 (20130101) G01S 15/8977 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08894846 | Yarbro |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Lee Yarbro (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
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| ABSTRACT | This is a method to reactively refine hydrocarbons, such as heavy oils with API gravities of less than 20° and bitumen-like hydrocarbons with viscosities greater than 1000 cp at standard temperature and pressure using a selected fluid at supercritical conditions. The reaction portion of the method delivers lighter weight, more volatile hydrocarbons to an attached contacting device that operates in mixed subcritical or supercritical modes. This separates the reaction products into portions that are viable for use or sale without further conventional refining and hydro-processing techniques. This method produces valuable products with fewer processing steps, lower costs, increased worker safety due to less processing and handling, allow greater opportunity for new oil field development and subsequent positive economic impact, reduce related carbon dioxide, and wastes typical with conventional refineries. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/978294 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 21/06 (20130101) C10G 31/08 (20130101) C10G 2300/4006 (20130101) C10G 2300/4012 (20130101) |
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| US 08894854 | Loetscher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lucas Hans Loetscher (Fort Collins, Colorado); Sybil Sharvelle (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucas Hans Loetscher (Fort Collins, Colorado); Sybil Sharvelle (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A digester with separate stages for hydrolysis and methanogenesis is disclosed. The digester includes a leachate bay reactor, which may be configured as modular, multi-bay units. Waste material is added to the leachate bay reactor. A leachate storage tank is fluidically connected to the leachate bay reactor, which facilitates hydrolysis. Leachate from the leachate storage tank is recirculated through the leachate bay reactor. A high rate methanogenic reactor is fluidically connected to the leachate storage tank to cycle the leachate in a fixed film environment for biogas production from solubilized organic matter. The reactor may be operated in an anaerobic digestion mode, or a dual aerobic-anaerobic digestion mode. The reactor may also include a struvite system having a crystallizer unit and a separation unit to reduce ammonium and phosphate accumulation during operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197287 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 3/30 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/44 (20130101) C12M 47/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/023 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
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| US 08894886 | Luhrs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Claudia Catalina Luhrs (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia Catalina Luhrs (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide materials and methods for forming graphene-based exfoliated products with low oxygen contents by a reductive-expansion reaction from a physical mixture containing graphite-based precursor(s) and a chemical agent. Exemplary embodiments also provide materials and methods for forming graphene-based exfoliated products with controllable amounts of nitrogen and/or other impurities incorporated in the material structure as a result of a reductive-expansion reaction from a physical mixture containing graphite-based precursor(s) and a chemical agent. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/040976 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/378.R00 |
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| US 08895146 | Mohtadi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Erlanger, Kentucky); Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Erlanger, Kentucky); Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rana F. Mohtadi (Northville, Michigan); George G. Wicks (Aiken, South Carolina); Leung K. Heung (Aiken, South Carolina); Kenji Nakamura (Toyota, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A material for the storage and release of gases comprises a plurality of hollow elements, each hollow element comprising a porous wall enclosing an interior cavity, the interior cavity including structures of a solid-state storage material. In particular examples, the storage material is a hydrogen storage material, such as a solid state hydride. An improved method for forming such materials includes the solution diffusion of a storage material solution through a porous wall of a hollow element into an interior cavity. |
| FILED | Monday, January 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/746051 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/04 (20130101) B01J 20/2805 (20130101) B01J 20/28021 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0026 (20130101) C01B 3/0031 (20130101) C01B 3/0084 (20130101) C01B 6/21 (20130101) C01B 6/243 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 11/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/321 (20130101) Y02E 60/327 (20130101) Y02E 60/328 (20130101) |
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| US 08895197 | Friesen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Daniel A. Buttry (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Daniel A. Buttry (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to an electrochemical metal-air cell in which a low temperature ionic liquid is used. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776962 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/403 |
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| US 08895204 | Wallace et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Energy, Limited (Leiceistershire, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Energy Limited (Loughborough, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Wallace (Davis, California); John M. Melack (Winters, California); Michael Lefenfeld (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A water reactive hydrogen fueled power system includes devices and methods to combine reactant fuel materials and aqueous solutions to generate hydrogen. The generated hydrogen is converted in a fuel cell to provide electricity. The water reactive hydrogen fueled power system includes a fuel cell, a water feed tray, and a fuel cartridge to generate power for portable power electronics. The removable fuel cartridge is encompassed by the water feed tray and fuel cell. The water feed tray is refillable with water by a user. The water is then transferred from the water feed tray into the fuel cartridge to generate hydrogen for the fuel cell which then produces power for the user. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/761468 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/06 (20130101) C01B 3/08 (20130101) C01B 3/065 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04208 (20130101) H01M 8/04216 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/362 (20130101) |
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| US 08895206 | Erlebacher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonah D. Erlebacher (Baltimore, Maryland); Joshua D. Snyder (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonah D. Erlebacher (Baltimore, Maryland); Joshua D. Snyder (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous metal that comprises platinum and has a specific surface area that is greater than 5 m2/g and less than 75 m2/g. A fuel cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and an electrolyte arranged between the first and the second electrodes. At least one of the first and second electrodes is coated with a porous metal catalyst for oxygen reduction, and the porous metal catalyst comprises platinum and has a specific surface area that is greater than 5 m2/g and less than 75 m2/g. A method of producing a porous metal according to an embodiment of the current invention includes producing an alloy consisting essentially of platinum and nickel according to the formula PtxNi1-x, where x is at least 0.01 and less than 0.3; and dealloying the alloy in a substantially pH neutral solution to reduce an amount of nickel in the alloy to produce the porous metal. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/920527 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/892 (20130101) B01J 35/1009 (20130101) B01J 35/1014 (20130101) B01J 35/1057 (20130101) B01J 35/1061 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/98 (20130101) H01M 4/921 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 08895335 | Wierer, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan J. Wierer, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew A. Allerman (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan J. Wierer, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew A. Allerman (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for impurity-induced disordering in III-nitride materials comprises growing a III-nitride heterostructure at a growth temperature and doping the heterostructure layers with a dopant during or after the growth of the heterostructure and post-growth annealing of the heterostructure. The post-growth annealing temperature can be sufficiently high to induce disorder of the heterostructure layer interfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/558516 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/45 |
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| US 08895337 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George T. Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Qiming Li (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A top-down method of fabricating vertically aligned Group III-V micro- and nanowires uses a two-step etch process that adds a selective anisotropic wet etch after an initial plasma etch to remove the dry etch damage while enabling micro/nanowires with straight and smooth faceted sidewalls and controllable diameters independent of pitch. The method enables the fabrication of nanowire lasers, LEDs, and solar cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/743433 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/888 (20130101) |
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| US 08895364 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A structured wafer that includes through passages is used for device processing. Each of the through passages extends from or along one surface of the structured wafer and forms a pattern on a top surface area of the structured wafer. The top surface of the structured wafer is bonded to a device layer via a release layer. Devices are processed on the device layer, and are released from the structured wafer using etchant. The through passages within the structured wafer allow the etchant to access the release layer to thereby remove the release layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243665 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/76251 (20130101) |
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| US 08895406 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Jongseung Yoon (Urbana, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Alfred J. Baca (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Jongseung Yoon (Urbana, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Alfred J. Baca (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for making a device or device component by providing a multilayer structure having a plurality of functional layers and a plurality of release layers and releasing the functional layers from the multilayer structure by separating one or more of the release layers to generate a plurality of transferable structures. The transferable structures are printed onto a device substrate or device component supported by a device substrate. The methods and systems provide means for making high-quality and low-cost photovoltaic devices, transferable semiconductor structures, (opto-)electronic devices and device components. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/071027 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/0046 (20130101) B81C 2201/0191 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/7813 (20130101) H01L 29/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/155 (20130101) H01L 31/068 (20130101) H01L 31/072 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 33/0079 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 08895416 | Sopori et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado); Applied Optical Sciences (AOS) Corp (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhushan Sopori (Denver, Colorado); Anikara Rangappan (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for semiconductor device PN junction fabrication are provided. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating an electrical device having a P-N junction comprises: depositing a layer of amorphous semiconductor material onto a crystalline semiconductor base, wherein the crystalline semiconductor base comprises a crystalline phase of a same semiconductor as the amorphous layer; and growing the layer of amorphous semiconductor material into a layer of crystalline semiconductor material that is epitaxially matched to the lattice structure of the crystalline semiconductor base by applying an optical energy that penetrates at least the amorphous semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/793626 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/324 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02592 (20130101) H01L 21/02609 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/0047 (20130101) |
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| US 08895764 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuli Yan (Detroit, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); K. Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuli Yan (Detroit, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); K. Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a biodiesel product and a heterogeneous catalyst system used to form said product that has a high tolerance for the presence of water and free fatty acids (FFA) in the oil feedstock is disclosed. This catalyst system may simultaneously catalyze both the esterification of FAA and the transesterification of triglycerides present in the oil feedstock. The catalyst system is comprised of a mixture of zinc oxide and a second metal oxide. The zinc oxide includes a mixture of amorphous zinc oxide and zinc oxide nanocrystals, the zinc nanocrystals having a mean grain size between about 20 and 80 nanometers with at least one of the nanocrystals including a mesopore having a diameter of about 5 to 15 nanometers. Preferably, the second metal oxide is a lanthanum oxide, the lanthanum oxide being selected as one from the group of La2CO5, LaOOH, and combinations or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485433 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/10 (20130101) B01J 35/002 (20130101) B01J 35/006 (20130101) B01J 35/023 (20130101) B01J 37/08 (20130101) B01J 37/031 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/026 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/003 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) |
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| US 08895844 | Ding et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | I-Kang Ding (Sunnyvale, California); Jia Zhu (San Jose, California); Yi Cui (Stanford, California); Michael David McGehee (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | I-Kang Ding (Sunnyvale, California); Jia Zhu (San Jose, California); Yi Cui (Stanford, California); Michael David McGehee (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a solar cell having a plasmonic back reflector is disclosed. The method includes the formation of a nanoimprinted surface on which a metal electrode is conformally disposed. The surface structure of the nanoimprinted surface gives rise to a two-dimensional pattern of nanometer-scale features in the metal electrode enabling these features to collectively form the plasmonic back reflector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/306731 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/209 (20130101) H01G 9/2031 (20130101) H01G 9/2059 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0096 (20130101) H01L 51/447 (20130101) H01L 51/4226 (20130101) H01L 2251/105 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/542 (20130101) Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08895848 | Irwin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael D. Irwin (Chicago, Illinois); Donald B. Buchholz (Woodridge, Illinois); Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Robert P. H. Chang (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Irwin (Chicago, Illinois); Donald B. Buchholz (Woodridge, Illinois); Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Robert P. H. Chang (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in one aspect, relates to a solar cell. In one embodiment, the solar cell includes an anode, a p-type semiconductor layer formed on the anode, and an active organic layer formed on the p-type semiconductor layer, where the active organic layer has an electron-donating organic material and an electron-accepting organic material. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191407 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2261/11 (20130101) C08G 2261/91 (20130101) C08G 2261/141 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/442 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) H01L 51/4273 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08896077 | Cui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Jia Zhu (Stanford, California); Ching-Mei Hsu (Stanford, California); Shanhui Fan (Stanford, California); Zongfu Yu (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Jia Zhu (Stanford, California); Ching-Mei Hsu (Stanford, California); Shanhui Fan (Stanford, California); Zongfu Yu (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic device comprising an optically active layer that includes a plurality of domes is presented. The plurality of domes is arrayed in two dimensions having a periodicity in each dimension that is less than or comparable with the shortest wavelength in a spectral range of interest. By virtue of the plurality of domes, the optoelectronic device achieves high performance. A solar cell having high energy-conversion efficiency, improved absorption over the spectral range of interest, and an improved acceptance angle is presented as an exemplary device. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/909064 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/02363 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02366 (20130101) H01L 31/03529 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 08896913 | Erlandson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alvin Charles Erlandson (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alvin Charles Erlandson (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser amplifier includes an input aperture operable to receive laser radiation having a first polarization, an output aperture coupled to the input aperture by an optical path, and a polarizer disposed along an optical path. A transmission axis of the polarizer is aligned with the first polarization. The laser amplifier also includes n optical switch disposed along the optical path. The optical switch is operable to pass the laser radiation when operated in a first state and to reflect the laser radiation when operated in a second state. The laser amplifier further includes an optical gain element disposed along the optical path and a polarization rotation device disposed along the optical path. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875056 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/333 |
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| US 08897609 | Davids et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Davids (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David W. Peters (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A frequency selective infrared (IR) photodetector having a predetermined frequency band. The exemplary frequency selective photodetector includes: a dielectric IR absorber having a first surface and a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface; an electrode electrically coupled to the first surface of the dielectric IR absorber; and a frequency selective surface plasmonic (FSSP) structure formed on the second surface of the dielectric IR absorber. The FSSP structure is designed to selectively transmit radiation in the predetermined frequency band that is incident on the FSSP structure substantially independent of the angle of incidence of the incident radiation on the FSSP structure. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/871676 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08898216 | de Azambuja Turtqueti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcos de Azambuja Turtqueti (North Aurora, Illinois); Ryan Allen Rivera (North Aurora, Illinois); Jeffry L. Andresen (St. Charles, Illinois); John Chramowicz (Elgin, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcos de Azambuja Turtqueti (North Aurora, Illinois); Ryan Allen Rivera (North Aurora, Illinois); Jeffry L. Andresen (St. Charles, Illinois); John Chramowicz (Elgin, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A data acquisition and processing system and method includes one or more distributed and expandable data acquisition nodes for processing large amounts of data. Each data acquisition node includes a core group of primary boards electronically connected together via a vertical bus capable of providing intra-node communication between the primary boards. A secondary board horizontally connected in association with the primary board via a horizontal bus provides inter-node communication or instrumentation interfaces to sensors or other application specific instruments. A master control unit associated with a graphical user interface communicates with the data acquisition nodes via a communication protocol to permit high speed exchange of information and to display information reported from the acquisition system. A storage controller associated with a node controller controls storage of data associated with the data acquisition nodes on a database in a remote location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/578190 |
| ART UNIT | 2447 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08898648 | Chung 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) | I-Hsin Chung (Chappaqua, New York); Guojing Cong (Ossining, New York); Hiroki Murata (Tokyo, Japan); Yasushi Negishi (Tokyo, Japan); Hui-Fang Wen (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A profiling tool identifies a code region with a false sharing potential. A static analysis tool classifies variables and arrays in the identified code region. A mapping detection library correlates memory access instructions in the identified code region with variables and arrays in the identified code region while a processor is running the identified code region. The mapping detection library identifies one or more instructions at risk, in the identified code region, which are subject to an analysis by a false sharing detection library. A false sharing detection library performs a run-time analysis of the one or more instructions at risk while the processor is re-running the identified code region. The false sharing detection library determines, based on the performed run-time analysis, whether two different portions of the cache memory line are accessed by the generated binary code. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/689927 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/131 |
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| US 08898678 | Faraj 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) | Daniel A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Identifying a collective operation within an application executing on a parallel computer; identifying a call site of the collective operation; determining whether the collective operation is root-based; if the collective operation is not root-based: establishing a tuning session and executing the collective operation in the tuning session; if the collective operation is root-based, determining whether all compute nodes executing the application identified the collective operation at the same call site; if all compute nodes identified the collective operation at the same call site, establishing a tuning session and executing the collective operation in the tuning session; and if all compute nodes executing the application did not identify the collective operation at the same call site, executing the collective operation without establishing a tuning session. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/663545 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/546 (20130101) G06F 11/3404 (20130101) |
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| US 08898810 | Evans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennesse Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara R. Evans (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Ida Lee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for functionalizing cantilevers is provided that includes providing a holder having a plurality of channels each having a width for accepting a cantilever probe and a plurality of probes. A plurality of cantilever probes are fastened to the plurality of channels of the holder by the spring clips. The wells of a well plate are filled with a functionalization solution, wherein adjacent wells in the well plate are separated by a dimension that is substantially equal to a dimension separating adjacent channels of the plurality of channels. Each cantilever probe that is fastened within the plurality of channels of the holder is applied to the functionalization solution that is contained in the wells of the well plate. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/138305 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 60/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01Q 70/02 (20130101) G01Q 70/06 (20130101) G01Q 70/18 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Andrew Hicks (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Croke (Narberth, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Andrew Hicks (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christopher Croke (Narberth, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a multiple surface system that may be a two-mirror surface. The method involves first finding from a given primary curve an appropriate secondary curve. The method then uses ideas from exterior differential systems to grow from the primary curve and the secondary curve, primary and secondary mirror surfaces. The Cartan-Kähler theorem gives a strong indication of the existence of such solution surfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/639441 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 17/0621 (20130101) G02B 27/0012 (20130101) |
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| US 08894637 | Ben-Yakar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adela Ben-Yakar (Austin, Texas); Christopher L. Hoy (Austin, Texas); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adela Ben-Yakar (Austin, Texas); Christopher L. Hoy (Austin, Texas); Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are devices, systems and methods for imaging of biological tissue. Also provided are devices, systems and methods for surgical manipulation of biological tissue. Further provided are devices, systems and methods for combined imaging and surgical manipulation of biological tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/811888 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 19/5223 (20130101) A61B 2018/2085 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/4795 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) |
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| US 08894751 | Galbraith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. McGowan (Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania); Evonne A. Baldauff (Eight Four, Pennsylvania); Elise Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); David K. Walker (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Separation Design Group LLC (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. McGowan (Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania); Evonne A. Baldauff (Eight Four, Pennsylvania); Elise Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); David K. Walker (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Lightweight, portable oxygen concentrators that operate using an ultra rapid, sub one second, adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials are disclosed. The amount of sieve material utilized is a fraction of that used in conventional portable devices. This dramatically reduces the volume, weight, and cost of the device. Innovations in valve configuration, moisture control, case and battery design, and replaceable sieve module are described. Patients with breathing disorders and others requiring medical oxygen are provided with a long lasting, low cost alternative to existing portable oxygen supply devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/499943 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 16/101 (20140204) A61M 16/0672 (20140204) A61M 2016/1025 (20130101) A61M 2205/8206 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 53/0415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/0473 (20130101) B01D 2253/108 (20130101) B01D 2253/304 (20130101) B01D 2256/12 (20130101) B01D 2257/102 (20130101) B01D 2259/4541 (20130101) |
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| US 08894891 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wenhao Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Numpon Insin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenhao Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter Matthew Allen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Numpon Insin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanomaterial can include an outer layer including a ligand. The ligand can include a first monomer unit including a first moiety having affinity for a surface of the nanocrystal, a second monomer unit including a second moiety having a high water solubility, and a third monomer unit including a third moiety having a selectively reactive functional group or a selectively binding functional group. The ligand can be a random copolymer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857430 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/54 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/3322 (20130101) C08G 65/33306 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08894934 | Pang 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) | Lin Pang (San Diego, California); Haiping Matthew Chen (La Jolla, California); Yeshaiahu Fainman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatus, material and systems are described for implementing a three-dimensional composite mushroom-like metallodielectric nanostructure. In one aspect, a surface plasmon based sensing device includes a substrate and a layer of an anti-reflective coating over the substrate. The surface Plasmon based sensing device includes a dielectric material on the anti-reflective coating shaped to form a 2-dimensional array of nanoholes spaced from one another. Also, the surface Plasmon based sensing device includes a layer of a metallic film formed on the 2-dimensional array of nanoholes to include openings over the nanoholes, respectively, wherein the sensing device is structured to support both propagating surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waves and localized surface plasmon resonant (LSPR) modes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/970583 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.110 |
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| US 08895072 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hao Yan (Chandler, Arizona); Qiangbin Wang (Suzhou, China PRC); Yan Liu (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Yan (Chandler, Arizona); Qiangbin Wang (Suzhou, China PRC); Yan Liu (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel barcode microstructures and methods for making and using the microstructures for molecular recognition, and/or delivery of therapeutic, diagnostic, contrast, and imaging agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/374226 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2006/42 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/127 (20130101) |
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| US 08895321 | Lopez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabriel Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linnea Ista (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven RJ Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Aurelio Evangelista Lara (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mangesh Bore (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linnea Ista (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven RJ Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Aurelio Evangelista Lara (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mangesh Bore (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Device and method for detecting the presence of known or unknown toxic agents in a fluid sample. Targets in the sample are bound to releasable receptors immobilized in a reaction region of a micro- or nano-fluidic device. The receptors are selected based on their affinity for classes of known toxic agents. The receptors are freed and the bound and unbound receptors separated based on differential electrokinetic mobilities while they travel to a detection device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104200 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08895673 | Johnson 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) | Jeremiah Johnson (Los Angeles, California); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for preparing degradable model networks from any monomer functionality with any degradation methodology. It is based on the use of Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization and CLICK chemistry to form the desired product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/770373 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 222/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 283/00 (20130101) C08F 290/06 (20130101) C08F 290/061 (20130101) C08F 293/005 (20130101) C08F 2438/01 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/78 (20130101) |
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| US 08895739 | Schafmeister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian E. Schafmeister (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Zachary Z. Brown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian E. Schafmeister (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Zachary Z. Brown (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized bis-peptides as well as other amide-containing compounds are obtained by acylation of hindered amines. The functionalized bis-peptides are useful as shape-programmable nanostructures that are immune to denaturation and that contain arrays of functional groups having designed catalytic, protein-binding and/or sensor capabilities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006912 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/22 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/06034 (20130101) |
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| US 08895742 | Newkome et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George R. Newkome (Medina, Ohio); Charles N. Moorefield (Akron, Ohio); Pingshan Wang (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio); Sinan Li (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Newkome (Medina, Ohio); Charles N. Moorefield (Akron, Ohio); Pingshan Wang (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio); Sinan Li (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method and nanocomposite for the reversible assembly of nanotubes, such as oxidized single wall carbon nanotubes, based on metal coordination. The method produces a thermally stable, neutral nanocomposite possessing enhanced mechanical, electrical, physical and chemical properties for example. Disassembly can be provided by treatment with a competing ligand compound. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910772 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08895781 | Warren |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy H. Warren (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy H. Warren (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention relates to a method of animation or amidation, comprising the step of combining a substrate, comprising a reactive C—H bond, and an amine or amide, comprising a reactive N—H bond, in the presence of an oxidizing agent and a metal-containing catalyst, thereby forming a product with a covalent bond between the carbon of the reactive C—H bond and the nitrogen of the reactive N—H bond. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/061021 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 263/14 (20130101) C07D 263/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 521/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08895839 | Mazur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mark Winkler (Brooklyn, New York); Brian R. Tull (West New York, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President And Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mark Winkler (Brooklyn, New York); Brian R. Tull (West New York, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Photovoltaic devices (e.g., solar cells) are disclosed that include at least three radiation absorbing layers, each capable of absorbing radiation over a different wavelength range of the solar radiation spectrum. Any two of these three wavelength ranges can be partially overlapping, or alternatively they can be distinct. The layers are disposed relative to one another so as to form two junctions, each of which includes a depletion region. In some cases, the radiation absorbing layers can collectively absorb radiation over a wavelength range that spans at least about 60%, or 70%, or 80%, and preferably 90% of the solar radiation wavelength spectrum. By way of example, in some embodiments, one layer can exhibit significant absorption of solar radiation (e.g., it can absorb at least one radiation wavelength at an absorptance greater than about 90%) at wavelengths less than about 0.7 microns while another layer can exhibit significant absorption of the solar radiation at wavelengths in a range of about 0.7 microns to about 1 micron. The third layer can in turn exhibit a significant absorption of solar radiation at wavelengths greater than about 1 micron. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864994 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/186 (20130101) H01L 31/0236 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/0747 (20130101) H01L 31/1872 (20130101) H01L 31/02167 (20130101) H01L 31/02363 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/548 (20130101) |
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| US 08895959 | Shur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina); Jinwei Yang (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina); Jinwei Yang (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A superlattice layer including a plurality of periods, each of which is formed from a plurality of sub-layers is provided. Each sub-layer comprises a different composition than the adjacent sub-layer(s) and comprises a polarization that is opposite a polarization of the adjacent sub-layer(s). In this manner, the polarizations of the respective adjacent sub-layers compensate for one another. Furthermore, the superlattice layer can be configured to be at least partially transparent to radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/162895 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02387 (20130101) H01L 21/02507 (20130101) H01L 29/15 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/10 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) |
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| US 08896442 | Khan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Usman Khan (Somerville, Massachusetts); José M. Moura (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Soummya Kar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and monitoring resource in large-scale facilities is disclosed herein. The system is based on a sensor network and is efficient, scalable, and requires only short-range communication. The system allows for sensor-to-sensor communication as well as the traditional sensor-to-anchor communication to effectively eliminate long-range communications. In order to perform resource localization and tracking, the present invention pairs each resource with an inexpensive, low-powered sensor possessing minimal communication and computation capabilities. The sensors communicate with only nearby resources or anchors and those resources communicate with their nearby resources or anchors until a wireless, linked network of resources and anchors is formed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/014670 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08898623 | Zhao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keliang Zhao (La Jolla, California); Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Kian Win Ong (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keliang Zhao (La Jolla, California); Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Kian Win Ong (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatuses, and systems for application design and application data flow analysis. Techniques, apparatuses, and systems can include providing a design interface to create an application with different user groups and access rights, the design interface operable to specify an action to include to a page of the application, where the action, when invoked, modifies the application state; receiving an action specification that describes an access rights modification that results from an invocation of the action during an execution of the application, where the access rights modification indicates an enabling or disabling of one or more access rights of a user; and generating application specification queries and commands to enforce access rights based on the access rights modification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/650539 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08894725 | Asthana et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Navinchandra S. Asthana (Evansville, Indiana); Dennis J. Miller (Okemos, Michigan); Carl T. Lira (East Lansing, Michigan); Evan Bittner (Duluth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing mixed esters of fatty acids as biofuel or additive to a petroleum fuel for use in a compression ignition (CI) engine. The process preferably provides a partial transesterification of a mixture of fatty acid methyl esters with at least one alkyl alcohol containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms in the presence of a heterogeneous solid acid catalyst to produce a mixture of the fatty acid methyl esters and alkyl alcohol esters of the fatty acids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/077897 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10L 1/026 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) |
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| US 08894854 | Loetscher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lucas Hans Loetscher (Fort Collins, Colorado); Sybil Sharvelle (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucas Hans Loetscher (Fort Collins, Colorado); Sybil Sharvelle (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A digester with separate stages for hydrolysis and methanogenesis is disclosed. The digester includes a leachate bay reactor, which may be configured as modular, multi-bay units. Waste material is added to the leachate bay reactor. A leachate storage tank is fluidically connected to the leachate bay reactor, which facilitates hydrolysis. Leachate from the leachate storage tank is recirculated through the leachate bay reactor. A high rate methanogenic reactor is fluidically connected to the leachate storage tank to cycle the leachate in a fixed film environment for biogas production from solubilized organic matter. The reactor may be operated in an anaerobic digestion mode, or a dual aerobic-anaerobic digestion mode. The reactor may also include a struvite system having a crystallizer unit and a separation unit to reduce ammonium and phosphate accumulation during operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197287 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 3/30 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/44 (20130101) C12M 47/00 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/023 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895279 | Burke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis A. Burke (Olympia, Washington) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Burke (Olympia, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to recover and harvest nutrients from a liquid stream by incorporating them into microorganisms grown in a rotating photobioreactor. The method further includes optionally integrating the rotating photobioreactor with a composting or biogenic drying process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/987795 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/02 (20130101) C12M 21/04 (20130101) C12M 23/58 (20130101) C12M 47/18 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (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 1/00 (20130101) C12P 3/00 (20130101) C12P 5/00 (20130101) C12P 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895778 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gowrishankar Srinivasan (Ames, Iowa); David Grewell (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gowrishankar Srinivasan (Ames, Iowa); David Grewell (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides energy efficient depolymerization of polyesters such as post-consumer polylactic acid. Ultrasonic induced implosions can be used to facilitate the depolymerization. The expanding market of polylactic acid-based plastic products, such as water bottles and packaging materials, has raised concerns of contaminating the recycling stream, which is largely filled with petroleum-based plastics. Thus the development of an energy efficient and economically viable PLA recycling process is urgently needed. Post consumer PLA was exposed to methanol as the suspension media in the presence of organic or ionic salts of alkali metals such a potassium carbonate and sodium hydroxide as depolymerization catalysts to provide high quality lactic acid monomers in high yield. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/357442 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 51/09 (20130101) C07C 51/412 (20130101) C07C 51/412 (20130101) C07C 59/08 (20130101) C07C 59/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP25107 | Knight et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patricia R. Knight (Biloxi, Mississippi); Wayne J. McLaurin (Poplarville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia R. Knight (Biloxi, Mississippi); Wayne J. McLaurin (Poplarville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of Lagerstroemia crapemyrtle plant named ‘CREC-0001’, characterized by its medium to dark purple color flowers and medium to large growth habit. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/573603 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08894019 | Alvi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Farrukh S. Alvi (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Office of Commercialization (Tallahasse, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrukh S. Alvi (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for controlling unwanted flow separation. One or more microjets are placed to feed auxiliary fluid into a region of suspected flow separation on a surface. If the separation is intermittent, sensors can be employed to detect its onset. Once separation is developing, the microjets are activated to inject a stream of high-velocity gas in a direction that is transverse to the prevailing flow. This injected stream forms counter-rotating vortices in the prevailing flow and thereby transfers momentum from the prevailing flow into the boundary layer proximate the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731195 |
| 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 21/04 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 33/02 (20130101) B64D 2033/0226 (20130101) Fluid Dynamics, i.e Methods or Means for Influencing the Flow of Gases or Liquids F15D 1/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08894918 | DiCarlo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James A. DiCarlo (N. Olmsted, Ohio); Hee-Mann Yun (N. Olmstead, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. DiCarlo (N. Olmsted, Ohio); Hee-Mann Yun (N. Olmstead, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for producing architectural preforms and high-temperature composite structures containing high-strength ceramic fibers with reduced preforming stresses within each fiber, with an in-situ grown coating on each fiber surface, with reduced boron within the bulk of each fiber, and with improved tensile creep and rupture resistance properties tier each fiber. The methods include the steps of preparing an original sample of a preform formed from a pre-selected high-strength silicon carbide ceramic fiber type, placing the original sample in a processing furnace under a pre-selected preforming stress state and thermally treating the sample in the processing furnace at a pre-selected processing temperature and hold time in a processing gas having a pre-selected composition, pressure, and flow rate. For the high-temperature composite structures, the method includes additional steps of depositing a thin interphase coating on the surface of each fiber and forming a ceramic or carbon-based matrix within the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709086 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/565 (20130101) C04B 35/571 (20130101) C04B 35/584 (20130101) C04B 35/589 (20130101) C04B 35/803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 35/62868 (20130101) C04B 35/62873 (20130101) C04B 35/62884 (20130101) C04B 2235/614 (20130101) C04B 2235/616 (20130101) C04B 2235/5244 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896315 | Davies |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis J. Davies (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Davies (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery cell balancing system is operable to utilize a relatively small number of transformers interconnected with a battery having a plurality of battery cells to selectively charge the battery cells. Windings of the transformers are simultaneously driven with a plurality of waveforms whereupon selected battery cells or groups of cells are selected and charged. A transformer drive circuit is operable to selectively vary the waveforms to thereby vary a weighted voltage associated with each of the battery cells. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/354552 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896836 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shin-Juh Chen (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for monitoring gas velocity, temperature, and pressure in combustion systems and flow devices, in particular at inlets and isolators of scramjet engines. The invention employs wavelength modulation spectroscopy with first harmonic detection and without the need to scan the full absorption spectra. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868326 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/61 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/3504 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897654 | Pierrottet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Diego F. Pierrottet (Poquoson, Virginia); Larry B. Petway (Hampton, Virginia); Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Bruce W. Barnes (Yorktown, Virginia); George E. Lockard (Newport News, Virginia); Glenn D. Hines (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diego F. Pierrottet (Poquoson, Virginia); Larry B. Petway (Hampton, Virginia); Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Bruce W. Barnes (Yorktown, Virginia); George E. Lockard (Newport News, Virginia); Glenn D. Hines (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for generating a frequency modulated linear laser waveform includes a single frequency laser generator to produce a laser output signal. An electro-optical modulator modulates the frequency of the laser output signal to define a linear triangular waveform. An optical circulator passes the linear triangular waveform to a band-pass optical filter to filter out harmonic frequencies created in the waveform during modulation of the laser output signal, to define a pure filtered modulated waveform having a very narrow bandwidth. The optical circulator receives the pure filtered modulated laser waveform and transmits the modulated laser waveform to a target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/527638 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/199 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08894751 | Galbraith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. McGowan (Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania); Evonne A. Baldauff (Eight Four, Pennsylvania); Elise Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); David K. Walker (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Separation Design Group LLC (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); Kenneth J. McGowan (Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania); Evonne A. Baldauff (Eight Four, Pennsylvania); Elise Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania); David K. Walker (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania); Robert B. LaCount (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Lightweight, portable oxygen concentrators that operate using an ultra rapid, sub one second, adsorption cycle based on advanced molecular sieve materials are disclosed. The amount of sieve material utilized is a fraction of that used in conventional portable devices. This dramatically reduces the volume, weight, and cost of the device. Innovations in valve configuration, moisture control, case and battery design, and replaceable sieve module are described. Patients with breathing disorders and others requiring medical oxygen are provided with a long lasting, low cost alternative to existing portable oxygen supply devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/499943 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 16/101 (20140204) A61M 16/0672 (20140204) A61M 2016/1025 (20130101) A61M 2205/8206 (20130101) Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 53/0415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/0473 (20130101) B01D 2253/108 (20130101) B01D 2253/304 (20130101) B01D 2256/12 (20130101) B01D 2257/102 (20130101) B01D 2259/4541 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08895279 | Burke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis A. Burke (Olympia, Washington) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Burke (Olympia, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to recover and harvest nutrients from a liquid stream by incorporating them into microorganisms grown in a rotating photobioreactor. The method further includes optionally integrating the rotating photobioreactor with a composting or biogenic drying process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/987795 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/02 (20130101) C12M 21/04 (20130101) C12M 23/58 (20130101) C12M 47/18 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (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 1/00 (20130101) C12P 3/00 (20130101) C12P 5/00 (20130101) C12P 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896020 | Schowalter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Juan Carlos Rojo (South Beach, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm−2 or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974710 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/003 (20130101) C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08894920 | Kester et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lanrik Kester (Savona, New York); Thomas Dale Ketcham (Horseheads, New York); Brian Scott Kirk (Corning, New York); Dell Joseph St Julien (Watkins Glen, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lanrik Kester (Savona, New York); Thomas Dale Ketcham (Horseheads, New York); Brian Scott Kirk (Corning, New York); Dell Joseph St Julien (Watkins Glen, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a thin, free-standing ceramic sheet may include drawing a carrier film proximate a casting head and across a casting bed of a tape caster at a rate from about 2 cm/min to about 500 cm/min. Depositing a thin film of ceramic slip less than about 150 μm on the carrier film with the casting head. The ceramic slip may comprises a ceramic powder with an ultimate crystallite size of less than about 10 μm dispersed in a fluid vehicle such that the ceramic slip has a ceramic solids fraction of greater than about 20% by volume. The deposited ceramic slip may be dried on the carrier film thereby forming a green ceramic sheet on the carrier film. After the green ceramic sheet is dried, the green ceramic sheet may be sintered. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/124015 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08896020 | Schowalter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Juan Carlos Rojo (South Beach, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Joseph A. Smart (Mooresville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk single crystals of AlN having a diameter greater than about 25 mm and dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm−2 or less and high-quality AlN substrates having surfaces of any desired crystallographic orientation fabricated from these bulk crystals. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974710 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/003 (20130101) C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 23/025 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/04 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/025 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08895688 | Emrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Todd Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Beom-Young Ryu (Dong-gu, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Masschusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Beom-Young Ryu (Dong-gu, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides halogen-free, bisphenol triazole resins and polymers having exceptional flame retarding properties, related compositions and methods of making and use thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/489490 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/06 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 407/12 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/6856 (20130101) C08G 73/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08895018 | Vandenbark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by 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 Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for the treatment of subjects with cognitive or neuropsychiatric impairment induced by substance addiction and for increasing cognitive function in a subject with substance addiction. In some embodiments, the methods include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule including covalently linked first, second, and third domains; wherein the first domain is an MHC class II β1 domain and the second domain is an MHC class II α1 domain; or wherein the first domain is an MHC class I α1 domain and the second domain is an MHC class I α2 domain; and wherein the third domain is covalently linked to the first domain and comprises an antigen of the central or peripheral nervous system. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/924252 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0007 (20130101) A61K 39/0007 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/605 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70539 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08898791 | Brando et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danny Brando (Livingston, New Jersey); Joonho Lee (New York, New York); Jia Ye (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danny Brando (Livingston, New Jersey); Joonho Lee (New York, New York); Jia Ye (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing a security check may include using at least one processor to periodically check a status of a flag, generate and store a baseline representation of modules stored on the device where the flag is determined to be set to a first state, and, where the flag is determined to be set to a second state, generate an active representation of modules stored on the first device, compare the active representation of modules to the baseline representation of modules, and, responsive to a determination in the comparing step of a difference between the baseline and active representations of modules, output an alert. The flag status may depend on an association of the device with one of a plurality of authorization policies, each mapped to one of the two states. Results of the comparison may be appended to an activity log of the device. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/892849 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/61 (20130101) G06F 9/44536 (20130101) G06F 21/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08898784 | Alexander et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith B. Alexander (Ft. Meade, Maryland); Patrick W. Dowd (Annapolis, Maryland); Robert L. Grossman (River Forest, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith B. Alexander (Ft. Meade, Maryland); Patrick W. Dowd (Annapolis, Maryland); Robert L. Grossman (River Forest, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic network security by establishing a network topology, including multiple devices, where the network includes a command and control layer and a transport layer, where the command and control layer is changeable by the transport layer and vice versa. All phases of an intrusion attempt are monitored to anticipate an intrusion, prevent an intrusion, and remedy a successful intrusion. An assessment of the threat is made in multiple dimensions. The topology of the network may be changed in accordance with the threat assessment. In addition, computer traffic in the network and from the intrusion source may be modified or stopped to guard against an intrusion, prevent an intrusion, and remedy a successful intrusion. The command and control layer is changeable by the transport layer and vice versa. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/573931 |
| ART UNIT | 2495 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08895072 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hao Yan (Chandler, Arizona); Qiangbin Wang (Suzhou, China PRC); Yan Liu (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Yan (Chandler, Arizona); Qiangbin Wang (Suzhou, China PRC); Yan Liu (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel barcode microstructures and methods for making and using the microstructures for molecular recognition, and/or delivery of therapeutic, diagnostic, contrast, and imaging agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/374226 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2006/42 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/127 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08893491 | Gray, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A drive module for a hydraulic hybrid vehicle includes two variable displacement over-center bent-axis hydraulic pump/motors with respective yokes that reside and pivot within a common fluid-filled case. The cylinder barrel of each pump/motor is connected to high pressure through fluid-conducting yoke legs, and is connected to low pressure through the fluid-filled case, which is connected by a port to a low pressure source. As a drivetrain for a vehicle, one pump/motor acts primarily as a pump driven by an engine and the other pump/motor acts primarily as a motor to propel the vehicle. A removable support structure facilitates installation to a variety of vehicle chassis. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/415109 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 6/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60K 17/10 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology B60Y 2304/072 (20130101) B60Y 2410/00 (20130101) Gearing F16H 2039/005 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/6208 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08897550 | Tong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NBCUniversal Media, LLC (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NBCUniversal Media, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Tong (Schenectady, New York); Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Jilin Tu (Schenectady, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for estimating a set of landmarks for a large image ensemble employs only a small number of manually labeled images from the ensemble and avoids labor-intensive and error-prone object detection, tracking and alignment learning task limitations associated with manual image labeling techniques. A semi-supervised least squares congealing approach is employed to minimize an objective function defined on both labeled and unlabeled images. A shape model is learned on-line to constrain the landmark configuration. A partitioning strategy allows coarse-to-fine landmark estimation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/892102 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00228 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0028 (20130101) G06T 7/0034 (20130101) G06T 2207/20121 (20130101) G06T 2207/30201 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08898479 | Shaw |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harry C. Shaw (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry C. Shaw (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, systems, computer programs and methods for implementing a genomics-based security solution are discussed herein. In an encryption process, plaintext may be converted to DNAtext and DNAtext may be converted to a ciphergene. The ciphergene may then be converted into a pre-transcriptional complex. The pre-transcriptional complex, in turn, may then be converted into a cipherprotein. The decryption process operates in the reverse of the encryption process to obtain plaintext. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/534442 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3228 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, November 25, 2014.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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