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| US 08944985 | Bonmassar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Giorgio Bonmassar (Lexington, Massachusetts); Matti S. Hamalainen (Boston, Massachusetts); Bruce Rosen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giorgio Bonmassar (Lexington, Massachusetts); Matti S. Hamalainen (Boston, Massachusetts); Bruce Rosen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An implant for deep brain stimulation (DBS) has an array of electromagnetic microcoils dispersed over the length of the implant. The microcoils produce magnetic fields that are directed into, and induce current in, the adjacent brain tissue. The microcoils may be selectively operated to direct and focus electrical stimulation to targeted areas of the brain. The implant is useful in studying or treating neurophysiological conditions associated with the deep regions of the brain such as Parkinson's disease, drug addiction, and depression. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418324 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/40 (20130101) A61N 1/0531 (20130101) A61N 1/0534 (20130101) A61N 1/36082 (20130101) A61N 2/02 (20130101) A61N 2/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2/006 (20130101) |
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| US 08945121 | Curley |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael G. Curley (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thermedical, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Curley (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and methods for degassing fluid prior to applying fluid to a treatment site during ablation therapy are provided. In one embodiment, an ablation system can include an elongate body, an ablation element, a heating assembly, and a fluid source. Fluid in the fluid source can be at least partially degassed prior to being provided as part of the system, or, in some embodiments, a degassing apparatus can be provided that can be configured to degas fluid within the system prior to applying the fluid to the treatment site. The degassing apparatus can include one or more gas-permeable and fluid-impermeable tubes disposed therein, which can allow gas to be removed from fluid passing through the apparatus. Other exemplary devices, systems, and methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/445040 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 18/1477 (20130101) A61B 2018/00029 (20130101) A61B 2018/046 (20130101) A61B 2018/00577 (20130101) A61B 2018/00642 (20130101) A61B 2018/00791 (20130101) A61B 2018/00797 (20130101) A61B 2018/00809 (20130101) A61B 2018/00821 (20130101) A61B 2018/1425 (20130101) |
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| US 08945218 | Laurencin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cato T. Laurencin (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Frank K. Ko (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James A. Cooper (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Mohammed A. Attawia (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cato T. Laurencin (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Frank K. Ko (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James A. Cooper (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Mohammed A. Attawia (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Degradable, polymeric fiber-based, three-dimensional braided scaffolds for use as graft materials in ligament and tendon repair, reconstruction and replacement are provided. Also provided are methods for preparing these scaffolds. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753889 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/38 (20130101) A61F 2/40 (20130101) A61F 2210/0004 (20130101) |
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| US 08945471 | Pantazis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Periklis Pantazis (Pasadena, California); Sotirios Masmanidis (Pasadena, California); Scott E. Fraser (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Periklis Pantazis (Pasadena, California); Sotirios Masmanidis (Pasadena, California); Scott E. Fraser (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Second harmonic nanoprobes for multipurpose imaging of samples and a method of using such probes to monitor nucleotide sequencing in a Multi-SHG Detection Imaging (MSDI) modality and to monitor external electric field using voltage sensitive second harmonic generating (SHG) nanoprobes are provided. The SHG nanoprobes are comprised of various kinds of nanocrystals that do not possess an inversion symmetry and therefore are capable of generating second harmonic signals that can then be detected by conventional two-photon microscopy for in vivo imaging of biological processes and structures such as cell signaling, neuroimaging, protein conformation probing, DNA conformation probing, gene transcription, virus infection and replication in cells, protein dynamics, tumor imaging and cancer therapy evaluation and diagnosis as well as quantification in optical imaging for a wide-range of biological and non-biological processes and devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690863 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 2535/101 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) 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 1/37 (20130101) G02F 2202/36 (20130101) |
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| US 08945486 | Warrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay W. Warrick (Madison, Wisconsin); John Yin (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephen M. Lindsay (Appleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A microwell device is provided. The device includes a plate having a upper surface. The upper surface has first and second recesses formed therein. Each recess has an outer periphery. First and second portions of microwells are formed in upper surface of the plate. The first portion of microwells are spaced about the outer periphery of the first recess and the second portion of microwells spaced about the outer periphery of the first recess. A first barrier is about a first portions of the microwells for fluidicly isolating the first portion of the microwells and a second barrier about a second portions of microwells for fluidicly isolating the second portion of the microwells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790917 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/809 (20130101) |
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| US 08945494 | Castro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Miguel E. Castro (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Daniel Rivera (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel E. Castro (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Daniel Rivera (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a simple an efficient method for the synthesis of CaS nanoparticles, where a solution of CaAc in DMSO is warmed in a microwave oven. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902274 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/567 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/81 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/904 (20130101) Y10S 977/927 (20130101) |
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| US 08945515 | Blanchard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott Blanchard (New York, New York); Roger Altman (New York, New York); J. David Warren (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Blanchard (New York, New York); Roger Altman (New York, New York); J. David Warren (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to fluorophore-containing compositions and configurations wherein proximity between the fluorophore and one or more protective agents (PAs) modifies the lifetime of fluorescent and/or dark states, their frequency of occurrence, and the total lifetime of fluorescence in order to appropriately modify the photophysical characteristics of the fluorophore. The invention is also directed to methods that utilize these compositions and configurations. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/202351 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0067 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) |
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| US 08945527 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Matthew Parrott (Carrboro, North Carolina); Andrew Murphy (Cary, North Carolina); Robby A. Petros (Denton, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Liquidia Technologies, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Matthew Parrott (Carrboro, North Carolina); Andrew Murphy (Cary, North Carolina); Robby A. Petros (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that will degrade under specified conditions, methods of using such compounds, and compositions comprising such compounds. The degradable compounds of the invention may be characterized by the labile —Si-A-C— groups present in the compounds (A representing an atom, such as O, N, or S, or a group, such as C═O). The compounds may be incorporated into a composition that further may include a polymeric matrix and/or a cargo component. A wide variety of cargo components may also be used in the present invention. In particular embodiments, the cargo component comprises a drug or other therapeutic agent. Accordingly, the invention particularly provides pharmaceutical formulations and methods of delivering a drug or other therapeutic material. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989315 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945544 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pomila Singh (Houston, Texas); Gurpreet Singh (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pomila Singh (Houston, Texas); Gurpreet Singh (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to immunotherapeutic methods to treat tumors/cancers that produce progastrin ectopically or are dependent on progastrin for their growth. Disclosed herein are immunogenic compositions comprising agents that target progastrin, agents that target the progastrin receptor, annexin II, or both. Such a composition may be administered in combination with chemotherapy or to an individual who had been previously subjected to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The cancers that may be treated using such a composition may include but are not limited to colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer or pancreatic cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/803998 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 2201/0261 (20130101) Applying Closure Members to Bottles Jars, or Similar Containers; Opening Closed Containers B67B 3/0645 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945549 | Salvemini |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniela Salvemini (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for treating pain disorders including neuropathic and inflammatory pain and to methods to reduce or eliminate nociceptive tolerance induced by opiate analgesic use by administering an agent that suppresses or blocks S1P biological activity. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246847 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) |
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| US 08945556 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Nallasivam Palanisamy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Nallasivam Palanisamy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present disclosure relates to RAF gene fusions as diagnostic markers and clinical targets for cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/300063 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945568 | Nahm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moon H. Nahm (Birmingham, Alabama); In Ho Park (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a new and emerging serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae designated serotype 6D, and assays and monoclonal antibodies useful in identifying same. Also disclosed is a novel pneumococcal polysaccharide with the repeating unit→2) glucose 1 (1→3) glucose 2 (1→3) rhamnose (1→4) ribitol (5→phosphate. This new serotype may be included in pneumococcal vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/866857 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/092 (20130101) A61K 2039/6081 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1275 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (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 19/04 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/14 (20130101) C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/46 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56944 (20130101) G01N 2333/3156 (20130101) |
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| US 08945575 | Ganley-Leal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa Ganley-Leal (Newton, Massachusetts); John H. Connor (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Boston Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Ganley-Leal (Newton, Massachusetts); John H. Connor (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and compositions described herein are based, in part, on the discovery of a polypeptide of soluble CD23 (sCD23) that binds and sequesters IgE. Thus, the sCD23 peptides, polypeptides and derivatives described herein are useful for treating conditions or disorders involving increased IgE levels such as e.g., allergy, anaphylaxis, inflammation, lymphoma, and certain cancers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/512949 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/7056 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945587 | Trent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Stephen Trent (Cedar Park, Texas); Brittany Needham (Austin, Texas); David Giles (Chattanooga, Tennessee); Marvin Whiteley (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to genetic engineering of bacteria. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to genetic engineering of Gram-negative bacteria expressing different species of lipid A on their surface. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides for an engineered strain of E. coli according to Table 1. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides for a lipopolysaccharide purified from an engineered strain of E. coli according to Table 1. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/780805 |
| 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 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6481 (20130101) |
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| US 08945588 | Schneewind et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Chicago, Illinois); Alice G. Cheng (Boston, Massachusetts); Dominique M. Missiakas (Chicago, Illinois); Hwan Keun Kim (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Chicago, Illinois); Alice G. Cheng (Boston, Massachusetts); Dominique M. Missiakas (Chicago, Illinois); Hwan Keun Kim (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions for treating or preventing a bacterial infection, particularly infection by a Staphylococcus bacterium. The invention provides methods and compositions for stimulating an immune response against the bacteria. In certain embodiments, the methods and compositions involve an Ebh antigen. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465541 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/085 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/31 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1271 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 08945590 | Fairman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffery Fairman (Mountain View, California); Marla Lay Vaughn (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery Fairman (Mountain View, California); Marla Lay Vaughn (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for vaccination which is effective for eliciting an enhanced antigen-specific immune response in a mammal, fish or bird. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal, fish or bird from a disease including cancer, a disease associated with allergic inflammation, or an infectious disease. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/411377 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 39/0208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/292 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) A61K 2039/55577 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2730/10134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 08945602 | Freeman 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) | William Freeman (Del Mar, California); Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Lingyun Cheng (San Diego, California); Frederique Cunin (Montpellier, France); Emily Anglin (San Diego, California); Yang Yang Li (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | A minimally invasive controlled drug delivery system for delivering a particular drug or drugs to a particular location of the eye, the system including a porous film template having pores configured and dimensioned to at least partially receive at least one drug therein, and wherein the template is dimensioned to be delivered into or onto the eye. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/854039 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 9/0017 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 47/24 (20130101) |
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| US 08945604 | Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Schepens Eye Research Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Schepens Eye Research Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Sullivan (San Diego, California); Tannin A. Schmidt (Calgary, Canada); David A. Sullivan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an ophthalmic device, and method of use thereof, for an individual wearing an ophthalmic lens to increase ocular surface boundary lubrication. The invention device comprises an ophthalmic lens and a sacrificial mechanism disposed on the ophthalmic lens, wherein the sacrificial mechanism comprises a plurality of surface bound receptors, such as PRG4, hyaluronic acid, and DNA aptamers, that reversibly bound to a lubricating composition comprising a gel forming agent, a surfactant, or a combination thereof, effectively inhibiting or preventing protein and lipid adsorption on the surface of the lens, and mitigate shear stress and reduce the friction between the lens and the ocular surface of the individual in need. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/032233 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08945627 | Kwon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen S. Kwon (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Ho-Chul Shin (Madison, Wisconsin); Hyunah Cho (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen S. Kwon (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Ho-Chul Shin (Madison, Wisconsin); Hyunah Cho (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides biocompatible micelles loaded with one or more active agents. The micelles can encapsulate anticancer drugs such as gossypol, and combinations of drugs, such as gossypol and paclitaxel, gossypol and 17-AAG, gossypol and cyclopamine, gossypol, paclitaxel, and 17-AAG, and gossypol, paclitaxel, and cyclopamine. The micelle compositions provide effective solubilization of difficult to solubilize drug combinations without the need for additional surfactants that can be toxic to patients. Thus, the invention provides stable and biocompatible drug formulations that improve bioavailability without causing toxicity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/464737 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/12 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 47/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/10 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/788 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101) |
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| US 08945628 | Weissleder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Hakho Lee (Acton, Massachusetts); Tae-Jong Yoon (Kyeonggi-do, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Hakho Lee (Acton, Massachusetts); Tae-Jong Yoon (Kyeonggi-do, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic nanoparticle includes a magnetic core and a superparamagnetic outer shell, in which the outer shell enhances magnetic properties of the nanoparticle. The enhanced magnetic properties of the magnetic nanoparticle allow for highly sensitive detection as well as diminished non-specific aggregation of nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699378 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5094 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/26 (20130101) A61K 33/26 (20130101) A61K 33/30 (20130101) A61K 33/30 (20130101) A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 49/183 (20130101) A61K 49/1827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/1836 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2/02 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/025 (20130101) |
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| US 08945839 | Zhang |
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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) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are vectors and vector systems, some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/256912 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/43 (20130101) A61K 38/46 (20130101) A61K 38/47 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (20130101) C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 9/52 (20130101) C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 15/00 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1082 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) |
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| US 08945846 | Gotlib et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Robert Gotlib (Palo Alto, California); Garry P. Nolan (San Francisco, California); James L. Zehnder (Menlo Park, California); Stephen Tracy Oh (St. Luis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Robert Gotlib (Palo Alto, California); Garry P. Nolan (San Francisco, California); James L. Zehnder (Menlo Park, California); Stephen Tracy Oh (St. Luis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present invention include methods, compositions and kits for classifying a subject as having or being predisposed to a hematolymphoid neoplasm or malignancy if they harbor a mutation in the LNK gene. Aspects of the present invention also include screening for candidate agents for treating LNK mutation-based hematolymphoid neoplasms or malignancies in cell-based and cell free assays as well as therapeutic compositions for treating a LNK-mutant based hematolymphoid disorder. Also provided are compositions, systems, kits and computer program products that find use in practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/005455 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 08945855 | Iverson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent L. Iverson (Austin, Texas); George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Joseph M. Taft (Austin, Texas); Li Yi (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for protein engineering, such as engineering proteases or kinases. The methods may utilize yeast display and/or ER sequestration of proteins or substrates. In some aspects, TEV proteases with altered substrate specificity, potency, and/or efficiency are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/926749 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/12 (20130101) C12N 9/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/1037 (20130101) C12N 15/1058 (20130101) |
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| US 08945858 | Dewji et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nazneen Dewji (San Diego, California); S. Jonathan Singer (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nazneen Dewji (San Diego, California); S. Jonathan Singer (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates generally to neurodegenerative disorders and more specifically to a group of presenilin/G-protein/c-src binding polypeptides and methods of use for modulating signaling and progression of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/753402 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2517/02 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/485 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 08945862 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Ching-Ming Wu (Palo Alto, California); Feng Cao (San Jose, California); Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Porollo Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Ching-Ming Wu (Palo Alto, California); Feng Cao (San Jose, California); Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (Porollo Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure include triple-fusion human embryonic stem cells, methods of imaging triple-fusion human embryonic stem cells, triple-fusion polynucleotides, triple-fusion proteins, methods of monitoring the progression of human embryonic stem cells, methods of making isolated triple-fusion human embryonic stem cells, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/358838 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/069 (20130101) C12N 5/0603 (20130101) C12N 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0657 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08945885 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhi-Ying Chen (Shenzhen, China PRC); Mark A. Kay (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Ying Chen (Shenzhen, China PRC); Mark A. Kay (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides minicircle nucleic acid vector formulations for use in administering to a subject, wherein the minicircle nucleic acid vectors include a polynucleotide of interest, a product hybrid sequence of a unidirectional site-specific recombinase, and are devoid of plasmid backbone bacterial DNA sequences. Also provided are methods of producing the subject formulations as well as methods for administering the minicircle nucleic acid vector formulations to a subject. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including both research and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567908 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0066 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2800/24 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) C12N 2800/108 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) C12N 2830/55 (20130101) |
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| US 08945901 | Zhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Guo Zhan (Lexington, Kentucky); Fang Zheng (Lexington, Kentucky); Wenchao Yang (Wuhan, China PRC); Liu Xue (Lexington, Kentucky); Shurong Hou (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) polypeptide variants of the presently-disclosed subject matter have enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine, as compared to wild-type BChE. Pharmaceutical compositions of the presently-disclosed subject matter include a BChE polypeptide variant having an enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine. A method of the presently-disclosed subject matter for treating a cocaine-induced condition includes administering to an individual an effective amount of a BChE polypeptide variant, as disclosed herein, to lower blood cocaine concentration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/061405 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945909 | Takayama et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuichi Takayama (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael David Thouless (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dongeun Huh (Boston, Massachusetts); Kristen L. Mills (Cupertino, California); Nicholas Joseph Douville (Saline, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuichi Takayama (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael David Thouless (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dongeun Huh (Boston, Massachusetts); Kristen L. Mills (Cupertino, California); Nicholas Joseph Douville (Saline, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to tunable elastomeric nanochannels for nanofluidic manipulation. In particular, the present invention relates to nanochannels for performing biological assays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597634 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0663 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0896 (20130101) B01L 2400/082 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945912 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Demir Akin (Palo Alto, California); Oguz Hasan Elibol (Palo Alto, California); Bobby Reddy (Savoy, Illinois); Donald E. Bergstrom (Lafayette, Indiana); Yi-Shao Liu (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Demir Akin (Palo Alto, California); Oguz Hasan Elibol (Palo Alto, California); Bobby Reddy (Savoy, Illinois); Donald E. Bergstrom (Lafayette, Indiana); Yi-Shao Liu (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, described herein are field effect chemical sensor devices useful for chemical and/or biochemical sensing. Also provided herein are methods for single molecule detection. In another aspect, described herein are methods useful for amplification of target molecules by PCR. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/120710 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945921 | Goldman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Fraser Sim (Batavia, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Fraser Sim (Batavia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of modulating production of neurons and/or oligodendrocytes from neural progenitor cells of human white matter and to a method of treating a subject for a condition modulated by underproduction of oligodendrocytes from human white matter. Both of these methods involve administering an agonist or antagonist of one or more molecules set forth in Tables 1 and/or 2 to the neural progenitor cells. Also disclosed is a method of using an inhibitor of sterol synthesis to differentiate oligodendrocyte progenitor cells to oligodendrocytes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/368838 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/737 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2500/00 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101) |
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| US 08945926 | Chin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Richmond, Virginia); J. Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Richmond, Virginia); J. Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/329202 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) Y10S 435/975 (20130101) |
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| US 08945943 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Yu Xiang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Yu Xiang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A general methodology for the development of highly sensitive and selective sensors that can achieve portable, low-cost and quantitative detection of a broad range of targets using only a personal glucose meter (PGM) is disclosed. The method uses recognition molecules that are specific for a target agent, enzymes that can convert an enzyme substrate into glucose, and PGM. Also provided are sensors, which can include a solid support to which is attached a recognition molecule that permits detection of a target agent, wherein the recognition molecule specifically binds to the target agent in the presence of the target agent but not significantly to other agents as well as an enzyme that can catalyze the conversion of a substance into glucose, wherein the enzyme is attached directly or indirectly to the recognition molecule, and wherein in the presence of the target agent the enzyme can convert the substance into glucose. The disclosed sensors can be part of a lateral flow device. Methods of using such sensors for detecting target agents are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699578 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/54 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08946145 | Lambris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John D. Lambris (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Hongchang Qu (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Lambris (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Hongchang Qu (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds comprising peptides capable of binding C3 protein and inhibiting complement activation are disclosed. These compounds display greatly improved complement activation-inhibitory activity as compared with currently available compounds. The compounds comprise compstatin analogs having a constrained backbone at position 8 (glycine) and, optionally, specific substitutions for threonine at position 13. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/318272 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08946165 | Masliah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eliezer Masliah (San Diego, California); Brian Spencer (San Diego, California); Edward Rockenstein (Chula Vista, California); Robert Marr (North Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eliezer Masliah (San Diego, California); Brian Spencer (San Diego, California); Edward Rockenstein (Chula Vista, California); Robert Marr (North Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions for increasing the clearance of protein aggregates, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and methods for making and using them, including methods for accelerating protein aggregate clearance in the CNS, e.g., for treating diseases that are characterized by protein aggregation—including some degenerative neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease. In one aspect, the compositions of the invention specifically target synuclein, beta-amyloid and/or tau protein aggregates, and the methods of the invention can be used to specifically prevent, reverse, slow or inhibit synuclein, beta-amyloid and/or tau protein aggregation. In alternative embodiments, the compositions and methods of the invention, are used to treat, prevent, reverse (partially or completely) or ameliorate (including slowing the progression of) degenerative neurological diseases related to or caused by protein aggregation, e.g., synuclein, beta-amyloid and/or tau protein aggregation. In one aspect, compositions and methods of this invention are used to treat, prevent or ameliorate (including slowing the progression of) Parkinson's disease, fronto-temporal dementia (FTD), Alzheimer's Disease (AD), Lewy body disease (LBD) and Multiple system atrophy (MSA). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/119400 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4711 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 19/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08946172 | Mustoe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Mustoe (Evanston, Illinois); Nicholas M. Dean (Encinitas, California); Mark Sisco (New York, New York); Zol Kryger (Agoura Hills, California); C. Frank Bennett (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Excaliard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (New York, New York); Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Mustoe (Evanston, Illinois); Nicholas M. Dean (Encinitas, California); Mark Sisco (New York, New York); Zol Kryger (Agoura Hills, California); C. Frank Bennett (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for reducing hypertropic scarring resulting from dermal wound healing in a subject in need which comprises administering to the subject an antisense oligonucleotide which inhibits expression of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) in an amount effective to inhibit expression of CTGF and thereby reduce hypertrophic scarring. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/547481 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08946188 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek Shieh Tan (New York, New York); Luis E. N. Quadri (New York, New York); Jae-Sang Ryu (Seodaemun-gu, South Korea); Justin Scott Cisar (New York, New York); Julian Alberto Ferreras (Roosevelt Island, New York); Xuequan Lu (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Many pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Yersinia pestis, rely on an iron acquisition system based on siderophores, secreted iron-chelating compounds with extremely high Fe(III) affinity. The compounds of the invention are inhibitors of domain salicylation enzymes, which catalyze the salicylation of an aroyl carrier protein (ArCP) domain to form a salicyl-ArCP domain thioester intermediate via a two-step reaction. The compounds include the intermediate mimic 5′-O—[N-(salicyl)sulfamoyl]-adenosine (salicyl-AMS) and analogs thereof. These compounds are inhibitors of the salicylate activity of MbtA, YbtE, PchD, and other domain salicylation enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of siderophores. Therefore, these compounds may be used in the treatment of infection caused by microorganisms which rely on siderphore-based iron acquisition systems. Pharmaceutical composition and methods of using these compounds to treat or prevent infection are also provided as well as methods of preparing the inventive compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/897807 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/00 (20130101) C07H 19/22 (20130101) C07H 19/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946194 | Mayes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Mayes (Austin, Texas); Christine E. Schmidt (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Mayes (Austin, Texas); Christine E. Schmidt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The application of a highly controlled, micron-sized, branched, porous architecture to enhance the handling properties and degradation rate of hydrogels is described in the instant invention. A previously described pattern created through one-step nucleated crystallization in a hydrogel film creates tunable mechanical properties and/or chemical stability for use in tissue engineering applications. The bulk mechanical properties and the degradation rate of the material can be tuned easily by the addition or subtraction of crystalline structure or by the addition and subtraction of backfill material, making this useful for a variety of applications. Relevant mechanical properties that can be tuned through the application of this unique porosity are moduli, elasticity, tensile strength, and compression strength. The method of the present invention can be applied to biopolymers and natural materials as well as synthetic materials. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269366 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946201 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuan Shian Huang (St. Louis, Missouri); Jung San Huang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri); Auxagen, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuan Shian Huang (St. Louis, Missouri); Jung San Huang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for inhibiting or blocking TGF-β activity in cells and/or tissues expressing TGF-β comprising, contacting cells and/or tissues expressing TGF-β with an amount of cholesterol or cholesterol derivative effective to inhibit the activity of TGF-β. The present invention further provides a method for treating a condition associated with overactivity of TGF-β or negative regulation in normal physiology by TGF-β in a subject in need of treatment, comprising contacting cells and/or tissue overexpressing TGF-β in the subject with an amount of cholesterol or cholesterol derivative effective to inhibit activity of TGF-β thereby treating the condition. In a preferred embodiment, the cholesterol derivative is oxidized 7-DHC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199459 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946202 | Crapo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aeolus Sciences, Inc. (Mission Viejo, California); National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aeolus Sciences, Inc. (Mission Viejo, California); National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Crapo (Englewood, Colorado); Brian J. Day (Englewood, Colorado); Michael P. Trova (Schenectady, New York); Polvina Jolicia Gauuan (Albany, New York); Douglas B. Kitchen (Schenectady, New York); Irwin Fridovich (Durham, North Carolina); Ines Batinic-Haberle (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to a method of modulating physiological and pathological processes and, in particular, to a method of modulating cellular levels of oxidants and thereby processes in which such oxidants are a participant. The invention also relates to compounds and compositions suitable for use in such methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019295 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946242 | Chu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung K. Chu (Statham, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods, and compositions for the treatment of infections in or exposure to humans and other host animals of Flaviviridae viruses, including HCV, that includes the administration of an effective amount of a spiro[2.4]heptane as described herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, are provided. The spiro[2.4]heptane compounds either possess antiviral activity, or are metabolized to a compound that exhibits such activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162620 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/7056 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 39/42 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/2458 (20130101) C07F 9/65125 (20130101) C07F 9/65616 (20130101) C07F 9/65744 (20130101) Peptides C07K 9/65586 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946243 | Margolis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonid Margolis (Kensington, Maryland); Jan Balzarini (Leuven, Belgium); Christopher McGuigan (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Andrea Lisco (Washington, District of Columbia); Christophe Vanpouille (Bethesda, Maryland); Marco Derudas (Sassari, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonid Margolis (Kensington, Maryland); Jan Balzarini (Leuven, Belgium); Christopher McGuigan (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Andrea Lisco (Washington, District of Columbia); Christophe Vanpouille (Bethesda, Maryland); Marco Derudas (Sassari, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds and methods for treating or preventing a viral infection, by administering a monophosphorylated prodrug of acyclovir or monophosphorylated derivative of an acyclovir prodrug to a subject suffering from or susceptible (to a viral infection, such as HIV infection. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/934769 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946287 | Cushman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); John M. Pezzuto (Hilo, Hawaii); Arup Mati (Purga Medinipur, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); John M. Pezzuto (Hilo, Hawaii); Arup Mati (Purga Medinipur, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted flavonoid compounds, and pharmaceutical formulations of flavonoid compounds are described. Also described are processes for preparing flavonid compounds, as are methods for treating cancer in mammals using the described flavonoid compounds or pharmaceutical formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/519263 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/30 (20130101) C07D 311/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946291 | Hearing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent J. Hearing (Leesburg, Virginia); Thierry Passeron (Batiment, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent J. Hearing (Leesburg, Virginia); Thierry Passeron (Batiment, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating melanoma in a subject comprising administering an amount of SOX9 sufficient to treat melanoma is disclosed. A method of treating a hyperpigmentary condition in a subject comprising administering an amount of inhibitor of SOX9 activity sufficient to treat the condition is disclosed. A method of treating melanoma in a subject comprising administering an amount of SOX9 sufficient to treat melanoma is disclosed. A method of treating melanoma in a subject comprising increasing the amounts of retinoic acid and SOX9 in the subject by amounts sufficient to treat melanoma. A method of treating melanoma in a subject comprising administering an amount of prostaglandin D2 and retinoic acid sufficient to treat cancer is disclosed. A method of sensitizing a melanoma cell to RA comprising administering an amount of SOX9 sufficient to decrease PRAME expression is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 13/059219 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946302 | Ruoho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold E. Ruoho (Madison, Wisconsin); Abdol R. Hajipour (Madison, Wisconsin); Uyen B. Chu (Madison, Wisconsin); Dominique A. Fontanilla (Twickenham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of the formulas described herein and compositions thereof. The invention further provides methods of using the compounds and compositions. The compounds of the invention can provide high affinity binding to sigma-1 receptors in a mammal. The compounds can exhibit selectivity for the sigma-1 receptor over the sigma-2 receptor. The compounds and compositions of the invention can also be used to treat conditions that involve the sigma-1 receptor, such as addiction, cardiovascular conditions, and cancer, for example, cancer of the breast, lung, prostate, ovarian, colorectal, or the CNS. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707418 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/29 (20130101) C07C 211/49 (20130101) C07C 247/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946382 | Cuttitta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Cuttitta (Adamstown, Maryland); Ingalill Avis (Gaithersburg, Maryland); David Salomon (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Cuttitta (Adamstown, Maryland); Ingalill Avis (Gaithersburg, Maryland); David Salomon (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure concerns the use of biologically active apelin peptides and compositions that are processed from larger precursor proteins and further post-translationally modified to influence cell growth. Particular methods are useful for promoting cell growth, while others are particularly useful for inhibiting cell growth. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715338 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946389 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Washington); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Washington); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455674 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/387 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946391 | Gervay-Hague et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (St. Louis, Missouri); Sally Denardo (El Macero, California); Arutselvan Natarajan (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (St. Louis, Missouri); Sally Denardo (El Macero, California); Arutselvan Natarajan (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a practical, universal and efficient method to ligate two large macromolecules (e.g., proteins) using the alkyne-azide 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction to produce a conjugated macromolecule, such as a multivalent scFv. The present invention also provides for conjugate macromolecules comprising a plurality of macromolecule components cross-linked through at least one linking group comprising at least one 1,2,3-triazole moiety, wherein at least 50 percent of the macromolecule components in the conjugate macromolecule has only one site available for cross-linking. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/294227 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/3015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3069 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946397 | Benner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Benner (Gainsville, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Benner (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compounds that are of the class of nucleoside analogs, and more specifically nucleoside analogs that have a non-standard nucleobase, and more specifically analogs where a side chain is appended to said non-standard nucleobase, where said side chain can be cleaved so as to leave behind no more than five atoms appended to the nucleobase as a “scar”. The claimed compounds are useful as intermediates in processes that transiently introduce tags, labels, fluorescent molecules, or other species into oligonucleotides, as in sequencing using cyclic reversible termination, in in vitro selection using functionalized nucleotides that must later be PCR amplified, or in nucleotide capture protocols used in diagnostics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/439179 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946398 | Gottwein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Judith M. Gottwein (Frederiksberg C, Denmark); Troels Kasper Hoyer Scheel (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Robert Purcell (Bethesda, Maryland); Jens Bukh (Praestø, Denmark) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hvidovre Hospital (Hvidovre, Denmark); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith M. Gottwein (Frederiksberg C, Denmark); Troels Kasper Hoyer Scheel (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Robert Purcell (Bethesda, Maryland); Jens Bukh (Praestø, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to molecular approaches to the production of nucleic acid sequences, which comprises the genome of infectious hepatitis C virus. In particular, invention provides nucleic acid sequences which comprise the genomes of infectious hepatitis C viruses of either genotype 3a (strain S52) or genotype 4a (strain ED43). The invention therefore relates to the use of the nucleic acid sequences and polypeptides encoded by all or part of the sequences in the development of vaccines and diagnostic assays for HCV and in the development of screening assays for the identification of antiviral agents for HCV. The invention therefore also relates to the use of viral particles derived from laboratory animals infected with S52 and ED43 viruses. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/499663 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2770/24221 (20130101) C12N 2770/24243 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946401 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Ola Snove, Jr. (Oslo, Norway); Ali Ehsani (West Covina, California); Pal Saetrom (Trondheim, Norway); Britta Hoehn (Hagen, Germany); Jane Zhang (South El Monte, California); Lars Aagaard (Ry, Denmark) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Ola Snove, Jr. (Oslo, Norway); Ali Ehsani (West Covina, California); Pal Saetrom (Trondheim, Norway); Britta Hoehn (Hagen, Germany); Jane Zhang (South El Monte, California); Lars Aagaard (Ry, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel short interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules that are multi-targeted. More specifically, the present invention relates to siRNA molecules that target two or more sequences. In one embodiment, multi-targeting siRNA molecules are designed to incorporate features of siRNA molecules and features of micro-RNA (miRNA) molecules. In another embodiment, multi-targeting siRNA molecules are designed so that each strand is directed to separate targets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287493 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946403 | Tolentino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Tolentino (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Samuel Jotham Reich (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | RNA interference using small interfering RNAs which are specific for the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene and the VEGF receptor genes Flt-1 and Flk-1/KDR inhibit expression of these genes. Diseases which involve angiogenesis stimulated by overexpression of VEGF, such as diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration and many types of cancer, can be treated by administering the small interfering RNAs. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/042040 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946404 | Cook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Petaluma, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biosearch Technologies, Inc. (Petaluma, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Cook (Novato, California); Matt Lyttle (San Rafael, California); Daren Dick (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a family of dark quenchers, termed Black Hole Quenchers (“BHQs”), that are efficient quenchers of excited state energy but which are themselves substantially non-fluorescent. Also provided are methods of using the BHQs, probes incorporating the BHQs and methods of using the probes. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318932 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/26.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946409 | Becker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick F. Becker (Houston, Texas); Bimal K. Banik (Edinburg, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick F. Becker (Houston, Texas); Bimal K. Banik (Edinburg, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are polycyclic β-lactam compounds, compositions thereof and methods for the treatment and prevention of diseases such as cancer, including pancreatic cancer and pancreatic cancers resistant to mainline chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/982101 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946424 | Saltiel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan R. Saltiel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hollis D. Showalter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Scott Larsen (South Lyon, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is technology relating to deuterated amlexanox and particularly, but not exclusively, to compositions comprising deuterated amlexanox, methods of producing deuterated amlexanox, and uses of deuterated amlexanox. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/268762 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946450 | Basu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Partha Basu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Igor Pimkov (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to substituted pterin compounds, their synthesis and use. In particular, the present invention relates to a new precursor compound and its analogs for synthesizing a new substituted pterin compound and its analogs. These new compounds are particularly suitable for treating molybdenum cofactor deficiency. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/735511 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 475/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 495/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946455 | Linington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger Linington (Santa Cruz, California); Gabriel Navarro (Santa Cruz, California); Khanitha Pudhom (Bangkok, Thailand); James McKerrow (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Linington (Santa Cruz, California); Gabriel Navarro (Santa Cruz, California); Khanitha Pudhom (Bangkok, Thailand); James McKerrow (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of parasitic diseases, in particular, semi-synthetic derivatives of the fugally-derived natural product merulin A for the treatment of African Sleeping Sickness. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/236030 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/02 (20130101) C07D 319/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946475 | Kavash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cellceutix Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cellceutix Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Kavash (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Haizhong Tang (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Carol Mulrooney (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Dahui Liu (Radnor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for preparing a polymeric compound of Formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention also provides useful intermediates for preparing the compound of Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/720298 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 231/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 235/12 (20130101) C07C 237/44 (20130101) C07C 271/22 (20130101) C07C 271/52 (20130101) |
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| US 08947516 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hao Huang (New York, New York); Yu Yao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); C. Forbes Dewey (Boston, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Huang (New York, New York); Yu Yao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); C. Forbes Dewey (Boston, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging microscopic objects includes determining the relative depths of two or more semiconductor nanocrystals by analyzing images of the semiconductor nanocrystals at varying z-displacements. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/680150 |
| ART UNIT | 2485 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) |
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| US 08947663 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yin Wang (Princeton, New Jersey); Gerard Wysocki (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yin Wang (Princeton, New Jersey); Gerard Wysocki (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-modulation Faraday rotation spectroscopic (FRS) system is disclosed. The FRS system uses an FRS sample cell configured to subject a sample to a low frequency modulated magnetic field. The system includes a polarized laser light source configured to generate a high frequency wavelength-modulated light beam incident on the sample, the high frequency wavelength-modulated light beam being modulated at a higher frequency than the low frequency modulated magnetic field. A polarizer is configured to receive from the sample a transmitted light beam having a modulated polarization having a polarization rotation and translate the modulated polarization of the transmitted light beam into an intensity modulated beam. A photodetector is configured to detect the intensity modulated beam and generate a photodetector signal. A dual demodulator is coupled to the photodetector and is configured to demodulate the photodetector signal. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/215739 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 4/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/21 (20130101) |
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| US 08948471 | Fichtinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabor Fichtinger (Kingston, Canada); Ameet Jain (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Tabish Mustufa (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Keenan Wyrobek (Walnut Creek, California); Greg Chirikjian (Towson, Maryland); Yu Zhou (Hicksville, New York); Everette C. Burdette (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Acoustic MedSystems, Inc. (Savoy, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor Fichtinger (Kingston, Canada); Ameet Jain (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Tabish Mustufa (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Keenan Wyrobek (Walnut Creek, California); Greg Chirikjian (Towson, Maryland); Yu Zhou (Hicksville, New York); Everette C. Burdette (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system and method for registering images from two medical imaging modalities in a six-degree-of-freedom coordinate space, for the purpose of providing real time registered imagery for optimization of medical procedures. The system and method uses fiducial that is visible to the first imager and in a fixed position and orientation relative to the second imager. The first imager may be an X-ray device such as a C-arm fluoroscope, and the second imager may be a Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) device. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998452 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/4417 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 8/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08948484 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoguang Lu (West Windsor, New Jersey); Jens Guehring (Erlangen, Germany); Marie-Pierre Jolly (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Bogdan Georgescu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Carmel Hayes (München, Germany); Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany); Michaela Schmidt (Uttenreuth, Germany); Xiaoming Bi (Aurora, Illinois); Randall Kroeker (Winnipeg, Canada); Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Edgar Mueller (Heroldsbach, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Corporation (Iselin, New Jersey); Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Munich, Germany); National Institutes of Health (Rockville, Maryland); Siemens Canada Limited (Burlington, Ontario, Canada); Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoguang Lu (West Windsor, New Jersey); Jens Guehring (Erlangen, Germany); Marie-Pierre Jolly (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Bogdan Georgescu (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Carmel Hayes (München, Germany); Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany); Michaela Schmidt (Uttenreuth, Germany); Xiaoming Bi (Aurora, Illinois); Randall Kroeker (Winnipeg, Canada); Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Edgar Mueller (Heroldsbach, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for automated view planning for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition is disclosed. The method and system automatically generate a full scan prescription using a single 3D MRI volume. The left ventricle (LV) is segmented in the 3D MRI volume. Cardiac landmarks are detected in the automatically prescribed slices. A full scan prescription, including a short axis stack and 2-chamber, 3-chamber, and 4-chamber views, is automatically generated based on cardiac anchors provided by the segmented left ventricle and the detected cardiac landmarks in the 3D MRI volume. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/293239 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — 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 9/6282 (20130101) G06K 9/6857 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08948562 | Norris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prashant Nagpal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prashant Nagpal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides templating methods for replicating patterned metal films from a template substrate such as for use in plasmonic devices and metamaterials. Advantageously, the template substrate is reusable and can provide plural copies of the structure of the template substrate. Because high-quality substrates that are inherently smooth and flat are available, patterned metal films in accordance with the present invention can advantageously provide surfaces that replicate the surface characteristics of the template substrate both in the patterned regions and in the unpatterned regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131197 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/009 (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 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 08948845 | Glossop et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neil David Glossop (Toronto, Canada); Bradford Johns Wood (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil David Glossop (Toronto, Canada); Bradford Johns Wood (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides systems, methods, and instrumentation for aiding the performance of an image guided procedure of the anatomy of a patient such as, for example, the prostate. The invention includes a plurality of lumens therein and a balloon portion or other fixating portion. In some embodiments, the catheter includes a lumen for introducing a contrast agent visible to an imaging modality external to the anatomy of the patient. Image space data of the catheter within the anatomy of the patient may be obtained using the imaging modality. The catheter also includes at least a lumen for inserting a registration device for obtaining patient space data regarding the anatomy of the patient. Other lumens and/or other elements visible to the imaging modality may be used. The image space data may be registered to the patient space data for use during an image guided procedure to the anatomy of the patient. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/694280 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/0833 (20130101) A61B 8/0841 (20130101) A61B 8/4245 (20130101) A61B 17/3211 (20130101) A61B 17/320092 (20130101) A61B 18/148 (20130101) A61B 19/52 (20130101) A61B 19/5244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/2808 (20130101) A61B 2019/5251 (20130101) A61B 2019/5276 (20130101) A61B 2019/5291 (20130101) A61B 2019/5483 (20130101) |
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| US 08948849 | Diamond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon G. Diamond (Hanover, New Hampshire); Paolo Giacometti (Wilder, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroencephalographic electrode and optode positioning device has the form of a cap suitable for placement on a subject's head. The cap has semirigid telescopic structures that stiffen it to provide accurate electrode and optode spacing, and stability during subject activity. The cap is intended for use in functional neuroimaging and, although its materials are compatible with fMRI, is usable without fMRI to permit study of physically as well as mentally active subjects. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863183 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/0478 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14553 (20130101) |
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| US 08948851 | Leblond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederic Leblond (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); David W. Roberts (Lyme, New Hampshire); Brian W. Pogue (Hanover, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Alex Hartov (Enfield, New Hampshire); Scott C. Davis (Woodsville, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederic Leblond (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); David W. Roberts (Lyme, New Hampshire); Brian W. Pogue (Hanover, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Alex Hartov (Enfield, New Hampshire); Scott C. Davis (Woodsville, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A tomographic fluorescent imaging device for imaging fluorophores in biological tissues has a scanned laser for scanning the tissue and a camera for receiving light from the biological tissue at an angle to the beam at a second wavelength ten or more nanometers greater in wavelength than the wavelength of the laser. Use of both intrinsic and extrinsic fluorophores is described. Images are obtained at each of several positions of the beam. An image processing system receives the series of images, models a path of the beam through the tissue, and determines depth of fluorophore in tissue from intersections of the modeled path of the beam and the path of the received light. The laser is of 600 nm or longer wavelength, to provide penetration of tissue. The imaging device is used during surgery to visualize lesions of various types to ensure complete removal of malignant tumors. An alternative embodiment uses differences in intensity of fluorescent radiation from tissue as observed at different wavelengths to determine depth of fluorophore in tissue. An embodiment operates at multiple wavelengths to construct tomographic images of chromophores, such as hemoglobin, and is capable of dynamic imaging. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/145505 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 19/5223 (20130101) A61B 19/5244 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101) G02B 21/0064 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cynthia Bell (Chandler, Arizona); Terry L. Alford (Phoenix, Arizona); Roy Stephen Rednour (Chandler, Arizona); Mark Richards (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia Bell (Chandler, Arizona); Terry L. Alford (Phoenix, Arizona); Roy Stephen Rednour (Chandler, Arizona); Mark Richards (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments include an apparatus for testing flexible displays. The apparatus can include: (a) a first clamp configured to receive a first end of the flexible display; (b) a second clamp configured to receive a second end of the flexible display, wherein the second end of the flexible display is opposite the first end of the flexible display; and (c) a test column. Other embodiments and methods are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/305344 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 1/1309 (20130101) G02F 1/133305 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08943942 | Bartolucci |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen F. Bartolucci (Mechanicville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Bartolucci (Mechanicville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An anti-fratricide responsive ordnance system that uses the power of a friendly radio frequency signal to detect and identify a friendly force. Upon identification, an electronic safe and arm device disarms the munition when it enters a kill radius of the friendly force emitting the friendly radio signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847587 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 13/04 (20130101) F42C 13/026 (20130101) F42C 13/047 (20130101) F42C 15/44 (20130101) |
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| US 08943971 | Sherlock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary H. Sherlock (Waldorf, Maryland); Lori Nock (La Plata, Maryland); Raafat Guirguis (Fairfax, Virginia); Wade Babcock (Waldorf, Maryland); Harold Sandusky (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary H. Sherlock (Waldorf, Maryland); Lori Nock (La Plata, Maryland); Raafat Guirguis (Fairfax, Virginia); Wade Babcock (Waldorf, Maryland); Harold Sandusky (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounded High Explosive Composites provide a novel family of low-cost explosives that exhibit anisotropic (directionally dependent, non-symmetric) sensitivity properties to replace current homogenous plastic bonded high explosives that are vulnerable to unwanted detonation from a variety of hazards and operating conditions. Anisotropic sensitivity behavior is largely achieved by manipulating the bulk property of critical diameter to fine-tune the compounded geometry of the explosive composite. As such, Compounded High Explosive Composites represent structural arrangements of small, spatially distributed, highly consolidated explosive units (pellets) arranged in a prescribed (but versatile) fashion in a motion and energy-dampening rubbery matrix. The compounded geometry and structural arrangement allows the explosive pellets to function cooperatively and detonate in an exemplary orientation, while ensuring the pellets do not cooperate in other directions to mitigate against known vulnerabilities and threats. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507873 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/478 |
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| US 08943972 | Al-Shehab et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nausheen Al-Shehab (Paramus, New Jersey); Bruce D. Williamson (Andover, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey); David Pfau (Somerset, New Jersey); Adam J. Enea (Upper Montclair, New Jersey); David Hunter (Crestview, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nausheen Al-Shehab (Paramus, New Jersey); Bruce D. Williamson (Andover, New Jersey); Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey); David Pfau (Somerset, New Jersey); Adam J. Enea (Upper Montclair, New Jersey); David Hunter (Crestview, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An Insensitive Munitions safety device mitigates the occurrence of a violent response of an anti-armor munition subjected to elevated temperatures. The anti-armor munition includes a projectile body having fore and aft ends, an explosive charge disposed in the projectile body, and a projectile-forming or jet-forming liner disposed in the projectile body. The liner includes an aft surface contiguous with the explosive charge and a fore surface that defines a void. A liner restraint abuts a fore end of the liner and restrains movement of the liner. A portion of the liner restraint comprises a material having a heat deflection temperature less than the critical temperature of the explosive charge in the munition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602865 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Domestic Stoves or Ranges for Solid Fuels; Implements for Use in Connection With Stoves or Ranges F24B 12/207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/10 (20130101) |
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| US 08943974 | Gold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); William J. Poulos (Park Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); William J. Poulos (Park Ridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A wall breaching explosive fragmentation ammunition having a tungsten alloy nose cap with ceramic cone nose which make possible penetration into a hardened target with survivability of the warhead. The ammunition employs a unitary construction with fuze completely within the projectile's shell case. The ammunition has an external plastic rotating band which also encloses an induction antenna. The antenna may signal the fuze on a wire, through a hole in the shell case. The fuze signals may be fed through a gun barrel, then picked up on the antenna. The ammunition also employs a controlled pattern fragmentation mechanism incorporating a patterned plastic liner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/719364 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/04 (20130101) F42B 12/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/204 (20130101) F42B 14/02 (20130101) F42B 39/20 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 11/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08943992 | Petersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott M Petersen (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Donald B Harris (Arlington, Virginia); Robert Galway (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott M Petersen (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Donald B Harris (Arlington, Virginia); Robert Galway (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for servicing one or more water vessels, in particular, the invention is directed towards an autonomous replenishment buoy for fueling one or more water vessels. The autonomous replenishment buoy has a first configuration when not servicing water vessels, and a second configuration when performing fueling or other servicing functions. The autonomous replenishment buoy may float at the surface of the water, or may be moored beneath the surface of the water in the first configuration when not servicing water vessels. The autonomous replenishment buoy may transform from the first configuration to the second configuration to perform fueling and other services on water vessels. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/929527 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 22/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08944125 | Manesh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois); Michael John Tercha (Weston, Wisconsin); Brian Meliska (Weston, Wisconsin); Fidelis Ceranski (Marathon, Wisconsin); Glenn Howland (Kronenwetter, Wisconsin); Louie Stark (Mosinee, Wisconsin); Karen Hauch (Wausau, Wisconsin); Todd Petersen (Ringle, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois); Michael John Tercha (Weston, Wisconsin); Brian Meliska (Weston, Wisconsin); Fidelis Ceranski (Marathon, Wisconsin); Glenn Howland (Kronenwetter, Wisconsin); Louie Stark (Mosinee, Wisconsin); Karen Hauch (Wausau, Wisconsin); Todd Petersen (Ringle, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-pneumatic tire for supporting a load by working in tension comprising a generally annular inner ring, a generally annular outer ring, and an interconnected web having a plurality of web elements and comprising a plurality of generally polygonal openings. Web elements are sized, curved, oriented, and comprised of varying thicknesses of material which facilitates buckling when subjected to a compressive load. By buckling, those elements in a deformed portion of the tire between a wheel and a footprint region where the tire contacts a surface can assume a significantly reduced portion of the load, if any. This causes web elements in other portions of the interconnected web to operate in tension to support the load. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/839236 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Tyres Tyre Inflation; Tyre Changing or Repairing; Repairing, or Connecting Valves To, Inflatable Elastic Bodies in General; Devices or Arrangements Related to Tyres B60C 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60C 7/18 (20130101) B60C 11/0311 (20130101) |
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| US 08944141 | Propheter-Hinckley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut); Stephanie Santoro (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut); Stephanie Santoro (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A core for forming a cooling microcircuit has at least one row of metering/tripping features configured to form at least one row of protrusions in the cooling microcircuit, a plurality of teardrop features configured to form a plurality of fluid passageways in the cooling microcircuit, and a terminal edge. The plurality of teardrop features includes a central teardrop feature having a trailing edge which is spaced from the terminal edge and a first teardrop feature located on a first side of and spaced from the central teardrop feature. The first teardrop feature has a longitudinal axis and is non-symmetrical about the longitudinal axis. A process of using the core and a turbine engine component formed thereby are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/975404 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Foundry Moulding B22C 9/24 (20130101) B22C 9/103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/186 (20130101) F01D 9/041 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/185 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) F05D 2260/204 (20130101) |
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| US 08944216 | Rollins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Rollins (Chula Vista, California); Melissa A. Bell (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Rollins (Chula Vista, California); Melissa A. Bell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An example lubricating transfer tube assembly includes a transfer tube having a bore extending from a fluid inlet portion to a fluid outlet portion. The transfer tube is configured to communicate a fluid through the bore between the fluid inlet portion and the fluid outlet portion within a gearbox. The transfer tube defines a spray aperture extending from the bore to an outer surface of the transfer tube. The spray aperture is configured to communicate at least some of the fluid from the bore to an area of the gearbox. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/086464 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 57/0456 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 57/0495 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08944799 | Khoshnevis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extrusion construction system may include an extrusion nozzle, a channeling element coupled to the extrusion nozzle and to a source of construction material, the channeling element configured to transport the material to the extrusion nozzle for extruding the material onto a surface, wherein a surface of the channeling element comprises a transparent substrate such that a flow of the material is viewable through the substrate, an imaging device configured to capture a plurality of images through the substrate of the material flow, and a controller configured to estimate a flow rate based on the plurality of images. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/277181 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping Clay or Other Ceramic Compositions; Shaping Slag; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g Plaster B28B 3/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B28B 17/0072 (20130101) 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 67/0055 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945418 | Condon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas J. Condon (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven R. Bowman (Edgewater, Maryland); Shawn P. O'Connor (Dunkirk, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas J. Condon (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven R. Bowman (Edgewater, Maryland); Shawn P. O'Connor (Dunkirk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The method described herein allows for melt stabilization and vapor-phase synthesis of a cesium germanium halide utilizing germanium dihalides formed in situ. This disclosure allows for the melting of cesium germanium halides without decomposition, which allows for growing crystals of these materials from the melt. This disclosure allows for a direct synthesis of these materials without the use of water or the introduction of other possible contaminants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/675890 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 17/00 (20130101) C01G 17/04 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/82 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945502 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Weiwei Zhou (Durham, North Carolina); Christopher M. Rutherglen (Tustin, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Weiwei Zhou (Durham, North Carolina); Christopher M. Rutherglen (Tustin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronics component is disclosed herein. The electronics component include a substrate and a plurality of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) formed on said substrate, wherein said plurality of SWNTs form a patterned, dense and high-quality arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on quartz wafers by using FeCl3/polymer as catalytic precursors and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of methane. With the assistance of polymer, the catalysts may be well-patterned on the wafer surface by simple photolithography or polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamp microcontact printing (μCP). |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429595 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0233 (20130101) C01B 2202/02 (20130101) C01B 2202/08 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/843 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945508 | Baker, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Baohua Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Baohua Huang (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel dendrimer compounds and methods of synthesizing the same. In particular, the present invention is directed to novel polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers, novel dendrimer branching units, methods for synthesizing such novel PAMAM dendrimers and functionalized dendrimers, as well as systems and methods utilizing the dendrimers (e.g., in diagnostic and/or therapeutic settings (e.g., for the delivery of therapeutics, imaging, and/or targeting agents (e.g., in disease diagnosis and/or therapy, etc.))). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/502004 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) A61K 49/124 (20130101) A61K 51/065 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/028 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945513 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Yee-Way Lee (San Jose, California); Robert Dennis Miller (San Jose, California); Joseph Sly (San Jose, California); Melia Tjio (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); San Jose State University Research Foundation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Yee-Way Lee (San Jose, California); Robert Dennis Miller (San Jose, California); Joseph Sly (San Jose, California); Melia Tjio (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoshell is disclosed, comprising a star polymer occlusion complex comprising i) an amphiphilic unimolecular star polymer having a crosslinked core covalently linked to 6 or more independent polymer arms, and ii) a cargo material occluded in the star polymer; and a shell comprising an inorganic material in contact with a peripheral surface of the star polymer occlusion complex. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/051083 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) A61K 49/0036 (20130101) A61K 49/0054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0065 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 49/0097 (20130101) A61K 49/0423 (20130101) A61K 49/1818 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/02 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 47/00 (20130101) C09B 67/0005 (20130101) C09B 67/0032 (20130101) C09B 67/0097 (20130101) C09B 68/444 (20130101) C09B 68/446 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945556 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Nallasivam Palanisamy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Nallasivam Palanisamy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present disclosure relates to RAF gene fusions as diagnostic markers and clinical targets for cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/300063 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945573 | Ponniah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sathibalan Ponniah (Columbia, Maryland); George E. Peoples (Fulton, Maryland); Catherine E. Storrer (Columbia, Maryland); Michael Flora (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathibalan Ponniah (Columbia, Maryland); George E. Peoples (Fulton, Maryland); Catherine E. Storrer (Columbia, Maryland); Michael Flora (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to identifying peptide sequences involved in antibody binding to any protein for synthesis of vaccine treatments. This novel method allows for a more manageable vaccine peptide discovery and specific generation of unique immunogenic peptides from self-tumor associated proteins and/or foreign proteins from infectious organisms for specific and/or enhanced expression only in the presence of the antibody. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/045402 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945602 | Freeman 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) | William Freeman (Del Mar, California); Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Lingyun Cheng (San Diego, California); Frederique Cunin (Montpellier, France); Emily Anglin (San Diego, California); Yang Yang Li (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | A minimally invasive controlled drug delivery system for delivering a particular drug or drugs to a particular location of the eye, the system including a porous film template having pores configured and dimensioned to at least partially receive at least one drug therein, and wherein the template is dimensioned to be delivered into or onto the eye. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/854039 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 9/0017 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 47/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945856 | Kulagina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nadezhda V. Kulagina (Falls Church, Virginia); Chris Rowe Taitt (White Plains, Maryland); George P. Anderson (Bowie, Maryland); Frances S. Ligler (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nadezhda V. Kulagina (Falls Church, Virginia); Chris Rowe Taitt (White Plains, Maryland); George P. Anderson (Bowie, Maryland); Frances S. Ligler (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of biochemical identification by: providing a plurality of capture species bound to one or more substrates and suspected of having one or more biological targets affinity bound to at least one capture species; detecting which capture species contain bound biological targets to generate a binding pattern; and identifying the biological target based on the binding pattern. The capture species are independently selected from the group consisting of antimicrobial peptides, cytotoxic peptides, antibiotics, and combinations thereof. A device having the capture species bound to the substrates. At least two of the capture species are capable of multi-specific binding to one or more biological targets and may have overlapping but not identical affinity properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/188784 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/554 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56916 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945906 | Sowers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin R. Sowers (Baltimore, Maryland); Birthe Kjellerup (Ellicott City, Maryland); Upal Ghosh (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Sowers (Baltimore, Maryland); Birthe Kjellerup (Ellicott City, Maryland); Upal Ghosh (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for removal of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from an environment, where the system includes an inert and organic biofilm substrata as biofilm media for dual use: 1) inoculation of microorganisms to degrade POPs and 2) accumulation of POPs on the substrata, effective in maintaining bioavailable concentrations for sustaining microbial activity. Microorganisms capable of degrading or transforming POPs are actively associated with the substrata as a biofilm. Application of this delivery vehicle will enhance the microbial degradation of POPs, while simultaneously adsorbing hydrophobic POPs from the environment making them bioavailable for the microorganisms located in the formed biofilms and additionally lowering the aqueous concentration of POPs that have detrimental effects towards fish and mammals as they bioaccumulate through the food chain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/177436 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Means for Extinguishing Fires or for Combating or Protecting Against Harmful Chemical Agents; Chemical Materials for Use in Breathing Apparatus A62D 3/02 (20130101) A62D 2101/22 (20130101) Reclamation of Contaminated Soil B09C 1/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946321 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a composition having a thermoset polymer and a plurality of hollow microsphere homogenously dispersed in the composition. The polymer is a cyanate ester thermoset, a phthalonitrile thermoset, a crosslinked acetylene thermoset, or a hydrosilation thermoset. Also disclosed herein is a method of: providing a thermosetting compound; adding microspheres to the thermosetting compound; and mixing the thermosetting compound while initiating crosslinking of the thermosetting compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/024703 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| 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 35/78 (20130101) C04B 38/085 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/4006 (20130101) C08G 77/045 (20130101) C08G 77/50 (20130101) C08G 77/52 (20130101) C08G 77/56 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/22 (20130101) C08K 7/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/00 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08946378 | Seshadri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Solvay USA, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Solvay USA, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkataramanan Seshadri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian Woodworth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Greco (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Darin Laird (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mathew Mathai (Monroeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Conducting polymer systems for hole injection or transport layer applications including a composition comprising: a water soluble or water dispersible regioregular polythiophene comprising (i) at least one organic substituent, and (ii) at least one sulfonate substituent comprising sulfonate sulfur bonding directly to the polythiophene backbone. The polythiophene can be water soluble, water dispersible, or water swellable. They can be self-doped. The organic substituent can be an alkoxy substituent, or an alkyl substituent. OLED, PLED, SMOLED, PV, and ESD applications can be used. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/768967 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/18 (20130101) C08G 2261/43 (20130101) C08G 2261/79 (20130101) C08G 2261/95 (20130101) C08G 2261/212 (20130101) C08G 2261/512 (20130101) C08G 2261/722 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/1452 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 165/00 (20130101) C09D 165/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/028 (20130101) H01G 11/48 (20130101) H01G 11/56 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/006 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0081 (20130101) H01L 51/5048 (20130101) H01L 51/5088 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946389 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Washington); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Washington); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455674 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/387 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946397 | Benner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven A. Benner (Gainsville, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Benner (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compounds that are of the class of nucleoside analogs, and more specifically nucleoside analogs that have a non-standard nucleobase, and more specifically analogs where a side chain is appended to said non-standard nucleobase, where said side chain can be cleaved so as to leave behind no more than five atoms appended to the nucleobase as a “scar”. The claimed compounds are useful as intermediates in processes that transiently introduce tags, labels, fluorescent molecules, or other species into oligonucleotides, as in sequencing using cyclic reversible termination, in in vitro selection using functionalized nucleotides that must later be PCR amplified, or in nucleotide capture protocols used in diagnostics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/439179 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 08946454 | Yaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Qiaowei Li (Los Angeles, California); Ognjen S. Miljanic (Houston, Texas); Wenyu Zhang (Los Angeles, California); James Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Los Angeles, California); Qiaowei Li (Los Angeles, California); Ognjen S. Miljanic (Houston, Texas); Wenyu Zhang (Los Angeles, California); James Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides metal organic frameworks useful for sensing, gas sorption, microelectronics and switches. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/996378 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 2253/204 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 323/00 (20130101) C07D 339/06 (20130101) C07D 471/22 (20130101) C07D 493/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 497/18 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 3/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946494 | Vanderspurt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Henry Vanderspurt (Brick, New Jersey); Timothy D. Davis (Portland, Oregon); Sean C. Emerson (Broad Brook, Connecticut); Ying She (East Hartford, Connecticut); Rhonda R. Willigan (Manchester, Connecticut); Salvatore Saitta (Willington, Connecticut); Tianli Zhu (Cheshire, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Henry Vanderspurt (Brick, New Jersey); Timothy D. Davis (Portland, Oregon); Sean C. Emerson (Broad Brook, Connecticut); Ying She (East Hartford, Connecticut); Rhonda R. Willigan (Manchester, Connecticut); Salvatore Saitta (Willington, Connecticut); Tianli Zhu (Cheshire, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing biomass to produce biofuel includes decomposing lignocellulosic material into byproduct polymers that include lignin, decomposing the lignin into targeted chemical fragments, and chemically converting the targeted chemical fragments into a biofuel. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224533 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2101/14 (20130101) 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 2300/42 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (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) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946619 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jigang Wu (Minhang, China PRC); Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Zheng Li (Pasadena, California); Guoan Zheng (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jigang Wu (Minhang, China PRC); Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Zheng Li (Pasadena, California); Guoan Zheng (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Talbot-illuminated imaging system for focal plane tuning, the device comprising a Talbot element, a tunable illumination source, a scanning mechanism, a light detector, and a processor. The element generate san array of focused light spots at a focal plane. The tunable illumination source shifts the focal plane to a plane of interest by adjusting a wavelength of light incident the Talbot element. The scanning mechanism scans an object across an array of focused light spots in a scanning direction. The light detector determines time-varying light data associated with the array of focused light spots as the object scans across the array of light spots. The processor constructs an image of the object based on the time-varying data. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451543 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/0044 (20130101) G02B 21/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/244 (20130101) G02B 21/361 (20130101) G02B 27/4227 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946632 | Federici et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Francis Federici (Westfield, New Jersey); Dale Gary (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Francis Federici (Westfield, New Jersey); Dale Gary (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An interferometric and synthetic aperture THz incoherent imaging system is provided, in which a high-power electronic source such as a 0.094 THz Gunn Oscillator is integrated with a continuous-wave (CW) terahertz detection system in order to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio. THz imaging of a point source located 10 m away from the detector array is presented. A 2-D THz reflective image is reconstructed with only four detectors using rotational synthesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943506 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/3581 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/146 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946637 | Chinn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Chinn (Alexandria, Virginia); Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Chinn (Alexandria, Virginia); Lew Goldberg (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for short-range laser detection and ranging of targets can provides rapid three-dimensional, e.g., angle, angle, range, scans over a wide field-of-view. Except for the final transmit/receive lens, the disclosed LADAR system can be implemented in an all-fiber configuration. Such system is compact, low cost, robust to misalignment, and lends itself to eye-safe operation by making use of available pulsed 1550 nm fiber lasers and amplifier sources. The disclosed LADAR system incorporates many novel features that provide significant advantages compared to current LADAR systems. The disclosed system uses a monostatic fiber-based transmitter/receiver, a fiber beam scanner based on a laterally vibrating fiber, and a position sensor to monitor the transmitted beam position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952264 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/486 (20130101) G01S 7/4812 (20130101) G01S 7/4817 (20130101) G01S 7/4818 (20130101) G01S 17/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 17/89 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946674 | Kryliouk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Olga Kryliouk (Gainesville, Florida); Hyun Jong Park (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy J. Anderson (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olga Kryliouk (Gainesville, Florida); Hyun Jong Park (Gainesville, Florida); Timothy J. Anderson (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered group III-nitride article includes a single crystal silicon substrate, and a highly textured group III-nitride layer, such as GaN, disposed on the silicon substrate. The highly textured group III-nitride layer is crack free and has a thickness of at least 10 μm. A method for forming highly textured group III-nitride layers includes the steps of providing a single crystal silicon comprising substrate, depositing a nanostructured InxGa1-xN (1≧x≧0) interlayer on the silicon substrate, and depositing a highly textured group III-nitride layer on the interlayer. The interlayer has a nano indentation hardness that is less than both the silicon substrate and the highly textured group III-nitride layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/512615 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02502 (20130101) H01L 21/02513 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946680 | Bangsaruntip et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarunya Bangsaruntip (Mount Kisco, New York); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Amlan Majumdar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey Sleight (Ridgefield, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarunya Bangsaruntip (Mount Kisco, New York); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Amlan Majumdar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey Sleight (Ridgefield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) includes a source region, the source region comprising a first portion of a nanowire; a channel region, the channel region comprising a second portion of the nanowire; a drain region, the drain region comprising a portion of a silicon pad, the silicon pad being located adjacent to the channel region; and a gate configured such that the gate surrounds the channel region and at least a portion of the source region. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571657 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/402 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0669 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) H01L 29/0847 (20130101) H01L 29/0895 (20130101) H01L 29/7391 (20130101) H01L 29/42356 (20130101) H01L 29/42392 (20130101) H01L 29/66477 (20130101) H01L 29/66977 (20130101) H01L 29/78618 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/723 (20130101) Y10S 977/938 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946692 | Kelber |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry A Kelber (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a substrate-mediated assembly for graphene structures. According to an embodiment, long-range ordered, multilayer BN(111) films can be formed by atomic layer deposition (ALD) onto a substrate. The subject BN(111) films can then be used to order carbon atoms into a graphene sheet during a carbon deposition process. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678827 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 9/041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0453 (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 16/26 (20130101) C23C 16/342 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0228 (20130101) H01L 21/02112 (20130101) H01L 21/823871 (20130101) H01L 23/53276 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946724 | Shinohara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California); Dean C. Regan (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Monolithic integration of high-frequency GaN-HEMTs and GaN-Schottky diodes. The integrated HEMTs/Schottky diodes are realized using an epitaxial structure and a fabrication process which reduces fabrication cost. Since the disclosed process preferably uses self-aligned technology, both devices show extremely high-frequency performance by minimizing device parasitic resistances and capacitances. Furthermore, since the Schottky contact of diodes is formed by making a direct contact of an anode metal to the 2DEG channel the resulting structure minimizes an intrinsic junction capacitance due to the very thin contact area size. The low resistance of high-mobility 2DEG channel and a low contact resistance realized by a n+GaN ohmic regrowth layer reduce a series resistance of diodes as well as access resistance of the HEMT. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/907704 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/0605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/872 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946726 | Harris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Harris (Taby, Sweden); Andrei Konstantinov (Sollentuna, Sweden); Jan-Olov Svederg (Jarfalla, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | A trench metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor or UMOSFET, includes a buried region that extends beneath the trench and beyond a corner of the trench. The buried region is tied to a source potential of the UMOSFET, and splits the potential realized across the structure. This effectively shields the electric field from the corners of the trench to reduce gate oxide stress, and resultantly improves device performance and reliability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847564 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/45 (20130101) H01L 29/0623 (20130101) H01L 29/1095 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/4238 (20130101) H01L 29/7813 (20130101) H01L 29/7827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/41741 (20130101) H01L 29/41766 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101) H01L 29/66727 (20130101) H01L 29/66734 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946864 | Abraham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Margaret H. Abraham (Portola Valley, California); David P. Taylor (Hawthorne, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret H. Abraham (Portola Valley, California); David P. Taylor (Hawthorne, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for preparing films comprising metal using sequential ion implantation, and films formed using same, are provided herein. A structure prepared using ion implantation may include a substrate; an embedded structure having pre-selected characteristics; and a film within or adjacent to the embedded structure. The film comprises a metal having a perturbed arrangement arising from the presence of the embedded structure. The perturbed arrangement may include metal ions that coalesce into a substantially continuous, electrically conductive metal layer, or that undergo covalent bonding, whereas in the absence of the embedded structure the metal ions instead may be free to diffuse through the substrate. The embedded structure may control the diffusion of the metal through the substrate and/or the reaction of the metal within the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/049762 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00507 (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 14/10 (20130101) C23C 14/14 (20130101) C23C 14/48 (20130101) C23C 14/548 (20130101) C23C 14/5806 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/268 (20130101) H01L 21/26506 (20130101) H01L 21/26533 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946974 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Yu (Timonium, Maryland); Dawnielle Farrar (Randallstown, Maryland); Wonkyu Moon (Kyungbuk, South Korea); James West (Plainfield, New Jersey); Sangkyu Lee (Kyungbuk, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Yu (Timonium, Maryland); Dawnielle Farrar (Randallstown, Maryland); Wonkyu Moon (Kyungbuk, South Korea); James West (Plainfield, New Jersey); Sangkyu Lee (Kyungbuk, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Piezoelectric fibers include a polypeptide wherein molecules of the polypeptide have electric dipole moments that are aligned such that the piezoelectric fiber provides a piezoelectric effect at an operating temperature. A piezoelectric component provides a plurality of piezoelectric fibers, each comprising an organic polymer. A method of producing piezoelectric fibers includes electrospinning a polymer solution to form a fiber and winding the fiber onto a rotating target in which the rotating target is electrically grounded. An acoustic sensor includes a plurality acoustic transducers, wherein the plurality of acoustic transducers are structured and arranged to detect a corresponding plurality of vector components of an acoustic signal, and at least one of the plurality of acoustic transducers comprises a piezoelectric fiber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057652 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0038 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/2437 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/082 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947178 | Reid, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Reid, Jr. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Reid, Jr. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectric core tunable filter for microwave frequencies of 0.5-30 GHz. The filter includes a low loss machined dielectric having multiple channels a portion of which are terminated in micro-electromechanical variable capacitors to realize coupled resonators. The machined dielectric is metalized with a material, such as copper, silver, or gold, and then patterned to provide ring shaped recesses at the ends of preselected channels. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/208718 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 7/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947295 | Collins |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter J Collins (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J Collins (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A bistatic radar measurement system is provided having a radar source configured to produce a radio frequency signal. A transmitting antenna is configured to transmit the radio frequency signal toward a target. A receiving antenna is configured to receive a reflected radio frequency signal from the target. A support system is configured to support the receiving antenna. The support system includes a plurality of low scattering dielectric strings configured to orient the receiving antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/534080 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947659 | Baastians et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn Baastians (Torrance, California); Hankins Stephen (Long Beach, California); Jerald Alan Cole (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time correlated single photon counting system having a time to digital converter triggered by a laser fire event detector and the reception of a single photon. The system may be used for chemical agent detection based on Rayleigh scattering using optical time domain reflectometry techniques. The system may also be used for Raman detection using frequency to time transformations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/777959 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08948318 | Gestner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian Gestner (Dublin, California); David Verl Anderson (Alpharetta, Georgia); Xiaoli Ma (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Gestner (Dublin, California); David Verl Anderson (Alpharetta, Georgia); Xiaoli Ma (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an incremental lattice reduction method comprising: receiving an input signal at a plurality of input terminals; evaluating a reliability assessment condition using a primary symbol vector estimate of at least a portion of the input signal; terminating the incremental lattice reduction method if the reliability assessment condition is satisfied; and if the reliability assessment condition is not satisfied, performing at least one iteration of a lattice reduction detection sub-method to obtain a secondary symbol vector estimate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/325242 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 25/03242 (20130101) H04L 25/03305 (20130101) H04L 2025/03426 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08948467 | Bedros et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saad J. Bedros (West St. Paul, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota); Sharath Venkatesha (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Rida M. Hamza (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saad J. Bedros (West St. Paul, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota); Sharath Venkatesha (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Rida M. Hamza (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A condition based method that selects an appropriate approach among various iris and ocular image recognition algorithms for matching periocular images of a probe and target as a function of quality of images to obtain robust matching even under non-ideal acquisition scenarios. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/153415 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — 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 9/036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00597 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08948539 | Meyers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith S Deacon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for image improvement comprising providing a series of frames; summing pixel values to obtain frame intensity; computing average frame intensity; determining frame intensity deviation for each frame by subtracting average frame intensity from frame intensity; determining an array of average pixel values (AAPV) and subtracting AAPV from the pixel value arrays to determine positive or negative pixel deviation values; grouping frames in first or second groups depending positive or negative frame intensity deviation; selecting all pixel values having a positive or negative deviation value and creating subgroups of positive or negative pixel deviation value frames, multiplying the pixel deviation value frames in each subgroup by frame intensity deviation to create first product arrays, which are summed together and divided by total number of frames to obtain second product arrays for each subgroup; selecting one or more of second product arrays to generate an image. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/022148 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/40 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/001 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20221 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949024 | Stanley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byron McCall Stanley (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew Tyler Cornick (Woburn, Massachusetts); Charles Michael Coldwell (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Charles Koechling (Wayland, Massachusetts); Beijia Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are a method and a system for localization of a vehicle. The method includes the acquisition of SPR images of a subsurface region along a vehicle track. Acquired SPR images are compared to SPR images previously acquired for a subsurface region that at least partially overlaps the subsurface region along the vehicle track. In some embodiments, the comparison includes an image correlation procedure. Location data for the vehicle are determined based in part on location data for the SPR images previously acquired for the second subsurface region. Location data can be used to guide the vehicle along a desired path. The relatively static nature of features in the subsurface region provides the method with advantages over other sensor-based navigation systems that may be adversely affected by weather conditions, dynamic features and time-varying illumination. The method can be used in a variety of applications, including self-driving automobiles and autonomous platforms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798416 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/06 (20130101) G01S 13/87 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G05D 1/0268 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949027 | Matthews et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Jay Matthews (Morristown, New Jersey); Richard S. Russell (Morristown, New Jersey); Tom Jakel (Morristown, New Jersey); Michael Ray Elgersma (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Jay Matthews (Morristown, New Jersey); Richard S. Russell (Morristown, New Jersey); Tom Jakel (Morristown, New Jersey); Michael Ray Elgersma (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system comprises a plurality of reference navigation systems, each reference navigation system configured to generate a respective reference navigation solution. The system also comprises a test navigation system, the test navigation system configured to generate a test navigation solution; and a processing unit configured to compare the test navigation solution to each of the respective reference navigation solutions to estimate one or more errors in the differences between the test navigation solution and the respective reference navigation solutions. The processing unit is further configured to update the respective reference navigation solutions to account for the corresponding one or more estimated errors. The processing unit is also configured to compare the test navigation solution to the updated reference navigation solutions to generate a performance score representative of the performance of the test navigation system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/545220 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — 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 17/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/28 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949090 | Whitehead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Whitehead (Renton, Washington); Stefan R. Bieniawski (Seattle, Washington); David Halaas (Buckley, Washington); Eugene Lavretsky (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for controlling the formation flight of a trailing aircraft relative to a vortex generated by a leading aircraft includes a position module, peak-seeking module, limiter module, and control module. The position module is configured to determine a position of the vortex relative to the trailing aircraft. The peak-seeking module is configured to determine a desired position of the trailing aircraft for providing desired vortex-induced aerodynamic benefits based on the position of the vortex relative to the trailing aircraft and a mapping function of an individual performance metric. The limiter module is configured to modify the desired position of the trailing aircraft to avoid unintended crossings of the trailing aircraft into the vortex. Finally, the control module is configured to control flight of the trailing aircraft based on one of the desired position of the trailing aircraft and modified desired position of the trailing aircraft. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752119 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/104 (20130101) G05D 1/0202 (20130101) G05D 1/0825 (20130101) |
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| US 08949096 | Jolliff |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason K. Jolliff (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason K. Jolliff (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System for solving for the fully three-dimensional advection diffusion reaction (ADR) of dissolved or particulate tracers (biological or chemical materials) in aquatic environments including an input processor and an ADR tracer field processor. Results from a single execution of an ocean circulation model may be used to drive a separate ADR computer simulation and compute a tracer forecast. The velocity fields are not required to be from an ocean circulation model, they could be analysis fields derived from some other source, such as high frequency RADAR observations or satellite-based surface ocean velocity inversion/detection methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/467215 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949101 | Bose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Meeta S. Gupta (White Plains, New York); Prabhakar N. Kudva (New York, New York); Daniel A. Prener (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Meeta S. Gupta (White Plains, New York); Prabhakar N. Kudva (New York, New York); Daniel A. Prener (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms are provided for predicting effects of soft errors on an integrated circuit device design. A data processing system is configured to implement a unified derating tool that includes a machine derating front-end engine used to generate machine derating information, and an application derating front-end engine used to generate application derating information, for the integrated circuit device design. The machine derating front-end engine executes a simulation of the integrated circuit device design to generate the machine derating information. The application derating front-end engine executes an application workload on existing hardware similar in architecture to the integrated circuit device design and injects a fault into the existing hardware during execution of the application workload to generate application derating information. The machine derating information is combined with the application derating information to generate at least one soft error rate value for the integrated circuit device design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271827 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/31816 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/318357 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5022 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949164 | Mohler |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George O. Mohler (San Jose, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George O. Mohler (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally provided herein is a predictive policing system including at least one crime prediction server constructed to process historical crime data using a crime forecasting algorithm to produce a crime forecast assigning at least one geographic region to at least one crime type for use in crime prevention, deterrence, and disruption practices. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/605737 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949246 | Roe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marvin W. Roe (Slidell, Louisiana); Brian S Bourgeois (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin W. Roe (Slidell, Louisiana); Brian S Bourgeois (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for providing an automated method of importing NetCDF formatted data from a variety of sources that contain a variety of internal datasets. Options for processing and analysis can be provided and can occur simultaneously as the data are being processed. Storage and organization options provide efficient viewing and analysis of NetCDF datasets. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707935 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30241 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30321 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 29/003 (20130101) G09B 29/007 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949540 | Guthrie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Hien M. Le (Cedar Park, Texas); Alvan W. Ng (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Hien M. Le (Cedar Park, Texas); Alvan W. Ng (Austin, Texas); Michael S. Siegel (Raleigh, North Carolina); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A victim cache line having a data-invalid coherence state is selected for castout from a first lower level cache of a first processing unit. The first processing unit issues on an interconnect fabric a lateral castout (LCO) command identifying the victim cache line to be castout from the first lower level cache, indicating the data-invalid coherence state, and indicating that a lower level cache is an intended destination of the victim cache line. In response to a coherence response to the LCO command indicating success of the LCO command, the victim cache line is removed from the first lower level cache and held in a second lower level cache of a second processing unit in the data-invalid coherence state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402025 |
| ART UNIT | 2188 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/12 (20130101) G06F 12/128 (20130101) G06F 12/0811 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0815 (20130101) G06F 12/0831 (20130101) G06F 12/0833 (20130101) G06F 2212/69 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949577 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel computer that includes compute nodes having computer processors and a CAU (Collectives Acceleration Unit) that couples processors to one another for data communications. In embodiments of the present invention, deterministic reduction operation include: organizing processors of the parallel computer and a CAU into a branched tree topology, where the CAU is a root of the branched tree topology and the processors are children of the root CAU; establishing a receive buffer that includes receive elements associated with processors and configured to store the associated processor's contribution data; receiving, in any order from the processors, each processor's contribution data; tracking receipt of each processor's contribution data; and reducing, the contribution data in a predefined order, only after receipt of contribution data from all processors in the branched tree topology. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789986 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/17318 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949798 | Albot et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andre Laurent Albot (Austin, Texas); Michael Gerard Mall (Round Rock, Texas); Bruce G. Mealey (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Laurent Albot (Austin, Texas); Michael Gerard Mall (Round Rock, Texas); Bruce G. Mealey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for returning a return code to an error hook in an application using a framework. An identifier and a pass-through are received from the error hook. The error hook is software code in the application. The pass-through is a set of parameters. If the identifier has an active status, a set of framework conditions is retrieved using the identifier. If the set of framework conditions is met, an inject callback is retrieved using the error identifier. The inject callback is called with the error identifier and the pass-through. An inject callback return code is received. If the inject callback return code is an execute return code, the execute return code is returned to the error hook. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402326 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/3688 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949801 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Gabriela Jacques da Silva (Champaign, Illinois); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Gabriela Jacques da Silva (Champaign, Illinois); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for failure recovery for stream processing applications. One embodiment of a method for providing a failure recovery mechanism for a stream processing application includes receiving source code for the stream processing application, wherein the source code defines a fault tolerance policy for each of the components of the stream processing application, and wherein respective fault tolerance policies defined for at least two of the plurality of components are different, generating a sequence of instructions for converting the state(s) of the component(s) into a checkpoint file comprising a sequence of storable bits on a periodic basis, according to a frequency defined in the fault tolerance policy, initiating execution of the stream processing application, and storing the checkpoint file, during execution of the stream processing application, at a location that is accessible after failure recovery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/465215 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/00 (20130101) G06F 11/07 (20130101) G06F 11/1438 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/1471 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949837 | Bohrer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Joseph Bohrer (Austin, Texas); Orran Yaakov Krieger (Newton, Massachusetts); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Michael Rosenfield (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Joseph Bohrer (Austin, Texas); Orran Yaakov Krieger (Newton, Massachusetts); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Michael Rosenfield (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes a microprocessor having access to multiple levels of cache memories. The microprocessor executes a main thread compiled from a source code object. The system includes a processor for executing an assist thread also derived from the source code object. The assist thread includes memory reference instructions of the main thread and only those arithmetic instructions required to resolve the memory reference instructions. A scheduler configured to schedule the assist thread in conjunction with the corresponding execution thread is configured to execute the assist thread ahead of the execution thread by a determinable threshold such as the number of main processor cycles or the number of code instructions. The assist thread may execute in the main processor or in a dedicated assist processor that makes direct memory accesses to one of the lower level cache memory elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434423 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/383 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/3851 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 12/0862 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949846 | Travostino et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Franco Travostino (Arlington, Massachusetts); Tal Lavian (Sunnyvale, California); Bruce Schofield (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Inder Monga (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockstar Consortium US LP (Plano, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franco Travostino (Arlington, Massachusetts); Tal Lavian (Sunnyvale, California); Bruce Schofield (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Inder Monga (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus has been shown and described which allows Quality of Service to be controlled at a temporal granularity. Time-value curves, generated for each task, ensure that mission resources are utilized in a manner which optimizes mission performance. It should be noted, however, that although the present invention has shown and described the use of time-value curves as applied to mission workflow tasks, the present invention is not limited to this application; rather, it can be readily appreciated by one of skill in the art that time-value curves may be used to optimize the delivery of any resource to any consumer by taking into account the dynamic environment of the consumer and resource. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/423774 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/5695 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 47/10 (20130101) H04L 47/826 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle for use with a turbine engine is described herein. The fuel nozzle includes a housing that is coupled to a combustor liner defining a combustion chamber. The housing includes an endwall that at least partially defines the combustion chamber. A plurality of mixing tubes extends through the housing for channeling fuel to the combustion chamber. Each mixing tube of the plurality of mixing tubes includes an inner surface that extends between an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The outlet portion is oriented adjacent the housing endwall. At least one of the plurality of mixing tubes includes a plurality of projections that extend outwardly from the outlet portion. Adjacent projections are spaced a circumferential distance apart such that a groove is defined between each pair of circumferentially-apart projections to facilitate enhanced mixing of fuel in the combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/281631 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Burners F23D 14/62 (20130101) F23D 14/70 (20130101) Casings, Linings, Walls or Doors Specially Adapted for Combustion Chambers, e.g Firebridges; Devices for Deflecting Air, Flames or Combustion Products in Combustion Chambers; Safety Arrangements Specially Adapted for Combustion Apparatus; Details of Combustion Chambers, Not Otherwise Provided for F23M 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/002 (20130101) F23R 3/16 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) F23R 2900/00014 (20130101) F23R 2900/00017 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08943833 | Tuthill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard S. Tuthill (Bolton, Connecticut); Dustin W. Davis (Marlborough, Connecticut); Zhongtao Dai (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Tuthill (Bolton, Connecticut); Dustin W. Davis (Marlborough, Connecticut); Zhongtao Dai (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A disclosed fuel injector provides mixing of fuel with airflow by surrounding a swirled fuel flow with first and second swirled airflows that ensures mixing prior to or upon entering the combustion chamber. Fuel tubes produce a central fuel flow along with a central airflow through a plurality of openings to generate the high velocity fuel/air mixture along the axis of the fuel injector in addition to the swirled fuel/air mixture. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542985 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08943851 | Gerlach |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Gerlach (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Gerlach (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An evaporative cooler may include an evaporative cooler housing with a duct extending therethrough, a plurality of cooler louvers with respective porous evaporative cooler pads, and a working fluid source conduit. The cooler louvers are arranged within the duct and rotatably connected to the cooler housing along respective louver axes. The source conduit provides an evaporative cooler working fluid to the cooler pads during at least one mode of operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/399641 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08943910 | Addleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond S. Addleman (Benton City, Washington); David A. Atkinson (Richland, Washington); John T. Bays (West Richland, Washington); Wilaiwan Chouyyok (Richland, Washington); Anthony D. Cinson (Richland, Washington); Robert G. Ewing (Kennewick, Washington); Aleksandr A. Gerasimenko (Salem, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond S. Addleman (Benton City, Washington); David A. Atkinson (Richland, Washington); John T. Bays (West Richland, Washington); Wilaiwan Chouyyok (Richland, Washington); Anthony D. Cinson (Richland, Washington); Robert G. Ewing (Kennewick, Washington); Aleksandr A. Gerasimenko (Salem, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced swipe sampler and method of making are described. The swipe sampler is made of a fabric containing selected glass, metal oxide, and/or oxide-coated glass or metal fibers. Fibers are modified with silane ligands that are directly attached to the surface of the fibers to functionalize the sampling surface of the fabric. The swipe sampler collects various target analytes including explosives and other threat agents on the surface of the sampler. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/450343 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08944190 | Wassell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APS Technology, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | APS Technology, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ellsworth Wassell (Houston, Texas); William Evans Turner (Durham, Connecticut); Daniel E. Burgess (Portland, Connecticut); Carl Allison Perry (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for damping vibration in a drill string can include a valve assembly having a supply of a fluid, a first member, and a second member capable of moving in relation to first member in response to vibration of the drill bit. The first and second members define a first and a second chamber for holding the fluid. Fluid can flow between the first and second chambers in response to the movement of the second member in relation to the first member. The valve assembly can also include a coil or a valve for varying a resistance of the fluid to flow between the first and second chambers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/155220 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 17/073 (20130101) E21B 44/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 44/005 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 2224/045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08944192 | Nance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Nick J. Vrettos (Augusta, Georgia); Daniel Krementz (Augusta, Georgia); Athneal D. Marzolf (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Nance (Aiken, South Carolina); Nick J. Vrettos (Augusta, Georgia); Daniel Krementz (Augusta, Georgia); Athneal D. Marzolf (Martinez, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to robotic systems and is specifically designed for a robotic system that can navigate vertical pipes within a waste tank or similar environment. The robotic system allows a process for sampling, cleaning, inspecting and removing waste around vertical pipes by supplying a robotic platform that uses the vertical pipes to support and navigate the platform above waste material contained in the tank. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/260884 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 57/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 37/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08944437 | Underwood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Paul Underwood (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Stephen Clyde Tentarelli (Schnecksville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal between a ceramic conduit and a metal conduit of an ion transport membrane device consisting of a sealing surface of ceramic conduit, a sealing surface of ceramic conduit, a single gasket body, and a single compliant interlayer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707024 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| 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 35/645 (20130101) C04B 37/025 (20130101) C04B 37/026 (20130101) C04B 2237/08 (20130101) C04B 2237/10 (20130101) C04B 2237/12 (20130101) C04B 2237/34 (20130101) C04B 2237/062 (20130101) C04B 2237/72 (20130101) C04B 2237/80 (20130101) C04B 2237/086 (20130101) C04B 2237/125 (20130101) C04B 2237/405 (20130101) C04B 2237/406 (20130101) C04B 2237/592 (20130101) C04B 2237/708 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 25/0072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0276 (20130101) H01M 8/0282 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 277/938 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945245 | Bals et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Bals (East Lansing, Michigan); Farzaneh Teymouri (Okemos, Michigan); Tim Campbell (East Lansing, Michigan); Bruce Dale (Mason, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Michigan Biotechnology Institute (Lansing, Michigan); Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Bals (East Lansing, Michigan); Farzaneh Teymouri (Okemos, Michigan); Tim Campbell (East Lansing, Michigan); Bruce Dale (Mason, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided in which pretreated and densified cellulosic biomass particulates can be hydrolyzed at a high solids loading rate as compared with the solids loading rate of loose hydrolysable cellulosic biomass fibers. The resulting high concentration sugar-containing stream can be easily converted to biofuels or an entire suite of other useful bioproducts. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/458830 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945277 | Xiong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yongliang Xiong (Carlsbad, New Mexico); Yifeng Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongliang Xiong (Carlsbad, New Mexico); Yifeng Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Advanced, fire-resistant activated carbon compositions useful in adsorbing gases; and having vastly improved fire resistance are provided, and methods for synthesizing the compositions are also provided. The advanced compositions have high gas adsorption capacities and rapid adsorption kinetics (comparable to commercially-available activated carbon), without having any intrinsic fire hazard. They also have superior performance to Mordenites in both adsorption capacities and kinetics. In addition, the advanced compositions do not pose the fibrous inhalation hazard that exists with use of Mordenites. The fire-resistant compositions combine activated carbon mixed with one or more hydrated and/or carbonate-containing minerals that release H2O and/or CO2 when heated. This effect raises the spontaneous ignition temperature to over 500° C. in most examples, and over 800° C. in some examples. Also provided are methods for removing and/or separating target gases, such as Krypton or Argon, from a gas stream by using such advanced activated carbons. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/896096 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945279 | Aines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger D. Aines (Livermore, California); William L. Bourcier (Livermore, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Joshuah K. Stolaroff (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for carbon dioxide capture from flue gas and other industrial gas sources utilizes microcapsules with very thin polymer shells. The contents of the microcapsules can be liquids or mixtures of liquids and solids. The microcapsules are exposed to the flue gas and other industrial gas and take up carbon dioxide from the flue gas and other industrial gas and eventual precipitate solids in the capsule. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/661900 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 2252/204 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 3/00 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) Y02C 10/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945304 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Biswajit Das (Henderson, Nevada); Myung B. Lee (Blauvelt, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Biswajit Das (Henderson, Nevada); Myung B. Lee (Blauvelt, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method A method of growing an elongate nanoelement from a growth surface includes: a) cleaning a growth surface on a base element; b) providing an ultrahigh vacuum reaction environment over the cleaned growth surface; c) generating a reactive gas of an atomic material to be used in forming the nanoelement; d) projecting a stream of the reactive gas at the growth surface within the reactive environment while maintaining a vacuum of at most 1×10−4 Pascal; e) growing the elongate nanoelement from the growth surface within the environment while maintaining the pressure of step c); f) after a desired length of nanoelement is attained within the environment, stopping direction of reactive gas into the environment; and g) returning the environment to an ultrahigh vacuum condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228529 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/403 (20130101) C30B 29/406 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 117/902 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945354 | Williamson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Williamson (Naperville, Illinois); Stanley G. Wiedmeyer (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); James L. Willit (Batavia, Illinois); Laurel A. Barnes (Chicago, Illinois); Robert J. Blaskovitz (Lockport, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Williamson (Naperville, Illinois); Stanley G. Wiedmeyer (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); James L. Willit (Batavia, Illinois); Laurel A. Barnes (Chicago, Illinois); Robert J. Blaskovitz (Lockport, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include a cathode scraper system and/or method of using the same for removing uranium. The cathode scraper system includes a plurality of cathode assemblies. Each cathode assembly includes a plurality of cathode rods. The cathode scraper system also includes a cathode scraper assembly configured to remove purified uranium deposited on the plurality of cathode rods. The cathode scraper assembly includes a plurality of scrapers arranged in a lattice, and each scraper of the plurality of scrapers is arranged to correspond to a different cathode rod. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/335209 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945368 | Rieke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Rieke (Richland, Washington); Silas A. Towne (Richland, Washington); Greg W. Coffey (Richland, Washington); Aaron M. Appel (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for separating CO2 from an electrolyte solution are provided. Example apparatus can include: a vessel defining an interior volume and configured to house an electrolyte solution; an input conduit in fluid communication with the interior volume; an output conduit in fluid communication with the interior volume; an exhaust conduit in fluid communication with the interior volume; and an anode located within the interior volume. Other example apparatus can include: an elongated vessel having two regions; an input conduit extending outwardly from the one region; an output conduit extending outwardly from the other region; an exhaust conduit in fluid communication with the one region; and an anode located within the one region. Methods for separating CO2 from an electrolyte solution are provided. Example methods can include: providing a CO2 rich electrolyte solution to a vessel containing an anode; and distributing hydrogen from the anode to acidify the electrolyte solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748463 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 19/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/965 (20130101) B01D 53/1425 (20130101) B01D 53/1475 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945440 | Demos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stavros G. Demos (Livermore, California); Rajesh Raman (Pleasanton, California); Raluca A. Negres (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stavros G. Demos (Livermore, California); Rajesh Raman (Pleasanton, California); Raluca A. Negres (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining conditioning pulse parameters for an optical element includes directing a pump pulse to impinge on the optical element and directing a probe pulse to impinge on the optical element. The method also includes determining a first time associated with an onset of electronic excitation leading to formation of an absorbing region of the optical element and determining a second time associated with expansion of the absorbing region of the optical element. The method further includes defining a turn-off time for a conditioning pulse between the first time and the second time. According to embodiments of the present invention, pulse shaping of the conditioning pulse enables laser conditioning of optical elements to achieve improvements in their laser induced damage threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/240980 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/59 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945500 | Zidan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ragaiy Zidan (Aiken, South Carolina); Matthew S. Wellons (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ragaiy Zidan (Aiken, South Carolina); Matthew S. Wellons (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel hydrogen absorption material is provided comprising a mixture of a lithium hydride with a fullerene. The subsequent reaction product provides for a hydrogen storage material which reversibly stores and releases hydrogen at temperatures of about 270° C. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932242 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0213 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 15/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/735 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945691 | Menchhofer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul A. Menchhofer (Clinton, Tennessee); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Menchhofer (Clinton, Tennessee); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluffy nano-material and method of manufacture are described. At 2000× magnification the fluffy nanomaterial has the appearance of raw, uncarded wool, with individual fiber lengths ranging from approximately four microns to twenty microns. Powder-based nanocatalysts are dispersed in the fluffy nanomaterial. The production of fluffy nanomaterial typically involves flowing about 125 cc/min of organic vapor at a pressure of about 400 torr over powder-based nano-catalysts for a period of time that may range from approximately thirty minutes to twenty-four hours. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704583 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945722 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), and more specifically to OLEDS that emit light using a combination of fluorescent emitters and phosphorescent emitters for the efficient utilization of all of the electrically generated excitons. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588619 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/5016 (20130101) H01L 51/5036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 428/917 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945902 | Fox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathaniel L. Elsen (Chalfont, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathaniel L. Elsen (Chalfont, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the cell-free identification of polypeptide and polypeptide combinations with utility in biomass transformation, as well as specific novel polypeptides and cell-free systems containing polypeptide combinations discovered by such methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792156 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1079 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945914 | Schaff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ulrich Y. Schaff (Davis, California); Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Y. Schaff (Davis, California); Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward devices, systems, and method for conducting sandwich assays using sedimentation. In one example, a method includes generating complexes on a plurality of beads in a fluid sample, individual ones of the complexes comprising a capture agent, a target analyte, and a labeling agent. The plurality of beads including the complexes may be transported through a density media, wherein the density media has a density lower than a density of the beads and higher than a density of the fluid sample, and wherein the transporting occurs, at least in part, by sedimentation. Signal may be detected from the labeling agents of the complexes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/891977 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — 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 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945926 | Chin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Richmond, Virginia); J. Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Richmond, Virginia); J. Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/329202 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) Y10S 435/975 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945943 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Yu Xiang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Yu Xiang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A general methodology for the development of highly sensitive and selective sensors that can achieve portable, low-cost and quantitative detection of a broad range of targets using only a personal glucose meter (PGM) is disclosed. The method uses recognition molecules that are specific for a target agent, enzymes that can convert an enzyme substrate into glucose, and PGM. Also provided are sensors, which can include a solid support to which is attached a recognition molecule that permits detection of a target agent, wherein the recognition molecule specifically binds to the target agent in the presence of the target agent but not significantly to other agents as well as an enzyme that can catalyze the conversion of a substance into glucose, wherein the enzyme is attached directly or indirectly to the recognition molecule, and wherein in the presence of the target agent the enzyme can convert the substance into glucose. The disclosed sensors can be part of a lateral flow device. Methods of using such sensors for detecting target agents are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699578 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/54 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946052 | Nielson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carlos Anthony Sanchez (Belen, New Mexico); Anna Tauke-Pedretti (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bongsang Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Cederberg (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Jose Luis Cruz-Campa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul J. Resnick (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes forming a release layer over a donor substrate. A plurality of devices made of a first semiconductor material are formed over the release layer. A first dielectric layer is formed over the plurality of devices such that all exposed surfaces of the plurality of devices are covered by the first dielectric layer. The plurality of devices are chemically attached to a receiving device made of a second semiconductor material different than the first semiconductor material, the receiving device having a receiving substrate attached to a surface of the receiving device opposite the plurality of devices. The release layer is etched to release the donor substrate from the plurality of devices. A second dielectric layer is applied over the plurality of devices and the receiving device to mechanically attach the plurality of devices to the receiving device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/627425 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946546 | Sykora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Milan Sykora (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alexey Koposov (Vancouver, Washington); Nobuhiro Fuke (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sharp Corporation (Osaka, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milan Sykora (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Alexey Koposov (Vancouver, Washington); Nobuhiro Fuke (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of surface treatment of nanocrystal quantum dots after film deposition so as to exchange the native ligands of the quantum dots for exchange ligands that result in improvement in charge extraction from the nanocrystals. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630075 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08946683 — Medium scale carbon nanotube thin film integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrates
| US 08946683 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Qing Cao (Yorktown Heights, New York); Muhammad Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ninad Pimparkar (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Qing Cao (Yorktown Heights, New York); Muhammad Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ninad Pimparkar (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides device components geometries and fabrication strategies for enhancing the electronic performance of electronic devices based on thin films of randomly oriented or partially aligned semiconducting nanotubes. In certain aspects, devices and methods of the present invention incorporate a patterned layer of randomly oriented or partially aligned carbon nanotubes, such as one or more interconnected SWNT networks, providing a semiconductor channel exhibiting improved electronic properties relative to conventional nanotubes-based electronic systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/996924 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0014 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/938 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947657 | Letant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sonia Edith Letant (Livermore, California); Sarah Elyse Baker (Pleasanton, California); Tiziana Bond (Livermore, California); Allan Shih-Ping Chang (San Ramon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonia Edith Letant (Livermore, California); Sarah Elyse Baker (Pleasanton, California); Tiziana Bond (Livermore, California); Allan Shih-Ping Chang (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolation of biological or chemical organisms can be accomplished using a surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) system. The SERS system can be a single or a stacked plurality of photonic crystal membranes with noble-metal lined through pores for flowing analyte potentially containing the biological or chemical organisms. The through pores can be adapted to trap individual biological or chemical organisms and emit SERS spectra, which can then be detected by a detector and further analyzed for viability of the biological or chemical organism. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117079 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) G01N 33/569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/54373 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947764 | DeRose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William A. Zortman (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device includes a microdisk optical resonator element. The microdisk resonator element is formed on a substrate and has upper and lower portions respectively distal and proximal the substrate. An arcuate semiconductor contact region partially surrounds the microdisk resonator element. A first modulator electrode is centrally formed on the upper portion of the microdisk resonator element, and a second modulator electrode is formed on the arcuate contact region. A laminar semiconductor region smaller in thickness than the microdisk resonator element separates the arcuate contact region from the microdisk resonator element and is formed on the substrate so as to electrically connect the arcuate contact region to the lower portion of the microdisk resonator element. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/860978 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — 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 1/29 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947854 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Zhenning Yu (Beavercreek, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Dayton, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Zhenning Yu (Beavercreek, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Dayton, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacer-modified nano graphene platelet electrode, comprising: (a) multiple nano graphene platelets or sheets having an average thickness smaller than 10 nm; and (b) discrete, non-metallic nano-scaled particles that are disposed between two graphene platelets or sheets to serve as a spacer. In such a spacer-modified graphene electrode, large amounts of electrolyte-accessible pores are formed, enabling the formation of large amounts of electric double layer charges in a supercapacitor, which exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacitance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/573844 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/932 (20130101) Y10S 977/948 (20130101) |
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| US 08948562 | Norris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prashant Nagpal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prashant Nagpal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides templating methods for replicating patterned metal films from a template substrate such as for use in plasmonic devices and metamaterials. Advantageously, the template substrate is reusable and can provide plural copies of the structure of the template substrate. Because high-quality substrates that are inherently smooth and flat are available, patterned metal films in accordance with the present invention can advantageously provide surfaces that replicate the surface characteristics of the template substrate both in the patterned regions and in the unpatterned regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131197 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/009 (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 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 08949040 | Chey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | S. Jay Chey (Ossining, New York); Hendrik F. Hamann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Levente Ioan Klein (Tuckahoe, New York); Michael Alan Schappert (Wappingers Falls, New York); Andriy Stepanchuk (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Jay Chey (Ossining, New York); Hendrik F. Hamann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Levente Ioan Klein (Tuckahoe, New York); Michael Alan Schappert (Wappingers Falls, New York); Andriy Stepanchuk (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Principles of the invention provide methods and apparatus for providing corrosion management in buildings. In one aspect, an exemplary method includes the step of receiving first data relating corrosion rate to a plurality of environmental conditions. This first data is subsequently utilized to determine a quantitative relationship between corrosion rate and the plurality of environmental conditions. In another step, second data indicative of one or more environmental conditions within a building is received. A corrosion rate in the building is then determined at least in part by applying the determined quantitative relationship to this second data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/222953 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Air-conditioning; Air-humidification; Ventilation; Use of Air Currents for Screening F24F 11/0009 (20130101) F24F 2011/0006 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20745 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08949255 | Faibish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Aaron Torres (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Aaron Torres (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for storing files in a parallel computing system using sub-files with semantically meaningful boundaries. A method is provided for storing at least one file generated by a distributed application in a parallel computing system. The file comprises one or more of a complete file and a plurality of sub-files. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a user specification of semantic information related to the file; providing the semantic information as a data structure description to a data formatting library write function; and storing the semantic information related to the file with one or more of the sub-files in one or more storage nodes of the parallel computing system. The semantic information provides a description of data in the file. The sub-files can be replicated based on semantically meaningful boundaries. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536384 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/755 |
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| US 08949292 | Chao 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) | Tian-Jy Chao (Bedford, New York); Younghun Kim (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Automatically translating a building architecture file format (Industry Foundation Class) to a simulation file, in one aspect, may extract data and metadata used by a target simulation tool from a building architecture file. Interoperability data objects may be created and the extracted data is stored in the interoperability data objects. A model translation procedure may be prepared to identify a mapping from a Model View Definition to a translation and transformation function. The extracted data may be transformed using the data stored in the interoperability data objects, an input Model View Definition template, and the translation and transformation function to convert the extracted data to correct geometric values needed for a target simulation file format used by the target simulation tool. The simulation file in the target simulation file format may be generated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/648798 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) G06F 17/30569 (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 10/0637 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 707/94 (20130101) |
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| US 08949453 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Data communications in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI composed of data communications endpoints, each endpoint including a specification of data communications parameters for a thread of execution on a compute node, including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through data communications resources, including receiving in an origin endpoint of the PAMI a SEND instruction, the SEND instruction specifying a transmission of transfer data from the origin endpoint to a first target endpoint; transmitting from the origin endpoint to the first target endpoint a Request-To-Send (‘RTS’) message advising the first target endpoint of the location and size of the transfer data; assigning by the first target endpoint to each of a plurality of target endpoints separate portions of the transfer data; and receiving by the plurality of target endpoints the transfer data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/956903 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08949539 | Blumrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Yorktown Heights, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Yorktown Heights, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program product for implementing load-reserve and store-conditional instructions in a multi-processor computing system. The computing system includes a multitude of processor units and a shared memory cache, and each of the processor units has access to the memory cache. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing the memory cache with a series of reservation registers, and storing in these registers addresses reserved in the memory cache for the processor units as a result of issuing load-reserve requests. In this embodiment, when one of the processor units makes a request to store data in the memory cache using a store-conditional request, the reservation registers are checked to determine if an address in the memory cache is reserved for that processor unit. If an address in the memory cache is reserved for that processor, the data are stored at this address. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697799 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30072 (20130101) G06F 15/17381 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08944594 | McLeod et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. McLeod (Boulder, Colorado); Michael Cole (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include methods, systems, and/or devices that may be used to create aberration-corrected gradient index lenses. In some embodiments, data related to aberration measurements is received. This data is processed and an inverse map is generated to compensate for the aberration measurements. An intensity pattern corresponding to the inverse map is then projected onto a blank lens (e.g., to locally polymerize a mobile monomer) to create an exposed lens with a gradient index to correct for the aberration measurement. For example, in some embodiments, the lens may be an intraocular lens and the data can be generated by using a wavefront sensor to measure aberrations (e.g., an optical phase profile to correct defocus or astigmatism) in a patient's eye. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715606 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08944986 | Altman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Altman (Houston, Texas); Saurabh Biswas (College Station, Texas); John C. Criscione (College Station, Texas); Lewis D. Harrison (Arlington, Texas); Michael R. Moreno (Bryan, Texas); Dennis I. Robbins (Richardson, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Corinnova Incorporated (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Altman (Houston, Texas); Saurabh Biswas (College Station, Texas); John C. Criscione (College Station, Texas); Lewis D. Harrison (Arlington, Texas); Michael R. Moreno (Bryan, Texas); Dennis I. Robbins (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a biphasic and dynamic direct cardiac contact device adapted to be implanted in a patient suffering from congestive heart failure and related cardiac pathologies, said cardiac device having means for providing ventricular assist, ventricular support and diastolic recoil, or for providing ventricular support and diastolic recoil only. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/842021 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/2481 (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 1/106 (20130101) A61M 1/1068 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945218 | Laurencin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cato T. Laurencin (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Frank K. Ko (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James A. Cooper (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Mohammed A. Attawia (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cato T. Laurencin (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania); Frank K. Ko (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); James A. Cooper (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Helen H. Lu (New York, New York); Mohammed A. Attawia (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Degradable, polymeric fiber-based, three-dimensional braided scaffolds for use as graft materials in ligament and tendon repair, reconstruction and replacement are provided. Also provided are methods for preparing these scaffolds. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753889 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/38 (20130101) A61F 2/40 (20130101) A61F 2210/0004 (20130101) |
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| US 08945485 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong Chen (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Constantine Anagnostopoulos (North Kingstown, Rhode Island); Mohammed Faghri (East Greenwich, Rhode Island); Jeremy Cogswell (Johnston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic valve system is disclosed that includes a matrix, a hydrophilic acceptor region a hydrophilic transfer region, and a hydrophobic gap between the acceptor region and the transfer region. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625510 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 2200/0621 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/126 (20130101) B01L 2300/165 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0017 (20130101) F16K 99/0021 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) |
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| US 08945504 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lynden A. Archer (Ithaca, New York); Xiong Wen Lou (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nano structures of metal oxides having a nanostructured shell (or wall), and an internal space or void. Nanostructures may be nanoparticles, nanorod/belts/arrays, nanotubes, nanodisks, nanoboxes, hollow nanospheres, and mesoporous structures, among other nanostructures. The nanostructures are composed of polycrystalline metal, oxides such as SnO2. The nanostructures may have concentric walls which surround the internal space of cavity. There may be two or more concentric shells or walls. The internal space may contain a core such ferric oxides or other materials which have functional properties. The invention also provides for a novel, inexpensive, high-yield method for mass production of hollow metal oxide nanostructures. The method may be template free or contain a template such as silica. The nanostructures prepared by the methods of the invention provide for improved cycling performance when tested using rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/721440 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/12 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 1/02 (20130101) C01G 19/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/64 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/2027 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) H01M 2004/027 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 08945527 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Matthew Parrott (Carrboro, North Carolina); Andrew Murphy (Cary, North Carolina); Robby A. Petros (Denton, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Liquidia Technologies, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Matthew Parrott (Carrboro, North Carolina); Andrew Murphy (Cary, North Carolina); Robby A. Petros (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that will degrade under specified conditions, methods of using such compounds, and compositions comprising such compounds. The degradable compounds of the invention may be characterized by the labile —Si-A-C— groups present in the compounds (A representing an atom, such as O, N, or S, or a group, such as C═O). The compounds may be incorporated into a composition that further may include a polymeric matrix and/or a cargo component. A wide variety of cargo components may also be used in the present invention. In particular embodiments, the cargo component comprises a drug or other therapeutic agent. Accordingly, the invention particularly provides pharmaceutical formulations and methods of delivering a drug or other therapeutic material. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989315 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945602 | Freeman 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) | William Freeman (Del Mar, California); Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Lingyun Cheng (San Diego, California); Frederique Cunin (Montpellier, France); Emily Anglin (San Diego, California); Yang Yang Li (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | A minimally invasive controlled drug delivery system for delivering a particular drug or drugs to a particular location of the eye, the system including a porous film template having pores configured and dimensioned to at least partially receive at least one drug therein, and wherein the template is dimensioned to be delivered into or onto the eye. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/854039 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 9/0017 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 47/24 (20130101) |
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| US 08945673 | Mangolini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lorenzo Mangolini (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Uwe Kortshagen (Roseville, Minnesota); Rebecca J. Anthony (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David Jurbergs (Austin, Texas); Xuegeng Li (Sunnyvale, California); Elena Rogojina (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Innovalight, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorenzo Mangolini (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Uwe Kortshagen (Roseville, Minnesota); Rebecca J. Anthony (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David Jurbergs (Austin, Texas); Xuegeng Li (Sunnyvale, California); Elena Rogojina (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing grafted Group IV nanoparticles is provided and includes a source of Group IV nanoparticles. A chamber is configured to carry the nanoparticles in a gas phase and has an inlet and an exit. The inlet configured to couple to an organic molecule source which is configured to provide organic molecules to the chamber. A plasma source is arranged to generate a plasma. The plasma causes the organic molecules to break down and/or activate in the chamber and bond to the nanoparticles. A method of producing grafted Group IV nanoparticles is also provided and includes receiving Group IV nanoparticles in a gas phase, creating a plasma with the nanoparticles, and allowing the organic molecules to break down and/or become activated in the plasma and bond with the nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/331168 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/0809 (20130101) B01J 2219/0835 (20130101) B01J 2219/0847 (20130101) B01J 2219/0849 (20130101) B01J 2219/0869 (20130101) B01J 2219/0875 (20130101) B01J 2219/0886 (20130101) B01J 2219/0896 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 08945890 | Tittiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Claus Tittiger (Reno, Nevada); Rubi Figueroa-Teran (Reno, Nevada); Gary J. Blomquist (Sparks, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claus Tittiger (Reno, Nevada); Rubi Figueroa-Teran (Reno, Nevada); Gary J. Blomquist (Sparks, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method and enzyme for forming various compounds, such as monoterpenes and monoterpenoid compounds. In a specific example, the present disclosure provides a method for producing one or more of (−)-ipsdienol, (−)-ipsenol, ipsenone, and ipsdienone. The present disclosure also provides methods of using compounds formed from the disclosed method and enzyme. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/775860 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 49/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0004 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/26 (20130101) C12P 41/002 (20130101) |
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| US 08945909 | Takayama et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuichi Takayama (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael David Thouless (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dongeun Huh (Boston, Massachusetts); Kristen L. Mills (Cupertino, California); Nicholas Joseph Douville (Saline, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuichi Takayama (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael David Thouless (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dongeun Huh (Boston, Massachusetts); Kristen L. Mills (Cupertino, California); Nicholas Joseph Douville (Saline, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to tunable elastomeric nanochannels for nanofluidic manipulation. In particular, the present invention relates to nanochannels for performing biological assays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597634 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0663 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0896 (20130101) B01L 2400/082 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945912 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Demir Akin (Palo Alto, California); Oguz Hasan Elibol (Palo Alto, California); Bobby Reddy (Savoy, Illinois); Donald E. Bergstrom (Lafayette, Indiana); Yi-Shao Liu (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Ashraf Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Demir Akin (Palo Alto, California); Oguz Hasan Elibol (Palo Alto, California); Bobby Reddy (Savoy, Illinois); Donald E. Bergstrom (Lafayette, Indiana); Yi-Shao Liu (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, described herein are field effect chemical sensor devices useful for chemical and/or biochemical sensing. Also provided herein are methods for single molecule detection. In another aspect, described herein are methods useful for amplification of target molecules by PCR. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/120710 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08945943 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Yu Xiang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Yu Xiang (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A general methodology for the development of highly sensitive and selective sensors that can achieve portable, low-cost and quantitative detection of a broad range of targets using only a personal glucose meter (PGM) is disclosed. The method uses recognition molecules that are specific for a target agent, enzymes that can convert an enzyme substrate into glucose, and PGM. Also provided are sensors, which can include a solid support to which is attached a recognition molecule that permits detection of a target agent, wherein the recognition molecule specifically binds to the target agent in the presence of the target agent but not significantly to other agents as well as an enzyme that can catalyze the conversion of a substance into glucose, wherein the enzyme is attached directly or indirectly to the recognition molecule, and wherein in the presence of the target agent the enzyme can convert the substance into glucose. The disclosed sensors can be part of a lateral flow device. Methods of using such sensors for detecting target agents are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699578 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/54 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946194 | Mayes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Mayes (Austin, Texas); Christine E. Schmidt (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Mayes (Austin, Texas); Christine E. Schmidt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The application of a highly controlled, micron-sized, branched, porous architecture to enhance the handling properties and degradation rate of hydrogels is described in the instant invention. A previously described pattern created through one-step nucleated crystallization in a hydrogel film creates tunable mechanical properties and/or chemical stability for use in tissue engineering applications. The bulk mechanical properties and the degradation rate of the material can be tuned easily by the addition or subtraction of crystalline structure or by the addition and subtraction of backfill material, making this useful for a variety of applications. Relevant mechanical properties that can be tuned through the application of this unique porosity are moduli, elasticity, tensile strength, and compression strength. The method of the present invention can be applied to biopolymers and natural materials as well as synthetic materials. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269366 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946389 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Washington); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Seattle, Washington); Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid linker. Compositions can be used in any biological assays for detection, identification and/or quantification of target molecules or analytes, including multiplex staining for molecular profiling of individual cells or cellular populations. For example, the compositions can be adapted for use in immunofluorescence, fluorescence in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry, western blot, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/455674 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/387 (20130101) G01N 33/588 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946391 | Gervay-Hague et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (St. Louis, Missouri); Sally Denardo (El Macero, California); Arutselvan Natarajan (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague (Davis, California); Wenjun Du (St. Louis, Missouri); Sally Denardo (El Macero, California); Arutselvan Natarajan (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a practical, universal and efficient method to ligate two large macromolecules (e.g., proteins) using the alkyne-azide 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction to produce a conjugated macromolecule, such as a multivalent scFv. The present invention also provides for conjugate macromolecules comprising a plurality of macromolecule components cross-linked through at least one linking group comprising at least one 1,2,3-triazole moiety, wherein at least 50 percent of the macromolecule components in the conjugate macromolecule has only one site available for cross-linking. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/294227 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/3015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3069 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08946683 — Medium scale carbon nanotube thin film integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrates
| US 08946683 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Qing Cao (Yorktown Heights, New York); Muhammad Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ninad Pimparkar (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Qing Cao (Yorktown Heights, New York); Muhammad Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ninad Pimparkar (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides device components geometries and fabrication strategies for enhancing the electronic performance of electronic devices based on thin films of randomly oriented or partially aligned semiconducting nanotubes. In certain aspects, devices and methods of the present invention incorporate a patterned layer of randomly oriented or partially aligned carbon nanotubes, such as one or more interconnected SWNT networks, providing a semiconductor channel exhibiting improved electronic properties relative to conventional nanotubes-based electronic systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/996924 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0014 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/938 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947123 | Verbauwhede 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) | Ingrid Verbauwhede (Santa Monica, California); Kris J. V. Tiri (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Wave Dynamic Differential Logic (WDDL) is provided, wherein a differential logic stage is pre-charged or pre-discharged by a previous logic stage, such as, for example, a previous SDDL stage, a WDDL stage, etc. In one embodiment, a Divided Wave Dynamic Differential Logic (DWDDL) is provided wherein a WDDL circuit is conveniently implemented as dual logic trees. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/691398 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/00 (20130101) G06F 17/5077 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2207/7266 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/003 (20130101) H04L 2209/125 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947441 | Hodgins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jessica Hodgins (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ronit Slyper (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Disney Enterprises, Inc. (Burbank, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Hodgins (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ronit Slyper (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a system and method for database driven action capture. By utilizing low cost, lightweight MEMS devices such as accelerometers, a user friendly, wearable, and cost effective system for motion capture is provided, which relies on a motion database of previously recorded motions to reconstruct the actions of a user. By relying on the motion database, calculation errors such as integration drift are avoided and the need for complex and expensive positional compensation hardware is avoided. The accelerometers may be implemented in an E-textile embodiment using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. In some embodiments, compression techniques may be used to accelerate linear best match searching against the motion database. Adjacent selected motions may also be blended together for improved reconstruction results and visual rendering quality. Various perceivable effects may be triggered in response to the reconstructed motion, such as animating a 3D avatar, playing sounds, or operating a motor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802298 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 13/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08948286 | Banerjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin); Sayandeep Sen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin); Sayandeep Sen (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmitter-receiver pair encode data as transmitted symbols according to knowledge about variations in noise immunity between different bit positions of the symbols as a decoded. High usefulness data may be preferentially encoded at those bit positions having greatest noise immunity to improve transmission effectiveness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908726 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 1/0071 (20130101) H04L 1/203 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/00933 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/18 (20130101) H04W 28/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08948471 | Fichtinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabor Fichtinger (Kingston, Canada); Ameet Jain (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Tabish Mustufa (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Keenan Wyrobek (Walnut Creek, California); Greg Chirikjian (Towson, Maryland); Yu Zhou (Hicksville, New York); Everette C. Burdette (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Acoustic MedSystems, Inc. (Savoy, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabor Fichtinger (Kingston, Canada); Ameet Jain (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Tabish Mustufa (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Keenan Wyrobek (Walnut Creek, California); Greg Chirikjian (Towson, Maryland); Yu Zhou (Hicksville, New York); Everette C. Burdette (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system and method for registering images from two medical imaging modalities in a six-degree-of-freedom coordinate space, for the purpose of providing real time registered imagery for optimization of medical procedures. The system and method uses fiducial that is visible to the first imager and in a fixed position and orientation relative to the second imager. The first imager may be an X-ray device such as a C-arm fluoroscope, and the second imager may be a Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) device. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998452 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/4417 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 8/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08948562 | Norris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prashant Nagpal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Norris (Zurich, Switzerland); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prashant Nagpal (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Hyun Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides templating methods for replicating patterned metal films from a template substrate such as for use in plasmonic devices and metamaterials. Advantageously, the template substrate is reusable and can provide plural copies of the structure of the template substrate. Because high-quality substrates that are inherently smooth and flat are available, patterned metal films in accordance with the present invention can advantageously provide surfaces that replicate the surface characteristics of the template substrate both in the patterned regions and in the unpatterned regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131197 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/009 (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 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949164 | Mohler |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George O. Mohler (San Jose, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George O. Mohler (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally provided herein is a predictive policing system including at least one crime prediction server constructed to process historical crime data using a crime forecasting algorithm to produce a crime forecast assigning at least one geographic region to at least one crime type for use in crime prevention, deterrence, and disruption practices. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/605737 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949666 | Reddi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vijay Janapa Reddi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Meeta Sharma Gupta (Boston, Massachusetts); Glenn Holloway (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gu-Yeon Wei (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael D. Smith (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Brooks (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay Janapa Reddi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Meeta Sharma Gupta (Boston, Massachusetts); Glenn Holloway (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gu-Yeon Wei (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael D. Smith (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Brooks (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a system for avoiding voltage emergencies. The system comprises a microprocessor, an actuator for throttling the microprocessor, a voltage emergency detector and a voltage emergency predictor. The voltage emergency detector may comprise, for example, a checkpoint recovery mechanism or a sensor. The voltage emergency predictor of a preferred embodiment comprises means for tracking control flow instructions and microarchitectural events, means for storing voltage emergency signatures that cause voltage emergencies, means for comparing current control flow and microarchitectural events with stored voltage emergency signatures to predict voltage emergencies, and means for actuating said actuator to throttle said microprocessor to avoid predicted voltage emergencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/201110 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949685 | Joseph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); José A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); José A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for minimizing the effects of soft errors associated with memory devices that are individually accessible. By way of example, a method of organizing a column in a memory array of a memory device protected by an error correction code comprises the step of maximizing a distance of the error correction code by maximizing a physical distance between memory bits associated with a memory line within the column protected by the error correction code. Other soft error protection techniques may include use of a feed forward error correction code or use of a memory operation (e.g., read or write operation) suppress and retry approach. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/694829 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1028 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 2207/104 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08945052 | Chiravuri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivas Chiravuri (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Allan Evans (Brighton, Michigan); Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jong Moon Park (Minnetonka, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid delivery apparatus for the intrathecal delivery of one or more medications to a patient is disclosed. The liquid delivery apparatus generally includes a liquid reservoir, a liquid metering unit fluidly connected to the liquid reservoir, and a catheter delivery tube fluidly connected to the liquid metering unit. Preferably, the liquid delivery apparatus includes two or more liquid reservoirs. In various embodiments, the liquid reservoir includes a deformable balloon and a compressive sleeve spring as a pressure source, the liquid metering unit is a piezoelectrically actuated microvalve, and/or diagnostic sensors are included in the apparatus. The disclosed apparatus are compact, volume-efficient, energy-efficient, capable of delivering accurate fluid volumes, and address problems associated with multi-medication therapies. Methods of operating the liquid delivery apparatus are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/665062 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/148 (20130101) A61M 5/152 (20130101) A61M 5/1483 (20130101) A61M 5/1684 (20130101) A61M 5/1723 (20130101) A61M 5/14276 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 5/16813 (20130101) A61M 5/16827 (20130101) A61M 5/16854 (20130101) A61M 5/16881 (20130101) A61M 2005/14513 (20130101) A61M 2230/20 (20130101) A61M 2230/63 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945473 | Roberson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Luke B. Roberson (Titusville, Florida); Janine E. Captain (Titusville, Florida); Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); LaNetra Clayton Tate (Oviedo, Florida) |
| 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) | Luke B. Roberson (Titusville, Florida); Janine E. Captain (Titusville, Florida); Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); LaNetra Clayton Tate (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemochromic sensor for detecting a combustible gas, such as hydrogen, includes a chemochromic pigment and a textile polymer. The textile material includes a chemochromic pigment operably responsive to a combustible gas. The combustible gas sensing textile material can be made by melt spinning, solution spinning, or other similar techniques. In a preferred embodiment carbon nanotubes are used with the textile material which will increase the material strength and alter the thermal and/or electrical properties. These textiles woven into fabrics can provide garments not only with hydrogen sensing capabilities but the carbon nanotubes will allow for a range of sensing capabilities to be embedded (i.e. gas, health, and electronic monitors) within the garments. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/615850 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D01F 1/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/783 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947074 | Youngquist et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| 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) | Robert C. Youngquist (Cocoa, Florida); Stephen M. Simmons (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An inductive position sensor uses three independent inductors inductively coupled by a common medium such as air. First and second inductors are separated by a fixed distance with the first inductor's axial core and second inductor's axial core maintained parallel to one another. A third inductor is disposed between the first and second inductors with the third inductor's axial core being maintained parallel to those of the first and second inductors. The combination of the first and second inductors are configured for relative movement with the third inductor's axial core remaining parallel to those of the first and second inductors as distance changes from the third inductor to each of the first inductor and second inductor. An oscillating current can be supplied to at least one of the three inductors, while voltage induced in at least one of the three inductors not supplied with the oscillating current is measured. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/827457 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 7/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947800 | Kaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anupama B. Kaul (Arcadia, California); James B. Coles (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anupama B. Kaul (Arcadia, California); James B. Coles (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic optical absorber and methods of making same. The monolithic optical absorber uses an array of mutually aligned carbon nanotubes that are grown using a PECVD growth process and a structure that includes a conductive substrate, a refractory template layer and a nucleation layer. Monolithic optical absorbers made according to the described structure and method exhibit high absorptivity, high site densities (greater than 109 nanotubes/cm2), very low reflectivity (below 1%), and high thermal stability in air (up to at least 400° C.). The PECVD process allows the application of such absorbers in a wide variety of end uses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/323905 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| 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 B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0233 (20130101) C01B 2202/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/003 (20130101) G02B 2207/101 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08949685 | Joseph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); José A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); José A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for minimizing the effects of soft errors associated with memory devices that are individually accessible. By way of example, a method of organizing a column in a memory array of a memory device protected by an error correction code comprises the step of maximizing a distance of the error correction code by maximizing a physical distance between memory bits associated with a memory line within the column protected by the error correction code. Other soft error protection techniques may include use of a feed forward error correction code or use of a memory operation (e.g., read or write operation) suppress and retry approach. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/694829 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1028 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 2207/104 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949801 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Gabriela Jacques da Silva (Champaign, Illinois); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Gabriela Jacques da Silva (Champaign, Illinois); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for failure recovery for stream processing applications. One embodiment of a method for providing a failure recovery mechanism for a stream processing application includes receiving source code for the stream processing application, wherein the source code defines a fault tolerance policy for each of the components of the stream processing application, and wherein respective fault tolerance policies defined for at least two of the plurality of components are different, generating a sequence of instructions for converting the state(s) of the component(s) into a checkpoint file comprising a sequence of storable bits on a periodic basis, according to a frequency defined in the fault tolerance policy, initiating execution of the stream processing application, and storing the checkpoint file, during execution of the stream processing application, at a location that is accessible after failure recovery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/465215 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/00 (20130101) G06F 11/07 (20130101) G06F 11/1438 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/1471 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08949810 | Andrade et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (White Plains, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for optimizing data stream processing are provided. The techniques include employing a pattern, wherein the pattern facilitates splitting of one or more incoming streams and distributing processing across one or more operators, obtaining one or mote operators, wherein the one or more operators support at least one group-independent aggregation and join operation on one or more streams, generating code, wherein the code facilitates mapping of the application onto a computational infrastructure to enable workload partitioning, using the one or more operators to decompose each of the application into one or more granular components, and using the code to reassemble the one or more granular components into one or more deployable blocks to map the application to a computational infrastructure, wherein reassembling the one or more granular components to map the application to the computational infrastructure optimizes data stream processing of the application. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139651 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/451 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08945876 | Su et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University Of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wen Su (Honolulu, Hawaii); Bei Zhang (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments herein include methods and constructs that can be used to co-express two or more polypeptides of interest from a single polynucleotide encoding a precursor polypeptide. Within this precursor polypeptide can reside at least one autonomous processing unit, which can mediate release of flanking polypeptides of interest in cis. The processing unit can include an N-terminal autocatalytic cleavage domain and a C-terminal cleavage domain. Some embodiments include constructs and methods for co-expressing polypeptides without N- or C-terminal overhangs, in any cellular or extracellular location, and/or in stoichiometric ratios. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683869 |
| 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 15/8201 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947102 | Evett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven R. Evett (Amarillo, Texas); Scott K. Anderson (Meridian, Idaho); Joaquin J. Casanova (Amarillo, Texas); Robert C. Schwartz (Bushland, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Evett (Amarillo, Texas); Scott K. Anderson (Meridian, Idaho); Joaquin J. Casanova (Amarillo, Texas); Robert C. Schwartz (Bushland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity may be determined by time domain reflectometry at multiple depths in the soil such that the entire soil profile from the surface to a user-selected depth may be characterized. A short rise-time pulse is passed into an electrode and the reflected pulse is captured at multiple times. A waveform of reflection coefficient versus time is determined, which may be used to determine the pulse travel time, effective frequency and reflection coefficients at times necessary for the determination of the soil water content and bulk electrical conductivity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404491 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/629 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08946475 | Kavash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cellceutix Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cellceutix Corporation (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Kavash (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Haizhong Tang (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Carol Mulrooney (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Dahui Liu (Radnor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for preparing a polymeric compound of Formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention also provides useful intermediates for preparing the compound of Formula I or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/720298 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 231/12 (20130101) C07C 231/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 235/12 (20130101) C07C 237/44 (20130101) C07C 271/22 (20130101) C07C 271/52 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08947854 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Zhenning Yu (Beavercreek, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Dayton, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Zhenning Yu (Beavercreek, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Dayton, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacer-modified nano graphene platelet electrode, comprising: (a) multiple nano graphene platelets or sheets having an average thickness smaller than 10 nm; and (b) discrete, non-metallic nano-scaled particles that are disposed between two graphene platelets or sheets to serve as a spacer. In such a spacer-modified graphene electrode, large amounts of electrolyte-accessible pores are formed, enabling the formation of large amounts of electric double layer charges in a supercapacitor, which exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacitance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/573844 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/932 (20130101) Y10S 977/948 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 08948849 | Diamond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Solomon G. Diamond (Hanover, New Hampshire); Paolo Giacometti (Wilder, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroencephalographic electrode and optode positioning device has the form of a cap suitable for placement on a subject's head. The cap has semirigid telescopic structures that stiffen it to provide accurate electrode and optode spacing, and stability during subject activity. The cap is intended for use in functional neuroimaging and, although its materials are compatible with fMRI, is usable without fMRI to permit study of physically as well as mentally active subjects. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863183 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0077 (20130101) A61B 5/0478 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14553 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08946641 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barry Thomas Smith (Egg Harbor City, New Jersey); James Christopher Weatherall (Linwood, New Jersey); Jeffrey Brian Barber (Vineland, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Thomas Smith (Egg Harbor City, New Jersey); James Christopher Weatherall (Linwood, New Jersey); Jeffrey Brian Barber (Vineland, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method by which active millimeter wave radiation may be used to detect and identify the composition of concealed metallic, concealed non-metallic, concealed opaque or concealed semi-transparent materials based on their optical properties. By actively radiating a semi-transparent target anomaly with multiple millimeter wave radiation frequencies, the dielectric properties of the target anomaly can be identified. The dielectric properties of the target anomaly may then be compared to a library of dielectric properties attributed to semi-transparent materials of interest. This method will allow active millimeter wave radiation technology to identify the likely composition of targeted semi-transparent materials through absorption and illumination measurements attributed to the dielectric properties of the targeted composition. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441080 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/412 (20130101) G01S 13/89 (20130101) G01S 13/887 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08947677 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kai Liu (Wuxi, China PRC); Yongchang Wang (Milpitas, California); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Liu (Wuxi, China PRC); Yongchang Wang (Milpitas, California); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented process, system, and computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon, program code and instructions for 3-D triangulation-based image acquisition of a contoured surface/object-of-interest under observation by at least one camera, by projecting onto the surface-of-interest a multi-frequency pattern comprising a plurality of pixels representing at least a first and second superimposed sinusoid projected simultaneously, each of the sinusoids represented by the pixels having a unique temporal frequency and each of the pixels projected to satisfy where Inp is the intensity of a pixel in the projector for nth projected image in a particular instant in time; K is an integer representing the number of component sinusoids (e.g., K=2 for a dual-frequency sinusoid pattern, K=3 for a triple-frequency sinusoid, each component sinusoid having a distinct temporal frequency, where K is ≦(N+1)/2. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/205607 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/2536 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0057 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08945823 | Thatte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hemant Thatte (Medfield, Massachusetts); Patrick Treanor (Dedham, Massachusetts); Laki Rousou (New York, New York); Randa Khuri (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hemant Thatte (Medfield, Massachusetts); Patrick Treanor (Dedham, Massachusetts); Shukri F. Khuri (Needham, Massachusetts); Laki Rousou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for resuscitating, storing, and preserving functional integrity of organs and tissues. Metabolic function is maintained by sustaining ATP levels, mitochondrial function, cardiomyocyte contractility, prevention of acidosis, inhibition of induction of apoptosis, maintaining ionontrophy and lusiotrophy by regulating calcium, sodium, potassium and chloride ions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/552255 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 1/0226 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
European Union (EU)
| US 08948392 | Chassagne |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Olivier Chassagne (Brussels, Belgium) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The European Union, Represented by The European Commission (Brussels, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivier Chassagne (Brussels, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of providing an authenticable time-and-location indication using a radio-navigation signal receiver comprises receiving radio-navigation signals broadcast from a plurality of radio-navigation signal sources, at least some of the radio-navigation signals containing one or more cryptographic tokens protected by encryption, the cryptographic tokens being updated from time to time. The receiver retrieves, by decryption, the cryptographic tokens from the radio-navigation signals containing them. The receiver then determines positioning data, representing its geographical position and time, based on the radio-navigation signals received. The receiver generates a digital authentication code using a cryptographic function taking as inputs at least the positioning data and the retrieved cryptographic tokens, and produces a data package including a first part containing the positioning data and a second part containing the digital authentication code. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/697898 |
| ART UNIT | 2495 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 1/08 (20130101) G01S 1/042 (20130101) G01S 19/02 (20130101) G01S 19/09 (20130101) G01S 19/21 (20130101) G01S 19/215 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/123 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) H04W 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 12/10 (20130101) H04W 12/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08946186 | Lake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State (Scottsdale, 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, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Lake (Scottsdale, Arizona); Benjamin Katchman (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for tumor treatment by administering an inhibitor of quiescin sulfhydryl oxidase 1 (QSOX1), compositions comprising such inhibitors, and methods for identifying such inhibitors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847930 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 108/03002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08945538 | Kumta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant Nagesh Kumta (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Charles S. Sfeir (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Abhijit Roy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to bone substitute compositions and methods of their preparation, and their use in a wide variety of clinical applications. The compositions include calcium phosphate, acidic calcium salt, basic calcium salt, sodium hydrogen phosphate and porogen. The compositions further include a mixing liquid. The compositions can optionally include biological signaling molecules and/or a growth compound. Further, the compositions can optionally include a plasticizer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/016387 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 33/08 (20130101) A61K 33/08 (20130101) A61K 33/42 (20130101) A61K 33/42 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 24/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/0036 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08945894 | Creecy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Courtney M. Creecy (San Antonio, Texas); Rena Bizios (San Antonio, Texas) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Courtney M. Creecy (San Antonio, Texas); Rena Bizios (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for directing, enhancing, and accelerating mesenchymal stem cell functions using alternating electric current. Mesenchymal stem cells are preferentially directed to either osteoblast or chondrocyte lineages, but not to the adipocyte lineage. when exposed to alternating electric current. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/630882 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 35/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2529/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/54 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08946244 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chung K. Chu (Statham, Georgia); Jianing Wang (Murrieta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung K. Chu (Statham, Georgia); Jianing Wang (Murrieta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to 2′-Fluoro-6′-methylene carbocyclic nucleosides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these nucleosides and their use in the treatment or prophylaxis of a number of viral infections and secondary disease states and conditions thereof, especially including Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and secondary disease states and conditions thereof (cirrhosis and liver cancer), Hepatitis C virus (HCV), Herpes Simplex virus I and II (HSV-1 and HSV-2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) and secondary cancers which occur thereof (lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, including drug resistant (especially including lamivudine and/or adefovir resistant) and other mutant forms of these viruses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/510090 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 473/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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