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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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| US 08991247 | Trusov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Trusov (Irvine, California); Sergei Zotov (Irvine, California); Andrei Shkel (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Trusov (Irvine, California); Sergei Zotov (Irvine, California); Andrei Shkel (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital angular rate sensor system based on frequency modulation (FM) of the rotation rate. The new approach relies on tracking of the resonant frequencies of two high-Q mechanical modes of vibration in a MEMS vibratory gyroscope to produce an inherently digital measurement of the input angular rate. The disclosed system is enabled by a combination of a MEMS vibratory high-Q gyroscope and a new signal processing scheme which takes advantage of a previously ignored gyroscope dynamics effect. The FM nature of the system eliminates noise versus bandwidth and resolution versus dynamic range tradeoffs of conventional vibratory rate gyroscopes. The FM approach allows achieving superior signal-to-noise-ratio through the use of ultra-high Q (1 million) mechanical structure without limiting the measurement bandwidth. Stability of 1e-9 can be achieved in the FM system, providing a 1000 times improvement over the state-of-the-art conventional AM gyroscopes with capacitive pick-off. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/279212 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08991250 | Waters et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California); Paul David Swanson (Santee, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California); Paul David Swanson (Santee, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A gyroscope comprising: a frame; a tuning fork comprising a base and first and second prongs, wherein the base has proximal and distal ends, and wherein the proximal end is coupled to the frame and the distal end is coupled to the first and second prongs; first and second drivers configured to drive the first and second prongs respectively to oscillate with respect to the frame in a first direction, such that the prongs oscillate at their respective resonant frequencies and 180° out of phase with each other; and at least two digital position triggers operatively coupled to the frame and to the tuning fork, wherein each position trigger is configured to experience at least two trigger events during each oscillation of the tuning fork in a second direction, wherein the second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/610618 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5607 (20130101) G01C 19/5621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08991263 | Wetzel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, assembly and method for clamping single fibers that utilizes snubbing surfaces simultaneously with magnetic gripping action are described. The device can be fabricated at miniature sizes with very low mass and volume, which are desirable requirements for testing of small fibers in highly sensitive force-transducing load frames. Advantageously, the combined use of snubbing surfaces and magnetic gripping greatly reduces the probability of slippage or fiber failure at the grip during testing. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/415121 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 11/002 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/04 (20130101) G01N 3/08 (20130101) G01N 2203/028 (20130101) |
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| US 08991447 | Petersen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott M. Petersen (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) |
| ABSTRACT | A fueling system including a ship or air deployable automated fueling station and one or more sea surface water vessels. The fueling station including a ballast arrangement to maintain an optimal freeboard for fueling the one or more water vessels, the fueling station and the one or more water vessels including a communication arrangement for communications between the fueling station and the one or more water vessels. The fueling station including a plurality of nozzles for simultaneously fueling a plurality of water vessels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096926 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Dispensing, Delivering or Transferring Liquids, Not Otherwise Provided for B67D 7/04 (20130101) B67D 7/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08991744 | Khan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jehan Zeb Khan (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jehan Zeb Khan (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for optimized crossing of natural frequencies of a rotorcraft rotor are disclosed. The method may include flying a rotorcraft comprising an airframe, a rotor, a mast extending to connect the rotor to the airframe, a tilt mechanism, and a computer system. The computer system may identify during the flying, an impending crossing of a natural frequency of the rotor. In preparation for the crossing, the computer system may issue at least one command to the tilt mechanism. In response to the command, the tilt mechanism may reorient the mast with respect to the airframe. That reorientation quickly results in a change to the rotational speed of the rotor, moving it quickly across the natural frequency. The reorientation may also prevent the rotor from experiencing any significantly deleterious flapping loads during the crossing of the natural frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373412 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/001 (20130101) B64C 27/02 (20130101) B64C 27/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 19/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08991745 | Khan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jehan Zeb Khan (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jehan Zeb Khan (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reducing flapping loads imposed on a rotor are disclosed. The method may include flying a rotorcraft comprising an airframe, a rotor, a mast extending to connect the rotor to the airframe, a tilt mechanism, at least one sensor, and a computer system. The computer system may obtain in real time, from the at least one sensor, data characterizing at least one flapping load experienced by the rotor during the flying. Using the data, the computer system may issue at least one command to the tilt mechanism. In response to the command, the tilt mechanism may reorient the mast with respect to the airframe. This reorienting may lower the flapping load experienced by the rotor. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373414 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/001 (20130101) B64C 27/02 (20130101) B64C 27/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 19/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08991748 | van der Westhuizen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob Johannes van der Westhuizen (South Jordan, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Johannes van der Westhuizen (South Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor system is disclosed for a reactive drive rotary wing aircraft. Apparatus and methods are disclosed for maintaining the rigidity of the rotor and eliminating play between flight controls and the rotor by mounting swashplate actuators to a flange rigidly secured to the mast. Methods are disclosed for modulating the temperature of oil pumped over one or more of the mast bearing, swashplate bearing, and spindle bearing. The temperature of air passively or actively drawn through rotor may also be modulated to maintain bearing temperature within a predetermined range. Structures for reducing pressure losses and drag on components due to air flow through the rotor are also disclosed. A rotor facilitating thermal management by oil and air flow is also disclosed. Surfaces interfacing between the swashplate and the mast and between control rods and the swashplate or pitch horn may bear a solid lubricant layer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373406 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/18 (20130101) B64C 27/025 (20130101) B64C 27/605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 33/1095 (20130101) F16C 33/6696 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 384/907 (20130101) |
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| US 08991869 | Pionke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence J. Pionke (St. Charles, Missouri); Michael H. Curry (St. Peters, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a fluid tight seal is disclosed. The method may make use of a first component having a first sealing surface, and a second component having a second sealing surface. The method may further involve coating one of the first and second sealing surfaces with a metallic film layer adapted to transform into a liquefied metallic layer when a temperature of one of the first and second surfaces exceeds a melting temperature of a metal used to form the metallic film layer. Once it becomes liquefied, the liquefied metallic layer forms a pressure-tight seal between the sealing surfaces. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/674390 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 35/0227 (20130101) B23K 35/302 (20130101) B23K 35/3006 (20130101) B23K 35/3013 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 25/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08991885 | Claffee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Claffee (Methuen, Massachusetts); Nicholas Roy Corson (Hollis, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A compliant underactuated grasper includes a base and a plurality of fingers. At least one of the plurality of fingers includes: a proximal phalanx; a proximal joint connecting the proximal phalanx to the base; a distal phalanx; a distal joint connecting the distal phalanx to the proximal phalanx; and a member for moving the phalanges. At least one of the proximal joint and the distal joint includes a flexure joint having a first compliance in a first direction and a second compliance in a second direction, the second compliance being stiffer than the first compliance. The distal phalanx includes: a rounded end face; and a lifting portion including a lifting edge adjacent the rounded end face. The member acts in parallel to the first direction. The grasper further includes at least one actuator associated with the member. The grasper has fewer actuators than degrees of freedom. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833631 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0015 (20130101) B25J 9/104 (20130101) B25J 15/0009 (20130101) B25J 15/10 (20130101) B25J 15/103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 15/0475 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/31 (20130101) Y10S 901/39 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08992090 | Mills |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob A Mills (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob A Mills (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A gravity drained bearing compartment with two oil shields that are located near to an air vent and an oil scavenge line, where the oil shields function to reduce circumferential momentum of the oil to prevent oil from entering the air vent and direct oil into the scavenge line. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/864006 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 25/162 (20130101) Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 33/6685 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08992183 | Perich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl Perich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ashley Macner (Ithaca, New York); Hod Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Paul Steen (Ithaca, New York); Robert MacCurdy (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Electro-osmosis is used to create droplets in order to easily, carefully, and quickly pick-and-place millions of objects (ranging in size from millimeters to nanometers) individually or in parallel. Droplets are formed within channels that are individually controlled in order to achieve a predetermined configuration of the selected objects. |
| FILED | Monday, February 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769534 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/427 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/006 (20130101) F04B 19/16 (20130101) |
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| US 08992426 | Fan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liexiang Fan (Sammamish, Washington); Kevin Sekins (Yallow Point, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liexiang Fan (Sammamish, Washington); Kevin Sekins (Yallow Point, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Feedback of position is provided for high intensity focused ultrasound. The location of a beam from a HIFU transducer is determined using ultrasound imaging. The ultrasound imaging detects tissue displacement caused by a beam transmitted from the HIFU transducer. The displacement or information derived from the displacement may be used to determine a center line or point location (e.g., foci) of the tissues response to HIFU. The location of the line or point may be displayed in an image, such as an overlay or by color coding. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/869280 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 19/56 (20130101) A61B 2019/5276 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 7/52036 (20130101) G01S 7/52042 (20130101) G01S 15/899 (20130101) G01S 15/8993 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08992712 | Loy 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 University (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, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas E. Loy (Chandler, Arizona); Emmett Howard (Gilbert, Arizona); Jesmin Haq (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing electronic devices including providing a carrier substrate having a first side, a second side, and a first adhesive at the first side; providing a first flexible substrate; and bonding the first flexible substrate to the first side of the carrier substrate. The first adhesive bonds the first flexible substrate to the first side of the carrier substrate. The carrier substrate comprises a mechanism configured to compensate for a deformation of the carrier substrate. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683950 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 7/02 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/49833 (20130101) H01L 27/1218 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78636 (20130101) H01L 51/003 (20130101) H01L 51/0097 (20130101) H01L 51/0508 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2251/5338 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08992881 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Dmitry Kosynkin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Dmitry Kosynkin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, the present disclosure describes processes for preparing functionalized graphene nanoribbons from carbon nanotubes. In general, the processes include exposing a plurality of carbon nanotubes to an alkali metal source in the absence of a solvent and thereafter adding an electrophile to form functionalized graphene nanoribbons. Exposing the carbon nanotubes to an alkali metal source in the absence of a solvent, generally while being heated, results in opening of the carbon nanotubes substantially parallel to their longitudinal axis, which may occur in a spiralwise manner in an embodiment. The graphene nanoribbons of the present disclosure are functionalized on at least their edges and are substantially defect free. As a result, the functionalized graphene nanoribbons described herein display a very high electrical conductivity that is comparable to that of mechanically exfoliated graphene. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/378528 |
| 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 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0206 (20130101) C01B 31/0446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 2204/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/32 (20130101) C07C 15/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/896 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08992985 | Bromberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lev E. Bromberg (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Emily P. Chang (Edison, New Jersey); Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lev E. Bromberg (Swampscott, Massachusetts); Emily P. Chang (Edison, New Jersey); Trevor Alan Hatton (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides core-shell magnetic particles comprising a magnetic core and a functional shell, methods for making same, methods of separation using same, methods for using same, and devices comprising same. The particles and methods of the invention are useful for targeting and removing substances of interest that may be found in complex mixtures. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/289515 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 25/12 (20130101) A01N 47/44 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/015 (20130101) B03C 1/30 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0054 (20130101) H01F 1/445 (20130101) |
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| US 08992992 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Benjamin W. Maynor (Durham, North Carolina); Larken E. Euliss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Ansley E. Dennis (Augusta, Georgia); Edward T. Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); R. Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter describes the use of fluorinated elastomer-based materials, in particular perfluoropolyether (PFPE)-based materials, in high-resolution soft or imprint lithographic applications, such as micro- and nanoscale replica molding, and the first nano-contact molding of organic materials to generate high fidelity features using an elastomeric mold. Accordingly, the presently disclosed subject matter describes a method for producing free-standing, isolated nanostructures of any shape using soft or imprint lithography technique. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/852683 |
| 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 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0097 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/0085 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0004 (20130101) H01L 51/0021 (20130101) |
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| US 08992997 | Comer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen R. Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Barry Steiglitz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for preparing, storing, shipping and using skin equivalents made by organotypic culture. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods for producing, transporting, storing and using skin equivalents produced by organotypic culture at reduced temperatures, preferably from 2-8 degrees Celsius to ambient temperature. The methods include sterile packaging of the grafts so that the sterility and integrity of the package is maintained until the time of use for grafting purposes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/220320 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 2/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/60 (20130101) A61L 27/3691 (20130101) A61L 27/3813 (20130101) |
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| US 08993063 | Aizenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Benjamin Hatton (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Benjamin Hatton (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ambient pressure Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technique to grow uniform silica layers onto organic substrates at low temperatures, including room temperature, is described. For example, tetramethoxysilane vapor is used alternately with ammonia vapor as a catalyst in an ambient environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/702497 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/10 (20130101) B05D 3/105 (20130101) B05D 3/107 (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 16/402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 16/545 (20130101) C23C 16/45525 (20130101) C23C 16/45534 (20130101) C23C 16/45551 (20130101) C23C 16/45595 (20130101) |
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| US 08993068 | Koberstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (New York, New York); Hernan R. Rengifo (New York, New York); Cristian Grigoras (New York, New York); Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (New York, New York); Hernan R. Rengifo (New York, New York); Cristian Grigoras (New York, New York); Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention is directed to methods for modification of functionalized substrates. In another aspect, the invention relates to systems and methods for fabricating multilayer polymer compositions. In certain embodiments, the multilayer polymer compositions described herein can comprise heterobifunctional polymers and heterotrifunctional molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127683 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/20 (20130101) C08G 77/045 (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 183/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993289 | Wright |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A biomass is used to prepare bio-acetone which is converted to bio-mesitylene in high chemical yield and selectivity and the latter is converted using continuous flow chemical processes to a variety of functionalized bioaromatics that are useful in the preparation of high performance biopolymers, biocomposites, bio-explosives, and bio-adhesives. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/770094 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/20 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/285 (20130101) C07C 63/24 (20130101) C07C 63/307 (20130101) C07C 231/14 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993335 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Shu Wang (Goleta, California); Bin Liu (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Shu Wang (Goleta, California); Bin Liu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor PBP that can bind to the target polynucleotide. The sensor PBP comprises a signaling chromophore to absorb energy from the excited multichromophore and emit light in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779412 |
| 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 1/6818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 2565/101 (20130101) |
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| US 08993339 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ansoon Kim (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California); R Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ansoon Kim (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Foster City, California); R Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid nanostructure for molecular analysis is disclosed. The structure includes a plurality of nanofingers wherein each nanofinger is coated with a metal coating, is attached at one end to a substrate, and is freely bendable along its length such that the second ends of each nanofinger are capable of movement toward each other to form a cavity. The structure further includes a nanoparticle trapped in the cavity. An array of hybrid nanostructures and a method for fabricating the hybrid nanostructures are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/006721 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/554 (20130101) G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/658 (20130101) |
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| US 08993443 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daoying Song (San Jose, California); Chong Jiang (Cupertino, California); Byung-Sung Leo Kwak (Portland, Oregon); Joseph G. Gordon, II (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daoying Song (San Jose, California); Chong Jiang (Cupertino, California); Byung-Sung Leo Kwak (Portland, Oregon); Joseph G. Gordon, II (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570190 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993463 | Nosker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Nosker (Stockton, New Jersey); Jennifer K. Lynch (Franklin Park, New Jersey); Mark N. Mazar (Piscataway, New Jersey); Patrick L. Nosker (Stockton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Nosker (Stockton, New Jersey); Jennifer K. Lynch (Franklin Park, New Jersey); Mark N. Mazar (Piscataway, New Jersey); Patrick L. Nosker (Stockton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A flame or heat flux protective coating composition, which includes a dispersion of fiberglass, hollow glass spheres, or a combination of both in silicone. A flame or heat flux protective sheet, which includes hollow glass spheres dispersed in silicone in a sheet form or fiberglass and silicone in a sheet form, wherein the fiberglass is dispersed in the silicone or the fiberglass is a woven cloth coated with the silicone is also presented. Articles incorporating the flame or heat flux protective coating or sheet form and methods for coating an article with the flame or heat flux protective coating composition are also presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/094867 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/14 (20130101) C08K 7/28 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/18 (20130101) C09D 7/1283 (20130101) C09D 7/1291 (20130101) C09D 183/04 (20130101) Woven Fabrics; Methods of Weaving; Looms D03D 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wall, Floor, or Like Covering Materials, e.g Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting of a Fibrous Web Coated With a Layer of Macromolecular Material; Flexible Sheet Material Not Otherwise Provided for D06N 3/0022 (20130101) D06N 3/0063 (20130101) D06N 3/128 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 428/92 (20130101) Y10S 428/921 (20130101) |
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| US 08993540 | Haggard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren O. Haggard (Bartlett, Tennessee); Scott P. Noel (Arlington, Tennessee); Joel D. Bumgardner (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren O. Haggard (Bartlett, Tennessee); Scott P. Noel (Arlington, Tennessee); Joel D. Bumgardner (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions featuring chitosan and methods for using such compositions for the local delivery of biologically active agents to an open fracture, complex wound or other site of infection. Advantageously, the degradation and drug elution profiles of the chitosan compositions can be tailored to the needs of particular patients at the point of care (e.g., in a surgical suite, clinic, physician's office, or other clinical setting). |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256585 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/7007 (20130101) A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 15/28 (20130101) A61L 15/28 (20130101) A61L 27/20 (20130101) A61L 27/20 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 31/042 (20130101) A61L 31/042 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/003 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) C08L 5/08 (20130101) |
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| US 08993665 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiqun Lin (Ames, Iowa); Xinchang Pang (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polymers, nanomaterials, and methods of making the same. Various embodiments provide an amphiphilic multi-arm copolymer. The copolymer includes a core unit and a plurality of amphiphilic block copolymer arms. Each block copolymer arm is substituted on the core unit. Each block copolymer arm includes at least one hydrophilic homopolymer subunit and at least one hydrophobic homopolymer subunit. In some examples, the copolymer can include a star-like or bottlebrush-like block copolymer, and can include a Janus copolymer. Various embodiments provide a nanomaterial. In some examples, the nanomaterial can include Janus nanomaterials, and can include nanoparticles, nanorods, or nanotubes. The nanomaterial includes the amphiphilic multi-arm copolymer and at least one inorganic precursor. The inorganic precursor can be coordinated to at least one homopolymer subunit of one of the amphiphilic block copolymer arms to form the nanomaterial. Various embodiments also provide methods of making the copolymer and the nanomaterial. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748763 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 251/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 69/40 (20130101) C08G 81/025 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/81 (20130101) Y10S 977/754 (20130101) Y10S 977/811 (20130101) |
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| US 08993688 | Harvey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California); Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California); Heather A. Meylemans (Ridgecrest, California); William Lai (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate renewable high performance composites and thermoplastics. These materials can be generated from a renewable phenol (syringaldehyde) that can be derived from lignocellulosic biomass. The use of syringaldehyde as a precursor to composites has the potential to reduce the cost and environmental impact of structural materials, while meeting or exceeding the performance of current petroleum derived resins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/172673 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 263/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993689 | Harvey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California); Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California); Heather A. Meylemans (Ridgecrest, California); William Lai (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate renewable high performance composites and thermoplastics. These materials can be generated from a renewable phenol (syringaldehyde) that can be derived from lignocellulosic biomass. The use of syringaldehyde as a precursor to composites has the potential to reduce the cost and environmental impact of structural materials, while meeting or exceeding the performance of current petroleum derived resins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/172701 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 79/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08993713 | Lai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California); Alfred Baca (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A n-type ladder copolymer including, a n-type ladder copolymer formed with alternating perylene and pyridine units having chemical structure A having two end groups, where perylene units having at least one solubilizing group attaching at position(s) 1, 6, 7, and/or 12, where R1, R2, R3, and R4 solubilizing group(s) are each independently selected from the group consisting of aryl, alkyl aryl, alkoxy aryl, and aryloxy aryl, and where n repeat units ranging from about 4 to about 400 |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895885 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 69/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0003 (20130101) H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/424 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2031/0344 (20130101) |
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| US 08993873 | Youtsey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Youtsey (Libertyville, Illinois); Francis Tuminello (Chicago, Illinois); Victor C. Elarde (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Youtsey (Libertyville, Illinois); Francis Tuminello (Chicago, Illinois); Victor C. Elarde (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell structure is provided for reducing shadow losses without increasing series resistance in the solar cell device. The solar cell device may form an electrical contact to a solar cell emitter layer from the backside of the solar cell device. With this structure, the emitter contact shadow losses may be reduced significantly while simultaneously decreasing device series resistance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626522 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 08993874 | de Ceglia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Domenico de Ceglia (Huntsville, Alabama); Maria Antonietta Vincenti (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael Scalora (Huntsville, Alabama); Mirko Giuseppe Cappeddu (Catania, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Domenico de Ceglia (Huntsville, Alabama); Maria Antonietta Vincenti (Huntsville, Alabama); Michael Scalora (Huntsville, Alabama); Mirko Giuseppe Cappeddu (Catania, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic cell having multiple stacked layers has a thickness from the top of its top layer to the bottom of its bottom layer of less than one micron. Metal conducting layers are positioned between semiconductor layers with semiconductor layers having higher bandgaps being located above semiconductor layers having lower band gaps. The layers of the photovoltaic cell are arranged and stacked, and the thicknesses and materials for the semiconductor layers and conductive layers are selected to realize desired absorption, transmission, and reflection characteristics. The geometry and thicknesses of the respective layers of the cell allows incident light of various angles to be absorbed by all of the semiconductor layers of the cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248716 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/056 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 08993984 | Gord et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R Gord (Beavercreek, Ohio); Sukesh Roy (Beavercreek, Ohio); Paul Hsu (Beavercreek, Ohio); Waruna Kulatilaka (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A high energy UV fiber-coupled laser-induced fluorescence system is provided having a transmission component and a receiving component. The transmission component includes a laser source configured to produce high-energy UV pulses, a UV-enhanced fused-silica fiber coupled to the laser source, and optics coupled to the UV-enhanced fused-silica fiber for transmitting the high-energy UV pulses to a target area. The receiving component receives laser-induced florescence events from the target area and includes additional UV-enhanced fused-silica fiber coupled to optics and a receiving means. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/858995 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/645 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6402 (20130101) G01N 2201/08 (20130101) |
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| US 08993998 | Yang 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) | Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Rui Zhu (Los Angeles, California); Chun Chao Chen (Temple City, California); Letian Dou (Los Angeles, California); Gang Li (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic device includes a first electrode, an active layer formed over and electrically connected with the first electrode, a buffer layer formed over and electrically connected with the active layer, and a second electrode formed directly on the buffer layer. The second electrode includes a plurality of nanowires interconnected into a network of nanowires. The buffer layer provides a physical barrier between the active layer and the plurality of nanowires to prevent damage to the active layer while the second electrode is formed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/841367 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/0064 (20130101) H01L 51/0078 (20130101) H01L 51/0094 (20130101) H01L 51/442 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4226 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) H01L 51/5203 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/825 (20130101) Y10S 977/932 (20130101) |
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| US 08994004 | Bowers |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John E. Bowers (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regent of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Bowers (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photodetectors and integrated circuits including photodetectors are disclosed. A photodetector in accordance with the present invention comprises a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure resident on a first substrate, the SOI structure comprising a passive waveguide, and a III-V structure bonded to the SOI structure, the III-V structure comprising a quantum well region, a hybrid waveguide, coupled to the quantum well region and the SOI structure adjacent to the passive waveguide, and a mesa, coupled to the quantum well region, wherein when light passes through the hybrid waveguide, the quantum well region detects the light and generates current based on the light detected. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/359842 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/167 (20130101) H01L 31/0232 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0304 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 08994005 | Mitin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Mitin (Amherst, New York); Andrei Sergeyev (Snyder, New York); Gottfried Strasser (Pfaffstaetten, Austria) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Mitin (Amherst, New York); Andrei Sergeyev (Snyder, New York); Gottfried Strasser (Pfaffstaetten, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices (e.g., optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and infrared or THz photodetectors) with a nanomaterial having vertically correlated quantum dots with built-in charge (VC Q-BIC) and methods of making such devices. The VC Q-BIC material has two or more quantum dot layers, where the layers have quantum dots (individual quantum dots or quantum dot clusters) in a semiconductor material, and adjacent quantum dot layers are separated by a spacer layer of doped semiconductor material. The VC-QBIC nanomaterial provides long photocarrier lifetime, which improves the responsivity and sensitivity of detectors or conversion efficiency in solar cells as compared to previous comparable devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/430855 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/035218 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/932 (20130101) Y10S 977/954 (20130101) |
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| US 08994371 | Larsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael S. Larsen (Woodland Hills, California); Robert Griffith (Newhall, California); Michael D. Bulatowicz (Canoga Park, California); Philip R. Clark (Tarzana, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Guidance and Electronics Company, Inc. (Woodland Hills, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Larsen (Woodland Hills, California); Robert Griffith (Newhall, California); Michael D. Bulatowicz (Canoga Park, California); Philip R. Clark (Tarzana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the invention includes an atomic sensing system. The system includes an atomic sensing device configured to generate an output signal along an output axis in response to a plurality of control parameters. The system also includes a signal generator configured to apply a reference signal to a cross-axis that is approximately orthogonal to the output axis. The system also includes a phase measurement system configured to demodulate the output signal relative to the reference signal to measure a relative phase alignment between the output axis and a physical axis of the atomic sensing device based on the reference signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/332536 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/1284 (20130101) |
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| US 08994456 | Sanduleanu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mihai A. Sanduleanu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alberto Valdes Garcia (Hartsdale, New York); David Goren (Nesher, Israel); Shlomo Shlafman (Haifa, Israel); Danny Elad (Moshav Liman, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihai A. Sanduleanu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alberto Valdes Garcia (Hartsdale, New York); David Goren (Nesher, Israel); Shlomo Shlafman (Haifa, Israel); Danny Elad (Moshav Liman, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-stage amplifier is provided that uses tunable transmission lines, as well as a calibration method for the multi-stage amplifiers. A multi-stage amplifier, comprises a plurality of tunable amplification stages, wherein each of the tunable amplification stages comprises a tunable resonator based on a transmission line having a tunable element. The tunable elements may vary a capacitance or an inductance to tune a frequency of an applied signal. A calibration method is provided for a multi-stage amplifier having a plurality of transmission lines, an input stage and an output stage. The multi-stage amplifier is calibrated by generating a signal to determine a frequency for a substantially maximum power; generating an error signal by comparing the frequency for the substantially maximum power with a desired frequency; varying a digital control code applied to each of the tunable transmission lines, input stage and output stage until the error signal satisfies predefined criteria. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/361001 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers H03F 1/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 1/565 (20130101) H03F 3/195 (20130101) H03F 3/601 (20130101) H03F 2200/105 (20130101) H03F 2200/222 (20130101) H03F 2200/255 (20130101) H03F 2200/294 (20130101) H03F 2200/387 (20130101) H03F 2200/405 (20130101) H03F 2200/408 (20130101) H03F 2200/423 (20130101) H03F 2200/555 (20130101) |
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| US 08994461 | In et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Patrick Longhini (San Diego, California); Yong (Andy) Kho (Chula Vista, California); Antonio Palacios (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Patrick Longhini (San Diego, California); Yong (Andy) Kho (Chula Vista, California); Antonio Palacios (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascaded oscillator array includes a first oscillator array and a second oscillator array. The first oscillator array includes at least three oscillator elements coupled unidirectionally in a first ring such that the first oscillator array outputs a first oscillating signal. Each of the at least three oscillator elements is coupled to receive a signal from a sensing element. The second oscillator array includes at least three oscillator elements coupled unidirectionally in a second ring such that the second oscillator array outputs a second oscillating signal. A first number of the at least three oscillator elements of the first oscillator array is the same as a second number of the at least three oscillator elements of the second oscillator. Each oscillator element of the at least three oscillator elements of the second oscillator array is coupled to receive an output signal from a single oscillator element of the at least three oscillator elements of the first oscillator. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/037546 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 3/0315 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08994465 | Kubena et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Kubena (Oak Park, California); Richard J. Joyce (Thousand Oaks, California); Harris P. Moyer (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing the phase noise of a oscillator includes monitoring a phase slope of a resonator, and controlling the resonator to operate the resonator at a high phase slope condition, wherein the resonator comprises a piezoelectric material, or piezoelectric quartz. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/742250 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 5/10 (20130101) H03B 5/36 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08994584 | Ranney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth I. Ranney (Rockville, Maryland); Geoffrey H. Goldman (Ellicot City, Maryland); Roberto Innocenti (Clarksville, Maryland); Jerry Lee Silvious (Burke, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth I. Ranney (Rockville, Maryland); Geoffrey H. Goldman (Ellicot City, Maryland); Roberto Innocenti (Clarksville, Maryland); Jerry Lee Silvious (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to motion compensation, and in particular to an autofocus-based compensation (ABC) systems and methods for a ground moving target indication platform. According to one embodiment, a method for autofocus based compensation of range data acquired from an object in motion is provided. The method may include: receiving range data; steering at least one receive beam of the range data in a desired direction; transforming the range data into the range domain; determining the width of a main clutter lobe; excluding data that is not part of the main lobe clutter response; transforming the main-lobe clutter response into the range domain; calculating a phase correction term; and applying the phase correction to the original range data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/488750 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/42 (20130101) G01S 13/534 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/5242 (20130101) G01S 13/5244 (20130101) G01S 13/5246 (20130101) G01S 13/9029 (20130101) G01S 2013/0245 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08994607 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leon Y. Lin (San Diego, California); Thomas O. Jones, III (San Diego, California); David W. Brock (San Diego, California); Peter S. Berens (San Diego, California); Hale B. Simonds (Santee, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon Y. Lin (San Diego, California); Thomas O. Jones, III (San Diego, California); David W. Brock (San Diego, California); Peter S. Berens (San Diego, California); Hale B. Simonds (Santee, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spiral antenna apparatus utilizes a noise suppression sheet that is interposed between the spiral antenna element and its ground plane. The noise suppression sheet permits an extremely compact spiral antenna apparatus while lessening antenna performance degradation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/104740 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) H01Q 9/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08994609 | Gregoire |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J. Gregoire (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Gregoire (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission line feed for a surface wave medium having a dielectric substrate with an array of electrically conductive patches formed thereon. The transmission line feed includes a microstrip substrate, the microstrip substrate having a first permittivity which is lower than a second permittivity of the dielectric substrate of the surface wave medium, the microstrip substrate abutting against the dielectric substrate of the surface wave medium; a tapered microstrip disposed on the microstrip substrate, the tapered microstrip tapering from a relatively narrow end to a relatively wide end, the relative wide end terminating where the microstrip substrate abuts against the surface wave substrate; and an adapter for coupling a transmission line to the relatively narrow end of the tapered microstrip. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242102 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 13/26 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08994790 | Ganapathi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hariraam Varun Ganapathi (Palo Alto, California); Christian Theobalt (Stanford, California); Sebastian Thrun (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hariraam Varun Ganapathi (Palo Alto, California); Christian Theobalt (Stanford, California); Sebastian Thrun (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, devices, methods and arrangements are implemented in a variety of embodiments to facilitate motion capture of objects. Consistent with one such system, three-dimensional representations are determined for at least one object. Depth-based image data is used in the system, which includes a processing circuit configured and arranged to render a plurality of orientations for at least one object. Orientations from the plurality of orientations are assessed against the depth-based image data. An orientation is selected from the plurality of orientations as a function of the assessment of orientations from the plurality of orientations. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712901 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00342 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/208 (20130101) G06T 7/2046 (20130101) G06T 2200/28 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08994934 | Nelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Nelson (Harrison City, Pennsylvania); Patrick Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert Schweitzer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert D'Agostino (Conway, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemImage Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Nelson (Harrison City, Pennsylvania); Patrick Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert Schweitzer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert D'Agostino (Conway, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides for a system and method for detecting and identifying unknown targets. At least one region of interest comprising an unknown target in a sample scene may be targeted using SWIR spectroscopic techniques. A region of interest may be surveyed to thereby determine whether or not a human is present. This surveying may be achieved my assessing LWIR data, data acquired from motion sensors, and combinations thereof. If no human is present in a region of interest, the region may be interrogated using Raman spectroscopic techniques to thereby obtain a Raman data set representative of the region of interest. This Raman data set may be assessed to thereby identify said unknown target. This assessment may be achieved by comparing the Raman data set to a reference data sets in a reference database, where each reference data set is associated with a known target. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373333 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08994941 | Shi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaolei Shi (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system includes a radiation source, a radiation-illuminating device, and a radiation-collecting device. The radiation source is configured to generate radiation. The radiation-illuminating device is optically coupled to the radiation source and configured to direct and focus the radiation obliquely with respect to an optical axis thereof onto a sample. The radiation-collecting device is configured to collect back-scattered radiation scattered from the sample and spatially separated from noise radiation. Associated apparatus and method are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/687374 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/64 (20130101) |
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| US 08995038 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael H. Anderson (Lyons, Colorado); Scott R. Davis (Denver, Colorado); Scott D. Rommel (Lakewood, Colorado); George Farca (Denver, Colorado); Seth Trevor Johnson (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vescent Photonics, Inc. (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Anderson (Lyons, Colorado); Scott R. Davis (Denver, Colorado); Scott D. Rommel (Lakewood, Colorado); George Farca (Denver, Colorado); Seth Trevor Johnson (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical time delay control device for controllably altering the transit time of an optical beam between two points. In one example, the device may include an optically transparent solid medium for receiving the optical beam, wherein at least a portion of the medium is generally a parallel piped shape characterized by a height, length and width, wherein the length is larger than the height; two mirrors affixed to two opposing parallel surfaces of the optically transparent solid medium, so that during operation the optical beam reflects between the two mirrors as the optical beam travels through the optically transparent medium; and an angle actuator for controllably altering the angle at which the optical beam enters into the optically transparent medium, thereby controllably altering the time that the optical beam travels through the device. This in effect permits control of the amount of delay of the transmission of light, and delays of 20 nanoseconds have been achieved. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/135500 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 17/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/02 (20130101) G02B 2207/117 (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 2201/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 372/70 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995055 | Feng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Simin Feng (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simin Feng (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An angular and spectral selective absorber in ultrathin metamaterials is an absorber having an absorption wavelength, λ. Embodiments of the invention include at least one primary layer having a thickness, d, and a relative permittivity of epsilon-near-zero, ε. At least one reflective secondary layer is associated with the primary layer. The association is by bonding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585111 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/002 (20130101) G02B 5/003 (20130101) G02B 5/22 (20130101) G02B 5/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08995474 | Fluckiger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Ulrich Fluckiger (Allen, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ulrich Fluckiger (Allen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of signal modulation includes modulating a signal by providing respective sets of weights to an active array antenna. Each set of weights specifies the same preferential direction for transmission by the active array antenna, but corresponds to a respective different one of a phase and amplitude of the signal in the preferential direction. The respective ones of a phase in the preferential direction provide modulation of the signal. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/195621 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/00 (20130101) Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0008 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995494 | Pomeranz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard A Pomeranz (Hollis, New Hampshire); Joseph M Owen (Derry, New Hampshire); Michael J. Shaw (Concord, New Hampshire); David P. Kelly (Nashua, New Hampshire); Philip R. Staver (Wilton, New Hampshire); Peter A. Budni (Nashua, New Hampshire); John C. Wikman (Lyndeborough, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard A Pomeranz (Hollis, New Hampshire); Joseph M Owen (Derry, New Hampshire); Michael J. Shaw (Concord, New Hampshire); David P. Kelly (Nashua, New Hampshire); Philip R. Staver (Wilton, New Hampshire); Peter A. Budni (Nashua, New Hampshire); John C. Wikman (Lyndeborough, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and architecture are disclosed for providing a laser system. In one specific example embodiment, the system includes a thulium-doped fiber laser coupled by silica glass fiber to a remote optical converter (ROC) including a Ho:YAG laser and, optionally, an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) utilizing zinc germanium phosphide (ZnGeP2; ZGP) or orientation-patterned gallium arsenide (OPGaAs). The fiber laser may emit a low-peak-power, continuous wave pump signal that pumps the Ho:YAG laser, which in turn emits a higher-peak-power, pulsed signal. When included, the OPO can be used to convert the resultant, pulsed signal to a longer wavelength (e.g., about 2-5 μm, or greater). In some cases, distributed architecture and reduced weight/bulk may be realized while eliminating the need to actively cool the ROC for operation, for example, over a broad temperature range (e.g., −55-125° C.). Also, methods of preparing high-peak-power, pulsed signals using such systems are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441435 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/353 (20130101) G02F 1/355 (20130101) G02F 1/395 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/0615 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995675 | Chandak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anish Chandak (Carrboro, North Carolina); Lakulish Shailesh Antani (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Micah Taylor (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Dinesh Manocha (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anish Chandak (Carrboro, North Carolina); Lakulish Shailesh Antani (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Micah Taylor (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Dinesh Manocha (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for simulating propagation of sound in a static scene can be operated for pre-computing a transfer operator for simulating results of sound reflection within a modeled scene, simulating distribution of sound energy from a sound source positioned within the scene, applying the transfer operator to the distribution of sound energy from the sound source to compute simulated sound at a plurality of points within the scene, and simulating collection of sound energy from the plurality of points within the scene to a listener positioned within the scene. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373940 |
| ART UNIT | 2654 — Audio Signals |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 2300/6081 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5004 (20130101) G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 29/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Stereophonic Systems H04S 7/30 (20130101) H04S 2400/11 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995717 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Jiangjian Xiao (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Harpreet Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Jiangjian Xiao (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Harpreet Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for deriving an attribute entity network (AEN) from video data is disclosed, comprising the steps of: extracting at least two entities from the video data; tracking the trajectories of the at least two entities to form at least two tracks; deriving at least one association between at least two entities by detecting at least one event involving the at least two entities, said detecting of at least one event being based on detecting at least one spatio-temporal motion correlation between the at least two entities; and constructing the AEN by creating a graph wherein the at least two objects form at least two nodes and the at least one association forms a link between the at least two nodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/597698 |
| 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 9/00771 (20130101) G06K 2009/3291 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995797 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Air Force (Rome, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos Matthew Smith (Rome, New York); Michael L Fanto (Rome, New York); Paul M. Alsing (Oneida, New York); Gordon Lott (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Periodic Cluster State Generator (PCSG) consisting of a monolithic integrated waveguide device that employs four wave mixing, an array of probabilistic Photon Guns, single mode Sequential Entanglers and an array of controllable entangling gates between modes to create arbitrary size and shape cluster states with several constraints. The cluster state is assumed linear or square lattice. Only nearest neighbor qubits are entangled. Such a cluster state resource has been proven to be able to perform universal quantum computing if the initial state is large enough. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/060959 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995800 | Stupar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip A. Stupar (Oxnard, California); Robert L. Borwick, III (Thousand Oaks, California); Robert E. Mihailovich (Newbury Park, California); Jeffrey F. DeNatale (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Stupar (Oxnard, California); Robert L. Borwick, III (Thousand Oaks, California); Robert E. Mihailovich (Newbury Park, California); Jeffrey F. DeNatale (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating silicon waveguides with embedded active circuitry from silicon-on-insulator wafers utilizes photolithographic microfabrication techniques to define waveguide structures and embedded circuit recesses for receiving integrated circuitry. The method utilizes a double masking layer, one layer of which at least partially defines at least one waveguide and the other layer of which at least partially defines the at least one waveguide and at least one embedded circuit recess. The photolithographic microfabrication techniques are sufficiently precise for the required small structural features of high frequency waveguides and the double masking layer allows the method to be completed more efficiently. The basic fabrication method may be extended to provide batch arrays to mass produce silicon waveguide devices. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542996 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/136 (20130101) |
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| US 08995802 | Chavez-Pirson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NP Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NP Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arturo Chavez-Pirson (Tucson, Arizona); Daniel Larry Rhonehouse (Tucson, Arizona); Dan T. Nguyen (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An IR supercontinuum source for generating supercontinuum in the MIR or possibly LWIR spectral bands comprises a supercontinuum fiber formed from a heavy metal oxide host glass having low optical loss and high non-linearity over the spectral band that is stable, strong and chemically durable. The supercontinuum fiber is suitably a depressed inner clad fiber configured to support only single transverse spatial mode propagation of the pump signal and supercontinuum. The source suitably includes a tapered depressed inner clad fiber to couple the pump signal into the supercontinuum fiber. The source may be configured as an “all-fiber” source. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/330545 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 3/253 (20130101) C03C 4/0071 (20130101) C03C 13/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C03C 2213/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08995838 | Schaffner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James H. Schaffner (Chatsworth, California); Kevin Geary (Los Angeles, California); Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Schaffner (Chatsworth, California); Kevin Geary (Los Angeles, California); Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide assembly for a use with, for example, a microwave receiver. The waveguide assembly includes: a waveguide; a tapered structure disposed within the waveguide, the tapered structure tapering in thickness from a first end with a zero height to a second end where the tapered structure has a height which nearly fills, but does not completely fill, the waveguide, to thereby define a modulator receiving space between the tapered structure and an adjacent wall of said waveguide. The second end of the tapered structure is preferably disposed adjacent an open circuited end of the waveguide. An electro-optic modulator is disposed on a dielectric substrate, the dielectric substrate being disposed at least partially within the modulator receiving space and the electro-optic modulator being disposed so that it is located, in use, at an antinode of a standing wave of the waveguide assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/959287 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 3/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08996155 | Hiller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan D. Hiller (Ithaca, New York); Hod Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan D. Hiller (Ithaca, New York); Hod Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing objects/materials includes selectively arranging the predetermined components in a staging area, substantially simultaneously selectively removing two or more of the selectively arranged predetermined components according to a predetermined removal plan and substantially simultaneously placing the selectively removed components, the removed components being substantially simultaneously placed at a predetermined location. A system for practicing the method includes a supply of the predetermined components, an arranging subsystem receiving the predetermined components and arranging the predetermined components according to a predetermined arrangement, a selective removal subsystem for selectively removing at least two of the selectively arranged predetermined components, the selectively removing occurring substantially simultaneously and according to a predetermined removal prescription, and a placement subsystem for substantially simultaneously placing the selectively removed components at a predetermined location. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/055614 |
| ART UNIT | 2126 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08996430 | Modha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention provides a neural network circuit comprising multiple symmetric core circuits. Each symmetric core circuit comprises a first core module and a second core module. Each core module comprises a plurality of electronic neurons, a plurality of electronic axons, and an interconnection network comprising multiple electronic synapses interconnecting the axons to the neurons. Each synapse interconnects an axon to a neuron. The first core module and the second core module are logically overlayed on one another such that neurons in the first core module are proximal to axons in the second core module, and axons in the first core module are proximal to neurons in the second core module. Each neuron in each core module receives axonal firing events via interconnected axons and generates a neuronal firing event according to a neuronal activation function. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/360614 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/02 (20130101) G06N 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/061 (20130101) G06N 3/063 (20130101) |
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| US 08996528 | Long et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Long (Palo Alto, California); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/217939 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08996834 | Brenner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Bert Brenner (Austin, Texas); Michael Edward Lyons (Round Rock, Texas); Bruce G. Mealey (Austin, Texas); James Bernard Moody (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Bert Brenner (Austin, Texas); Michael Edward Lyons (Round Rock, Texas); Bruce G. Mealey (Austin, Texas); James Bernard Moody (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a heap. The heap is partitioned into at least one sub heap based on a relationship to at least one memory class of a plurality of memory classes. A memory allocation request comprising a memory class is received from a requester. A unique heap handle based on the memory class and associated with a specific sub heap is generated. The unique heap handle is then returned to the requester. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751277 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/073 (20130101) G06F 11/0751 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/023 (20130101) G06F 12/0284 (20130101) |
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| US 08997039 | Andrade 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) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (Ankara, Turkey); Gabriela Jacques da Silva (Brooklyn, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the invention comprises partial fault tolerant stream processing applications. One embodiment of a method for implementing partial fault tolerance in a stream processing application comprising a plurality of stream operators includes: defining a quality score function that expresses how well the application is performing quantitatively, injecting a fault into at least one of the plurality of operators, assessing an impact of the fault on the quality score function, and selecting at least one partial fault-tolerant technique for implementation in the application based on the quantitative metric-driven assessment. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/867595 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/3612 (20130101) G06F 11/3616 (20130101) |
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| US 08997170 | Perich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Filip Perich (Annapolis, Maryland); Mark A. McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Peter A. Tenhula (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Filip Perich (Annapolis, Maryland); Mark A. McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Peter A. Tenhula (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is disclosed that includes software components for executing actions and for controlling the device in order to conform to specified policies. The device includes a controller to deny or permit execution of actions. The controller monitors and interrupts execution of device's actions in order to determine whether an action violates a policy, policy rules, or if the action is prohibited by a policy. The controller also manages policies defined for the device. Each policy is translated into a language understandable by the controller and stored on the device. Each policy can be updated or changed dynamically. Additionally, each policy can securely be updated or changed remotely. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/783563 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/20 (20130101) H04L 63/205 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 8/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 28/044 (20130101) H04W 28/048 (20130101) |
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| US 08997260 | Murdick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Murdick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lukas Novotny (Pittsford, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Murdick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lukas Novotny (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment includes an integrated microscope including scanning probe microscopy (SPM) hardware integrated with optical microscopy hardware, and other embodiments include related methods and devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/000895 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 30/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Damani (Sunnyvale, California); Ron L. Hale (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Daniel J. Myers (Mountain View, California); Reynaldo J. Quintana (Redwood City, California); Dennis W. Solas (San Francisco, California); Soonho Song (Seoul, South Korea); Pravin Soni (Sunnyvale, California); Curtis Tom (San Mateo, California); Krishnamohan Sharma (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Heating units, drug supply units and drug delivery articles capable of rapid heating are disclosed. Heating units comprising a substrate and a solid fuel capable of undergoing an exothermic metal oxidation reaction disposed within the substrate are disclosed. These heating units can be actuated by electrical resistance, by optical ignition or by percussion. Drug supply units and drug delivery articles wherein a solid fuel is configured to heat a substrate to a temperature sufficient to rapidly thermally vaporize a drug disposed thereon are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783508 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| 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 11/041 (20130101) A61M 11/042 (20140204) A61M 11/047 (20140204) A61M 15/06 (20130101) A61M 2016/0021 (20130101) A61M 2016/0027 (20130101) A61M 2202/064 (20130101) A61M 2205/364 (20130101) A61M 2205/3653 (20130101) A61M 2205/8268 (20130101) Boiling; Boiling Apparatus B01B 1/005 (20130101) Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 33/00 (20130101) C06B 45/14 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/18 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Combustion Using Only Solid Fuel F23B 2900/00003 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 2900/99008 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/346 (20130101) |
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| US 08992223 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuyu Sun (Acton, Massachusetts); Zhengbing Cao (Bothell, Washington); Xinbo Sun (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of South Dakota (Vermillion, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuyu Sun (Acton, Massachusetts); Zhengbing Cao (Bothell, Washington); Xinbo Sun (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers and copolymers including a functional polymer component may be used as conventional denture materials. Antifungal materials may be releasably bound to the functional polymer component such that the antifungal materials may be slowly eluted over an extended period of time to combat a fungal infection. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/579742 |
| ART UNIT | 3732 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 13/00 (20130101) A61C 13/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61C 19/063 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/083 (20130101) A61K 6/083 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 39/06 (20130101) |
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| US 08992407 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William A. Smith (Lyndhurst, Ohio); Markus Lorenz (Karlsruhe, Germany); David Dudzinski (Strongsville, Ohio); Hsiang Ming Chen (Latham, New York); Peter A. Chapman, Jr. (East Schodack, New York); Charles J. Prisco (Saratoga Springs, New York); Nicholas G. Vitale (Albany, New York); Stephan Weber (Lyndhurst, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Smith (Lyndhurst, Ohio); Markus Lorenz (Karlsruhe, Germany); David Dudzinski (Strongsville, Ohio); Hsiang Ming Chen (Latham, New York); Peter A. Chapman, Jr. (East Schodack, New York); Charles J. Prisco (Saratoga Springs, New York); Nicholas G. Vitale (Albany, New York); Stephan Weber (Lyndhurst, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A blood pump (26) includes a stator assembly (122) that includes a motor stator, a fluid inlet (24), and a fluid outlet (26). A rotor assembly (120) includes a motor rotor (54) and an impeller (40) rotatable about an axis (44) to move fluid from the inlet (24) to the outlet (26). A permanent magnet radial bearing (100) supports the rotor assembly for rotation about the axis (44). The radial bearing (100) includes a permanent magnet radial bearing stator (106) fixed to the stator assembly (122) and a permanent magnet radial bearing rotor (108) fixed to the rotor assembly (120). The radial bearing (100) is configured such that the radial bearing stator magnets (106) and the radial bearing rotor magnets (108) are axially offset from each other when the pump is at rest. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/470539 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| 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 1/101 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 1/1015 (20140204) A61M 1/1031 (20140204) |
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| US 08992583 | Bottlang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Bottlang (Portland, Oregon); Steven M. Madey (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zimmer, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Bottlang (Portland, Oregon); Steven M. Madey (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for fixation of a fractured bone. In various embodiments, the systems and plates may provide elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to the osteosynthesis plate. This elastic suspension may promote load distribution between the screws that connect a bone segment to the plate, thereby reducing stress risers and load shielding effect. In addition, stress at the screw holes, and within the construct as a whole, is reduced by incorporation of these elastic elements in the plate. Additionally, in some embodiments, for instance if fracture healing by callus formation is desired, elastic suspension of the receiving holes relative to the osteosynthesis plate may enable small, controlled amounts of relative motion between bone fragments connected by the plate, which may promote fracture healing by callus formation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/554119 |
| ART UNIT | 3775 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/863 (20130101) A61B 17/8004 (20130101) A61B 17/8047 (20130101) A61B 17/8085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08992858 | Chou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hou-Pu Chou (Sunnyvale, California); Anne Y. Fu (San Clemente, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America National Institute of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hou-Pu Chou (Sunnyvale, California); Anne Y. Fu (San Clemente, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device comprises pumps, valves, and fluid oscillation dampers. In a device employed for sorting, an entity is flowed by the pump along a flow channel through a detection region to a junction. Based upon an identity of the entity determined in the detection region, a waste or collection valve located on opposite branches of the flow channel at the junction are actuated, thereby routing the entity to either a waste pool or a collection pool. A damper structure may be located between the pump and the junction. The damper reduces the amplitude of oscillation pressure in the flow channel due to operation of the pump, thereby lessening oscillation in velocity of the entity during sorting process. The microfluidic device may be formed in a block of elastomer material, with thin membranes of the elastomer material deflectable into the flow channel to provide pump or valve functionality. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842731 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 2206/22 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/084 (20130101) B01L 2400/0418 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 11/00 (20130101) F04B 19/006 (20130101) F04B 43/043 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/6095 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) G01N 2015/1081 (20130101) G01N 2030/205 (20130101) G01N 2030/322 (20130101) |
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| US 08992886 | Ahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jung-Mo Ahn (Plano, Texas); Xiankai Sun (Coppell, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung-Mo Ahn (Plano, Texas); Xiankai Sun (Coppell, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods of using and methods of making a cyclic peptide analog imaging agent that includes at least portions of a peptide or protein that binds specifically to the GLP-1 receptor (GLP-1R) and the cyclic analog has one or more conformational restrictions including, but not limited to, lactam bridges, disulfide bridges, hydrocarbon bridges, and their combinations, salts and derivatives thereof wherein the cyclic analog is more stable than a non-cyclic analog when incubated in the presence of enzymes that degrade GLP-1 and have an increased serum half-live, wherein the cyclic analog comprises at least a portion of a GLP-1 peptide or at least a portion of an Exendin peptide salts, derivatives or combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/263320 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 51/088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08992906 | Olwin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley Bruce Olwin (Boulder, Colorado); John K. Hall (Boulder, Colorado); Kathleen Kelly Tanaka (Parker, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley Bruce Olwin (Boulder, Colorado); John K. Hall (Boulder, Colorado); Kathleen Kelly Tanaka (Parker, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments herein relate to compositions and methods for engraftment of and increasing survival of muscle cells in a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, compositions including myofibers and/or satellite stem cells may be administered to a subject. Other embodiments relate to compositions and methods for introducing one or more compounds to a subject using cell compositions disclosed herein. Still other embodiments relate to uses of these compositions in kits for portable applications and methods. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/595595 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0659 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08992909 | Shaughnessy, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John D Shaughnessy, Jr. (Roland, Arkansas); Bart Barlogie (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ya-Wei Qiang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D Shaughnessy, Jr. (Roland, Arkansas); Bart Barlogie (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ya-Wei Qiang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to understanding lytic bone diseases. In this regard, the present invention discloses mechanism by which Wnt signaling antagonist inhibits bone differentiation. Also disclosed herein are methods to control bone loss, treat bone disease and prevent tumor growth in bones of individual. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/402698 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (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 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/4703 (20130101) G01N 2800/108 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Raso (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Raso (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to agents for binding and/or inactivating native ghrelin. These agents include those that specifically bind and/or cleave octanoylated native ghrelin. Such agents include antibodies and enzymes. The agents also include those that can be used to generate antibodies that specifically bind and/or cleave octanoylated native ghrelin. Compositions that include the agents are also provided. Further provided are methods of producing and using the agents and compositions thereof. For instance, the agents and compositions can be used to reduce or eliminate the hunger response activity of octanoylated native ghrelin. Therefore, the agents, compositions and methods provided can be used to suppress appetite and/or treat obesity. In addition, the agents, compositions and methods can be used to treat any disease associated with or caused by ghrelin (e.g., Prader-Willi Syndrome). |
| FILED | Saturday, February 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/223852 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0005 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
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| US 08992936 | Luft et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Sciences Associates, LLC (Upton, New York); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York); Brookhaven Sciences Associates, LLC (Upton, New York); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin J. Luft (Riverhead, New York); John J. Dunn (Bellport, New York); Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois); Catherine L. Lawson (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are OspA polypeptides from Lyme Disease-causing Borrelia having certain alteration(s). In one embodiment, the alteration(s) increase the conformational stability of the OspA polypeptide containing the alteration(s) while maintaining at least some of the antigenicity of the corresponding unaltered OspA polypeptide. In another embodiment, the altered OspA polypeptide has reduced cross-reactivity to hLFA-1, as compared to the corresponding unaltered OspA polypeptide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944078 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 08992937 | Hansen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ted H. Hansen (North Potomac, Maryland); Daved Fremont (Saint Louis, Missouri); Janet Connolly (North Potomac, Maryland); Lonnie Lybarger (Tucson, Arizona); Michael Miley (Cary, North Carolina); Vesselin Mitaksov (Ballwin, Missouri); Steven Truscott (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted H. Hansen (North Potomac, Maryland); Daved Fremont (Saint Louis, Missouri); Janet Connolly (North Potomac, Maryland); Lonnie Lybarger (Tucson, Arizona); Michael Miley (Cary, North Carolina); Vesselin Mitaksov (Ballwin, Missouri); Steven Truscott (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A disulfide trap, comprising an antigen peptide covalently attached to an MHC class I heavy chain molecule by a disulfide bond extending between two cysteines, is disclosed. In some configurations, a disulfide trap, such as a disulfide trap single chain trimer (dtSCT), can comprise a single contiguous polypeptide chain. Upon synthesis in a cell, a disulfide trap oxidizes properly in the ER, and can be recognized by T cells. In some configurations, a peptide moiety of a disulfide trap is not displaced by high-affinity competitor peptides, even if the peptide binds the heavy chain relatively weakly. In various configurations, a disulfide trap can be used for vaccination, to elicit CD8 T cells, and in multivalent MHC/peptide reagents for the enumeration and tracking of T cells. Also disclosed are nucleic acids comprising a sequence encoding a disulfide trap. Such nucleic acids, which can be DNA vectors, can be used as vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846491 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/605 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 14/70539 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08992939 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gale Smith (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Yingyun Wu (Clarksburg, Maryland); Michael Massare (Mount Airy, Maryland); Peter Pushko (Frederick, Maryland); Margret Nathan (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Thomas Kort (Germantown, Maryland); Robin Robinson (Dickerson, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novavax, Inc. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gale Smith (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Yingyun Wu (Clarksburg, Maryland); Michael Massare (Mount Airy, Maryland); Peter Pushko (Frederick, Maryland); Margret Nathan (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Thomas Kort (Germantown, Maryland); Robin Robinson (Dickerson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention discloses a method of increasing production of virus-like particles comprising expressing an avian influenza matrix protein. The invention also comprises methods of making and using said VLPs. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/280043 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/03 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 2710/14143 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16123 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16171 (20130101) C12N 2760/16223 (20130101) C12N 2770/20022 (20130101) C12N 2770/20023 (20130101) C12N 2770/20051 (20130101) C12N 2800/22 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01018 (20130101) |
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| US 08992943 | Kopecko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); De-Qi Xu (Columbia, Maryland); John O. Cisar (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for protecting a susceptable host against an infection of Shigella sonnei are disclosed. Such compositions and methods are useful for protecting the host against bacillary dysentery and shigellosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/686299 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/36 (20130101) |
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| US 08992984 | Brinker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | C. Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carlee Erin Ashley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xingmao Jiang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Walker Richard Wharton (Corrales, New Mexico); Eric Carnes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cheryl L. Willman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquergue, New Mexico); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carlee Erin Ashley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xingmao Jiang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Walker Richard Wharton (Corrales, New Mexico); Eric Carnes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cheryl L. Willman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide materials and methods for synthesizing protocells for use in targeted delivery of cargo components to cancer cells. In one embodiment, the lipid bilayer can be fused to the porous particle core to form a protocell. The lipid bilayer can be modified with targeting ligands or other ligands to achieve targeted delivery of cargo components that are loaded within the protocell to a target cell, e.g., a type of cancer. Shielding materials can be conjugated to the surface of the lipid bilayer to reduce undesired non-specific binding. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/909572 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993068 | Koberstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (New York, New York); Hernan R. Rengifo (New York, New York); Cristian Grigoras (New York, New York); Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (New York, New York); Hernan R. Rengifo (New York, New York); Cristian Grigoras (New York, New York); Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention is directed to methods for modification of functionalized substrates. In another aspect, the invention relates to systems and methods for fabricating multilayer polymer compositions. In certain embodiments, the multilayer polymer compositions described herein can comprise heterobifunctional polymers and heterotrifunctional molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127683 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/20 (20130101) C08G 77/045 (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 183/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993117 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Ellen S. Gawalt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Avaltroni (Staten Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Ellen S. Gawalt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Avaltroni (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphorus-based coatings having a plurality of phosphate moieties, a plurality of phosphonate moieties, or both, covalently bonded to an oxide surface of an implantable substrate exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics: (a) the surface phosphorus-containing group density of the coated regions of the substrate is at least about 0.1 nmol/cm2; (b) the phosphorus-based coating has a thickness of less than about 10 nm; or (c) the surface phosphorus-containing group density of the coated regions of the substrate is equal to or greater than the surface hydroxyl group density of the oxide surface of the substrate. Implantable devices embodying the coated substrates are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349367 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 29/106 (20130101) A61L 31/086 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/001 (20130101) C03C 17/23 (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 14/06 (20130101) C23C 22/02 (20130101) C23C 22/48 (20130101) |
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| US 08993233 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Broad Institute Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Le Cong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Randall Jeffrey Platt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neville Espi Sanjana (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fei Ran (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are 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 with additional functional domains. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105017 |
| 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 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/01 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/1082 (20130101) |
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| US 08993242 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weiguo Han (Albany, New York); Simon D. Spivack (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Miao Kevin Shi (Flushing, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weiguo Han (Albany, New York); Simon D. Spivack (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Miao Kevin Shi (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are provided for testing the functional effect of methylating different cytosine residues, for testing patterns of DNA methylation on gene expression, and for site-specific methylation, as well as methylated DNA constructs. Methods are provided that include steps of denaturing a circular double-stranded DNA construct; hybridizing primers to separate strands of the denatured circular DNA construct; contacting the hybridized primers with a DNA polymerase, deoxynucleoside triphosphates, and copies of the primers; contacting nicked copies with a DNA ligase so as to form a copy of the circular DNA construct; contacting the copy of the circular DNA construct with a methyltransferase enzyme; transfecting a cell with C-5 methylated circular DNA construct; and quantifying expression of a gene of interest, thereby determining the effect of C-5 methylating cytosine nucleotide residues of DNA on expression of the gene of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349745 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2521/125 (20130101) C12Q 2521/319 (20130101) C12Q 2521/501 (20130101) C12Q 2523/125 (20130101) |
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| US 08993243 | Beebe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Richard Burgess (Madison, Wisconsin); Lindsay Strotman (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Berry (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Richard Burgess (Madison, Wisconsin); Lindsay Strotman (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Berry (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of isolating weakly interacting molecules in a fluidic sample using an immiscible phase filtration technique are disclosed. A complex is formed between a solid phase substrate, a molecule immobilized on the solid phase substrate, and at least one target molecule present in the fluidic sample. The complex is transferred into an immiscible phase by applying an external force to the solid phase substrate. The methods eliminate the need for complex and time consuming washing steps. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/987934 |
| 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 | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/543 (20130101) G01N 33/54326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993245 | Heyduk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri); Ling Tian (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mediomics, LLC (St. Louis, Missouri); Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri); Ling Tian (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses a method for detecting a target comprising a repeating epitope. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/133198 |
| 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 33/542 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993256 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Z. Lin (San Diego, California); Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Z. Lin (San Diego, California); Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides method and compositions for visualizing protein turnover. In particular, the disclosure provides methods and compositions useful for measuring the age of particular proteins or the dynamics of localized protein translation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/443411 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 08993258 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ping Yan (Middletown, Connecticut); Corey D. Acker (West Hartford, Connecticut); Leslie M. Loew (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ping Yan (Middletown, Connecticut); Corey D. Acker (West Hartford, Connecticut); Leslie M. Loew (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorinated voltage sensitive dye has the structure wherein p is 0, 1, or 2; Xq− is an anionic counterion having a charge, q, that is 1 or 2; n is 1 or 2; R1 is an optionally substituted C1-C12, alkyl; R2 is hydrogen, and R3 is hydrogen or fluorine; or R2 and R3 collectively form a divalent —CH═CH—CH═CH— group; R4 and each occurrence of R5 are each independently hydrogen or fluorine; R6 is hydrogen or fluorine or trifluoromethyl; and each occurrence of R7 is independently C1-C6 alkyl; provided that the dye comprises at least one fluorine atom. The dye is particularly useful for monitoring the dynamics of action potentials in axons and/or dendrites. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/908055 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 57/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/66 (20130101) |
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| US 08993262 | Coelho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pedro S. Coelho (Los Angeles, California); Eric M. Brustad (Durham, North Carolina); Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Zhan Wang (San Jose, California); Jared C. Lewis (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for catalyzing the conversion of an olefin to any compound containing one or more cyclopropane functional groups using heme enzymes. In certain aspects, the present invention provides a method for producing a cyclopropanation product comprising providing an olefinic substrate, a diazo reagent, and a heme enzyme; and admixing the components in a reaction for a time sufficient to produce a cyclopropanation product. In other aspects, the present invention provides heme enzymes including variants and fragments thereof that are capable of carrying out in vivo and in vitro olefin cyclopropanation reactions. Expression vectors and host cells expressing the heme enzymes are also provided by the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185861 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/62 (20130101) C12P 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993303 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Dakota State University (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide cyanobacteria spp. that have been genetically engineered to have increased production of carbon-based products of interest. These genetically engineered hosts efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest such as long chained hydrocarbons. Several constructs containing polynucleotides encoding enzymes active in the metabolic pathways of cyanobacteria are disclosed. In many instances, the cyanobacteria strains have been further genetically modified to optimize production of the carbon-based products of interest. The optimization includes both up-regulation and down-regulation of particular genes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/405208 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 08993312 | Krishnan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramaswamy Krishnan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chan Young Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Fredberg (Sharon, Massachusetts); Fei Liu (Warwick, Rhode Island); Justin Mih (Mission Hill, Massachusetts); Daniel Tschumperlin (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramaswamy Krishnan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chan Young Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Fredberg (Sharon, Massachusetts); Fei Liu (Warwick, Rhode Island); Justin Mih (Mission Hill, Massachusetts); Daniel Tschumperlin (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide techniques for measuring and characterizing the dynamics of cell traction forces. Tunable elastic gel substrates can be disposed in multi-well plates. The gels can be of a uniform predetermined thickness. A multi-well plate can be loaded with gels of different shear moduli. An array of punch indenters can be attached to a loading platen such that the each indenter is aligned to a gel substrate. The indenters can apply tensile or compressive strains to the gel substrates. The magnitude, duration, and frequency of the strain can be controlled by a motor assembly coupled to a control system. The apparatus can be disposed in an incubator for long term cell culture experiments. The cell culture can be observed while a strain is applied. A ring-shaped indenter can be mounted on a microscope, coaxial to the objective lens, and lowered by a calibrated amount onto the underlying gel. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/675882 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 23/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2533/30 (20130101) |
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| US 08993328 | Yarmush et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Piscataway, New Jersey); Eric J. Wallenstein (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Rene S. Schloss (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Piscataway, New Jersey); Eric J. Wallenstein (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Rene S. Schloss (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for improving the efficiency of a transient gene delivery system to differentiating embryonic stem (ES) cells by serum starving the targeted cells for one to three days prior to transfection. Such a serum starvation surprisingly resulted in increased expression of a constitutively-controlled plasmid from 50.4% to 83.2% of the population and increased expression of a promoter/enhancer controlled plasmid from ˜1.4% to ˜3.7% of the population. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564903 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993335 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Shu Wang (Goleta, California); Bin Liu (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Shu Wang (Goleta, California); Bin Liu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor PBP that can bind to the target polynucleotide. The sensor PBP comprises a signaling chromophore to absorb energy from the excited multichromophore and emit light in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779412 |
| 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 1/6818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 2565/101 (20130101) |
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| US 08993516 | Weiss |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Weiss (Moreland Hills, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method treating a patient includes administering a physiologically effective amount of a fibrillation-resistant insulin analogue or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof to the patient. The fibrillation-resistant insulin analogue or a physiologically acceptable salt thereof, contains an insulin A-chain sequence modified at position A8 and an insulin B-chain sequence or an analogue thereof. The fibrillation-resistant insulin analogue may exhibit thermodynamic stability similar to or exceeding that of wild-type human insulin and displays a susceptibility to fibrillation similar to or exceeding that of wild-type human insulin. An insulin analogue may display greater in vitro insulin receptor binding than normal insulin while displaying binding to IGFR less than twice that of normal insulin and less than that of fast-acting insulin analogs. The fibrillation-resistant insulin may be used to treat a patient by subcutaneous injection or by using an implantable or external insulin pump, due to its fibrillation resistance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937612 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993522 | Vidyasagar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sadasivan Vidyasagar (Gainesville, Florida); Paul Okunieff (Gainesville, Florida); Lurong Zhang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sadasivan Vidyasagar (Gainesville, Florida); Paul Okunieff (Gainesville, Florida); Lurong Zhang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides therapeutic compositions, and uses thereof for the treatment or amelioration of injury to small intestine mucosa. In preferred embodiments, the composition comprises one or more nutrients and/or electrolytes that acquire or retain considerable absorptive capacity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245430 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0095 (20130101) A61K 31/197 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/197 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/7004 (20130101) A61K 31/7004 (20130101) A61K 31/7016 (20130101) A61K 31/7016 (20130101) A61K 47/183 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993541 | Maeda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Syntrix Biosystems, Inc. (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syntrix Biosystems, Inc. (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Y. Maeda (Seattle, Washington); John A. Zebala (Sammamish, Washington); Aaron D. Schuler (Auburn, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | There are disclosed aminopyrimidinecarboxamide compounds useful as pharmaceutical agents, synthesis processes, and pharmaceutical compositions which include aminopyrimidinecarboxamides compounds. More specifically, there is disclosed a genus of CXCR2 inhibitor compounds that are useful for treating a variety of inflammatory and neoplastic disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/283118 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 239/47 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993559 | Glick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley D. Glick (Delmar, New York); Isabelle M. Maisonneuve (Delmar, New York); Olga D. Taraschenko (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley D. Glick (Delmar, New York); Isabelle M. Maisonneuve (Delmar, New York); Olga D. Taraschenko (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of treating obesity in a subject by administering to the subject a compound having the formula: wherein n is from 0 to 8; R1 is CH2OH, CH(OH)R5, CH2OR5, CO2R5, C(O)NH2, C(O)NHR5, C(O)NR5R6, C(O)NHNH2, C(O)NHNHR5, C(O)NHNR5R6, C(O)NR5NH2, C(O)NR5NHR6, C(O)NR5NR6R7, C(O)NHNH(C(O)R5), C(O)NHNR5(C(O)R6), C(O)NR5NH(C(O)R6), C(O)NR5NR6(C(O)R7), CN, or C(O)R5; R2 is H, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, YH, YR8, YR8R9, YR8YR9YR10, YC(O)R8, C(O)YR8, C(O)NH2, C(O)NHR8, C(O)NR8R9, NH2, NHR8, NR8R9, NHC(O)R8, or NR8C(O)R9; R3 and R4 are the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of H, halogens, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, OH, OR10, NH2, NHR10, NR10R11, NHC(O)R10, or NR10C(O)R11; R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, and R11 are the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of H, unsubstituted alkyl, substituted alkyl, unsubstituted aryl and substituted aryl; R12 is selected from the group consisting of H, unsubstituted alkyl, and substituted alkyl; and Y is O or S; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360434 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993604 | Byrd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chelsea M. Byrd (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Robert Jordan (Corvallis, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chelsea M. Byrd (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Robert Jordan (Corvallis, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain 2-aryl-benzothiazole or 2-heteroaryl-benzothiazole derivative compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by flavivirus is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and tick-borne encephalitis virus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/379776 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/82 (20130101) G01N 2333/705 (20130101) G01N 2333/96463 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993609 | Bashkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James K. Bashkin (St. Louis, Missouri); Kevin J. Koeller (Richmond Heights, Missouri); Terri Grace Edwards (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Christopher Fisher (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanovir, LLC (Kalamazoo, Michigan); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James K. Bashkin (St. Louis, Missouri); Kevin J. Koeller (Richmond Heights, Missouri); Terri Grace Edwards (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Christopher Fisher (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polyamide compositions and therapies for treating cells and subjects infected with papilloma virus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/357740 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993615 | Zack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald J. Zack (Baltimore, Maryland); Zhiyong Yang (Baltimore, Maryland); Cynthia Berlinicke (Baltimore, Maryland); Harry Quigley (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Zack (Baltimore, Maryland); Zhiyong Yang (Baltimore, Maryland); Cynthia Berlinicke (Baltimore, Maryland); Harry Quigley (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions, kits and methods for treating conditions related to neurodegeneration or ocular disease, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, August 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/058171 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993617 | Koong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert C. Koong (Los Altos, California); Ioanna Papandreou (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert C. Koong (Los Altos, California); Ioanna Papandreou (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention directed to a method of treating multiple myeloma with the following compound: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound is a novel small molecule inhibitor of Ire1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/883502 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 333/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993624 | Bassaganya-Riera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Josep Bassaganya-Riera (Blacksburg, Virginia); Amir Guri (San Diego, California); Raquel Hontecillas (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josep Bassaganya-Riera (Blacksburg, Virginia); Amir Guri (San Diego, California); Raquel Hontecillas (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of a therapeutically effective amount of abscisic acid (ABA) or its analogs to treat or prevent inflammation induced by exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or respiratory inflammation. The invention also relates to methods and composition for enhancing vaccine efficacy using ABA. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/700037 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993626 | Rodriguez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ignacio R. Rodriguez (Derwood, Maryland); Jiahn-Dar Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Juan A. Amaral (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jung Wha Lee (Gaithersburg, Maryland); William Samuel (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ignacio Marcos Larrayoz (Sarriguren, Spain) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ignacio R. Rodriguez (Derwood, Maryland); Jiahn-Dar Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Juan A. Amaral (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jung Wha Lee (Gaithersburg, Maryland); William Samuel (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ignacio Marcos Larrayoz (Sarriguren, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of sterculic acid, and the pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, described for the treatment of inflammation, in particular, 7-ketocholesterol induced inflammation, 7-ketocholesterol toxicity, and unregulated angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805429 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993714 | Salemme et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Raymond Salemme (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imiplex LLC (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Raymond Salemme (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A streptavidin macromolecular adaptor (SAMA) protein may be used for the controlled assembly of nanostructure building blocks and struts including streptavidin:SAMA complexes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/766658 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/36 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993718 | Gross et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin J. Gross (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Suzanne Walker Kahne (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jonathan G. Swoboda (Oil City, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and products for modulating glycosylation of proteins. The invention is useful for identifying therapeutic compounds to treat glycosylation-associated disorders such as neurodegeneration, diabetes, including complications of diabetes such as insulin resistance, nephropathy, microvascular damage, and endothelial dysfunction. The invention is also useful for identifying therapeutic compounds to treat de-glycosylation-associated disorders such as ischemic damage and traumatic injury. The invention also relates in part to assays that are useful for identifying and testing candidate compounds for modulating glycosylation of proteins and also relates in part to compounds to treat glycosylation-associated diseases and disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/013860 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/12 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/924 (20130101) G01N 2440/38 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993719 | Bajaj |
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| APPLICANT(S) | S. Paul Bajaj (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Paul Bajaj (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and compositions relating to plasmin inhibition. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/087296 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0375 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/8114 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993720 | Drezner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc K. Drezner (Madison, Wisconsin); Baozhi Yuan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc K. Drezner (Madison, Wisconsin); Baozhi Yuan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of treating X-linked hypophosphatemia, related bone demineralization and renal phosphate wasting disorders in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of a polyarginine peptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/272809 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993725 | Kitajewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jan Kitajewski (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Carrie Shawber (Township of Washington, New Jersey); Yasuhiro Funahashi (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan Kitajewski (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Carrie Shawber (Township of Washington, New Jersey); Yasuhiro Funahashi (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a method for treating a subject having a tumor and a method for inhibiting angiogenesis in a subject, both comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a composition of matter comprising the extracellular domain of a Notch receptor protein operably affixed to a half-life-increasing moiety. This invention also provides a composition of matter comprising the extracellular domain of Notch4 receptor protein operably affixed to a half-life-increasing moiety. This invention further provides an article of manufacture. Finally, this invention provides a replicable vector which encodes a polypeptide comprising the extracellular domain of a Notch receptor protein operably affixed to a half-life-increasing moiety, a host vector system which comprises such replicable vector and a method of producing such polypeptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657573 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/32 (20130101) |
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| US 08993736 | Trauner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, None); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, None); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/059052 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (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 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08993738 | Prakash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thazha P. Prakash (Carlsbad, California); Punit P. Seth (Carlsbad, California); Eric E. Swayze (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thazha P. Prakash (Carlsbad, California); Punit P. Seth (Carlsbad, California); Eric E. Swayze (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides modified nucleosides, analogs thereof and oligomeric compounds prepared therefrom. More particularly, the present invention provides modified nucleosides and analogs thereof that are useful for incorporation at the terminus of an oligomeric compound. Such oligomeric compounds can also be included in a double stranded composition. In some embodiments, the oligomeric compounds provided herein are expected to hybridize to a portion of a target RNA resulting in loss of normal function of the target RNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/642827 |
| 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 | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) C07H 19/20 (20130101) C07H 19/067 (20130101) C07H 19/167 (20130101) C07H 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 08993758 | Natarajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amarnath Natarajan (Elkhorn, Nebraska); Qianyi Chen (Shanghai, China PRC); Vashti C. Bryant (Cary, North Carolina); Rajkumar Rajule (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska); The Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amarnath Natarajan (Elkhorn, Nebraska); Qianyi Chen (Shanghai, China PRC); Vashti C. Bryant (Cary, North Carolina); Rajkumar Rajule (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) and methods of inhibiting IKKβ and the NF-κB signaling and mTOR pathways. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/883026 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 241/44 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993760 | Sebti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns compositions and methods for blocking cancer cell growth or proliferation and/or inducing cancer cell death. Compositions of the present invention are compounds that inhibit Rho-protein associated kinase function. Compounds of the invention include piperazinyl pyridines, piperazinylmethyl pyridines, piperazinyl ureas and carbamates, piperazinyl pyridines and quinoilines (including isoquinliones) as well as piperazinyl (including piperazinylmethyl) pyridines and quinolines (including isoquinolines). Compounds of the invention disrupt Rho-kinase activation and function and significantly inhibit tumor cell growth and induce tumor cell death. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488826 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 217/02 (20130101) C07D 241/08 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08993768 | Beutler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Beutler (Union Bridge, Maryland); Stuart F. J. LeGrice (Poolesville, Maryland); Craig Thomas (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jian-Kang Jiang (Columbia, Maryland); Suhman Chung (Frederick, Maryland); Jennifer Wilson (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) | John A. Beutler (Union Bridge, Maryland); Stuart F. J. LeGrice (Poolesville, Maryland); Craig Thomas (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Jian-Kang Jiang (Columbia, Maryland); Suhman Chung (Frederick, Maryland); Jennifer Wilson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds that inhibit RNase H activity of retroviruses, for example, a compound of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, and R3 are as described herein, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, stereoisomers, and prodrugs thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, as well as methods of use, and treatment or prevention of infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/116423 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/122 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4453 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/573 (20130101) C07C 49/733 (20130101) C07C 225/14 (20130101) C07C 317/24 (20130101) C07C 323/22 (20130101) C07C 2102/32 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/60 (20130101) C07D 233/64 (20130101) C07D 295/088 (20130101) C07D 295/116 (20130101) |
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| US 08993834 | McGrath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia McGrath (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chuenlei Parng (Lexington, Massachusetts); George N. Serbedzija (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of screening an agent for activity using teleosts. Methods of screening an agent for angiogenesis activity, toxic activity and an effect cell death activity in teleosts are provided. Methods of screening an agent for an activity in the brain or central nervous system in zebrafish are provided. The invention further provides high throughput methods of screening agents in multi-well plates. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/887971 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) A01K 2227/40 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/006 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5014 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2333/4603 (20130101) G01N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08993844 | Sylvester et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anne W. Sylvester (Laramie, Wyoming); Randolph V. Lewis (Nibley, Utah); David Jackson (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne W. Sylvester (Laramie, Wyoming); Randolph V. Lewis (Nibley, Utah); David Jackson (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the production of synthetic spider silk-like proteins in corn endosperm or plant shoot tissue are provided. The present invention provides further methods for the identification of synthetic spider silk-like proteins in corn endosperm or plant shoot tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117643 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08994932 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ji-Xin Cheng (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hongtao Chen (Los Angeles, California); Mikhail Slipchenko (West Lafayette, Indiana); Haifeng Wang (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji-Xin Cheng (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hongtao Chen (Los Angeles, California); Mikhail Slipchenko (West Lafayette, Indiana); Haifeng Wang (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing images using a multimodal nonlinear optical microscope is disclosed. The method includes providing a foundation femtosecond laser beam, generating a first femtosecond laser beam and a second femtosecond laser beam corresponding to the foundation femtosecond laser beam, combining the first femtosecond laser beam and the foundation femtosecond laser beam to generate a first combination femtosecond laser beam, and generating a coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) signal based on the first combination femtosecond laser beam. A multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy platform is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/141039 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 21/636 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/653 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08995608 — Compact microbeam radiation therapy systems and methods for cancer treatment and research
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Sha X. Chang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present subject matter relates to compact, non-synchrotron microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) systems and methods for cancer research and treatment based on a carbon nanotube distributed x-ray source array technology. The systems and methods can deliver microscopically discrete x-ray radiation at peak dose rate of 10 Gy per second or higher. The x-ray radiation can be provided by a spatially distributed x-ray source array. The technology can be used, for example and without limitation, for human cancer treatment, for intra-operative radiation therapy, and for pre-clinical cancer research on animal cancer models. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/090863 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/508 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) A61N 5/1042 (20130101) A61N 5/1069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08995736 | Kaufman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Joseph Marino (Pt. Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Joseph Marino (Pt. Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer-readable medium for detecting a disease of a prostate. Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include receiving an image dataset acquired with at least one acquisition mode; segmenting a region of interest including the prostate from the dataset; applying conformal mapping to map the region of interest to a canonical shape; generating a 3D visualization of the prostate using the canonically mapped dataset; and applying computer aided detection (CAD) to the canonically mapped volume to detect a region of disease of the organ. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/574438 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30081 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08995738 — System and method for magnetic resonance imaging parametric mapping using confidence maps
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diego Hernando (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott B. Reeder (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing parametric maps using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The MRI system is used to acquire k-space data from a field-of-view. A series of images is reconstructed from the acquired k-space data, and a confidence map is produced using the k-space data. The confidence map depicts regions in the field-of-view that are affected by error sources. A parametric map is produced using the reconstructed series of images and the produced confidence map. Values in the parametric map associated with regions in the field-of-view depicted in the confidence map as being affected by error sources are not computed, thereby reducing errors in the parametric map. |
| FILED | Monday, February 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769682 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08996118 | Ok et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Cresenta, California); James S Little (Newhall, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kelly H McClure (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable device, including a first electrically non-conductive substrate with a plurality of electrically conductive vias. The device also includes a flip-chip multiplexer circuit attached to the electrically non-conductive substrate using conductive bumps, the circuit being electrically connected to at a subset of the plurality of electrically conductive vias. Another a flip-chip driver circuit is attached to the flip-chip multiplexer circuit using conductive bumps while a second electrically non-conductive substrate attached to the flip-chip driver circuit using conductive bumps. Discrete passives are attached to the second electrically non-conductive substrate and a cover is bonded to the first electrically non-conductive substrate. The cover, the first electrically non-conductive substrate and the electrically conductive vias form a hermetic package. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/049056 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 15/001 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/375 (20130101) A61N 1/0529 (20130101) A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) A61N 1/36125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/45144 (20130101) H01L 2224/45144 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Oklahoma (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jicheng Fu (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing personalized configuration of physical supports for the human body, comprising accepting input including an individual's demographic information, neurological attributes, physical history, operational environment, and outcome or use objectives, processing user input employing an artificial intelligence engine, and then returning guidance and/or control parameters directed to seating adjustment and positioning, including incline angles for wheelchair tilt and recline. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/304758 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/1056 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark van der Laan (Orinda, California); Susan Gruber (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark van der Laan (Orinda, California); Susan Gruber (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided comprising: determining one or more initial distribution estimators of a true probability distribution; determining for each series of estimators of a nuisance parameter; generating candidate targeted estimators of the probability distribution for a targeted feature using an iterative modification of the initial distribution estimator(s) designed to reduce bias in the estimate of the target feature with respect to the initial distribution estimator, based on the series of estimators and the targeted feature; selecting one of the candidate estimators as an estimator for the true probability distribution for the targeted feature; and applying a mapping to the estimator for the true probability distribution or relevant portion thereof to obtain an estimated value for the targeted feature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/263252 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Wiebe (Orlando, Florida); Timothy A. Fox (Hamilton, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Wiebe (Orlando, Florida); Timothy A. Fox (Hamilton, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle assembly for use in a combustor apparatus of a gas turbine engine. An outer housing of the fuel nozzle assembly includes an inner volume and provides a direct structural connection between a duct structure and a fuel manifold. The duct structure defines a flow passage for combustion gases flowing within the combustor apparatus. The fuel manifold defines a fuel supply channel therein in fluid communication with a source of fuel. A fuel injector of the fuel nozzle assembly is provided in the inner volume of the outer housing and defines a fuel passage therein. The fuel passage is in fluid communication with the fuel supply channel of the fuel manifold for distributing the fuel from the fuel supply channel into the flow passage of the duct structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566222 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/08 (20130101) F23R 3/54 (20130101) F23R 3/60 (20130101) F23R 3/283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/346 (20130101) |
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| US 08991287 | Bhapkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rohit Arun Bhapkar (Peoria, Illinois); Eric Richard Larsen (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohit Arun Bhapkar (Peoria, Illinois); Eric Richard Larsen (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A combined method of machining and applying a surface texture to a work piece and a tool assembly that is capable of machining and applying a surface texture to a work piece are disclosed. The disclosed method includes machining portions of an outer or inner surface of a work piece. The method also includes rotating the work piece in front of a rotating cutting tool and engaging the outer surface of the work piece with the rotating cutting tool to cut dimples in the outer surface of the work piece. The disclosed tool assembly includes a rotating cutting tool coupled to an end of a rotational machining device, such as a lathe. The same tool assembly can be used to both machine the work piece and apply a surface texture to the work piece without unloading the work piece from the tool assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/543167 |
| ART UNIT | 3722 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning; Boring B23B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23B 5/36 (20130101) Milling B23C 3/30 (20130101) B23C 7/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/5114 (20150115) Y10T 82/10 (20150115) |
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08991614 — Microfluidic ultrasonic particle separators with engineered node locations and geometries
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California); Karl A. Fisher (Brentwood, California); Douglas A. Wajda (Urbana, Illinois); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Christopher Bailey (Oakland, California); Dietrich Dehlinger (San Francisco, California); Maxim Shusteff (Oakland, California); Byoungsok Jung (Palo Alto, California); Kevin D. Ness (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasonic microfluidic system includes a separation channel for conveying a sample fluid containing small particles and large particles, flowing substantially parallel, adjacent to a recovery fluid, with which it is in contact. An acoustic transducer produces an ultrasound standing wave, that generates a pressure field having at least one node of minimum, pressure amplitude. An acoustic extension structure is located proximate to said separation channel for positioning said acoustic node off center in said acoustic area and concentrating the large particles in said recovery fluid stream. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246981 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 21/283 (20130101) B01D 2221/10 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0439 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/491 (20130101) G01N 33/48728 (20130101) |
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| US 08992794 | Petrovic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ivan Petrovic (Princeton, New Jersey); Anthony Thurston (Macedonia, Ohio); Stephen Sheargold (Solon, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Petrovic (Princeton, New Jersey); Anthony Thurston (Macedonia, Ohio); Stephen Sheargold (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing a layered oxide cathode using a two step calcination procedure, wherein the first step includes pre-calcination utilizing a rotary calciner. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/168516 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 45/1221 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01G 45/1228 (20130101) C01G 51/44 (20130101) C01G 51/50 (20130101) C01G 53/44 (20130101) C01G 53/50 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 08992803 | Loscutoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Loscutoff (Castro Valley, California); Kahn Wu (San Francisco, California); Steven Edward Molesa (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Loscutoff (Castro Valley, California); Kahn Wu (San Francisco, California); Steven Edward Molesa (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dopant ink compositions and methods of fabricating solar cells there from are described. A dopant ink composition may include a cross-linkable matrix precursor, a bound dopant species, and a solvent. A method of fabricating a solar cell may include delivering a dopant ink composition to a region above a substrate. The dopant ink composition includes a cross-linkable matrix precursor, a bound dopant species, and a solvent. The method also includes baking the dopant ink composition to remove a substantial portion of the solvent of the dopant ink composition, curing the baked dopant ink composition to cross-link a substantial portion of the cross-linkable matrix precursor of the dopant ink composition, and driving dopants from the cured dopant ink composition toward the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250215 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0682 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/60 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 08992845 | Aines |
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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) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for separating CO2 from gas mixtures uses a slurried media impregnated with buffer compounds and coating the solid media with a catalyst or enzyme that promotes the transformation of CO2 to carbonic acid. Buffer sorbent pebbles with a catalyst or enzyme coating are provided for rapid separation of CO2 from gas mixtures. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/758787 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/62 (20130101) B01D 53/86 (20130101) B01D 53/864 (20130101) B01D 2253/206 (20130101) B01D 2255/00 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 35/02 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) |
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| US 08992984 | Brinker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | C. Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carlee Erin Ashley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xingmao Jiang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Walker Richard Wharton (Corrales, New Mexico); Eric Carnes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cheryl L. Willman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquergue, New Mexico); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carlee Erin Ashley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xingmao Jiang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Juewen Liu (Kitchener, Canada); David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Walker Richard Wharton (Corrales, New Mexico); Eric Carnes (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cheryl L. Willman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide materials and methods for synthesizing protocells for use in targeted delivery of cargo components to cancer cells. In one embodiment, the lipid bilayer can be fused to the porous particle core to form a protocell. The lipid bilayer can be modified with targeting ligands or other ligands to achieve targeted delivery of cargo components that are loaded within the protocell to a target cell, e.g., a type of cancer. Shielding materials can be conjugated to the surface of the lipid bilayer to reduce undesired non-specific binding. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/909572 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993092 | Goyal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Junsoo Shin (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Junsoo Shin (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A polycrystalline ferroelectric and/or multiferroic oxide article includes a substrate having a biaxially textured surface; at least one biaxially textured buffer layer supported by the substrate; and a biaxially textured ferroelectric or multiferroic oxide layer supported by the buffer layer. Methods for making polycrystalline ferroelectric and/or multiferroic oxide articles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030260 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| 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 23/02 (20130101) C30B 29/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/26 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/407 (20130101) |
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| US 08993113 | Pauzauskie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter J. Pauzauskie (Oakland, California); Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discover Bay, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Juergen Biener (San Leandro, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Pauzauskie (Oakland, California); Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discover Bay, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Juergen Biener (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphene aerogels with high conductivity and surface areas including a method for making a graphene aerogel, including the following steps: (1) preparing a reaction mixture comprising a graphene oxide suspension and at least one catalyst; (2) curing the reaction mixture to produce a wet gel; (3) drying the wet gel to produce a dry gel; and (4) pyrolyzing the dry gel to produce a graphene aerogel. Applications include electrical energy storage including batteries and supercapacitors. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/204277 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — 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 B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/00 (20130101) C01B 31/10 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08993157 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Yang (Pleasanton, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California); Yan Li (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seeo, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Yang (Pleasanton, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California); Yan Li (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | PVDF-g-PAN has been synthesized by grafting polyacrylonitrile onto polyvinylidene fluoride using an ATRP/AGET method. The novel polymer is ionically conducive and has much more flexibility than PVDF alone, making it especially useful either as a binder in battery cell electrodes or as a polymer electrolyte in a battery cell. |
| FILED | Sunday, January 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/745834 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/44 (20130101) C08F 259/08 (20130101) C08F 259/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/623 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993183 | Pham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EnerVault Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EnerVault Corporation (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quoc Pham (Milpitas, California); On Chang (San Jose, California); Sumitha Durairaj (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Loss of flow battery electrode catalyst layers during self-discharge or charge reversal may be prevented by establishing and maintaining a negative electrolyte imbalance during at least parts of a flow battery's operation. Negative imbalance may be established and/or maintained actively, passively or both. Actively establishing a negative imbalance may involve detecting an imbalance that is less negative than a desired threshold, and processing one or both electrolytes until the imbalance reaches a desired negative level. Negative imbalance may be effectively established and maintained passively within a cell by constructing a cell with a negative electrode chamber that is larger than the cell's positive electrode chamber, thereby providing a larger quantity of negative electrolyte for reaction with positive electrolyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/095362 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/04186 (20130101) H01M 8/04798 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 08993262 | Coelho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pedro S. Coelho (Los Angeles, California); Eric M. Brustad (Durham, North Carolina); Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Zhan Wang (San Jose, California); Jared C. Lewis (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for catalyzing the conversion of an olefin to any compound containing one or more cyclopropane functional groups using heme enzymes. In certain aspects, the present invention provides a method for producing a cyclopropanation product comprising providing an olefinic substrate, a diazo reagent, and a heme enzyme; and admixing the components in a reaction for a time sufficient to produce a cyclopropanation product. In other aspects, the present invention provides heme enzymes including variants and fragments thereof that are capable of carrying out in vivo and in vitro olefin cyclopropanation reactions. Expression vectors and host cells expressing the heme enzymes are also provided by the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185861 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/62 (20130101) C12P 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993267 | Bodie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth A Bodie (San Carlos, California); George England (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth A Bodie (San Carlos, California); George England (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for improving the yield of microbial processes that use lignocellulose biomass as a nutrient source. The methods comprise conditioning a composition comprising lignocellulose biomass with an enzyme composition that comprises a phenol oxidizing enzyme. The conditioned composition can support a higher rate of growth of microorganisms in a process. In one embodiment, a laccase composition is used to condition lignocellulose biomass derived from non-woody plants, such as corn and sugar cane. The invention also encompasses methods for culturing microorganisms that are sensitive to inhibitory compounds in lignocellulose biomass. The invention further provides methods of making a product by culturing the production microorganisms in conditioned lignocellulose biomass. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/521786 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 1/38 (20130101) C12N 9/001 (20130101) C12N 9/0059 (20130101) C12N 9/0061 (20130101) C12N 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) |
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| US 08993275 | Spodsberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark); Novozymes Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaj Spodsberg (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/765166 |
| 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 9/2437 (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 19/14 (20130101) |
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| US 08993276 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qi Xu (Lakewood, Colorado); John O. Baker (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid molecules encoding chimeric cellulase polypeptides that exhibit improved cellulase activities are disclosed herein. The chimeric cellulase polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acids and methods to produce the cellulases are also described, along with methods of using chimeric cellulases for the conversion of cellulose to sugars such as glucose. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940936 |
| 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 9/2437 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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08993286 — Methods for enhancing the degradation of cellulosic material with chitin binding proteins
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| APPLICANT(S) | Feng Xu (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Xu (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulosic material and for producing substances from the cellulosic material. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117317 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/22 (20130101) C12N 9/2442 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/04 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01014 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James F. Preston (Micanopy, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Preston (Micanopy, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to processes and biocatalysts for producing ethanol and other useful products from biomass and/or other materials. Initial processing of lignocellulosic biomass frequently yields methylglucuronoxylose (MeGAX) and related products which are resistant to further processing by common biocatalysts. Strains of Enterobacter asburiae are shown to be useful in bioprocessing of MeGAX and other materials into useful bioproducts such as ethanol, acetate, lactate, and many others. Genetic engineering may be used to enhance production of desired bioproducts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/122985 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | 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) C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/18 (20130101) C12P 7/40 (20130101) C12P 7/46 (20130101) C12P 7/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/56 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/01 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 08993327 | McKnight et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Guy D. Griffin (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vladimir L. Merkulov (Knoxvill, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Guy D. Griffin (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vladimir L. Merkulov (Knoxvill, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for parallel macromolecular delivery and biochemical/electrochemical interface to whole cells employing carbon nanostructures including nanofibers and nanotubes. A method includes providing a first material on at least a first portion of a first surface of a first tip of a first elongated carbon nanostructure; providing a second material on at least a second portion of a second surface of a second tip of a second elongated carbon nanostructure, the second elongated carbon nanostructure coupled to, and substantially parallel to, the first elongated carbon nanostructure; and penetrating a boundary of a biological sample with at least one member selected from the group consisting of the first tip and the second tip. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/408294 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 11/00 (20130101) C12N 11/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/732 (20130101) Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/746 (20130101) |
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| US 08993736 | Trauner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, None); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, None); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/059052 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (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 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08993793 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chih-Hsiang Tsai (Ames, Iowa); Hung-Ting Chen (Ames, Iowa); Marek Pruski (Ames, Iowa); Takeshi Kobayashi (Ames, Iowa); Show-Ling Lee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Shang-Yi Lin (Ames, Iowa); Chih-Hsiang Tsai (Ames, Iowa); Hung-Ting Chen (Ames, Iowa); Marek Pruski (Ames, Iowa); Takeshi Kobayashi (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides bifunctional silica mesoporous materials, including mesoporous silica nanoparticles (“MSN”), having pores modified with diarylammonium triflate and perfluoroaryl moieties, that are useful for the acid-catalyzed esterification of organic acids with organic alcohols. |
| FILED | Monday, January 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/361613 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/1633 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/08 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/00 (20130101) C11C 3/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993881 | Rand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry Rand (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Diane Pendergrast Burk (Middleton, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating an organic photovoltaic cell includes providing a first electrode; depositing a series of at least seven layers onto the first electrode, each layer consisting essentially of a different organic semiconductor material, the organic semiconductor material of at least an intermediate layer of the sequence being a photoconductive material; and depositing a second electrode onto the sequence of at least seven layers. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is an anode and the other is a cathode. The organic semiconductor materials of the series of at least seven layers are arranged to provide a sequence of decreasing lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMOs) and a sequence of decreasing highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMOs) across the series from the anode to the cathode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/965903 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| 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 27/302 (20130101) H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/0071 (20130101) H01L 51/0072 (20130101) H01L 51/0078 (20130101) H01L 51/4246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 08993960 | McAninch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael D McAninch (Goode, Virginia); Jeffrey J Root (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Operations Group, Inc. (Lynchburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D McAninch (Goode, Virginia); Jeffrey J Root (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of sensors for beam imaging and, in particular, to a new and useful beam imaging sensor for use in determining, for example, the power density distribution of a beam including, but not limited to, an electron beam or an ion beam. In one embodiment, the beam imaging sensor of the present invention comprises, among other items, a circumferential slit that is either circular, elliptical or polygonal in nature. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/826907 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2921 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08994577 | Bielek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy P. Bielek (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas L. Bickel (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy P. Bielek (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas L. Bickel (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image is produced by using all phase histories of a set of phase histories to produce a first pixel array having a first azimuth resolution, and using less than all phase histories of the set to produce a second pixel array having a second azimuth resolution that is coarser than the first azimuth resolution. The first and second pixel arrays are combined to produce a third pixel array defining a desired SAR image that shows distinct shadows of moving objects while preserving detail in stationary background clutter. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542182 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/9017 (20130101) G01S 13/9029 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/9035 (20130101) |
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| US 08995041 | Weir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. (Faribault, Minnesota); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. (Faribault, Minnesota); Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Glenn John Weir (Northfield, Minnesota); Feng Lin (Fujian, China PRC); Chaiwat Engtrakul (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formula LiaEC1M1bM2cOx, wherein “a” ranges from about 0.5 to about 3; b+c ranges from about 0.1 to about 1; c/(b+c) ranges from about 0.1 to about 0.9; and wherein x is about 0.1 to about 50, are disclosed. Methods of making these compounds as well as their use in thin film materials and electrochromic devices are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961184 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/08 (20130101) C23C 14/3414 (20130101) C23C 14/3464 (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 1/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/1523 (20130101) G02F 2001/1502 (20130101) G02F 2001/1555 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/0426 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 14/005 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 08995159 | Carr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Alexander Carr (Cary, North Carolina); Juan Carlos Balda (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Alexander Carr (Cary, North Carolina); Juan Carlos Balda (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for producing an alternating current output voltage from a high-frequency, square-wave input voltage comprising, high-frequency, square-wave input a matrix converter and a control system. The matrix converter comprises a plurality of electrical switches. The high-frequency input and the matrix converter are electrically connected to each other. The control system is connected to each switch of the matrix converter. The control system is electrically connected to the input of the matrix converter. The control system is configured to operate each electrical switch of the matrix converter converting a high-frequency, square-wave input voltage across the first input port of the matrix converter and the second input port of the matrix converter to an alternating current output voltage at the output of the matrix converter. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/592381 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08995787 | Poyneer 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) | Lisa A Poyneer (Livermore, California); Brian J Bauman (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reference-free compensated imaging makes an estimation of the Fourier phase of a series of images of a target. The Fourier magnitude of the series of images is obtained by dividing the power spectral density of the series of images by an estimate of the power spectral density of atmospheric turbulence from a series of scene based wave front sensor (SBWFS) measurements of the target. A high-resolution image of the target is recovered from the Fourier phase and the Fourier magnitude. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/828963 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08996993 | Turner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan E. Turner (Kennewick, Washington); Elizabeth G. Hetzler (Kennewick, Washington); Grant C. Nakamura (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan E. Turner (Kennewick, Washington); Elizabeth G. Hetzler (Kennewick, Washington); Grant C. Nakamura (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis device includes a display configured to depict visible images, and processing circuitry coupled with the display and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access a first vector of a text item and which comprises a plurality of components, to access a second vector of the text item and which comprises a plurality of components, to weight the components of the first vector providing a plurality of weighted values, to weight the components of the second vector providing a plurality of weighted values, and to combine the weighted values of the first vector with the weighted values of the second vector to provide a third vector. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522177 |
| ART UNIT | 2144 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30616 (20130101) |
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| US 08992183 | Perich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl Perich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ashley Macner (Ithaca, New York); Hod Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Paul Steen (Ithaca, New York); Robert MacCurdy (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Electro-osmosis is used to create droplets in order to easily, carefully, and quickly pick-and-place millions of objects (ranging in size from millimeters to nanometers) individually or in parallel. Droplets are formed within channels that are individually controlled in order to achieve a predetermined configuration of the selected objects. |
| FILED | Monday, February 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769534 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/427 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/006 (20130101) F04B 19/16 (20130101) |
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| US 08992960 | Santra |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Swadeshmukul Santra (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Swadeshmukul Santra (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure, among others, include compositions, gels, methods for synthesizing multifunctional silica based nanoparticle gel, method of treating, preventing, or both treating and preventing, a disease in a plant species, method for simultaneously treating citrus plants for citrus canker and preventing the invasion of an Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) vector that carries the pathogen and spreads the citrus greening disease in citrus plants, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074466 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/04 (20130101) A01N 25/04 (20130101) A01N 25/12 (20130101) A01N 25/28 (20130101) A01N 25/34 (20130101) A01N 25/34 (20130101) A01N 31/02 (20130101) A01N 59/16 (20130101) A01N 59/20 (20130101) A01N 59/20 (20130101) A01N 59/20 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08992992 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason P. Rolland (Durham, North Carolina); Benjamin W. Maynor (Durham, North Carolina); Larken E. Euliss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Ansley E. Dennis (Augusta, Georgia); Edward T. Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); R. Jude Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter describes the use of fluorinated elastomer-based materials, in particular perfluoropolyether (PFPE)-based materials, in high-resolution soft or imprint lithographic applications, such as micro- and nanoscale replica molding, and the first nano-contact molding of organic materials to generate high fidelity features using an elastomeric mold. Accordingly, the presently disclosed subject matter describes a method for producing free-standing, isolated nanostructures of any shape using soft or imprint lithography technique. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/852683 |
| 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 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0097 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/0085 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0004 (20130101) H01L 51/0021 (20130101) |
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| US 08993068 | Koberstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (New York, New York); Hernan R. Rengifo (New York, New York); Cristian Grigoras (New York, New York); Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Koberstein (New York, New York); Hernan R. Rengifo (New York, New York); Cristian Grigoras (New York, New York); Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention is directed to methods for modification of functionalized substrates. In another aspect, the invention relates to systems and methods for fabricating multilayer polymer compositions. In certain embodiments, the multilayer polymer compositions described herein can comprise heterobifunctional polymers and heterotrifunctional molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127683 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/20 (20130101) C08G 77/045 (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 183/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993117 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Ellen S. Gawalt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Avaltroni (Staten Island, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Ellen S. Gawalt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael J. Avaltroni (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Phosphorus-based coatings having a plurality of phosphate moieties, a plurality of phosphonate moieties, or both, covalently bonded to an oxide surface of an implantable substrate exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics: (a) the surface phosphorus-containing group density of the coated regions of the substrate is at least about 0.1 nmol/cm2; (b) the phosphorus-based coating has a thickness of less than about 10 nm; or (c) the surface phosphorus-containing group density of the coated regions of the substrate is equal to or greater than the surface hydroxyl group density of the oxide surface of the substrate. Implantable devices embodying the coated substrates are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349367 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 29/106 (20130101) A61L 31/086 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/001 (20130101) C03C 17/23 (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 14/06 (20130101) C23C 22/02 (20130101) C23C 22/48 (20130101) |
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| US 08993303 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Dakota State University (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide cyanobacteria spp. that have been genetically engineered to have increased production of carbon-based products of interest. These genetically engineered hosts efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest such as long chained hydrocarbons. Several constructs containing polynucleotides encoding enzymes active in the metabolic pathways of cyanobacteria are disclosed. In many instances, the cyanobacteria strains have been further genetically modified to optimize production of the carbon-based products of interest. The optimization includes both up-regulation and down-regulation of particular genes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/405208 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 08993328 | Yarmush et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Piscataway, New Jersey); Eric J. Wallenstein (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Rene S. Schloss (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Yarmush (Piscataway, New Jersey); Eric J. Wallenstein (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Rene S. Schloss (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for improving the efficiency of a transient gene delivery system to differentiating embryonic stem (ES) cells by serum starving the targeted cells for one to three days prior to transfection. Such a serum starvation surprisingly resulted in increased expression of a constitutively-controlled plasmid from 50.4% to 83.2% of the population and increased expression of a promoter/enhancer controlled plasmid from ˜1.4% to ˜3.7% of the population. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564903 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993335 | Bazan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Shu Wang (Goleta, California); Bin Liu (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Shu Wang (Goleta, California); Bin Liu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor PBP that can bind to the target polynucleotide. The sensor PBP comprises a signaling chromophore to absorb energy from the excited multichromophore and emit light in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779412 |
| 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 1/6818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 2565/101 (20130101) |
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| US 08993736 | Trauner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, None); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, None); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/059052 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (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 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08993804 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Zhang (Superior, Colorado); Jyothish Kuthanapillil (Boulder, Colorado); Qi Wang (Qingdao, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to highly active and selective catalysts for alkyne metathesis. In one aspect, the invention includes a multidentate organic ligand wherein one substrate-binding site of the metal center is blocked. In another aspect, the invention includes N-quaternized or silane-based multidentate organic ligands, capable of binding to metals. In yet another aspect, the invention includes N-quaternized or silane-based multidentate catalysts. The catalysts of the invention show high robustness, strong resistance to small alkyne polymerization and significantly enhanced catalytic activity compared to their corresponding non-quaternized or non-silane-based multidentate catalyst analogs. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791410 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2295 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 37/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 6/02 (20130101) C07C 6/02 (20130101) C07C 11/22 (20130101) C07C 17/26 (20130101) C07C 17/269 (20130101) C07C 17/269 (20130101) C07C 25/24 (20130101) C07C 25/24 (20130101) C07C 37/48 (20130101) C07C 37/48 (20130101) C07C 39/21 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 43/215 (20130101) C07C 45/72 (20130101) C07C 45/72 (20130101) C07C 47/548 (20130101) C07C 215/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 215/76 (20130101) C07C 215/90 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/127 (20130101) C07D 333/08 (20130101) C07D 333/18 (20130101) C07D 487/22 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/00 (20130101) C07F 11/00 (20130101) |
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| US 08993839 | Hwang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Minsook Hwang (Davis, California); Benjamin E. Lindenmuth (Davis, California); Karen A. McDonald (Davis, California); Abhaya M. Dandekar (Davis, California); Bryce W. Falk (Davis, California); Sang-Kyu Jung (Davis, California); Nathaniel J. Kingsbury (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Minsook Hwang (Davis, California); Benjamin E. Lindenmuth (Davis, California); Karen A. McDonald (Davis, California); Abhaya M. Dandekar (Davis, California); Bryce W. Falk (Davis, California); Sang-Kyu Jung (Davis, California); Nathaniel J. Kingsbury (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are viral amplicon-based protein expression systems and methods useful for producing heterologous proteins, such as enzymes, by agroinfiltration. The methods involve producing an Agrobacterium with a Ti plasmid encoding a heterologous protein, infecting plant cells with the Agrobacterium, allowing expression of the heterologous protein, and recovering the heterologous protein from the plant cells. In one embodiment, the protein produced is an endoglucanase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/186423 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/244 (20130101) C12N 15/8203 (20130101) C12N 15/8216 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (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 21/02 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01006 (20130101) |
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| US 08993843 | Yanofsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin F. Yanofsky (San Diego, California); Sarah Liljegren (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin F. Yanofsky (San Diego, California); Sarah Liljegren (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides methods and compositions that modulate fruit dehiscence in plants. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/987300 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8223 (20130101) C12N 15/8235 (20130101) C12N 15/8249 (20130101) C12N 15/8255 (20130101) C12N 15/8266 (20130101) C12N 15/8287 (20130101) |
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| US 08993844 | Sylvester et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anne W. Sylvester (Laramie, Wyoming); Randolph V. Lewis (Nibley, Utah); David Jackson (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne W. Sylvester (Laramie, Wyoming); Randolph V. Lewis (Nibley, Utah); David Jackson (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the production of synthetic spider silk-like proteins in corn endosperm or plant shoot tissue are provided. The present invention provides further methods for the identification of synthetic spider silk-like proteins in corn endosperm or plant shoot tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117643 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8257 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 08993996 | Shur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina); Jinwei Yang (Columbia, South Carolina); Alexander Dobrinsky (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A superlattice layer including a plurality of periods, each of which is formed from a plurality of sub-layers is provided. Each sub-layer comprises a different composition than the adjacent sub-layer(s) and comprises a polarization that is opposite a polarization of the adjacent sub-layer(s). In this manner, the polarizations of the respective adjacent sub-layers compensate for one another. Furthermore, the superlattice layer can be configured to be at least partially transparent to radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803718 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0045 (20130101) |
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| US 08994396 | Ho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chih-Hsiang Ho (West Lafayette, Indiana); Chao Lu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Debabrata Mohapatra (West Lafayette, Indiana); Kaushik Roy (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chih-Hsiang Ho (West Lafayette, Indiana); Chao Lu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Debabrata Mohapatra (West Lafayette, Indiana); Kaushik Roy (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Illustrative embodiments of systems and methods for variation-tolerant, self-repairing displays are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a display panel may include one or more defective pixels and a compensation circuit may be configured to extend a charging time of each of the one or more defective pixels. In another illustrative embodiment, a method may include detecting one or more defective pixels in a pixel array and extending a charging time of each of the one or more defective pixels. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/349722 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 3/3233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G09G 3/3648 (20130101) G09G 2310/08 (20130101) G09G 2320/0233 (20130101) G09G 2320/0285 (20130101) G09G 2330/08 (20130101) G09G 2330/10 (20130101) G09G 2330/12 (20130101) |
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| US 08995456 | Rojas-Cessa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roberto Rojas-Cessa (Brooklyn, New York); Chuan-bi Lin (Kearny, New Jersey); Ziqian Dong (Kearny, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Empire Technology Development LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Rojas-Cessa (Brooklyn, New York); Chuan-bi Lin (Kearny, New Jersey); Ziqian Dong (Kearny, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A Clos-network packet switching system may include input modules coupled to a virtual output queue, central modules coupled to the input modules, and output modules coupled to the central modules, each output module having a plurality of cross-point buffers for storing a packet and one or more output ports for outputting the packet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420714 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 49/25 (20130101) H04L 49/101 (20130101) H04L 49/254 (20130101) H04L 49/1515 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 49/3045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995675 | Chandak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anish Chandak (Carrboro, North Carolina); Lakulish Shailesh Antani (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Micah Taylor (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Dinesh Manocha (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anish Chandak (Carrboro, North Carolina); Lakulish Shailesh Antani (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Micah Taylor (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Dinesh Manocha (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for simulating propagation of sound in a static scene can be operated for pre-computing a transfer operator for simulating results of sound reflection within a modeled scene, simulating distribution of sound energy from a sound source positioned within the scene, applying the transfer operator to the distribution of sound energy from the sound source to compute simulated sound at a plurality of points within the scene, and simulating collection of sound energy from the plurality of points within the scene to a listener positioned within the scene. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373940 |
| ART UNIT | 2654 — Audio Signals |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 2300/6081 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5004 (20130101) G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 29/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Stereophonic Systems H04S 7/30 (20130101) H04S 2400/11 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995725 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia Li (State College, Pennsylvania); Lei Yao (State College, Pennsylvania); James Z. Wang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A comprehensive system to enhance the aesthetic quality of the photographs captured by mobile consumers provides on-site composition and aesthetics feedback through retrieved examples. Composition feedback is qualitative in nature and responds by retrieving highly aesthetic exemplar images from the corpus which are similar in content and composition to the snapshot. Color combination feedback provides confidence on the snapshot to contain good color combinations. Overall aesthetics feedback predicts the aesthetic ratings for both color and monochromatic images. An algorithm is used to provide ratings for color images, while new features and a new model are developed to treat monochromatic images. This system was designed keeping the next generation photography needs in mind and is the first of its kind. The feedback rendered is guiding and intuitive in nature. It is computed in situ while requiring minimal input from the user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/308008 |
| 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 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/00624 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) G06K 9/4671 (20130101) G06K 9/6228 (20130101) G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23222 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995736 | Kaufman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Joseph Marino (Pt. Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York); Joseph Marino (Pt. Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer-readable medium for detecting a disease of a prostate. Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can include receiving an image dataset acquired with at least one acquisition mode; segmenting a region of interest including the prostate from the dataset; applying conformal mapping to map the region of interest to a canonical shape; generating a 3D visualization of the prostate using the canonically mapped dataset; and applying computer aided detection (CAD) to the canonically mapped volume to detect a region of disease of the organ. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/574438 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30081 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08996528 | Long et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Long (Palo Alto, California); Zhongfei Mark Zhang (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Relational clustering has attracted more and more attention due to its phenomenal impact in various important applications which involve multi-type interrelated data objects, such as Web mining, search marketing, bioinformatics, citation analysis, and epidemiology. A probabilistic model is presented for relational clustering, which also provides a principal framework to unify various important clustering tasks including traditional attributes-based clustering, semi-supervised clustering, co-clustering and graph clustering. The model seeks to identify cluster structures for each type of data objects and interaction patterns between different types of objects. Under this model, parametric hard and soft relational clustering algorithms are provided under a large number of exponential family distributions. The algorithms are applicable to relational data of various structures and at the same time unify a number of state-of-the-art clustering algorithms: co-clustering algorithms, the k-partite graph clustering, and semi-supervised clustering based on hidden Markov random fields. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/217939 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08996548 | Garmon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronnie J. Garmon (Marietta, Georgia); Jim J. Deffenbaugh (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inmar Analytics, Inc. (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronnie J. Garmon (Marietta, Georgia); Jim J. Deffenbaugh (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to identifying consuming entity behavior across domains. Identity records are stored in a memory accessible to a computing system. Each of the identity records comprises at least one attribute, and the identity records originate from a plurality of domains. A determination is made as to whether a first one of the identity records identifies a consumption entity that is identified by a second one of the identity records. The first and the second identity records originate from separate ones of the domains, and the second one of the identity records is associated with a persistent key. The persistent key is associated with the consumption entity. The first identity record is associated with the persistent key if the first identity record is determined to identify the consumption entity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/009666 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30864 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 30/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08997198 | Kelley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Alan Kelley (Waltham, Massachusetts); Roberto Tamassia (Providence, Rhode Island); Nikolaos Triandopoulos (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is performed by a data server of a plurality of data servers connected to a network, the data server including data storage managed by a remote metadata server, the metadata server managing storage of data across the plurality of data servers. The method includes (a) receiving, via the network, an access request from a client, the access request requesting access to a portion of the data storage of the data server, (b) testing whether the access request includes a data server specific token authenticating that the client has been authorized by the metadata server to access the portion of data storage, and (c) in response to testing, providing the client with access to the portion of data storage on condition that the access request includes the token authenticating that the client has been authorized by the metadata server to access the portion of data storage. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731858 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/31 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08991478 | Zaffetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Connecticut); Michael B. Laurin (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Zaffetti (Suffield, Connecticut); Michael B. Laurin (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural cold plate assembly includes cold plates mounted to opposing sides of a panel and in fluid communication through fluid passages that extend through the panel. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748552 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20254 (20130101) H05K 7/20509 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08992149 | Dixon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Benjamin Christopher Dixon (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aerojet Rocketdyne of DE, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Benjamin Christopher Dixon (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-rotation keys are typically used in applications where an end of a threaded stud is received in a housing, and where the opposite end of the stud projects from the housing to allow attachment of another component to the housing. Once partially received in the housing, further rotation of the stud is prevented by an anti-rotation key. The disclosed anti-rotation key is self-retaining, in that it prevents itself from “backing out” of the channel due to vibration or thermal expansion of the housing, etc., while also being removable from the channel if desired. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/223355 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 39/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 411/948 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993231 | Claudio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pier Paolo Claudio (Huntington, West Virginia); Jagan V. Valluri (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marshall University Research Corporation (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pier Paolo Claudio (Huntington, West Virginia); Jagan V. Valluri (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for rapidly expanding a stem cell population with or without culture supplements in simulated microgravity conditions. The present invention relates to methods for rapidly increasing the life span of stem cell populations without culture supplements in simulated microgravity conditions. The present invention also relates to methods for increasing the sensitivity of cancer stem cells to chemotherapeutic agents by culturing the cancer stem cells under microgravity conditions and in the presence of omega-3 fatty acids. The methods of the present invention can also be used to proliferate cancer cells by culturing them in the presence of omega-3 fatty acids. The present invention also relates to methods for testing the sensitivity of cancer cells and cancer stem cells to chemotherapeutic agents by culturing the cancer cells and cancer stem cells under microgravity conditions. The methods of the present invention can also be used to produce tissue for use in transplantation by culturing stem cells or cancer stem cells under microgravity conditions. The methods of the present invention can also be used to produce cellular factors and growth factors by culturing stem cells or cancer stem cells under microgravity conditions. The methods of the present invention can also be used to produce cellular factors and growth factors to promote differentiation of cancer stem cells under microgravity conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/405944 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0695 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/36 (20130101) C12N 2525/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993303 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Dakota State University (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide cyanobacteria spp. that have been genetically engineered to have increased production of carbon-based products of interest. These genetically engineered hosts efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest such as long chained hydrocarbons. Several constructs containing polynucleotides encoding enzymes active in the metabolic pathways of cyanobacteria are disclosed. In many instances, the cyanobacteria strains have been further genetically modified to optimize production of the carbon-based products of interest. The optimization includes both up-regulation and down-regulation of particular genes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/405208 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993710 | Chuang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chun-Hua Chuang (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chun-Hua Chuang (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the composition and processes for preparing thermoset polyimides derived from an asymmetric dianhydride, namely 2,3,3′,4′-benzophenone dianhydride (a-BTDA) with at least one diamine, and a monofunctional terminal endcaps. The monofunctional terminating groups include 4-phenylethynylphthalic anhydride ester-acid derivatives, phenylethyl trimellitic anhydride (PETA) and its ester derivatives as well as 3-phenylethynylaniline. The process of polyimide composite comprises impregnating monomer reactants of dianhydride or its ester-acid derivatives, diamine and with monofunctional reactive endcaps into glass, carbon, quartz or synthetic fibers and fabrics, and then stack up into laminates and subsequently heated to between 150-375° C. either at atmosphere or under pressure to promote the curing and crosslinking of the reactive endcaps to form a network of thermoset polyimides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/325626 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 79/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08994434 | Willis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott C. Willis (Fairfax Station, Virginia); William C. Singleton (Manassas, Virginia); Russell Buchanan (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for dealing with high inrush current when voltage is applied to mixed voltage logic integrated circuits is disclosed. A depletion N-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) or junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) is added to a linear voltage regulator in mixed voltage logic integrated circuits. The Field Effect Transistor (FET) is utilized to allow the core voltage to come up with Input/Output voltage prior to turn-on of linear voltage regulator. Turn-on state of FET allows the core voltage to rise with Input/Output voltage until the FET threshold is reached across the gate. When threshold is reached, the FET turns off to allow linear voltage regulator turn on and take over supply power. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/765094 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/08104 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08995724 | Asner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Asner (Half Moon Bay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods to automatically analyze Landsat satellite data of forests. The present invention can easily be used to monitor any type of forest disturbance such as from selective logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, natural hazards (fire, wind events, storms), etc. The present invention provides a large-scale, high-resolution, automated remote sensing analysis of such disturbances. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800726 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00657 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08996195 | Yucelen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tansel Yucelen (Atlanta, Georgia); Kilsoo Kim (Atlanta, Georgia); Anthony J. Calise (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tansel Yucelen (Atlanta, Georgia); Kilsoo Kim (Atlanta, Georgia); Anthony J. Calise (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive control system is disclosed. The control system can control uncertain dynamic systems. The control system can employ one or more derivative-free adaptive control architectures. The control system can further employ one or more derivative-free weight update laws. The derivative-free weight update laws can comprise a time-varying estimate of an ideal vector of weights. The control system of the present invention can therefore quickly stabilize systems that undergo sudden changes in dynamics, caused by, for example, sudden changes in weight. Embodiments of the present invention can also provide a less complex control system than existing adaptive control systems. The control system can control aircraft and other dynamic systems, such as, for example, those with non-minimum phase dynamics. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/445610 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08993229 | Kingsley |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David H. Kingsley (Magnolia, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Kingsley (Magnolia, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extracting and distinguishing infectious norovirus from inactive norovirus using a solid support conjugated with a glycoprotein moiety capable of binding infectious norovirus wherein the presence of infectious norovirus is determined using RT-PCR after elution of the infectious norovirus from the solid support. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/597805 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/701 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08993303 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Dakota State University (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruanbao Zhou (Brookings, South Dakota); William Gibbons (Brookings, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide cyanobacteria spp. that have been genetically engineered to have increased production of carbon-based products of interest. These genetically engineered hosts efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest such as long chained hydrocarbons. Several constructs containing polynucleotides encoding enzymes active in the metabolic pathways of cyanobacteria are disclosed. In many instances, the cyanobacteria strains have been further genetically modified to optimize production of the carbon-based products of interest. The optimization includes both up-regulation and down-regulation of particular genes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/405208 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08997258 | Aksyuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersbrug, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland); University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Aksyuk (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Kartik Srinivasan (Silver Spring, Maryland); Houxun Miao (Bethesda, Maryland); Ivo W. Rangelow (Baunatal, Germany); Thomas Michels (Dortmund, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscope probe includes a substrate; an optical resonator disposed on the substrate and including an optical resonance property; a displacement member disposed on the substrate and separated from the optical resonator, the displacement member including: a first end disposed distal to the optical resonator; and a second end disposed proximate to the optical resonator; and a coupling member disposed on the substrate and connecting the displacement member to the substrate, wherein the first end is configured to probe a sample and to be displaced in response to a condition of the sample, the displacement member is configured to communicate displacement of the first end to the second end, and the second end is configured to change the optical resonance property in response to displacement of the second end. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/286480 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 20/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08995729 | Marques et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Marques (Leesburg, Virginia); Jeffrey Hoyt (Herndon, Virginia); Scott Bai (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Marques (Leesburg, Virginia); Jeffrey Hoyt (Herndon, Virginia); Scott Bai (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and computer-readable media that facilitate matching biometric data to entries in a gallery of biometric data. According to embodiments, a method is provided to match a query comprising biometric data to zero or more of the entries in the gallery. According to this method, a match query is received. The entries in the gallery of biometric data can then be filtered using features of the biometric data to produce a subset of entries that excludes unlikely matches to the query biometric data. A set of candidate entries can be created from the subset of entries where the candidate entries are high probability matches to the query biometric data above a certain pre-determined threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/324557 |
| 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 9/6857 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08991881 | Shilts |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Assa Abloy, Inc. (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Assa Abloy, Inc. (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Shilts (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An anti-ligative ergonomic type door-knob primarily of the institutional type, essentially serving to defeat the effort of a temporarily mentally-depressed room occupant from succeeding in committing self-hanging via contrived ensnaring by which to secure a cord like hanging-noose. Generic-variant embodiments of my anti-ligative doorknob are set forth, including both a circular and semi-circular escutcheon-plate for I-shaped V-shaped Y-shaped X-shaped fin-levers, and also a non-finned hemispherical iteration. The novel critical minimum approximate 40-degree anti-ligative principle of my LIFESTAR™ doorknobs reliably prevents a person ensnaring any heretofore problematically hazardous to portion of the door-knob assembly, while my optionally cooperating door latchbolt is formed to a matching critical minimum approximate 40-degree anti-ligative tri-beveled latchbolt as well. Further suicide-deterrence is achieved by effectively submerging the doorknob into the door escutcheon-plate, thereby leaving virtually no declivity by which a suicidal-person can secure any manner of self-inflicted hanging-cord. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/269311 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Locks; Accessories Therefor; Handcuffs E05B 1/003 (20130101) E05B 1/0007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E05B 15/10 (20130101) E05B 65/0017 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 292/65 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 08995729 | Marques et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph P. Marques (Leesburg, Virginia); Jeffrey Hoyt (Herndon, Virginia); Scott Bai (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Marques (Leesburg, Virginia); Jeffrey Hoyt (Herndon, Virginia); Scott Bai (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and computer-readable media that facilitate matching biometric data to entries in a gallery of biometric data. According to embodiments, a method is provided to match a query comprising biometric data to zero or more of the entries in the gallery. According to this method, a match query is received. The entries in the gallery of biometric data can then be filtered using features of the biometric data to produce a subset of entries that excludes unlikely matches to the query biometric data. A set of candidate entries can be created from the subset of entries where the candidate entries are high probability matches to the query biometric data above a certain pre-determined threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/324557 |
| 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 9/6857 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 08993879 | Boca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andreea Boca (Pasadena, California); Daniel C. Law (Arcadia, California); Joseph Charles Boisvert (Thousand Oaks, California); Nasser H. Karam (La Canada, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreea Boca (Pasadena, California); Daniel C. Law (Arcadia, California); Joseph Charles Boisvert (Thousand Oaks, California); Nasser H. Karam (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure including a bonding layer connecting a first semiconductor wafer layer to a second semiconductor wafer layer, the bonding layer including an electrically conductive carbonaceous component and a binder component. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/814722 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08997039 | Andrade 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) | Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Bugra Gedik (Ankara, Turkey); Gabriela Jacques da Silva (Brooklyn, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the invention comprises partial fault tolerant stream processing applications. One embodiment of a method for implementing partial fault tolerance in a stream processing application comprising a plurality of stream operators includes: defining a quality score function that expresses how well the application is performing quantitatively, injecting a fault into at least one of the plurality of operators, assessing an impact of the fault on the quality score function, and selecting at least one partial fault-tolerant technique for implementation in the application based on the quantitative metric-driven assessment. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/867595 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/3612 (20130101) G06F 11/3616 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08992712 | Loy 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 University (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, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas E. Loy (Chandler, Arizona); Emmett Howard (Gilbert, Arizona); Jesmin Haq (Tempe, Arizona); Nicholas Munizza (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing electronic devices including providing a carrier substrate having a first side, a second side, and a first adhesive at the first side; providing a first flexible substrate; and bonding the first flexible substrate to the first side of the carrier substrate. The first adhesive bonds the first flexible substrate to the first side of the carrier substrate. The carrier substrate comprises a mechanism configured to compensate for a deformation of the carrier substrate. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683950 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 7/02 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/49833 (20130101) H01L 27/1218 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78636 (20130101) H01L 51/003 (20130101) H01L 51/0097 (20130101) H01L 51/0508 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2251/5338 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/12044 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08993833 | Colton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carol Anne Colton (Cary, North Carolina); Michael Peter Vitek (Cary, North Carolina); Judianne Davis (East Setauket, New York); William E. VanNostrand (East Setauket, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol Anne Colton (Cary, North Carolina); Michael Peter Vitek (Cary, North Carolina); Judianne Davis (East Setauket, New York); William E. VanNostrand (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified non-human warm-blooded vertebrate animal in which a biologically active human APP polypeptide is expressed, and in which function of its inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (iNOS) protein is reduced as compared to a non-modified animal, methods of making the animal, and methods of testing a candidate composition for activity in the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease using the animal. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228611 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 67/0276 (20130101) A01K 2217/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/054 (20130101) A01K 2217/075 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0312 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08995842 — Secured optical communications using quantum entangled two-photon transparency modulation
| US 08995842 | Kojima et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun Kojima (Strongsville, Ohio); Quang-Viet Nguyen (Richmond Heights, Ohio); John Lekki (Elyria, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administrator (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Kojima (Strongsville, Ohio); Quang-Viet Nguyen (Richmond Heights, Ohio); John Lekki (Elyria, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is disclosed wherein optical signals are coded in a transmitter by tuning or modulating the interbeam delay time (which modulates the fourth-order coherence) between pairs of entangled photons. The photon pairs are either absorbed or not absorbed (transparent) by an atomic or molecular fluorescer in a receiver, depending on the inter-beam delay that is introduced in the entangled photon pairs. Upon the absorption, corresponding fluorescent optical emissions follow at a certain wavelength, which are then detected by a photon detector. The advantage of the disclosed system is that it eliminates a need of a coincidence counter to realize the entanglement-based secure optical communications because the absorber acts as a coincidence counter for entangled photon pairs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536969 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08996431 | Cruz-Albrecht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Cruz-Albrecht (Oak Park, California); Michael W. Yung (Los Angeles, California); Narayan Srinivasa (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spike domain asynchronous neuron circuit includes a first spike to exponential circuit for emulating kinetic dynamics at a neuron input and converting voltage spikes into exponentials, a first adjustable gain circuit for emulating homeostatic plasticity coupled to the first voltage-type spike exponential output and having a first current output, a neuron core circuit coupled to the first current output for emulating a neuron core and having a spike encoded voltage output, a filter and comparator circuit coupled to the spike encoded voltage output and having a gain control output coupled to the first adjustable gain circuit for controlling a gain of the first adjustable gain circuit, and an adjustable delay circuit for emulating an axonal delay coupled to the spike encoded voltage output and having an axonal delay output. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679727 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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