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| US 09004201 | Xi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ning Xi (Okemos, Michigan); Jianguo Zhao (East Lansing, Michigan); Bingtuan Gao (East Lansing, Michigan); Jing Xu (East Lansing, Michigan); Matt Mutka (Okemos, Michigan); Li Xiao (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ning Xi (Okemos, Michigan); Jianguo Zhao (East Lansing, Michigan); Bingtuan Gao (East Lansing, Michigan); Jing Xu (East Lansing, Michigan); Matt Mutka (Okemos, Michigan); Li Xiao (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A jumping robot is provided. In another aspect, a jumping robot weighs less than 50 grams, jumps at least 20 cm high and has a maximum linear dimension of 10 cm. A further aspect provides a robot that employs an electromagnetic actuator that actuates at least two of: jumping, steering, self-righting, and/or mid-air orientation control. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/832284 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/104 (20130101) B25J 9/1682 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09005126 | Beach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirk Beach (Seattle, Washington); John C. Kucewicz (Seattle, Washington); Barbrina Dunmire (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk Beach (Seattle, Washington); John C. Kucewicz (Seattle, Washington); Barbrina Dunmire (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Tissue Pulsatility Imaging (TPI) is an ultrasonic technique developed to measure tissue displacement or strain in the brain due to blood flow over the cardiac and respiratory cycles. Such measurements can be used to facilitate the mapping of brain function as well as to monitor cerebral vasoreactivity. Significantly, because tissue scatters ultrasound to a greater extend than does blood, using ultrasound to measure tissue displacement or strain in the brain is easier to implement than using ultrasound to measure blood flow in the brain. Significantly, transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) has been used to measure blood flow in the brain to map brain function and monitor cerebral vasoreactivity; however, TCD can only acquire data through the three acoustic windows in the skull, limiting the usefulness of TCD. TPI is not so limited. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114703 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 8/0808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 8/0816 (20130101) |
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| US 09005142 | Teicher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The McLean Hospital Corporation (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The McLean Hospital Corporation (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin H. Teicher (Rye, New Hampshire); Kyoko Ohashi (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and systems for the diagnosis of ADHD and related disorders. The methods and systems of the invention can also be used to ascertain how much benefit an individual would derive from a particular therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921764 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/168 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/1128 (20130101) A61B 5/7282 (20130101) |
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| US 09005252 | Panjabi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manohar M. Panjabi (Cancord, Massachusetts); Jens P. Timm (Carlsbad, California); George Malcolmson, II (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); Rachiotek, LLC (Wellesly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manohar M. Panjabi (Cancord, Massachusetts); Jens P. Timm (Carlsbad, California); George Malcolmson, II (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Spine stabilization devices, systems and methods are provided in which a single resilient member or spring is disposed on an elongate element that spans two attachment members attached to different spinal vertebrae. The elongate element passes through at least one of the two attachment members, permitting relative motion therebetween, and terminates in a stop or abutment. A second resilient member is disposed on the elongate element on an opposite side of the sliding attachment member, e.g., in an overhanging orientation. The two resilient members are capable of applying mutually opposing urging forces, and a compressive preload can be applied to one or both of the resilient members. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/409605 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/702 (20130101) A61B 17/7007 (20130101) A61B 17/7026 (20130101) A61B 17/7028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/7041 (20130101) A61B 17/7049 (20130101) |
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| US 09005425 | Burrows et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and compounds for detecting modified nucleic acid bases are disclosed and described. The methods provide for detecting a nucleic acid lesion and can include directing a nucleic acid adduct into a channel, wherein the nucleic acid adduct includes a nucleic acid having a lesion and a current modulating compound coupled to the nucleic acid at the lesion (110), and measuring a change in current through the channel in response to the current modulating compound to detect the lesion (112). The method can optionally include forming the nucleic acid adduct. Also provided is a method for identifying the number of repeat nucleotides in at least a portion of a nucleic acid strand, a method of assigning a registration marker within a nucleic acid, and a method of obtaining sequence information from a nucleic acid comprising assigning a registration marker on the nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/227212 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) 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 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005526 | Karger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry L. Karger (Newton, Massachusetts); Jian Zhang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer-based PLOT capillary column prepared by in situ copolymerization of a functional monomer and a crosslinking monomer, which enhances the strength of the polymer matrix, is disclosed. Also disclosed is a system comprising the polymer-based PLOT column coupled to a mass flow or concentration sensitive detector, for carrying out a chemical analysis method on samples separated by liquid chromatography using the column, and a process for using the system. Columns of the invention can be prepared in a robust fashion with a very narrow i.d., e.g., 5-15 μm. Thus, they are suitable for commercial use in ultratrace LC/MS proteomic analysis. Columns according to the invention are characterized by high resolving power and high column-to-column reproducibility. When these columns are coupled on-line with, e.g., ESI-MS detection, the resulting systems are capable of detecting the component parts of complex proteomic samples down to the low attomole to sub-attomole level. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/048378 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/285 (20130101) B01J 20/289 (20130101) B01J 20/327 (20130101) B01J 20/3282 (20130101) B01J 20/28085 (20130101) B01J 2220/54 (20130101) B01J 2220/84 (20130101) B01J 2220/86 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 30/6073 (20130101) G01N 30/7266 (20130101) G01N 2030/528 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/11 (20150115) Y10T 436/117497 (20150115) |
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| US 09005544 | Van Dam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Michael Van Dam (Los Angeles, California); Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California); Supin Chen (Los Angeles, California); Huijiang Ding (Hanchuan, China PRC); Gaurav Jitendra Shah (Los Angeles, California); Pei Yuin Keng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Michael Van Dam (Los Angeles, California); Chang-Jin Kim (Beverly Hills, California); Supin Chen (Los Angeles, California); Huijiang Ding (Hanchuan, China PRC); Gaurav Jitendra Shah (Los Angeles, California); Pei Yuin Keng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of performing microchemical reactions and electro-wetting-on-dielectric devices (EWOD devices) for use in performing those reactions. These devices and method are particularly suited for preparing radiochemical compounds, particularly compounds containing 18F. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/500785 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/00783 (20130101) B01J 2219/00853 (20130101) B01J 2219/00873 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) |
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| US 09005551 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuqi Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts); Lingjun Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuqi Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts); Lingjun Chen (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample vessel may include a segmented tubule and an interface receiving the tubule. The segmented tubule may include an opening for receiving a sample material and at least one compressible section, the at least one compressible section having a wall constructed at least partially from a material having sufficient flexibility to permit compression of opposed sections of the wall into contact with one another, and at least two segments of the tubule being fluidically isolated from one another by a bonding of a fluid-tight seal between opposed sections of the tubule wall, wherein said fluid-tight seal irreversibly opens upon application of fluid pressure greater than a threshold value to permit selective fluid communication between the opposed sections. The interface may facilitate delivery of a sample material to the tubule through the opening. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/022311 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1427 (20130101) A61B 5/1438 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502 (20130101) B01L 3/505 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/50825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/026 (20130101) B01L 2300/021 (20130101) B01L 2300/046 (20130101) B01L 2300/047 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) |
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| US 09005575 | Miao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yubin Miao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jianquan Yang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yubin Miao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jianquan Yang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tools/compounds comprising a hybride cyclic peptide which utilizes a cyclic peptide chelating group wherein the compound binds to a MSH receptor to image and treat cancers, especially, melanoma, including metastatic melanoma in vivo. The present invention represents a clear advance in the art which presently relies on tissue biopsy for diagnoses of these cancers. The novel imaging probes are capable of detecting cancerous melanoma cells, as well as their metastatic spread in tissues. This represents a quantum step forward in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma, including metastatic melanoma using non-invasive molecular imaging techniques. The novel probes of the present invention will also be useful to initiate therapy for melanoma as well as monitor patients response to chemotherapy treatments and other interventions or therapies used in the treatment of melanoma/metastatic melanoma. Compound according to the present invention may be used as diagnostic tools for a number of conditions and diseases states as well as therapeutic agents for treating such conditions and disease states. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321942 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 51/082 (20130101) A61K 51/086 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) |
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| US 09005600 | Debinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Waldemar Debinski (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Hetal Pandya (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Denise Gibo (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound comprising, in combination: a cell surface binding ligand or internalizing factor, such as an IL-13Rα2 binding ligand; at least one effector molecule (e.g., one, two, three or more effector molecules); optionally but preferably, a cytosol localization element covalently coupled between said binding ligand and said at least one effector molecule; and a subcellular compartment localization signal element covalently coupled between said binding ligand and said at least one effector molecule (and preferably with said cytosol localization element between said binding ligand and said subcellular compartment localization signal element). Methods of using such compounds and formulations containing the same are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/718166 |
| 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 14/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/34 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/532 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5091 (20130101) G01N 33/6869 (20130101) |
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| US 09005603 | Murray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Murray (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric V. Marietta (Rochester, Minnesota); Susan H. Barton (Reston, Virginia); Veena Taneja (Rochester, Minnesota); Ashutosh Mangalam (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to Prevotella histicola preparations. For example, Prevotella histicola preparations in the form of an oral medicament or dietary supplement (e.g., a pill, tablet, capsule) are provided. In addition, methods and materials for using a Prevotella histicola preparation provided herein as an anti-inflammatory agent are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/086090 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/3014 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/74 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005629 | Pardoll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew M Pardoll (Brookeville, Maryland); Ching-Tai Huang (Taipei, Taiwan); Jonathan Powell (Baltimore, Maryland); Charles Drake (Baltimore, Maryland); Dario A Vignali (Germantown, Tennessee); Creg J Workman (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Mammals with cancer are treated with an antibody which specifically binds to CD223 protein and inhibits negative T cell regulatory function of CD223. The mammal may be a human. The antibody may be a monoclonal antibody. The amount of the antibody administered may be sufficient to enhance an immune T cell response to the cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679485 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0271 (20130101) A01K 67/0276 (20130101) A01K 2267/0381 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2035/122 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70503 (20130101) C07K 16/42 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 2501/599 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2799/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09005631 | Berkower |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ira Berkower (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira Berkower (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are isolated immunogens including variant hepatitis B surface antigens (HBsAgs). In an example, a variant HBsAg includes a HBsAg with one or more transmembrane domains of the HBsAg replaced with a gp41 antigenic insert. The antigenic insert can include an antigenic polypeptide fragment of gp41 including the membrane proximal region of gp41 and a transmembrane membrane region of gp41. The replacement of a membrane spanning domain of HBsAg with a membrane spanning domain of gp41 anchors gp41 into HBsAg in virtually the identical orientation as on HIV virions and correctly orients the nearby MPR on the lipid layer. Thus, the disclosed variant HBsAgs display the neutralization-sensitive MPR in association with a lipid layer, while presenting it at the most immunogenic site on HBsAg. Also disclosed are uses of these variant HBsAgs, and nucleic acids encoding variant HBsAgs, such as to induce an immune response to HIV-1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057414 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/292 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/64 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2730/10122 (20130101) C12N 2730/10134 (20130101) C12N 2740/15022 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16222 (20130101) |
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| US 09005632 | Stinchcomb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan T. Stinchcomb (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge E. Osorio (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Timothy D. Powell (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jeremy C. Jones (Memphis, Tennessee); Joseph N. Brewoo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Takeda Vaccines, Inc. (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan T. Stinchcomb (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge E. Osorio (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Timothy D. Powell (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jeremy C. Jones (Memphis, Tennessee); Joseph N. Brewoo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention generally disclose methods, compositions and uses for generating and expressing poxvirus constructs. In some embodiments, constructs may contain an influenza virus gene segment. In certain embodiments, methods generally relate to making and using compositions of constructs including, but not limited to, poxvirus vaccine compositions having two or more influenza gene segments. In other embodiments, vaccine compositions are reported of use in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/555026 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/863 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/24143 (20130101) C12N 2760/16034 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09005656 | Shami et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul J. Shami (Sandy, Utah); Ken M. Kosak (West Valley City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Shami (Sandy, Utah); Ken M. Kosak (West Valley City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions useful in anticancer treatment and prevention. The compositions are composed of (a) an O2-aryl substituted diazeniumdiolate and (b) an amphiphile, wherein the amount of amphiphile is sufficient to produce a liposome or micelle. The compositions described herein provide numerous advantages such as increased solubility and stability of the O2-aryl substituted diazeniumdiolate in vivo. The compositions also do not induce hypotension. Methods for using the compositions in anticancer treatment and prevention are also described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/921227 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005889 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ru Chih C. Huang (Baltimore, Maryland); Ibrahim S. Abd-Elazem (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ru Chih C. Huang (Baltimore, Maryland); Ibrahim S. Abd-Elazem (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods for the treatment of HIV/HSP/HPV, in particular, compositions and methods for a 3 part combination therapy for HIV/HSV/HPV, comprising a viral attachment inhibitor, a viral sequence integration inhibitor, and a proviral transcription inhibitor. The therapy is advantageous for the treatment of HIV infection, and is also effective for HSV and HPV infection. Also disclosed are novel viral attachment inhibitors and methods of use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/523513 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09005893 | Tuschl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tuschl (Brooklyn, New York); John Pena (New York, New York); Pavol Cekan (New York, New York); Cherin Sohn (Rego Park, New York); Sara H. Rouhanifard (New York, New York); Janos Ludwig (Bonn-Venusberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method for fixing a short nucleic acid in a biological sample. In another aspect, the invention relates to a method for detecting a target short nucleic acid in a biological sample. The method includes contacting the biological sample with an aldehyde-containing fixative, and subsequently contacting the sample with a water-soluble carbodiimide. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a kit for fixing a short nucleic acid in a biological sample. The kit includes a support substrate for holding the sample; an aldehyde-containing fixative; and a water-soluble carbodiimide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/759363 |
| 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 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 2523/101 (20130101) C12Q 2523/101 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005903 | Rubin-Bejerano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ImmuneXcite, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ImmuneXcite, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ifat Rubin-Bejerano (Newton, Massachusetts); Gerald R. Fink (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to β1-6 glucans, compositions, diagnostic kits, and devices comprising the same, and methods of use thereof in modulating immune response and treating, delaying progression of, reducing the incidence or severity of cancer, infection, inflammation, and autoimmune diseases. The β1-6 glucans of certain embodiments of the invention are enriched for O-acetylated groups and/or conjugated to a solid support or linked to a targeting moiety. The β1-6 glucans of certain embodiments of the invention recruit immunoglobulin G antibodies to mediate complement and neutrophil killing. The conjugated β1-6 glucans of certain embodiments of the invention are targeted to cells to stimulate the immune response at the target location by activating complement-mediated lysis and recruitment of neutrophils. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103015 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/4823 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 2039/55583 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2333/415 (20130101) G01N 2400/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09005904 | Hazen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Michael Kinter (Shaker Hts., Ohio); Marc S. Penn (Beachwood, Ohio); Jonathan Smith (Shaker Hts., Ohio); Lemin Zheng (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein methods for determining whether a subject, particularly a human subject, is at risk of developing, having, or experiencing a complication of cardiovascular disease, and methods of treating subjects who are identified by the current methods of being at risk for cardiovascular disease. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining levels of one or more oxidized apolipoprotein A-I related biomolecules in a bodily sample from the subject. Also, provided are kits and reagents for use in the present methods. Also provided are methods for monitoring the status of cardiovascular disease in a subject or the effects of therapeutic agents on subjects with cardiovascular disease. Such method comprising determining levels of one or more oxidized apolipoprotein A-I related molecules in bodily samples taken from the subject over time or before and after therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/275307 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/561 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/775 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09005929 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (San Diego, California); Helmy A. Eltoukhy (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for obtaining nucleic acid sequence information that can include steps of (a) providing a first sequencing reagent to a target nucleic acid, wherein the first sequencing reagent comprises at least two different nucleotide monomers, (b) detecting the incorporation of a nucleotide monomer present in the first sequencing reagent into a polynucleotide strand complementary to at least a portion of the target nucleic acid, (c) providing a second sequencing reagent to said target nucleic acid, wherein the second sequencing reagent comprises one or more nucleotide monomers, at least one of the one or more nucleotide monomers being different from the nucleotide monomers present in the first sequencing reagent, and wherein the second sequencing reagent is provided subsequent to providing the first sequencing reagent, and (d) detecting the incorporation of a nucleotide monomer present in the second sequencing reagent into the polynucleotide strand. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/200674 |
| 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 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) C12Q 2565/543 (20130101) |
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| US 09005964 | Verfaillie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Catherine Verfaillie (Leuven, Belgium); Lucas Chase (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Verfaillie (Leuven, Belgium); Lucas Chase (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to endodermal progenitor cells and methods of isolation, culture, differentiation and use thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/312731 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — 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 2267/0325 (20130101) 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 5/0678 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/42 (20130101) C12N 2500/44 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/235 (20130101) C12N 2533/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09005968 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tongxiang Lin (La Jolla, California); Sheng Ding (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tongxiang Lin (La Jolla, California); Sheng Ding (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The slow kinetics and low efficiency of reprogramming methods to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) impose major limitations on their utility in biomedical applications. Here we describe a chemical approach that dramatically improves (>200 fold) the efficiency of iPSC generation from human fibroblasts, within seven days of treatment. This will provide a basis for developing safer, more efficient, non-viral methods for reprogramming human somatic cells. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/500373 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09005969 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhifang Zhang (Glendora, California); John E. Shively (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a monocyte derived bone-forming cell population is provided. In one embodiment, the cell population comprises an isolated monocyte cell population treated with an effective dose of LL-37. In another embodiment, a method of producing a population of monocyte-derived bone-forming cells is provided. The method comprises obtaining a blood sample from a subject; isolating a population of monocytes from the blood sample; treating the isolated monocytes with an effective dose of LL-37; and culturing the LL-37 treated monocytes until they differentiate into the population of monocyte-derived bone-forming cells. In another embodiment, a method of treatment for a bone injury or bone disease is provided. The method comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition to a subject having the bone injury or disease, the composition comprising a population of monoosteophils. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/955196 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/32 (20130101) A61K 38/48 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0654 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2506/115 (20130101) |
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| US 09005981 | Orr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nailah Orr (Carmel, Indiana); Gerald B. Watson (Zionsville, Indiana); Gary D. Gustafson (Zionsville, Indiana); James M. Hasler (Danville, Indiana); Chaoxian Geng (Westford, Massachusetts); Scott Chouinard (Medford, Massachusetts); Kevin R. Cook (Bloomington, Indiana); Vincent L. Salgado (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow AgroSciences LLC (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nailah Orr (Carmel, Indiana); Gerald B. Watson (Zionsville, Indiana); Gary D. Gustafson (Zionsville, Indiana); James M. Hasler (Danville, Indiana); Chaoxian Geng (Westford, Massachusetts); Scott Chouinard (Medford, Massachusetts); Kevin R. Cook (Bloomington, Indiana); Vincent L. Salgado (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is in the field of identification and characterization of novel insecticidal target sites and, in particular, relates to host cells, assays and antibodies thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644683 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 16/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2503/00 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/43552 (20130101) G01N 2333/70571 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09005982 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Anderson (Larkspur, California); Anthony K. Shum (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Anderson (Larkspur, California); Anthony K. Shum (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally related to pulmonary autoantigens. The disclosure provides methods and kits for assessing whether a subject has or is predisposed to interstitial lung disease. Additionally the present disclosure provides methods of treatment and animal models of interstitial lung disease. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/703617 |
| 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 67/027 (20130101) A01K 2227/101 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2227/106 (20130101) A01K 2267/0325 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/6884 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/12 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09005987 | Kartalov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emil P. Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Clive R. Taylor (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emil P. Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Clive R. Taylor (Malibu, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods for quantitative target detection in a sample through use of microbeads and related devices and systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761299 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) |
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| US 09005995 | Gracias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Gracias (Baltimore, Maryland); Timothy Gar-Ming Leong (Alexandria, Virginia); Hongke Ye (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a nanoscale or microscale particle for encapsulation and delivery of materials or substances, including, but not limited to, cells, drugs, tissue, gels and polymers contained within the particle, with subsequent release of the therapeutic materials in situ, methods of fabricating the particle by folding a 2D precursor into the 3D particle, and the use of the particle in in-vivo or in-vitro applications. The particle can be in any polyhedral shape and its surfaces can have either no perforations or nano/microscale perforations. The particle is coated with a biocompatible metal, e g gold, or polymer e g parvlene, layer and the surfaces and hinges of the particle are made of any metal or polymer combinations. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199258 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/062 (20130101) A61B 5/4839 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0097 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 49/1821 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 37/0069 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/286 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/70 (20130101) Y10S 977/902 (20130101) Y10S 977/904 (20130101) Y10S 977/905 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101) |
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| US 09006186 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jingbo Xiao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerian Kagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yulia Tyurina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Kanai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition and related methods for delivering cargo to a mitochondria which includes (a) a membrane active peptidyl fragment having a high affinity with the mitochondria and (b) cargo. The cargo may be selected from a wide variety of desired cargoes which are to be delivered to the mitochondria for a specific purpose. Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating an illness that is caused or associated with cellular damage or dysfunction which is caused by excessive mitochondrial production of reaction oxygen species (ROS). Compositions which act as mitochondria-selective targeting agents using the structural signaling of the β-turn recognizable by cells as mitochondria) targeting sequences are discussed. Mitochondria and cell death by way of apoptosis is inhibited as a result of the ROS-scavenging activity, thereby increasing the survival rate of the patient. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/058461 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09006190 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo Croce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); George Calin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo Croce (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); George Calin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The miR15 and miR16 micro RNA genes are located at 13q14 within a 30 kb region of loss characteristic of cells from certain cancers, such as cells from chronic lymphocytic leukemia or prostate cancer. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia or prostate cancer can be diagnosed by detecting a reduction in miR15 or miR16 gene copy number, by determining miR15 or miR16 gene mutational status, or by detecting a reduction in the RNA transcribed from these genes. The miR15 or miR16 gene products can inhibit the neoplastic or tumorigenic growth of cancers such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia or prostate cancer cells when administered to subjects suffering from these diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319331 |
| 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 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (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 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09006192 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Wei Li (Guangdong, China PRC); Yingting Zhu (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Wei Li (Guangdong, China PRC); Yingting Zhu (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods and compositions for stimulating proliferation of cells that express adherent junctions and cease proliferation, for example, human corneal endothelial cells, by downregulation of certain cell-cell junctions. In one embodiment, downregulation is achieved using RNA interference, and contacting the cells with mitogenic growth factors and an agent that elevates intracytoplasmic cAMP. Furthermore, described herein are methods of isolating human corneal endothelial cells from keratocytes, and methods of preserving and maintaining viability of human corneal endothelial cell aggregates. Also described are surgical grafts comprising human corneal endothelial cells that have been isolated, optionally stored, and transiently contacted with an agent that downregulates expression of p 120, and a biocompatible support. The methods and compositions described herein can be used in novel therapies to help expand human corneal endothelial cells during in vitro tissue engineering and for in vivo treatment of corneal endothelial dysfunction. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446740 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 35/44 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2501/58 (20130101) C12N 2509/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09006193 | Stayton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Anthony J. Convertine (Seattle, Washington); Craig L. Duvall (Nashville, Tennessee); Danielle Benoit (Rochester, New York); Robert W. Overell (Shoreline, Washington); Paul H. Johnson (Snohomish, Washington); Anna S. Gall (Woodinville, Washington); Mary G. Prieve (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Amber E. E. Paschal (Redmond, Washington); Charbel Diab (Seattle, Washington); Priyadarsi De (Mohanpur, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); PhaseRx, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Anthony J. Convertine (Seattle, Washington); Craig L. Duvall (Nashville, Tennessee); Danielle Benoit (Rochester, New York); Robert W. Overell (Shoreline, Washington); Paul H. Johnson (Snohomish, Washington); Anna S. Gall (Woodinville, Washington); Mary G. Prieve (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Amber E. E. Paschal (Redmond, Washington); Charbel Diab (Seattle, Washington); Priyadarsi De (Mohanpur, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are polymeric carriers suitable for the delivery of polynucleotides (e.g. oligonucleotides) and/or other therapeutic agents into a living cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/992536 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 293/005 (20130101) 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 09006194 | Katsikis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter D. Katsikis (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Alina C. Boesteanu (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania); Sefik S. Alkan (Basel, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter D. Katsikis (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Alina C. Boesteanu (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania); Sefik S. Alkan (Basel, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for preventing and diminishing virus infection. The invention further relates to compositions and methods for diminishing inflammation associated with viral infection. The invention also relates to compositions and methods for interfering with TLR activation, and thereby diminishing inflammation associated with viral infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/140521 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 31/7125 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/117 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/332 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09006195 | Baltimore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Ryan M. O'Connell (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Ryan M. O'Connell (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to regulation of functions of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) by delivering of miRNAs, including miR-125b, miR-126, and miR-155, to HSCs. For example, in some embodiments, blood output in a mammal can be increased by administering miR-125b, miR-126, and/or miR-155 oligonucleotides. Also disclosed are methods for promoting hematopoietic stem cell engraftment and method for treating a myeloproliferative disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/230673 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2310/141 (20130101) |
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| US 09006203 | Klinman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Hiroshi Yamada (Yokohama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to oligodeoxynucleotides that suppress an immune response. Methods are disclosed for reducing neutrophil infiltration in subjects with inflammatory lung disease-by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/932906 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 15/117 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/151 (20130101) |
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| US 09006212 | Bachelet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ido Bachelet (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Mark Bulmer (Towson, Maryland); Rebeca B. Rosengaus (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ido Bachelet (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Mark Bulmer (Towson, Maryland); Rebeca B. Rosengaus (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and kits comprising carbohydrate-based inhibitors that bind GNBP and/or inhibit β(1,3)-glucanase activity. Also provided are methods of using such inhibitors to protect against or treat pest infestation, as are compositions and kits comprising subparts of the carbohydrate-based inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778077 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — 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 25/34 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0024 (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) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/924 (20130101) G01N 2333/43552 (20130101) G01N 2333/43582 (20130101) |
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| US 09006221 | Kerr |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William G. Kerr (Syracuse, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Reserach Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Kerr (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating or preventing an immune disorder, such as graft versus host disease, in a subject. The method includes the administering a SHIP1 inhibitor, such as 3α-aminocholestane, to a subject in need of treatment. Thus, SHIP1 inhibitors taught herein represent a novel class of small molecules that have the potential to enhance allogeneic transplantation, boost innate immunity and improve the treatment of hematologic malignancies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085824 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006231 | Gin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Y. Gin (Pelham, New York); Jeremy Wilmot (Inadianapolis, Indiana); Hakim Djaballah (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel cephalotaxus esters, syntheses thereof, and intermediates thereto. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the present invention and methods of using said compounds or compositions in the treatment of proliferative diseases (e.g., benign neoplasm, cancer, inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, diabetic retinopathy) and infectious disease. The invention further provides methods of using said compounds or compositions in the treatment of multidrug resistant cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/920899 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/14 (20130101) C07D 491/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006233 | Cook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Cook (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Terry S. Clayton (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Hiteshkumar D. Jain (Mumbai, India); Sundari K. Rallipalli (Oak Creek, Wisconsin); Yun Teng Johnson (Glendale, Wisconsin); Jie Yang (Renssalaer, New York); Michael Ming-jin Poe (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Ojas A. Namjoshi (Cary, North Carolina); Zhi-jian Wang (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Cook (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Terry S. Clayton (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Hiteshkumar D. Jain (Mumbai, India); Sundari K. Rallipalli (Oak Creek, Wisconsin); Yun Teng Johnson (Glendale, Wisconsin); Jie Yang (Renssalaer, New York); Michael Ming-jin Poe (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Ojas A. Namjoshi (Cary, North Carolina); Zhi-jian Wang (Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are α3 or α2 or α2/α3 GABAergic receptor subtype selective ligands, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of use of such ligands and compositions in treatment of anxiety disorders, epilepsy and schizophrenia with reduced sedative and ataxic side effects. In embodiments, such as α3 or α2 or α2/α3 GABAergic receptor subtype selective ligands lack ester linkages and may be thus relatively insensitive to hydrolysis by esterases. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/458168 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 487/14 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09006388 | Paul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sudhir Paul (Missouri City, Texas); Yasuhiro Nishiyama (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sudhir Paul (Missouri City, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudhir Paul (Missouri City, Texas); Yasuhiro Nishiyama (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A covalently reactive ligand analogue (CAL) of formula (1): wherein, L1 . . . Lx . . . Lm are components defining a ligand determinant, Lx is a component unit of the ligand determinant selected from the group consisting of an amino acid residue, sugar residue, a fatty acid residue and a nucleotide, L′ is a functional group of Lx, Y″ is atom, covalent bond or linker, Y′ is an optional charged or neutral group Y is a covalently reactive electrophilic group that reacts specifically with a receptor that binds to said ligand determinant, and n is an integer from 1 to 1000 m is an integer from 1 to 30. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/581296 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48238 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/60 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/6093 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/1063 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) |
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| US 09006394 | Kiessling et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Lee Kiessling (Madison, Wisconsin); Joseph R. Klim (Boston, Massachusetts); Lingyin Li (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of growing and maintaining pluripotent cells on an insoluble substrate that presents a peptide that binds to glycosaminoglycans, such as heparin. Specifically, methods of growing and maintaining pluripotent cells on substrates having a chemically defined surface presenting at least one peptide having basic amino acid residues separated by one or two hydrophobic amino acid residues. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162539 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2533/50 (20130101) C12N 2533/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09006396 | Hickey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Hickey (Lakeview Terrace, California); Linda H. Malkas (Lakeview Terrace, California); Lauren Schnaper (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Linda H. Malkas (Lakeview Terrace, California); Robert J. Hickey (Lakeview Terrace, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Hickey (Lakeview Terrace, California); Linda H. Malkas (Lakeview Terrace, California); Lauren Schnaper (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies specifically bind only to a cancer specific proliferating cell nuclear antigen (csPCNA) isoform and not to the non-malignant proliferating cell nuclear antigen (nmPCNA) isoform. Methods and compositions to detect the presence of csPCNA isoform are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477419 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/3015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) |
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| US 09006399 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yong-Jun Liu (Pearland, Texas); Kui Shin Voo (Pearland, Texas); Laura Bover (Pearland, Texas); Naoya Tsurushita (Palo Alto, California); J. Yun Tso (Menlo Park, California); Shankar Kumar (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Jun Liu (Pearland, Texas); Kui Shin Voo (Pearland, Texas); Laura Bover (Pearland, Texas); Naoya Tsurushita (Palo Alto, California); J. Yun Tso (Menlo Park, California); Shankar Kumar (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Human antibodies, preferably recombinant human antibodies, both humanized and chimeric, which specifically bind to human OX40 are disclosed. Preferred antibodies have high affinity for OX40 receptor and activate the receptor in vitro and in vivo. The antibody can be a full-length antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof. The antibodies, or antibody portions, are useful for modulating receptor activity, e.g., in a human subject suffering from a disorder in which OX40 activity is detrimental. Nucleic acids, vectors and host cells for expressing the recombinant human antibodies are provided, and methods of synthesizing the recombinant human antibodies, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/818645 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2878 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/74 (20130101) C07K 2317/75 (20130101) |
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| US 09006404 | Fukuda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michiko Fukuda (LaJolla, California); Daisuke Aoki (Shinjuku-ku, Japan); Noriko Nozawa (Shibuya-ku, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michiko Fukuda (LaJolla, California); Daisuke Aoki (Shinjuku-ku, Japan); Shiro Nozawa (Shibuya-ku, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for selectively targeting an endometriosis cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/616098 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/001 (20130101) |
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| US 09006415 | Ren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yin Ren (Westland, Michigan); Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yin Ren (Westland, Michigan); Sangeeta N. Bhatia (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention provide compositions and methods for delivering nucleic acids to target cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081432 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48315 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48323 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/10 (20130101) C07K 2319/85 (20130101) |
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| US 09006416 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Rossi (Duarte, California); Katrin Tiemann (Pasadena, California); Jiehua Zhou (Monrovia, California); Britta Vallazza (Hagen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a B cell specific aptamer-siRNA chimera is provided. The B cell specific aptamer-siRNa chimera may include an RNA aptamer that binds BAFF-R and an siRNA molecule conjugated to the RNA aptamer via a nucleotide linker. In another embodiment, a B cell specific RNA aptamer is provided. The RNA aptamer may be a molecule that binds to BAFF-R that has the sequence SEQ ID NO:37, SEQ ID NO:38 or SEQ ID NO:39. In some embodiments, the RNA aptamer is conjugated, via a nucleotide linker, to an siRNA molecule that suppresses expression of one or more target oncogenes in one or more B cells. In one aspect, the one or more target oncogenes are selected from Bcl6, Bcl2, STAT3, Cyclin D1, Cyclin E2 and c-myc. In another embodiment, methods for treating a B cell malignancy in a cancer patient are provided. Such methods may include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition, the therapeutic composition comprising a B cell specific RNA aptamer that binds BAFF-R. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651265 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/115 (20130101) C12N 15/1135 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/51 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09006441 | Deng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Deng (Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of preparing a chiral, non-racemic compound from a prochiral electron-deficient alkene, comprising the step of: reacting a prochiral electron-deficient alkene with a nucleophile in the presence of a catalyst; thereby producing a chiral, non-racemic compound; wherein said catalyst is a derivatized quinine or quinidine. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/274028 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/313 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/327 (20130101) C07D 453/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006463 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); David M. Knapp (Boonville, Indiana); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of performing a chemical reaction includes reacting a compound selected from the group consisting of an organohalide and an organo-pseudohalide, and a protected organoboronic acid represented by formula (I) in a reaction mixture: R1—B-T (I); where R1 represents an organic group, T represents a conformationally rigid protecting group, and B represents boron having sp3 hybridization. When unprotected, the corresponding organoboronic acid is unstable by the boronic acid neat stability test. The reaction mixture further includes a base having a pKB of at least 1 and a palladium catalyst. The method further includes forming a cross-coupled product in the reaction mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/669906 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 61/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 13/28 (20130101) C07C 15/46 (20130101) C07C 15/58 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 43/2055 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/24 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/325 (20130101) C07D 207/333 (20130101) C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 213/73 (20130101) C07D 241/42 (20130101) C07D 263/56 (20130101) C07D 307/36 (20130101) C07D 307/42 (20130101) C07D 307/80 (20130101) C07D 333/16 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09006473 | Freeman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); State of Oregon Acting By and Through the Board of Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University College Cardiff Consultants Limited (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); The State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of The University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University College Cardiff Consultants Limited (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Freeman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Francisco Schopfer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerie O'Donnell (Penarth, United Kingdom); Paul Baker (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yuqing E. Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bruce Branchaud (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are nitrated lipids and methods of making and using the nitrated lipids. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646985 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/21 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 43/02 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 205/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 205/50 (20130101) C07C 205/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09006487 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts); Andreas Zumbuehl (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elizaveta Sergeyevna Leshchiner (Turkhanova) (Watertown, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Michael Goldberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts); Andreas Zumbuehl (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elizaveta Sergeyevna Leshchiner (Turkhanova) (Watertown, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Michael Goldberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitrogen-containing lipids prepared from the conjugate addition of amines to acrylates, acrylamides, or other carbon-carbon double bonds conjugated to electron-withdrawing groups are described. Methods of preparing these lipids from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These amine-containing lipids or salts forms of these lipids are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the amino moiety of these lipids, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Complexes or nanoparticles containing the inventive lipid and polynucleotide have been prepared. The inventive lipids may also be used to in preparing microparticle for drug delivery. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/453222 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1617 (20130101) A61K 48/0033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/12 (20130101) C07C 229/14 (20130101) C07C 229/16 (20130101) C07C 229/18 (20130101) C07C 237/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/26 (20130101) C07D 233/61 (20130101) C07D 243/08 (20130101) C07D 295/12 (20130101) C07D 307/14 (20130101) C07D 317/28 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) |
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| US 09006677 | Al-Sadah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jihad H. Al-Sadah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jihad H. Al-Sadah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An intensity modulator for controlling the intensity of ions, such as protons, controllably block a portion of sub-areas of an area beam to control the average intensity within that sub-area. A fan beam is then created by a focusing process that reforms the area beam while blurring intensity variations in each sub-area to a corresponding beamlet in the fan beam of uniform intensity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/374778 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/103 (20130101) A61N 5/1042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2005/1087 (20130101) A61N 2005/1095 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/10 (20130101) G21K 1/046 (20130101) |
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| US 09007061 | Stuber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthias Stuber (Ellicott City, Maryland); Wesley D. Gilson (Pasadena, Maryland); Dara L. Kraitchman (Oxford, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias Stuber (Ellicott City, Maryland); Wesley D. Gilson (Pasadena, Maryland); Dara L. Kraitchman (Oxford, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured are methods for magnetic resonance imaging of a volume, such a volume having susceptibility-generating objects or interfaces having susceptibility mismatches therein. Such a method includes selectively visualizing one of susceptibility-generating objects or interfaces having susceptibility mismatches as hyperintense signals, where such visualizing includes controlling variable imaging parameters so as to control a geometric extent of a signal enhancing effect, m more particular aspects of the present invention, such selectively visualizing includes attenuating or essentially suppressing signals from fat and/or water, namely on-resonant water protons, so as to thereby enhance a signal(s) associated with magnetic susceptibility gradient(s). Also featured are MRI systems, apparatuses and/or applications programs for execution on a computer system controlling the MRI data acquisition process embodying such methods. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/279686 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09007582 | Glazowski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Glazowski (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for imaging a section of a medium is disclosed. The apparatus or method receives and returns light from the section and from sites adjacent to the section. A microscope using this apparatus or method can be telecentric in pinhole space at the detection end of the system. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/215521 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/0032 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008133 | Renninger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Henry Renninger (Ithaca, New York); Frank W. Wise (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Henry Renninger (Ithaca, New York); Frank W. Wise (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A normal-dispersion fiber laser is operated using parameters in which dissipative solitons exist with remarkably large pulse duration and chirp, along with large pulse energy. A low-repetition-rate oscillator that generates pulses with large and linear chirp can thus replace the standard oscillator, stretcher, pulse-picker and preamplifier in a chirped-pulse fiber amplifier. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128754 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/1112 (20130101) H01S 3/1115 (20130101) H01S 3/1618 (20130101) |
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| US 09008339 | Bacon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sid P. Bacon (Phoenix, Arizona); Christopher A. Brown (Tempe, Arizona); Frederic Apoux (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sid P. Bacon (Phoenix, Arizona); Christopher A. Brown (Tempe, Arizona); Frederic Apoux (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, apparatus, and techniques are described to perform operations including receiving speech that includes audio signals from a talker. A fundamental frequency, unique to the talker, is extracted from the audio signals. A tone in frequency with the extracted fundamental frequency of the received speech is modulated and the modulated tone is delivered to an audio transducing device. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594418 |
| ART UNIT | 2656 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/353 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008378 | Micheva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kristina D. Micheva (San Jose, California); Stephen J. Smith (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristina D. Micheva (San Jose, California); Stephen J. Smith (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High-resolution three-dimensional imaging of a specimen is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a series of very thin slices from a specimen are serially and robustly arranged on an imaging device such as a microscope slide. The slices are imaged and the images are used to reconstruct a three-dimensional image having high resolution at depths into the specimen. The serial arrangement of the slices facilitates the proper ordering of images for reconstruction. Further, the robust nature of the slice arrangement facilitates treatment of the slices and, in some applications, multiple treatments with corresponding imaging sequences for each treatment. Various embodiments are directed to methods and arrangements for three-dimensional characterization of biological specimen and to data that is accessible and/or executable by a computer for linking different images together in order to characterize such biological specimen in three dimensions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957143 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/367 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00134 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008391 | Solanki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EYENUK, Inc. (Woodland Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EYENUK, Inc. (Woodland Hills, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaushal Mohanlal Solanki (Woodland Hills, California); Sandeep Bhat Krupakar (Woodland Hills, California); Chaithanya Amai Ramachandra (Woodland Hills, California); Malavika Bhaskaranand (Woodland Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments disclose systems and methods that aid in screening, diagnosis and/or monitoring of medical conditions. The design includes a system and method for accessing retinal images related to a patient, each retinal image including a plurality of pixels. For each of the retinal images, the system designates a first set of the plurality of pixels as active pixels including interesting retinal image regions and computes a first vector of numbers comprising pixel-level descriptors for each of the active pixels. The system computes a second vector of numbers for each of the retinal images and provides a second classification using supervised learning. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266753 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/14 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0061 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008399 | Fain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean B. Fain (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin M. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeremy W. Gordon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for simultaneously generating spectral images and spatial images of a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes acquiring MR image data using a k-space sampling trajectory. The k-space sampling trajectory is designed to spatially oversample to elicit phase differences between oversampled points. The MR image data is jointly reconstructed into spatial and spectral images by resolving spatial information from spatial encoding associated with each of the oversampled points and resolving spectral information from the phase differences between the oversampled points. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751683 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/485 (20130101) G01R 33/561 (20130101) G01R 33/4824 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008751 | Guttman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Guttman (Derwood, Maryland); Elliot R. McVeigh (Phoenix, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Guttman (Derwood, Maryland); Elliot R. McVeigh (Phoenix, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing volume renderings from magnetic resonance image data in real time with user interactivity. The method comprises collecting raw magnetic resonance image (MRI) data representative of shapes within an image volume; transferring the raw MRI data to a computer; and continuously producing volume renderings from the raw MRI data in real time with respect to the act of collecting raw MRI data representative of shapes within the image volume. |
| FILED | Monday, November 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/305496 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/56308 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 15/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008800 | Ackermann, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Michael Ackermann, Jr. (Palo Alto, California); Kevin Kilgore (Avon Lake, Ohio); Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Narendra Bhadra (Chesterland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Michael Ackermann, Jr. (Palo Alto, California); Kevin Kilgore (Avon Lake, Ohio); Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Narendra Bhadra (Chesterland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Example ionic coupling electrodes are described. One example ionic conducting electrode includes a first portion that can be coupled to a single phase current source. The first portion carries current flow via electrons. The electrode includes a second portion to apply a current to a nerve tissue. The second portion carries current flow via ions. The second portion is positioned between the nerve tissue and the first portion to prevent the first portion from touching the nerve tissue. The current applied to the nerve tissue is produced in the second portion in response to a current that is present in the first portion. The current present in the first portion is provided from a single phase current source. The electrode may be used in applications including, but not limited to, nerve block applications and nerve stimulation applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/949074 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/0436 (20130101) A61N 1/0551 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/0556 (20130101) A61N 1/36067 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Clauson (Warren, Michigan); Marilyn M. Peterson (St. Clair Shores, Michigan); Michael Nranian (South Lyon, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Clauson (Warren, Michigan); Marilyn M. Peterson (St. Clair Shores, Michigan); Michael Nranian (South Lyon, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A body armor system that includes a fabric carrier configured (i) to be worn by a user and (ii) to hold armor plates. A back armor plate is held by the carrier. A right side plate is held by the carrier and a left side plate is held by the carrier. Straps are configured to wrap horizontally across the user and matingly connect to each other. Straps integral to the carrier are configured to wrap down over the front of the user and matingly connect to the connected horizontal straps. A right thigh plate and a left thigh plate are matingly connected with straps around right and left thighs of the user. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/547610 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 5/0485 (20130101) F41H 5/0492 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09003627 | Crane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Mike Crane (Monterey, California); Paul Michael Oppenheimer (Edgewater, Maryland); Marcello Romano (Monterey, California); James Hansen Newman (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Mike Crane (Monterey, California); Paul Michael Oppenheimer (Edgewater, Maryland); Marcello Romano (Monterey, California); James Hansen Newman (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-coupling active release mechanism including a shape memory alloy (SMA) cylindrical ring that is fit into a bushing or other mating attachment creating an interference joint held in place by frictional forces. The interference joint can be released upon actuation in which the SMA cylindrical ring is heated causing it to shrink in size, relieving the frictional forces of the interference joint thereby releasing the SMA cylindrical ring from the bushing or other mating attachment. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/074607 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 11/025 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 1/0014 (20130101) F16B 4/006 (20130101) F16B 4/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09003768 | Suciu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut); Steven J. Sirica (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut); Steven J. Sirica (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine includes a plurality of variable fan inlet guide vanes. Where the turbine engine is a tip turbine engine, the variable fan inlet guide vanes permit the ability to control engine stability even though the fan-turbine rotor assembly is directly coupled to the axial compressor at a fixed rate. The fan inlet guide vanes may be actuated from an inner diameter of the fan inlet guide vanes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023032 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 17/162 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/073 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/068 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09004112 | Hertel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher J. Hertel (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Thomas L. Cumella (West Hartford, Connecticut); Anthony Rivera (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Hertel (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Thomas L. Cumella (West Hartford, Connecticut); Anthony Rivera (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for repairing defects in composite materials using a tapered disk sized to fit the part being repaired. Also included is a bolt sized to fit through a central hole in the disk. A spring is positioned on the bolt with a washer. A nut is attached to the end of the bolt and tightened to place pressure on the washer to compress the biasing device. An adhesive is applied to the tapered disk prior to engaging the composite material. A threaded bushing is used to fixedly attach a second bolt completely in the hole. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417384 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning; Boring B23B 3/02 (20130101) Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23P 25/00 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 73/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/51 (20150115) Y10T 29/49746 (20150115) Y10T 428/218 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09004127 | Manesh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois); Mike Tercha (Wausau, Wisconsin); Olukemi Ayodeji (Wausau, Wisconsin); Brian Anderson (Wausau, Wisconsin); Brian J. Meliska (Weston, Wisconsin); Fidelis Ceranski (Marathon, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois); Mike Tercha (Wausau, Wisconsin); Olukemi Ayodeji (Wausau, Wisconsin); Brian Anderson (Wausau, Wisconsin); Brian J. Meliska (Weston, Wisconsin); Fidelis Ceranski (Marathon, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-pneumatic tire for supporting a load by working in tension comprising a generally annular inner surface, a generally annular outer ring, and an interconnected web having a plurality of web elements and comprising a plurality of generally polygonal openings. Web elements are sized, oriented and comprised of a material that facilitates buckling when subjected to a compressive load. By buckling, those elements in a deformed portion of the tire between a hub and a footprint region where the tire contacts a surface may assume a significantly reduced portion of the load, if any. This causes web elements in other portions of the interconnected web to operate in tension to support the load. With the portion of the tire in the footprint region not bearing a significant portion of the load, non-pneumatic tire may exhibit a more comfortable ride subject to less noise and vibration and improved handling capabilities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/333834 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Wheels; Castors; Axles for Wheels or Castors; Increasing Wheel Adhesion B60B 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60B 9/04 (20130101) Vehicle Tyres Tyre Inflation; Tyre Changing or Repairing; Repairing, or Connecting Valves To, Inflatable Elastic Bodies in General; Devices or Arrangements Related to Tyres B60C 7/12 (20130101) B60C 7/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09004454 | Faure et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command (APG, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis Enrique Faure (Abingdon, Maryland); George J. Noya (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for vertically lifting and lowering a container relative to a supporting surface. The system includes at least two lift mechanisms wherein each mechanism includes a frame attached to the container. An elongated cylinder and piston is associated with each frame so that its axis is substantially vertical. A control circuit selectively connects a power source to each cylinder and piston to move the cylinder and piston between a retracted position in which the piston is spaced upwardly from the supporting surface and an extended position in which a foot on the piston engages the supporting surface and lifts the container upwardly from the supporting surface. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/782247 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 90/0033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09004510 | Leonard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joshua J. Leonard (North Branch, Minnesota); Richard Raymond Maki (North Branch, Minnesota); Eric Bjerkctvedt (North Branch, Minnesota); Michael D. Schneider (Dalbo, Minnesota); Bradley Robert Morisch (Lindstrom, Minnesota); Brian D. Krosschell (Chicago City, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J. Leonard (North Branch, Minnesota); Richard Raymond Maki (North Branch, Minnesota); Eric Bjerkctvedt (North Branch, Minnesota); Michael D. Schneider (Dalbo, Minnesota); Bradley Robert Morisch (Lindstrom, Minnesota); Brian D. Krosschell (Chicago City, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle may include a base portion and a modular portion. The base portion may be a four wheel vehicle having an operator area with seating for at least two occupants in a side-by-side arrangement. The modular portion may be coupled to the base portion resulting in a six wheel vehicle. The wheels of the modular portion may be powered by an engine of the base portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/233415 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Suspension Arrangements B60G 3/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60G 15/06 (20130101) B60G 2200/144 (20130101) B60G 2202/24 (20130101) B60G 2206/011 (20130101) B60G 2206/0114 (20130101) B60G 2300/13 (20130101) Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 21/12 (20130101) B62D 21/14 (20130101) B62D 55/04 (20130101) B62D 61/10 (20130101) B62D 61/12 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 55/226 (20130101) |
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| US 09004559 | 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 palm base and two fingers. Each of the fingers comprises: a proximal phalanx; a distal phalanx; a compliant flexure joint connecting the distal phalanx to the proximal phalanx; and a pin joint connecting the proximal phalanx to the palm base, the pin joint constraining angular movement of the proximal phalanx relative to the palm base to rotation about a pin pivot axis. The grasper further includes at least one actuator to move the fingers. The grasper has fewer actuators than degrees of freedom. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833580 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/104 (20130101) B25J 15/0009 (20130101) B25J 15/10 (20130101) B25J 15/0475 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 294/907 (20130101) Y10S 901/31 (20130101) Y10S 901/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09005425 | Burrows et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and compounds for detecting modified nucleic acid bases are disclosed and described. The methods provide for detecting a nucleic acid lesion and can include directing a nucleic acid adduct into a channel, wherein the nucleic acid adduct includes a nucleic acid having a lesion and a current modulating compound coupled to the nucleic acid at the lesion (110), and measuring a change in current through the channel in response to the current modulating compound to detect the lesion (112). The method can optionally include forming the nucleic acid adduct. Also provided is a method for identifying the number of repeat nucleotides in at least a portion of a nucleic acid strand, a method of assigning a registration marker within a nucleic acid, and a method of obtaining sequence information from a nucleic acid comprising assigning a registration marker on the nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/227212 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) 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 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005458 | Sandhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gurtej Sandhu (Boise, Idaho); Roy Meade (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed method and apparatus embodiments provide a photonic device with optical isolation from a supporting substrate. A generally rectangular cavity in cross section is provided below an element of the photonic device and the element may be formed from a ledge of the supporting substrate which is over the cavity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776836 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/12004 (20130101) G02B 2006/12097 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/308 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005460 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Ayrat M. Dimiev (Houston, Texas); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Ayrat M. Dimiev (Houston, Texas); Dmitry V. Kosynkin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selectively removing one or more graphene layers from a graphene material by: (1) applying a metal to a surface of the graphene material; and (2) applying a hydrogen containing solution to the surface of the graphene material that is associated with the metal. The hydrogen containing solution dissolves the metal along with one or more layers of graphene associated with the metal, thereby removing the layer(s) of graphene from the graphene material. In some embodiments, the hydrogen containing solution is an acidic solution, such as hydrochloric acid. In some embodiments, the metal is zinc. In some embodiments, the methods of the present invention are utilized to selectively remove one or more layers of graphene from one or more targeted sites on the surface of a graphene material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/878876 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| 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 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 31/0476 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/3085 (20130101) H01L 21/30604 (20130101) |
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| US 09005575 | Miao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yubin Miao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jianquan Yang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yubin Miao (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jianquan Yang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tools/compounds comprising a hybride cyclic peptide which utilizes a cyclic peptide chelating group wherein the compound binds to a MSH receptor to image and treat cancers, especially, melanoma, including metastatic melanoma in vivo. The present invention represents a clear advance in the art which presently relies on tissue biopsy for diagnoses of these cancers. The novel imaging probes are capable of detecting cancerous melanoma cells, as well as their metastatic spread in tissues. This represents a quantum step forward in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma, including metastatic melanoma using non-invasive molecular imaging techniques. The novel probes of the present invention will also be useful to initiate therapy for melanoma as well as monitor patients response to chemotherapy treatments and other interventions or therapies used in the treatment of melanoma/metastatic melanoma. Compound according to the present invention may be used as diagnostic tools for a number of conditions and diseases states as well as therapeutic agents for treating such conditions and disease states. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321942 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 51/082 (20130101) A61K 51/086 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) |
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| US 09005633 | Kochel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tadeusz J. Kochel (Frederick, Maryland); Ryan C. Maves (Chula Vista, California); Kevin Porter (Boyds, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadeusz J. Kochel (Frederick, Maryland); Ryan C. Maves (Chula Vista, California); Kevin Porter (Boyds, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to prepare inactivate viral vaccine by exposing the virus to a predetermined concentration of an inactivating psoralen, and a preselected intensity of ultraviolet radiation for a time period sufficiently long to render the virus non-infectious but less than that which would result in degradation of its antigenic characteristics. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/838449 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 7/06 (20130101) C12N 2770/24134 (20130101) C12N 2770/24163 (20130101) C12N 2770/36163 (20130101) |
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| US 09005989 | Harper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Douglas Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Richard Hart Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Martha Susan Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Ann Rundell (West Lafayette, Indiana); Frances Ellen Nargi (Concord, Massachusetts); Timothy Stephens (Lexington, Massachusetts); Linda Marie Mendenhall (Acton, Massachusetts); Mark Alexander Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Eric David Schwoebel (Belmont, Massachusetts); Trina Rae Vian (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Douglas Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Richard Hart Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Martha Susan Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Ann Rundell (West Lafayette, Indiana); Frances Ellen Nargi (Concord, Massachusetts); Timothy Stephens (Lexington, Massachusetts); Linda Marie Mendenhall (Acton, Massachusetts); Mark Alexander Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Eric David Schwoebel (Belmont, Massachusetts); Trina Rae Vian (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to optoelectronic systems for detecting one or more target particles. The system includes a reaction chamber, a specimen collector, an optical detector, and a reservoir containing cells, each of the cells having receptors which are present on the surface of each cell and are specific for the target particle to be detected, where binding of the target particle to the receptors directly or indirectly activates a reporter molecule, thereby producing a measurable optical signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039780 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/76 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/808 (20130101) Y10S 436/805 (20130101) |
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| US 09006016 | Celik-Butler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeynep Celik-Butler (Colleyville, Texas); Suraj K. Patil (Ballston Lake, New York); Donald Philip Butler (Colleyville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for fabricating piezoresistive polysilicon on a substrate by low-temperature metal induced crystallization by: (1) providing the substrate having a passivation layer; (2) performing, at or near room temperature in a chamber without breaking a vacuum or near-vacuum within the chamber, the steps of: (a) creating a metal layer on the passivation layer, and (b) creating an amorphous silicon layer on the metal layer, wherein the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer have approximately the same thickness; (3) annealing the substrate, the passivation layer, the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer at a temperature equal to or less than 600° C. and a period of time equal to or less than three hours to form a doped polysilicon layer below a residual metal layer; and (4) removing the residual metal layer to expose the doped polysilicon layer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/925563 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/0042 (20130101) G01L 9/0054 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/324 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02672 (20130101) H01L 41/25 (20130101) H01L 41/1132 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/1138 (20130101) |
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| US 09006108 | Fuller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas C Fuller (North Hills, New York); Steve Koester (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Ying Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas C Fuller (North Hills, New York); Steve Koester (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Isaac Lauer (Mahopac, New York); Ying Zhang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating recessed source and recessed drain regions of aggressively scaled CMOS devices. In this method a processing sequence of plasma etch, deposition, followed by plasma etch is used to controllably form recessed regions of the source and the drain in the channel of a thin body, much less than 40 nm, device to enable subsequent epitaxial growth of SiGe, SiC, or other materials, and a consequent increase in the device and ring oscillator performance. A Field Effect Transistor device is also provided, which includes: a buried oxide layer; a silicon layer above the buried oxide layer; an isotropically recessed source region; an isotropically recessed drain region; and a gate stack which includes a gate dielectric, a conductive material, and a spacer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/611678 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/84 (20130101) H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/3083 (20130101) H01L 21/823807 (20130101) H01L 21/823814 (20130101) H01L 21/823878 (20130101) H01L 29/7848 (20130101) H01L 29/66636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66772 (20130101) |
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| US 09006186 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jingbo Xiao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerian Kagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yulia Tyurina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Kanai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition and related methods for delivering cargo to a mitochondria which includes (a) a membrane active peptidyl fragment having a high affinity with the mitochondria and (b) cargo. The cargo may be selected from a wide variety of desired cargoes which are to be delivered to the mitochondria for a specific purpose. Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating an illness that is caused or associated with cellular damage or dysfunction which is caused by excessive mitochondrial production of reaction oxygen species (ROS). Compositions which act as mitochondria-selective targeting agents using the structural signaling of the β-turn recognizable by cells as mitochondria) targeting sequences are discussed. Mitochondria and cell death by way of apoptosis is inhibited as a result of the ROS-scavenging activity, thereby increasing the survival rate of the patient. |
| FILED | Monday, October 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/058461 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09006307 | Iezzi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erick B. Iezzi (Arlington, Virginia); James R. Martin (Alexandria, Virginia); Paul Slebodnick (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erick B. Iezzi (Arlington, Virginia); James R. Martin (Alexandria, Virginia); Paul Slebodnick (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-skid coating described herein attempts to overcome the deficiencies of the conventional coatings with improved external durability and color retention, a reduced level of VOCs, and direct-to-metal (DTM) adhesion using organo-siloxane chemistry. The non-skid coating has a first component having an amino-functional siloxane resin; a second component having a non-aromatic epoxy resin; a spherical filler for lowering viscosity; a pigment; a coarse aggregate; and a thixotropic agent. The amino-functional siloxane resin can be an amino-functional methyl phenyl polysiloxane, diphenyl polysiloxane or silsesquioxane-based resin. The non-aromatic epoxy resin can be cycloaliphatic or aliphatic. The first component is about 5% to 20% weight of the coating, and the second component is about 80% to 95% weight of the coating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887546 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/26 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/544 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 63/00 (20130101) C08L 83/04 (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 163/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 163/00 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 3/149 (20130101) |
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| US 09006371 | Wright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California); Brian J. Petteys (Salt Lake City, Utah); Andrew J. Guenthner (Lancaster, California); Sandra J. Tomczak (Lancaster, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California); Brian J. Petteys (Salt Lake City, Utah); Andrew J. Guenthner (Lancaster, California); Sandra J. Tomczak (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A formulation and methods for making formulation of a series of oligomeric silsesesquioxane (OS) diamine monomers which have been synthesized and purified in a highly time, energy, and atom efficient manner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892124 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09006376 | Amb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad Martin Amb (Midland, Michigan); Franky So (Gainesville, Florida); John R. Reynolds (Dunwoody, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad Martin Amb (Midland, Michigan); Franky So (Gainesville, Florida); John R. Reynolds (Dunwoody, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to Ge comprising heterocyclic compounds which can be used for the preparation of homopolymers and copolymers. The copolymers can be donor-acceptor (DA) alternating copolymers where the donor unit is a Ge comprising heterocyclic unit. The polymers can be used as materials in solar cells and other photovoltaic devices, transistors, diodes, light emitting devices (LEDs), conductors, supercapacitors, batteries, and electrochromic devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/001787 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/30 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/123 (20130101) C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/91 (20130101) C08G 2261/124 (20130101) C08G 2261/344 (20130101) C08G 2261/414 (20130101) C08G 2261/3243 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0071 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/542 (20130101) Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09006404 | Fukuda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michiko Fukuda (LaJolla, California); Daisuke Aoki (Shinjuku-ku, Japan); Noriko Nozawa (Shibuya-ku, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michiko Fukuda (LaJolla, California); Daisuke Aoki (Shinjuku-ku, Japan); Shiro Nozawa (Shibuya-ku, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for selectively targeting an endometriosis cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/616098 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/001 (20130101) |
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09006557 — Systems and methods for reducing current and increasing voltage in thermoelectric systems
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| APPLICANT(S) | John LaGrandeur (Arcadia, California); Eric Poliquin (Arcadia, California); Dmitri Kossakovski (S. Pasadena, California); Vladimir Jovovic (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gentherm Incorporated (Azusa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John LaGrandeur (Arcadia, California); Eric Poliquin (Arcadia, California); Dmitri Kossakovski (S. Pasadena, California); Vladimir Jovovic (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric assembly and method are provided. The thermoelectric assembly can extend at least partially around a perimeter of a first fluid conduit. The thermoelectric assembly can include a plurality of thermoelectric sub-assemblies aligned with one another along the perimeter of the first fluid conduit. Each thermoelectric sub-assembly can include a plurality of thermoelectric elements in parallel electrical communication with one another, and at least one shunt a plurality of electrically insulating elements to prevent current flow in a plane perpendicular to the first direction between adjacent thermoelectric sub-assemblies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/489192 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 35/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09006633 | Tofsted et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H Tofsted (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Sean Gerard O'Brien (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for image processing comprising an opening for entrance of light for forming an image by the system; at least one optical element through which the light passes; a variable aperture operatively associated with the at least one optical element placed in the optical train at an image plane and comprising a plurality of settings comprising first mask settings for shielding portions of the light and second mask settings for selectively masking portions of the light that pass through the first mask settings; an imager, the at least one processor being operatively connected to the variable aperture and imager for controlling the passage of the light through the variable aperture by selecting one of plurality of first mask settings and associated second mask settings, obtaining image results using the settings, comparing image results obtained by the respective mask settings, and determining the optimal first mask setting. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/667048 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/00 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 7/085 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/238 (20130101) H04N 5/2254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006648 | Ramsey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Chambers (Wildwood, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew Chambers (Wildwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Microchips which are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer include a microchip body with at least one fluid channel formed into the microchip body and at least two flat monolithic closely spaced integrated ESI (electrospray ionization) emitters defined by shaped projections formed to extend from one side of the microchip body, a respective one being in fluid communication with a fluid channel. Related systems and methods are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/001549 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 5/025 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/165 (20130101) |
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| US 09006708 | Bennett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian R. Bennett (Arlington, Virginia); Theresa F. Chick (Alexandria, Virginia); Mario G. Ancona (Alexandria, Virginia); John Bradley Boos (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Bennett (Arlington, Virginia); Theresa F. Chick (Alexandria, Virginia); Mario G. Ancona (Alexandria, Virginia); John Bradley Boos (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device including a heterostructure having at least one low-resistivity p-type GaSb quantum well is provided. The heterostructure includes a layer of In0.52Al0.48As on an InP substrate, where the In0.52Al0.48As is lattice matched to InP, followed by an AlAsxSb1-x buffer layer on the In0.52Al0.48As layer, an AlAsxSb1-x spacer layer on the AlAsxSb1-x buffer layer, a GaSb quantum well layer on the AlAsxSb1-x spacer layer, an AlAsxSb1-x barrier layer on the GaSb quantum well layer, an In0.2Al0.8Sb etch-stop layer on the AlAsxSb1-x barrier layer, and an InAs cap. The semiconductor device is suitable for use in low-power electronic devices such as field-effect transistors. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895387 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) |
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| US 09006785 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jung-Hun Seo (Madison, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor trilayer structures that are doped and strained are provided. Also provided are mechanically flexible transistors, including radiofrequency transistors, incorporating the trilayer structures and methods for fabricating the trilayer structures and transistors. The trilayer structures comprise a first layer of single-crystalline semiconductor material, a second layer of single-crystalline semiconductor material and a third layer of single-crystalline semiconductor material. In the structures, the second layer is in contact with and sandwiched between the first and third layers and the first layer is selectively doped to provide one or more doped regions in the layer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751477 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/786 (20130101) |
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| US 09006791 | Kub et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew D. Koehler (Alexandria, Virginia); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew D. Koehler (Alexandria, Virginia); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-inverted P-channel III-nitride field effect transistor with hole carriers in the channel comprising a nitrogen-polar III-Nitride first material, a barrier material layer, a two-dimensional hole gas in the barrier layer, and wherein the nitrogen-polar III-Nitride material comprises one or more III-Nitride epitaxial material layers grown in such a manner that when GaN is epitaxially grown the top surface of the epitaxial layer is nitrogen-polar. A method of making a P-channel III-nitride field effect transistor with hole carriers in the channel comprising selecting a face or offcut orientation of a substrate so that the nitrogen-polar (001) face is the dominant face, growing a nucleation layer, growing a GaN epitaxial layer, doping the epitaxial layer, growing a barrier layer, etching the GaN, forming contacts, performing device isolation, defining a gate opening, depositing and defining gate metal, making a contact window, depositing and defining a thick metal. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169334 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1075 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7781 (20130101) H01L 29/7784 (20130101) H01L 29/41725 (20130101) H01L 29/42364 (20130101) H01L 29/66439 (20130101) H01L 29/66477 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Avritch (Bristol, Connecticut); Kanwalpreet Reen (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fault detection circuit is utilized to automatically detect faults in hold-up power storage devices. The fault detection circuit includes a hold-up monitoring circuit and a memory device. The hold-up monitoring circuit is connected to monitor output of the hold-up power storage device, wherein the hold-up monitoring circuit measures a duration of time that the hold-up power storage device provides sufficient power following a loss of normal power and detects faults based on the measured duration of time. The memory device is connected to store the duration of time measured by the hold-up power storage device following a loss of normal power. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649586 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/2605 (20130101) G01R 31/028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Burdett Wilson (Macungie, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Burdett Wilson (Macungie, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a delay-locked loop (DLL) for synchronizing a phase of a periodic digital output signal with a phase of a periodic digital input signal includes a deskew element responsive to the periodic digital input signal to the DLL and the periodic digital output signal from the DLL for suppressing jitter in the periodic digital output signal by synchronizing transitions in the periodic digital output signal with transitions in the periodic digital input signal and generating a final jitter-suppressed periodic digital output signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528951 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03L 7/0805 (20130101) H03L 7/0816 (20130101) |
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| US 09007213 | Aubin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith L. Aubin (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey W. Baldwin (Alexandria, Virginia); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Brian H. Houston (Fairfax, Virginia); Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Robert B. Reichenbach (Portland, Oregon); Maxim Zalalutdinov (Silver Springs, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith L. Aubin (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey W. Baldwin (Alexandria, Virginia); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Brian H. Houston (Fairfax, Virginia); Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Robert B. Reichenbach (Portland, Oregon); Maxim Zalalutdinov (Silver Springs, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for object identification and/or authentication. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/297489 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10336 (20130101) G06K 19/0672 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 19/0723 (20130101) |
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| US 09007432 | Chuang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel B. Chuang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts); William D. Ross (Westford, Massachusetts); Mark E. Beattie (Westford, Massachusetts); Cindy Y. Fang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bobby Ren (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan P. Blanchard (Sterling, Massachusetts); Gary M. Long, Jr. (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lauren L. White (Burlington, Massachusetts); Svetlana V. Panasyuk (Lexington, Massachusetts); Mark Bury (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B. Chuang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lawrence M. Candell (Arlington, Massachusetts); William D. Ross (Westford, Massachusetts); Mark E. Beattie (Westford, Massachusetts); Cindy Y. Fang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Bobby Ren (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan P. Blanchard (Sterling, Massachusetts); Gary M. Long, Jr. (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lauren L. White (Burlington, Massachusetts); Svetlana V. Panasyuk (Lexington, Massachusetts); Mark Bury (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Security guards at large facilities, such as airports, monitor multiple screens that display images from individual surveillance cameras dispersed throughout the facility. If a guard zooms with a particular camera, he may lose image resolution, along with perspective on the surrounding area. Embodiments of the inventive Imaging System for Immersive Surveillance (ISIS) solve these problems by combining multiple cameras in one device. When properly mounted, example ISIS systems offer up to 360-degree, 240-megapixel views on a single screen. (Other fields of view and resolutions are also possible.) Image-stitching software merges multiple video feeds into one scene. The system also allows operators to tag and follow targets, and can monitor restricted areas and sound an alert when intruders breach them. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/327416 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/1968 (20130101) G08B 13/19608 (20130101) G08B 13/19619 (20130101) G08B 13/19628 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08B 13/19682 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/247 (20130101) H04N 5/3415 (20130101) H04N 5/23238 (20130101) H04N 7/181 (20130101) |
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| US 09007454 | La Lumondiere et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen La Lumondiere (Torrance, California); Terence Yeoh (Pasadena, California); David Cardoza (Los Alamitos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are directed to imaging systems and methods for generating an image of a sub-surface feature of an object through a surface of the object. An illumination array may comprise a plurality of illumination sources positioned around the sub-surface feature of the object. An imaging device may comprise an objective. A computer system may be in communication with the illumination array. The computer system may be programmed to calculate an optimized illumination pattern of the plurality of illumination sources for imaging the sub-surface feature; activate the optimized illumination pattern; and instruct the imaging device to capture an image of the sub-surface feature with the imaging device based on reflected illumination from the optimized illumination pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/665445 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/9505 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2354 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09007575 | Chou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Wendi Li (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Microstructures and nanostructures (100) consisting of a substrate (110), an array of pillars (120) capped by metallic disc (130), metallic dots (clusters or granules) (140) disposed on the sidewalls of the pillars, and a metallic backplane (150) that can interact to enhance a local electric field, the absorption of the light, and the radiation of the light are disclosed. Methods to fabricate the structures (100) are also disclosed. Applications of the structures to enhance the optical signals in the detection of molecules and other materials on a structure surface, such as fluorescence, photoluminescence and surface enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/459239 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/59 (20130101) G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/554 (20130101) G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/658 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 2021/0378 (20130101) G01N 2021/6482 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24174 (20150115) |
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| US 09007597 | Schermer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ross Schermer (Springfield, Virginia); Frank Bucholtz (Crofton, Maryland); Carl A. Villarruel (Burke, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross Schermer (Springfield, Virginia); Frank Bucholtz (Crofton, Maryland); Carl A. Villarruel (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A true time delay system and method for an optical carrier signal modulated with a microwave signal. The system includes a beam deflector, with the optical signal being imaged onto the beam deflector, a stationary reflective diffractive grating arranged in a Littrow configuration, a focusing element arranged between the beam deflector and the stationary reflective diffractive grating. In operation, the beam deflector steers the optical beam across the clear aperture of the focusing element and the focusing element transmits the steered beam to the reflective diffractive grating. A change in optical path length experienced by the optical beam as the beam is scanned across the grating surface results in a relative phase delay in the optical beam. The beam deflector can be a rotating mirror, an acousto-optic beam deflector, or an electro-optic beam deflector. The focusing element can be a lens or a curved mirror. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/487416 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/06 (20130101) G02B 26/105 (20130101) G02B 27/44 (20130101) G02B 27/0087 (20130101) G02B 27/4233 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 9/00 (20130101) 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 17/00 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darrell Kienzle (Vienna, California); Matthew Cruz Elder (Germantown, Maryland); Ryan Persaud (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell Kienzle (Vienna, California); Matthew Cruz Elder (Germantown, Maryland); Ryan Persaud (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for mapping network topologies may include (1) identifying a network including a plurality of network switches and a plurality of host systems, (2) identifying a host system within the plurality of host systems connected to the network via a network switch within the plurality of network switches, (3) refreshing an address of the host system within the network switch, (4) allowing the address of the host system to expire from each network switch within the plurality of network switches except the network switch, (5) transmitting a probing frame from a probing host system within the plurality of host systems to the address of the host system, (6) identifying a subset of host systems within the plurality of host systems that received the probing frame, and then (7) mapping a topology of the network based on the identified subset. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/043038 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09007984 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry H Tan (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Robert M Liang (Irvine, California); Joseph Han (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A physical layer network coding architecture is provided to increase downlink capacity for satellite network architectures. For instance, a network coding controller may perform a XOR network coding operation on FEC encoded information received from a first terminal and second terminal, and broadcast a single downlink message containing the XOR network coded information to the first and second terminal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/084301 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/18515 (20130101) H04B 7/18526 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 7/18582 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008366 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyungnam Kim (Oak Park, California); Changsoo S. Jeong (Rancho Palos, California); Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Yang Chen (Westlake Village, California); Shinko Y. Cheng (Cupertino, California); Alexander L. Honda (Los Angeles, California); Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is method for object cueing in motion imagery. Key points and features are extracted from motion imagery, and features between consecutive image frames of the motion imagery are compared to identify similar image frames. A candidate set of matching keypoints is generated by matching keypoints between the similar image frames. A ground plane homography model that fits the candidate set of matching keypoints is determined to generate a set of correct matching keypoints. Each image frame of a set of image frames within a selected time window is registered into a reference frame's coordinate system using the homography transformation. A difference image is obtained between the reference frame and each registered image frame, resulting in multiple difference images. The difference images are then accumulated to calculate a detection image which is used for detection of salient regions. Object cues for surveillance use are produced based on the detected salient regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/938196 |
| 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 9/6202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09008441 | Blain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cheryl Ann Blain (Slidell, Louisiana); Carolus M. Cobb (Slidell, Louisiana); Alan D. Weidemann (Carriere, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl Ann Blain (Slidell, Louisiana); Carolus M. Cobb (Slidell, Louisiana); Alan D. Weidemann (Carriere, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for creating an ordered set of boundary data by transforming data from remotely sensed imagery of shorelines is provided. A feature data set and an edge data set are transformed into a set of 3-point boundary segments having a specific head and tail point and the segments are ordered from tail to head in a clockwise or counterclockwise manner relative to the water. Once the 3-point segments are created they are easily linked together into larger segments. These large multi-point segments in turn are linked together to create a closed loop in a predetermined direction, for example, but not limited to, the shorelines for rivers or coastal areas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/966537 |
| 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 9/00651 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0083 (20130101) G06T 2207/10044 (20130101) G06T 2207/20136 (20130101) G06T 2207/30181 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Pack (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are devices and techniques for providing adaptable Local Area Processing (LAP) contrast enhancement of imagery by redistributing pixel intensity values in a dynamic range of an imaging device according to a packed statistical distribution function, wherein the redistribution is achieved according to a recursive packing factor. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/761398 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 5/009 (20130101) G06T 5/40 (20130101) G06T 2207/20004 (20130101) |
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| US 09008471 | Engheta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nader Engheta (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Alessandro Salandrino (Rome, Italy); Andrea Alu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Engheta (Berwyn, Pennsylvania); Alessandro Salandrino (Rome, Italy); Andrea Alu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Circuits and circuit elements adapted to function at optical or infrared frequencies are made from plasmonic and/or nonplasmonic particles disposed on a substrate, where the plasmonic and nonplasmonic particles have respective dimensions substantially smaller than a wavelength of an applied optical or infrared signal. Such particles are deposited on a substrate in a variety of shapes and sizes from a variety of plasmonic and/or nonplasmonic materials so as to form resistors, capacitors, inductors and circuits made from combinations of these elements. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629746 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1226 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randolph J. Nudo (Overland Park, Kansas); David Guggenmos (Kansas City, Kansas); Pedram Mohseni (Highland Heights, Ohio); Meysam Azin (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio); University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randolph J. Nudo (Overland Park, Kansas); David Guggenmos (Kansas City, Kansas); Pedram Mohseni (Highland Heights, Ohio); Meysam Azin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for bridging brain sites between which there is substantially no effective communication, and associated neural prosthetic devices, are provided. A neural spike in a first neural site in a subject is detected, and a stimulus to a second neural site in the subject is delivered within a defined period of time after the detection of the neural spike, wherein there is substantially no effective communication between the first and second neural sites. The method forms an artificial bridge between the two neural sites, and establishes lasting communication between the two sites. The present disclosure provides, among other things, a neural prosthetic device comprising an integrated circuit that comprises a recording front-end comprising a plurality of recording channels; a processor unit; and a stimulus delivering back-end comprising a plurality of stimulation channels. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/523597 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04001 (20130101) A61B 5/6868 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0529 (20130101) A61N 1/0531 (20130101) A61N 1/0536 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36139 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Christopher Hardy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Christopher Hardy (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for formulating and executing concept-structured queries of unorganized data are described. One described method for searching an unstructured data set includes receiving at least one user specified category whose definition is unconstrained, receiving at least one user specified token associated with the at least one category, generating a boolean query associated with the at least one token and the at least one category, executing the boolean query against an unstructured data set to identify at least one article identifier associated with an article, and creating a result set comprising the at least one article identifier. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541882 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30389 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30864 (20130101) |
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| US 09009147 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jingrui He (Ossining, New York); Ravi B. Konuru (Tarrytown, New York); Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Hanghang Tong (Ossining, New York); Zhen Wen (Springfield, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingrui He (Ossining, New York); Ravi B. Konuru (Tarrytown, New York); Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Hanghang Tong (Ossining, New York); Zhen Wen (Springfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program product for finding a diversified ranking list for a given query. In one embodiment, a multitude of date items responsive to the query are identified, a marginal score is established for each data item; and a set, or ranking list, of the data items is formed based on these scores. This ranking list is formed by forming an initial set, and one or more data items are added to the ranking list based on the marginal scores of the data items. In one embodiment, each of the data items has a measured relevance and a measured diversity value, and the marginal scores for the data items are based on the measured relevance and the measured diversity values of the data items. |
| FILED | Friday, August 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/213856 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30592 (20130101) G06F 17/30958 (20130101) G06F 2216/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09009214 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for managing a process-to-process inter-cluster communication request. A call from a first application is received in a first operating system in a first data processing system. The first operating system passes the call from the first operating system to a first host fabric interface controller in the first data processing system without processing the call. The first host fabric interface processes the call to determine a second data processing system in the plurality of data processing systems with which the call is associated, wherein the call is processed by the first host fabric interface without intervention by the first operating system. The first host fabric interface initiates an inter-cluster connection to a second host fabric interface in the second data processing. The call is then transferred to the second host fabric interface in the second data processing system via the inter-cluster connection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/342691 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/40013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 29/08135 (20130101) H04L 67/10 (20130101) H04L 67/1097 (20130101) H04L 69/32 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christophe Quintard (Toulouse, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christophe Quintard (Toulouse, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for attributing network addresses to virtual machines. A request for a number of addresses is received from a requesting entity, thereby forming a requested number of addresses. A length of continuous ranges of available addresses is compared to the requested number of addresses. A range of available addresses comprising a number of addresses greater than the requested number of addresses is selected from a memory, thereby forming a selected range of available addresses. A first new range comprising the requested number of addresses excised from the selected range of available addresses is defined and one or more farther new ranges are defined, comprising the remainder of the selected range of available addresses not belonging to the first new range. The first new range is attributed for the use of the requesting entity. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/389554 |
| ART UNIT | 2449 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/61 (20130101) G06F 12/0653 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2009/45595 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/12216 (20130101) H04L 61/2007 (20130101) |
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| US 09009723 | Degenaro 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) | Louis Ralph Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James Ryan Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gabriela Jacques Da Silva (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing distributed computer data stream acceleration devices is provided that utilizes distributed acceleration devices on nodes within the computing system to process inquiries by programs executing on the computing system. The available nodes and available acceleration devices in the computing system are identified. In addition, a plurality of virtual acceleration device definitions is created. Each virtual acceleration device definition includes attributes used to configure at least one of the plurality of identified acceleration devices. When an inquiry containing an identification of computing system resources to be used in processing the inquiry is received, at least one virtual acceleration device definition that is capable of configuring an acceleration device in accordance with the computing system resources identified by the inquiry is identified. That acceleration device is configured in accordance with the identified virtual acceleration device definition and is used to process the inquiry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847478 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 49/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09009829 | Stolfo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Shlomo Hershkop (Brooklyn, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Malek Ben Salem (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Shlomo Hershkop (Brooklyn, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Malek Ben Salem (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing trap-based defenses are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing trap-based defenses is provided, the method comprising: generating decoy information based at least in part on actual information in a computing environment, wherein the decoy information is generated to comply with one or more document properties; embedding a beacon into the decoy information; and inserting the decoy information with the embedded beacon into the computing environment, wherein the embedded beacon provides a first indication that the decoy information has been accessed by an attacker and wherein the embedded beacon provides a second indication that differentiates between the decoy information and the actual information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565394 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/566 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1466 (20130101) |
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| US 09003729 | West et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zep Solar LLC (San Rafael, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zep Solar, LLC (San Rafael, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack Raymond West (San Rafael, California); Brian Atchley (San Rafael, California); Tyrus Hawkes Hudson (San Rafael, California); Emil Johansen (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic array, including: (a) supports laid out on a surface in rows and columns; (b) photovoltaic modules positioned on top of the supports; and (c) fasteners connecting the photovoltaic modules to the supports, wherein the supports have an upper pedestal surface and a lower pedestal surface such that the photovoltaic modules are positioned at a non-horizontal angle when edges of the photovoltaic modules are positioned on top of the upper and lower pedestal surfaces, and wherein a portion of the fasteners rotate to lock the photovoltaic modules onto the supports. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/308954 |
| ART UNIT | 3638 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0422 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/12 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09003789 | Browne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan L. Browne (Grosse Pointe, Michigan); Nancy L. Johnson (Northville, Michigan); Paul W. Alexander (Ypsilanti, Michigan); John Andrew Shaw (Dexter, Michigan); Christopher Burton Churchill (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew C. Keefe (Encino, California); Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California); Guillermo A. Herrera (Winnetka, California); Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Richard J. Skurkis (Lake Orion, Michigan); Wayne Brown (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); Dynalloy, Inc. (Tustin, California); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan L. Browne (Grosse Pointe, Michigan); Nancy L. Johnson (Northville, Michigan); Paul W. Alexander (Ypsilanti, Michigan); John Andrew Shaw (Dexter, Michigan); Christopher Burton Churchill (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrew C. Keefe (Encino, California); Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California); Guillermo A. Herrera (Winnetka, California); Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Richard J. Skurkis (Lake Orion, Michigan); Wayne Brown (Costa Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy harvesting system for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy includes a heat engine that operates using a shape memory alloy active material. The shape memory alloy member may be in thermal communication with a hot region at a first temperature and a cold region at a second temperature lower than the first temperature. The shape memory alloy material may be configured to selectively change crystallographic phase between martensite to austenite and thereby one of contract and expand in response to the first and second temperatures. A thermal conduction element may be in direct contact with the SMA material, where the thermal conduction element is configured to receive thermal energy from the hot region and to transfer a portion of the received thermal energy to the SMA material through conduction. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/340886 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09004148 | Pehrson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon P. Pehrson (Harriman, Tennessee); Alan F. Moore (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are various embodiments of systems for casting thin metal plates and sheets. Typical embodiments include layers of mold cavities that are oriented vertically for casting the metal plates. In some embodiments, the mold cavities include a beveled edge such that the plates that are cast have a beveled edge. In some embodiments, the mold cavities are filled with a molten metal through an open horizontal edge of the cavity. In some embodiments, the mold cavities are filled through one or more vertical feed orifices. Further disclosed are methods for forming a thin cast metal plate or sheet where the thickness of the cast part is in a range from 0.005 inches to 0.2 inches, and the surface area of the cast part is in a range from 16 square inches to 144 square inches. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161729 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Foundry Moulding B22C 9/00 (20130101) B22C 9/20 (20130101) Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 23/02 (20130101) B22D 25/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Nuclear Reactors G21C 3/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09004911 | Siriwardane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ranjani V. Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia); Justin M. Weber (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranjani V. Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia); Justin M. Weber (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides an apparatus and method utilizing fuel reactor comprised of a fuel section, an oxygen carrier section, and a porous divider separating the fuel section and the oxygen carrier section. The porous divider allows fluid communication between the fuel section and the oxygen carrier section while preventing the migration of solids of a particular size. Maintaining particle segregation between the oxygen carrier section and the fuel section during solid fuel gasification and combustion processes allows gases generated in either section to participate in necessary reactions while greatly mitigating issues associated with mixture of the oxygen carrier with char or ash products. The apparatus and method may be utilized with an oxygen uncoupling oxygen carrier such as CuO, Mn3O4, or Co3O4, or utilized with a CO/H2 reducing oxygen carrier such as Fe2O3. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/688260 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Combustion Using Only Solid Fuel F23B 7/00 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 10/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23C 13/08 (20130101) Cremation Furnaces; Consuming Waste Products by Combustion F23G 2201/40 (20130101) F23G 2201/50 (20130101) F23G 2900/50202 (20130101) |
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| US 09005331 | Adzic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Junliang Zhang (Rochester, New York); Yibo Mo (Naperville, Illinois); Miomir Vukmirovic (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Junliang Zhang (Rochester, New York); Yibo Mo (Naperville, Illinois); Miomir Vukmirovic (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Core-shell particles encapsulated by a thin film of a catalytically active metal are described. The particles are preferably nanoparticles comprising a non-noble core with a noble metal shell which preferably do not include Pt. The non-noble metal-noble metal core-shell nanoparticles are encapsulated by a catalytically active metal which is preferably Pt. The core-shell nanoparticles are preferably formed by prolonged elevated-temperature annealing of nanoparticle alloys in an inert environment. This causes the noble metal component to surface segregate and form an atomically thin shell. The Pt overlayer is formed by a process involving the underpotential deposition of a monolayer of a non-noble metal followed by immersion in a solution comprising a Pt salt. A thin Pt layer forms via the galvanic displacement of non-noble surface atoms by more noble Pt atoms in the salt. The overall process is a robust and cost-efficient method for forming Pt-coated non-noble metal-noble metal core-shell nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/708226 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 35/0013 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/921 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/928 (20130101) H01M 4/8657 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09005417 | Sommer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California); Ying-Chih Wang (Pleasanton, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Sommer (Livermore, California); Anson V. Hatch (Tracy, California); Ying-Chih Wang (Pleasanton, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide devices, systems, and methods for microscale isoelectric fractionation. Analytes in a sample may be isolated according to their isoelectric point within a fractionation microchannel. A microfluidic device according to an embodiment of the invention includes a substrate at least partially defining a fractionation microchannel. The fractionation microchannel has at least one cross-sectional dimension equal to or less than 1 mm. A plurality of membranes of different pHs are disposed in the microchannel. Analytes having an isoelectric point between the pH of the membranes may be collected in a region of the fractionation channel between the first and second membranes through isoelectric fractionation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243817 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4473 (20130101) G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 27/44795 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005422 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junhua Jiang (Urbana, Illinois); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Alexey V. Ignatchenko (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junhua Jiang (Urbana, Illinois); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Alexey V. Ignatchenko (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the preparation of nitrogen fertilizers including ammonium nitrate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate, and/or ammonia are disclosed. Embodiments include (1) ammonium nitrate produced via the reduction of a nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a nitrogen source at the anode; (2) urea or its isomers produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source: (3) ammonia produced via the reduction of nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a hydrogen source or a hydrogen equivalent such as carbon monoxide or a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at the anode; and (4) urea-ammonium nitrate produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source, and anodic oxidation of a nitrogen source. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905600 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 1/0488 (20130101) Nitrogenous Fertilisers C05C 1/00 (20130101) C05C 9/00 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 3/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/368 (20130101) |
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| US 09005486 | Brinkman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kyle S. Brinkman (Aiken, South Carolina); Paul S. Korinko (Aiken, South Carolina); Elise B. Fox (Aiken, South Carolina); Frank Chen (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina); University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle S. Brinkman (Aiken, South Carolina); Paul S. Korinko (Aiken, South Carolina); Elise B. Fox (Aiken, South Carolina); Frank Chen (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Perovskite materials of the general formula SrCeO3 and BaCeO3 are provided having improved conductivity while maintaining an original ratio of chemical constituents, by altering the microstructure of the material. A process of making Pervoskite materials is also provided in which wet chemical techniques are used to fabricate nanocrystalline ceramic materials which have improved grain size and allow lower temperature densification than is obtainable with conventional solid-state reaction processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/066166 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 17/0018 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/02 (20130101) C01P 2002/04 (20130101) C01P 2002/34 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/88 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/50 (20130101) C04B 35/624 (20130101) C04B 35/6267 (20130101) C04B 2235/443 (20130101) C04B 2235/666 (20130101) C04B 2235/768 (20130101) C04B 2235/3213 (20130101) C04B 2235/3215 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/3229 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005490 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kailash C. Jain (Troy, Michigan); Rick D. Kerr (Fenton, Michigan); Joseph M Keller (Grand Blanc, Michigan); Joseph V. Bonadies (Clarkson, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state sintered material is described that includes a mixed oxide of lanthanum, strontium, cobalt, iron and oxygen, and CaCO3 inclusions. The solid state sintered material can also include calcium oxide, which can form from thermal composition of calcium carbonate. The solid state sintered material can also include a pore-forming particulate material such as carbon black and/or a doped ceramic metal oxide ionic conductor such as Sm-doped ceria uniformly dispersed in the solid state sintered material. The solid state sintered material can be formed from a two-step process in which a portion of the CaCO3 is mixed with the mixed oxide materials and heated to form porous agglomerates, and the remaining CaCO3 is added during the formation of a sintering paste. The solid state sintered material described herein can be used as a cathode material for solid oxide fuel cell. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714564 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 51/68 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/34 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/26 (20130101) C04B 35/26 (20130101) C04B 35/2608 (20130101) C04B 35/2633 (20130101) C04B 35/2641 (20130101) C04B 38/00 (20130101) C04B 38/00 (20130101) C04B 38/067 (20130101) C04B 38/068 (20130101) C04B 38/0645 (20130101) C04B 2111/00853 (20130101) C04B 2235/3208 (20130101) C04B 2235/3274 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8605 (20130101) H01M 4/8652 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/8875 (20130101) H01M 8/1016 (20130101) |
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| US 09005758 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of comminution of corn stover having a grain direction to produce a mixture of corn stover, by feeding the corn stover in a direction of travel substantially randomly to the grain direction one or more times through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs (D) arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of corn stover travel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/312312 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 13/0262 (20130101) Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 18/16 (20130101) B02C 23/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 5/363 (20130101) C10L 5/442 (20130101) C10L 5/445 (20130101) Fibrous Raw Materials or Their Mechanical Treatment D21B 1/061 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09005808 | Abouimrane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ali Abouimrane (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Abouimrane (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Selenium or selenium-containing compounds may be used as electroactive materials in electrodes or electrochemical devices. The selenium or selenium-containing compound is mixed with a carbon material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404191 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/18 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/60 (20130101) H01M 4/364 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/606 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) |
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| US 09005816 | Amine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois); Jun Lu (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Peng Du (Woodbridge, Illinois); Yu Lei (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A cathode includes a carbon material having a surface, the surface having a first thin layer of an inert material and a first catalyst overlaying the first thin layer, the first catalyst including metal or metal oxide nanoparticles, wherein the cathode is configured for use as the cathode of a lithium-air battery. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/786835 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/00 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005822 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lu Zhang (Lisle, Illinois); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Functional electrolyte solvents include compounds having at least one aromatic ring with 2, 3, 4 or 5 substituents, at least one of which is a substituted or unsubstituted methoxy group, at least one of which is a tert-butyl group and at least one of which is a substituted or unsubstituted polyether or poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) group bonded through oxygen to the aromatic ring, are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787433 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 43/2055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) |
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| US 09005947 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (El Sauzal, Spain); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl7, and the corresponding BGL7 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL7, recombinant BGL7 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/158672 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/386 (20130101) C11D 3/38645 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/244 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09005948 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (El Sauzal, Spain); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl7, and the corresponding EGVII amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVII, recombinant EGVII proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Monday, January 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/159044 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/38 (20130101) C11D 3/38636 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (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 09005955 | Goodenough et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ursula Goodenough (St. Louis, Missouri); Carrie Goodson (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Cultures of Chlamydomonas are disclosed comprising greater than 340 mg/l triacylglycerols (TAG). The cultures can include buoyant Chlamydomonas. Methods of forming the cultures are also disclosed. In some embodiments, these methods comprise providing Chlamydomonas growing in log phase in a first culture medium comprising a nitrogen source and acetate, replacing the first culture medium with a second medium comprising acetate but no nitrogen source, and subsequently supplementing the second medium with additional acetate. In some embodiments, a culture can comprise at least 1,300 mg/l triacyglycerols. In some embodiments, cultures can be used to produce a biofuel such as biodiesel. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/662549 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/12 (20130101) C12N 9/1241 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/6463 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07027 (20130101) |
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| US 09006147 | Taylor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | E. Jennings Taylor (Troy, Ohio); Maria E. Inman (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Timothy Hall (Englewood, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Faraday Technology, Inc. (Clayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Jennings Taylor (Troy, Ohio); Maria E. Inman (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Timothy Hall (Englewood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical finishing system for super conducting radio frequency (SCRF) cavities including a low viscosity electrolyte solution that is free of hydrofluoric acid, an electrode in contact with the electrolyte solution, the SCRF cavity being spaced apart from the electrode and in contact with the electrolyte solution and a power source including a first electrical lead electrically coupled to the electrode and a second electrical lead electrically coupled to the cavity, the power source being configured to pass an electric current between the electrode and the workpiece, wherein the electric current includes anodic pulses and cathodic pulses, and wherein the cathodic pulses are interposed between at least some of the anodic pulses. The SCRF cavity may be vertically oriented during the finishing process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546072 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic Removal of Materials From Objects; Apparatus Therefor C25F 3/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/2406 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09006409 | Merino |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra Merino (West Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing a secreted polypeptide having biological activity, comprising: (a) transforming a fungal host cell with a fusion protein construct encoding a fusion protein, which comprises: (i) a first polynucleotide encoding a signal peptide; (ii) a second polynucleotide encoding at least a catalytic domain of an endoglucanase or a portion thereof; and (iii) a third polynucleotide encoding at least a catalytic domain of a polypeptide having biological activity; wherein the signal peptide and at least the catalytic domain of the endoglucanase increases secretion of the polypeptide having biological activity compared to the absence of at least the catalytic domain of the endoglucanase; (b) cultivating the transformed fungal host cell under conditions suitable for production of the fusion protein; and (c) recovering the fusion protein, a component thereof, or a combination thereof, having biological activity, from the cultivation medium. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/524793 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/2445 (20130101) C12N 15/80 (20130101) |
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| US 09006556 | Bell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lon E. Bell (Altadena, California); Douglas Todd Crane (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genthem Incorporated (Azusa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lon E. Bell (Altadena, California); Douglas Todd Crane (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Traditional power generation systems using thermoelectric power generators are designed to operate most efficiently for a single operating condition. The present invention provides a power generation system in which the characteristics of the thermoelectrics, the flow of the thermal power, and the operational characteristics of the power generator are monitored and controlled such that higher operation efficiencies and/or higher output powers can be maintained with variably thermal power input. Such a system is particularly beneficial in variable thermal power source systems, such as recovering power from the waste heat generated in the exhaust of combustion engines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/476325 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cooling of Machines or Engines in General; Cooling of Internal-combustion Engines F01P 9/06 (20130101) F01P 2011/205 (20130101) Hot Gas or Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants; Use of Waste Heat of Combustion Engines; Not Otherwise Provided for F02G 2260/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/14 (20130101) |
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09006557 — Systems and methods for reducing current and increasing voltage in thermoelectric systems
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| APPLICANT(S) | John LaGrandeur (Arcadia, California); Eric Poliquin (Arcadia, California); Dmitri Kossakovski (S. Pasadena, California); Vladimir Jovovic (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gentherm Incorporated (Azusa, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John LaGrandeur (Arcadia, California); Eric Poliquin (Arcadia, California); Dmitri Kossakovski (S. Pasadena, California); Vladimir Jovovic (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoelectric assembly and method are provided. The thermoelectric assembly can extend at least partially around a perimeter of a first fluid conduit. The thermoelectric assembly can include a plurality of thermoelectric sub-assemblies aligned with one another along the perimeter of the first fluid conduit. Each thermoelectric sub-assembly can include a plurality of thermoelectric elements in parallel electrical communication with one another, and at least one shunt a plurality of electrically insulating elements to prevent current flow in a plane perpendicular to the first direction between adjacent thermoelectric sub-assemblies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/489192 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 35/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09006644 | Sutter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Werner Sutter (Westhampton Beach, New York); Eli Anguelova Sutter (Westhampton Beach, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is monolayer and/or few-layer graphene on metal or metal-coated substrates. Embodiments include graphene mirrors. In an example, a mirror includes a substrate that has a surface exhibiting a curvature operable to focus an incident beam onto a focal plane. A graphene layer conformally adheres to the substrate, and is operable to protect the substrate surface from degradation due to the incident beam and an ambient environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847566 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| 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 31/0461 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/105 (20130101) G02B 5/10 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 3/14 (20130101) H01J 2201/30461 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006972 | Hopwood |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey A. Hopwood (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A. Hopwood (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-temperature, atmospheric-pressure microplasma generator comprises at least one strip of metal on a dielectric substrate. A first end of the strip is connected to a ground plane and the second end of the strip is adjacent to a grounded electrode, with a gap being defined between the second end of the strip and the grounded electrode. High frequency power is supplied to the strip. The frequency is selected so that the length of the strip is an odd integer multiple of ¼ of the wavelength traveling on the strip. A microplasma forms in the gap between the second end of the strip and the grounded electrode due to electric fields in that region. A microplasma generator array comprises a plurality of strongly-coupled resonant strips in close proximity to one another. At least one of the strips has an input for high-frequency electrical power. The remaining strips resonate due to coupling from the at least one powered strip. The array can provide a continuous line or ring of plasma. The microplasma generator can be used to alter the surface of a substrate, such as by adding material (deposition), removal of material (etching), or modifying surface chemistry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/266396 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 16/24 (20130101) C23C 16/511 (20130101) C23C 16/545 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/32366 (20130101) H01J 37/32825 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/46 (20130101) H05H 2001/4622 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09007058 | Islam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zahirul Islam (Aurora, Illinois); Ritesh K. Das (Woodridge, Illinois); Roy Weinstein (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zahirul Islam (Aurora, Illinois); Ritesh K. Das (Woodridge, Illinois); Roy Weinstein (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a dual-stage trapped-flux magnet cryostat apparatus are provided for implementing enhanced measurements at high magnetic fields. The dual-stage trapped-flux magnet cryostat system includes a trapped-flux magnet (TFM). A sample, for example, a single crystal, is adjustably positioned proximate to the surface of the TFM, using a translation stage such that the distance between the sample and the surface is selectively adjusted. A cryostat is provided with a first separate thermal stage provided for cooling the TFM and with a second separate thermal stage provided for cooling sample. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/405436 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09007576 | Lascola et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Lascola (N. Augusta, South Carolina); Christopher S. McWhorter (Evans, Georgia); Simona H. Murph (N. Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Lascola (N. Augusta, South Carolina); Christopher S. McWhorter (Evans, Georgia); Simona H. Murph (N. Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide for use with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is provided that includes a base structure with an inner surface that defines a cavity and that has an axis. Multiple molecules of an analyte are capable of being located within the cavity at the same time. A base layer is located on the inner surface of the base structure. The base layer extends in an axial direction along an axial length of an excitation section. Nanoparticles are carried by the base layer and may be uniformly distributed along the entire axial length of the excitation section. A flow cell for introducing analyte and excitation light into the waveguide and a method of applying nanoparticles may also be provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/136888 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09008272 | Shu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deming Shu (Darian, Illinois); Yuri Shvydko (Lisle, Illinois); Stanislav A. Stoupin (Willowbrook, Illinois); Ruben Khachatryan (Plano, Illinois); Kurt A. Goetze (Geneva, Illinois); Timothy Roberts (Hobart, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deming Shu (Darian, Illinois); Yuri Shvydko (Lisle, Illinois); Stanislav A. Stoupin (Willowbrook, Illinois); Ruben Khachatryan (Plano, Illinois); Kurt A. Goetze (Geneva, Illinois); Timothy Roberts (Hobart, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an ultrahigh-resolution spectrometer including a precision mechanical structure for positioning inelastic X-ray scattering optics are provided. The spectrometer includes an X-ray monochromator and an X-ray analyzer, each including X-ray optics of a collimating (C) crystal, a pair of dispersing (D) element crystals, anomalous transmission filter (F) and a wavelength (W) selector crystal. A respective precision mechanical structure is provided with the X-ray monochromator and the X-ray analyzer. The precision mechanical structure includes a base plate, such as an aluminum base plate; positioning stages for D-crystal alignment; positioning stages with an incline sensor for C/F/W-crystal alignment, and the positioning stages including flexure-based high-stiffness structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551788 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/2076 (20130101) G01N 23/20025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20130101) |
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| US 09009640 | Atcitty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Atcitty (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Luke Dale Watson (Savannah, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies pertaining to the automatic computation of transfer functions for a physical system are described herein. The physical system is one of an electrical system, a mechanical system, an electromechanical system, an electrochemical system, or an electromagnetic system. A netlist in the form of a matrix comprises data that is indicative of elements in the physical system, values for the elements in the physical system, and structure of the physical system. Transfer functions for the physical system are computed based upon the netlist. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921110 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/5072 (20130101) |
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 09004201 | Xi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ning Xi (Okemos, Michigan); Jianguo Zhao (East Lansing, Michigan); Bingtuan Gao (East Lansing, Michigan); Jing Xu (East Lansing, Michigan); Matt Mutka (Okemos, Michigan); Li Xiao (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ning Xi (Okemos, Michigan); Jianguo Zhao (East Lansing, Michigan); Bingtuan Gao (East Lansing, Michigan); Jing Xu (East Lansing, Michigan); Matt Mutka (Okemos, Michigan); Li Xiao (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A jumping robot is provided. In another aspect, a jumping robot weighs less than 50 grams, jumps at least 20 cm high and has a maximum linear dimension of 10 cm. A further aspect provides a robot that employs an electromagnetic actuator that actuates at least two of: jumping, steering, self-righting, and/or mid-air orientation control. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/832284 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/104 (20130101) B25J 9/1682 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09005425 | Burrows et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and compounds for detecting modified nucleic acid bases are disclosed and described. The methods provide for detecting a nucleic acid lesion and can include directing a nucleic acid adduct into a channel, wherein the nucleic acid adduct includes a nucleic acid having a lesion and a current modulating compound coupled to the nucleic acid at the lesion (110), and measuring a change in current through the channel in response to the current modulating compound to detect the lesion (112). The method can optionally include forming the nucleic acid adduct. Also provided is a method for identifying the number of repeat nucleotides in at least a portion of a nucleic acid strand, a method of assigning a registration marker within a nucleic acid, and a method of obtaining sequence information from a nucleic acid comprising assigning a registration marker on the nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/227212 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) 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 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005548 | Henry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael D. Henry (Altadena, California); Andrew P. Homyk (South Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Thomas A. Tombrello (Altadena, California); Sameer Walavalkar (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Henry (Altadena, California); Andrew P. Homyk (South Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Thomas A. Tombrello (Altadena, California); Sameer Walavalkar (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating of high aspect ratio probes and deforming micropillars and nanopillars are described. Use of polymers in deforming nanopillars and micropillars is also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712097 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2203/0361 (20130101) B81B 2207/056 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00111 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/3081 (20130101) H01L 21/3086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/30655 (20130101) |
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| US 09005662 | Schlenoff |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An article comprising a polyelectrolyte complex comprising an interpenetrating network of at least one predominantly positively charged polyelectrolyte polymer and at least one predominantly negatively charged polyelectrolyte polymer, the polyelectrolyte complex further comprising a plurality of closed-shell pores, the plurality of pores having at least one average transverse dimension between about 100 nanometer and about 1000 micrometers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/391312 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| 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 15/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 15/425 (20130101) A61L 2300/41 (20130101) A61L 2300/42 (20130101) A61L 2300/43 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) A61L 2300/418 (20130101) |
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| US 09005890 | Bhethanabotla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Venkat R. Bhethanabotla (Tampa, Florida); Sanchari Chowdhury (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkat R. Bhethanabotla (Tampa, Florida); Sanchari Chowdhury (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal enhanced luminescence using alloy nanoparticles offers additional degrees of freedom for tuning their optical properties by altering atomic composition and atomic arrangement when compared to pure metal nanoparticles such as gold and silver. Surface plasmon resonance wavelengths of silver-copper nanoparticles were tuned in the visible and near infrared region by changing annealing temperature. Strong emission enhancement of luminophores at the vicinity of the Ag—Cu nanoparticles was shown when the SPR spectrum was tuned to produce maximum spectral overlap. As the SPR spectrum can be easily tailored, this platform can be effectively used to enhance luminescence of different luminophores. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549684 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2563/149 (20130101) |
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| US 09006016 | Celik-Butler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeynep Celik-Butler (Colleyville, Texas); Suraj K. Patil (Ballston Lake, New York); Donald Philip Butler (Colleyville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for fabricating piezoresistive polysilicon on a substrate by low-temperature metal induced crystallization by: (1) providing the substrate having a passivation layer; (2) performing, at or near room temperature in a chamber without breaking a vacuum or near-vacuum within the chamber, the steps of: (a) creating a metal layer on the passivation layer, and (b) creating an amorphous silicon layer on the metal layer, wherein the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer have approximately the same thickness; (3) annealing the substrate, the passivation layer, the metal layer and the amorphous silicon layer at a temperature equal to or less than 600° C. and a period of time equal to or less than three hours to form a doped polysilicon layer below a residual metal layer; and (4) removing the residual metal layer to expose the doped polysilicon layer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/925563 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/0042 (20130101) G01L 9/0054 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/324 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02672 (20130101) H01L 41/25 (20130101) H01L 41/1132 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/1138 (20130101) |
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| US 09006212 | Bachelet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ido Bachelet (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Mark Bulmer (Towson, Maryland); Rebeca B. Rosengaus (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ido Bachelet (Brookline, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Mark Bulmer (Towson, Maryland); Rebeca B. Rosengaus (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and kits comprising carbohydrate-based inhibitors that bind GNBP and/or inhibit β(1,3)-glucanase activity. Also provided are methods of using such inhibitors to protect against or treat pest infestation, as are compositions and kits comprising subparts of the carbohydrate-based inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/778077 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — 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 25/34 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0024 (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) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/924 (20130101) G01N 2333/43552 (20130101) G01N 2333/43582 (20130101) |
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| US 09006231 | Gin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Y. Gin (Pelham, New York); Jeremy Wilmot (Inadianapolis, Indiana); Hakim Djaballah (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel cephalotaxus esters, syntheses thereof, and intermediates thereto. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the present invention and methods of using said compounds or compositions in the treatment of proliferative diseases (e.g., benign neoplasm, cancer, inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, diabetic retinopathy) and infectious disease. The invention further provides methods of using said compounds or compositions in the treatment of multidrug resistant cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/920899 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/14 (20130101) C07D 491/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006345 | Lancaster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Lancaster (New York, New York); Jeffrey T. Koberstein (Storrs, Connecticut); Nicholas J. Turro (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention is directed to dendrimers comprised of macromolecules and trifunctional branches. In another aspect, the invention relates to methods for generating dendrimeric compositions comprising macromolecules and trifunctional branches. In certain embodiments, the radial density of the dendrimeric composition is controlled by selective incorporation of branches. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/429704 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 2438/01 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 83/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09006393 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patricia L. Clark (South Bend, Indiana); Michael S. Evans (South Bend, Indiana); Krastyu G. Ugrinov (Notre Dame, Indiana); Thomas Clarke, IV (Notre Dame, Indiana); Marc-André Frese (Enger, Germany) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia L. Clark (South Bend, Indiana); Michael S. Evans (South Bend, Indiana); Krastyu G. Ugrinov (Notre Dame, Indiana); Thomas Clarke, IV (Notre Dame, Indiana); Marc-André Frese (Enger, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Stalled ribosome:nascent molecule of interest complexes and methods of using same are provided. Plasmids, particularly DNA plasmids, comprising a stall segment are also disclosed. The methods provide for the facile and stable formation of stalled ribosome:nascent molecule of interest complexes that may be used to examine protein synthesis and protein conformational events, as well as in the creation of desired ribosomal displays. Cells transformed with these plasmids are also provided, and include both eukaryotic and prokaryotic transformed cells. Stall elements that provide for ribosomal stalling of eukaryotic and prokaryotic ribosomes are also disclosed. Various therapeutic and clinical applications of these methods are also provided and used in diseases associated with defects in protein accumulation in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/211723 |
| 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 | Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09006410 | Kieliszewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcia J. Kieliszewski (Albany, Ohio); Jianfeng Xu (Athens, Ohio); Gary D. Meyer (Athens, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia J. Kieliszewski (Albany, Ohio); Jianfeng Xu (Athens, Ohio); Gary D. Meyer (Athens, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing the yield in plant expression of recombinant proteins comprising engineering glycosylation sites into cloned genes or cDNAs for proteins using codons that drive post-translational modifications in plants and engineering the cloned genes or cDNAs to contain a plant secretory signal sequence that targets the gene products (protein) for secretion are present. The methods result in increased recombinant glycosylated protein yields. Proteins produced according to these methods are also present. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019819 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/27 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/56 (20130101) C07K 14/61 (20130101) C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/765 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/62 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09006463 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); David M. Knapp (Boonville, Indiana); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of performing a chemical reaction includes reacting a compound selected from the group consisting of an organohalide and an organo-pseudohalide, and a protected organoboronic acid represented by formula (I) in a reaction mixture: R1—B-T (I); where R1 represents an organic group, T represents a conformationally rigid protecting group, and B represents boron having sp3 hybridization. When unprotected, the corresponding organoboronic acid is unstable by the boronic acid neat stability test. The reaction mixture further includes a base having a pKB of at least 1 and a palladium catalyst. The method further includes forming a cross-coupled product in the reaction mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/669906 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 61/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 1/321 (20130101) C07C 13/28 (20130101) C07C 15/46 (20130101) C07C 15/58 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 43/2055 (20130101) C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/24 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/325 (20130101) C07D 207/333 (20130101) C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 213/73 (20130101) C07D 241/42 (20130101) C07D 263/56 (20130101) C07D 307/36 (20130101) C07D 307/42 (20130101) C07D 307/80 (20130101) C07D 333/16 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Selcuk Kose (Tampa, Florida); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Selcuk Kose (Tampa, Florida); Eby G. Friedman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a digitally controlled, current starved, pulse width modulator (PWM). In the PWM of the present invention, the amount of current from the voltage source to the ring oscillator is controlled by the proposed header circuit. By changing the header current, the pulse width of the switching signal generated at the output of the ring oscillator is dynamically controlled, where the duty cycle can vary between 50% and 90%. A duty cycle to voltage converter is used to ensure the accuracy of the system under process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations. The proposed pulse width modulator is appropriate for dynamic voltage scaling systems due to the small on-chip area and high accuracy under process, voltage, and temperature variations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/150434 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09007562 | Marconi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Synopsys, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Synopsys, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario C. Marconi (Fort Collins, Colorado); Lukasz Urbanski (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge J. Rocca (Fort Collins, Colorado); Artak Isoyan (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for nanopatterning of substrates using the demagnified Talbot effect, wherein: (a) large arrays of nanostructures can rapidly be printed; (b) short extreme ultraviolet wavelengths permits sub-100 nm spatial resolution; (c) the de-magnification factor can be continuously adjusted, that is, continuously scaled; (d) the patterning is the effect of the collective diffraction of numerous tiled units that constitute the periodic array, giving rise to error resistance such that a defect in one unit is averaged over the area of the mask and the print does not show any defects; (e) the Talbot mask does not wear out since the method is non-contact; and (f) the feature sizes on the mask do not have to be as small as the feature sizes desired on the target, are described. The apparatus includes a source of coherent radiation having a chosen wavelength directed onto a focusing optic, the reflected converging light passing through a Talbot mask and impinging on a target substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/871879 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 7/2047 (20130101) G03F 7/2053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/7035 (20130101) |
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| US 09007593 | Sailor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Brian H King (Arlington, Virginia); Sadafumi Noda (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Brian H King (Arlington, Virginia); Sadafumi Noda (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems of the invention can determine the identity and quantity of analytes in a vapor. In preferred methods, a porous optical film is exposed to vapor which contains analyte. The porous optical film is heated and its optical response is monitored during heating. An optical response observed via heating can determine the identity and/or quantity of the analyte. In preferred embodiments, optical response during a thermal pulse is compared to a database of sensor responses that are characteristic of various analytes. Preferred methods are conducted a relatively low temperatures, for example below about 200° C. In preferred methods, a heating and cooling cycle produces a hysteresis curve in the optical response that is indicative of analytes. In preferred embodiments, a thermal reset pulse resets the porous optical film for later use and also provides an optical response that can be used for sensing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/811147 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/171 (20130101) |
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| US 09007683 | Kubala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FiveFocal LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A passively athermalized infrared imaging system includes an object side meniscus lens that forms at least one aspheric surface, and an image side meniscus lens that forms two aspheric surfaces. Each of the meniscus lenses are formed of a material selected from the group consisting of a chalcogenide glass, germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide, zinc selenide and glass. An optical power of the image side meniscus lens is at least 1.6 times an optical power of the object side meniscus lens such that an effective focus position of the imaging system is athermalized over a range of 0 to +40 degrees Celsius. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/355478 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09008133 | Renninger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Henry Renninger (Ithaca, New York); Frank W. Wise (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Henry Renninger (Ithaca, New York); Frank W. Wise (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A normal-dispersion fiber laser is operated using parameters in which dissipative solitons exist with remarkably large pulse duration and chirp, along with large pulse energy. A low-repetition-rate oscillator that generates pulses with large and linear chirp can thus replace the standard oscillator, stretcher, pulse-picker and preamplifier in a chirped-pulse fiber amplifier. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128754 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/1112 (20130101) H01S 3/1115 (20130101) H01S 3/1618 (20130101) |
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| US 09008962 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glendale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glendale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented compute a more accurate tracking estimate for trackees. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/616408 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 17/38 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 21/3438 (20130101) G01C 21/3626 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0294 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) G01S 19/49 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/028 (20130101) H04W 4/043 (20130101) H04W 64/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09009095 | Fafri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohsin Saleet Fafri (Potomac, Maryland); Tuan Minh Hoang-Trong (Manassas, Virginia); George Stuart Blair Williams (Waynesboro, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohsin Saleet Fafri (Potomac, Maryland); Tuan Minh Hoang-Trong (Manassas, Virginia); George Stuart Blair Williams (Waynesboro, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining a probability of changing from one state to another in a stochastic entity, comprising: determining the compact component matrix utilizing characteristic information of the stochastic entity; determining the compact composite component matrix by taking a Kroneker product of the compact component matrix and an identity matrix; determining and placing all current states for the stochastic entity into a state space matrix; determining a Q matrix and/or a transition rate matrix using the compact composite component matrix and basic conditions or variables of the problem domain and/or a compact transition rate matrix; and performing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation using information from the state space matrix and information from the transition rate matrix to determine the probability of changing from one state to another state in the stochastic entity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/005433 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09009385 | Juels et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ari Juels (Brookline, Massachusetts); Alina M. Oprea (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael Kendrick Reiter (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yinqian Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ari Juels (Brookline, Massachusetts); Alina M. Oprea (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael Kendrick Reiter (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yinqian Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one virtual machine implemented on a given physical machine in an information processing system is able to detect the presence of one or more other virtual machines that are also co-resident on that same physical machine. More particularly, at least one virtual machine is configured to avoid usage of a selected portion of a memory resource of the physical machine for a period of time, and to monitor the selected portion of the memory resource for activity during the period of time. Detection of a sufficient level of such activity indicates that the physical machine is also being shared by at least one other virtual machine. The memory resource of the physical machine may comprise, for example, a cache memory, and the selected portion of the memory resource may comprise one or more randomly selected sets of the cache memory. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/174177 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/14 (20130101) G06F 13/1663 (20130101) |
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| US 09009829 | Stolfo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Shlomo Hershkop (Brooklyn, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Malek Ben Salem (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Shlomo Hershkop (Brooklyn, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Malek Ben Salem (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing trap-based defenses are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing trap-based defenses is provided, the method comprising: generating decoy information based at least in part on actual information in a computing environment, wherein the decoy information is generated to comply with one or more document properties; embedding a beacon into the decoy information; and inserting the decoy information with the embedded beacon into the computing environment, wherein the embedded beacon provides a first indication that the decoy information has been accessed by an attacker and wherein the embedded beacon provides a second indication that differentiates between the decoy information and the actual information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565394 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/566 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1466 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of baling switchgrass whole stalks into square bales at bulk densities between 12.5 and 20.5 lbs/ft3, optimized for highway transport after dry down to maximize semi-trailer truck payloads. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/412899 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Processing of Harvested Produce; Hay or Straw Presses; Devices for Storing Agricultural or Horticultural Produce A01F 15/0825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Presses in General B30B 9/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09003983 | Roth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory W. Roth (Furnace, Pennsylvania); Corey Dillon (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); William Curran (Centre Hall, Pennsylvania); Christian Houser (Woodward, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W. Roth (Furnace, Pennsylvania); Corey Dillon (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); William Curran (Centre Hall, Pennsylvania); Christian Houser (Woodward, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A no-till apparatus for application of herbicide and fertilizer, soil preparation, and seeding of a cover crop in a standing crop has inter-row assemblies configured to pass along inter-row areas between adjacent row lines of standing crop plants. Each assembly includes a fertilizer applicator, a no-till soil preparation element, a cover crop seed applicator, and a post-seeding element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/443339 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Planting; Sowing; Fertilising A01C 7/006 (20130101) A01C 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01C 23/047 (20130101) |
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| US 09005333 | Vanotti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matias B. Vanotti (Florence, South Carolina); Ariel A. Szogi (Florence, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matias B. Vanotti (Florence, South Carolina); Ariel A. Szogi (Florence, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for passive capture of ammonia in an ammonia-containing liquid effluent. The invention allows for the passage of ammonia through microporous hydrophobic gas-permeable membranes and its capture in a circulated stripping solution with concomitant production of a concentrated non-volatile ammonium salt. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164363 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09005422 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junhua Jiang (Urbana, Illinois); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Alexey V. Ignatchenko (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junhua Jiang (Urbana, Illinois); Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Alexey V. Ignatchenko (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the preparation of nitrogen fertilizers including ammonium nitrate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate, and/or ammonia are disclosed. Embodiments include (1) ammonium nitrate produced via the reduction of a nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a nitrogen source at the anode; (2) urea or its isomers produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source: (3) ammonia produced via the reduction of nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a hydrogen source or a hydrogen equivalent such as carbon monoxide or a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at the anode; and (4) urea-ammonium nitrate produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source, and anodic oxidation of a nitrogen source. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905600 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammonia; Cyanogen; Compounds Thereof C01C 1/0488 (20130101) Nitrogenous Fertilisers C05C 1/00 (20130101) C05C 9/00 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 3/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/368 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09005601 | Hargis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Billy Hargis (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ross Wolfenden (Pea Ridge, Arkansas); Neil R. Pumford (Bentonville, Arkansas); Marion Morgan (Springdale, Arkansas); Anita Menconi (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Guillermo Tellez (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Amanda Wolfenden (Pea Ridge, Arkansas); Srichaitanya Shivaramaiah (Kitchener, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy Hargis (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ross Wolfenden (Pea Ridge, Arkansas); Neil R. Pumford (Bentonville, Arkansas); Marion Morgan (Springdale, Arkansas); Anita Menconi (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Guillermo Tellez (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Amanda Wolfenden (Pea Ridge, Arkansas); Srichaitanya Shivaramaiah (Kitchener, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and bacterial isolates for improving the gastrointestinal health of animals and in particular of poultry are provided herein. The methods include administering an endospore-forming bacteria to an animal. The bacteria are selected for the ability to reduce the growth and presence of bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella, Clostridium, and Campylobacter, in the gastrointestinal tract of the animal. The bacteria are also selected for the ability to improve at least one production parameter in the animal. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/810549 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Fodder A23K 1/002 (20130101) A23K 1/009 (20130101) A23K 1/1826 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/3014 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/742 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09006410 | Kieliszewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcia J. Kieliszewski (Albany, Ohio); Jianfeng Xu (Athens, Ohio); Gary D. Meyer (Athens, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia J. Kieliszewski (Albany, Ohio); Jianfeng Xu (Athens, Ohio); Gary D. Meyer (Athens, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing the yield in plant expression of recombinant proteins comprising engineering glycosylation sites into cloned genes or cDNAs for proteins using codons that drive post-translational modifications in plants and engineering the cloned genes or cDNAs to contain a plant secretory signal sequence that targets the gene products (protein) for secretion are present. The methods result in increased recombinant glycosylated protein yields. Proteins produced according to these methods are also present. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019819 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/27 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/56 (20130101) C07K 14/61 (20130101) C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/765 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/62 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09003645 | Yost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia); Daniel F. Perey (Yorktown, Virginia); Karl E. Cramer (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining the quality of an electrical wire crimp between a wire and ferrule includes an ultrasonically equipped crimp tool (UECT) configured to transmit an ultrasonic acoustic wave through a wire and ferrule, and a signal processor in communication with the UECT. The signal processor includes a signal transmitting module configured to transmit the ultrasonic acoustic wave via an ultrasonic transducer, signal receiving module configured to receive the ultrasonic acoustic wave after it passes through the wire and ferrule, and a signal analysis module configured to identify signal differences between the ultrasonic waves. The signal analysis module is then configured to compare the signal differences attributable to the wire crimp to a baseline, and to provide an output signal if the signal differences deviate from the baseline. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/743750 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 43/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09005185 | Ferrari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mauro Ferrari (Houston, Texas); Xuewu Liu (Sugar Land, Texas); Alessandro Grattoni (Houston, Texas); Randy Goodall (Austin, Texas); Lee Hudson (Elgin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A capsule configured for in vivo refilling of a therapeutic agent. In certain embodiments, the capsule may contain methotrexate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/099429 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0097 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/14276 (20130101) A61M 37/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/058 (20130101) B81B 2203/0338 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00119 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09005604 | Scott-Carnell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lisa A. Scott-Carnell (Norfolk, Virginia); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia); Nancy M. Holloway (White Marsh, Virginia); Kam W. Leong (Durham, North Carolina); Karina Kulangara (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa A. Scott-Carnell (Norfolk, Virginia); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia); Nancy M. Holloway (White Marsh, Virginia); Kam W. Leong (Durham, North Carolina); Karina Kulangara (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A scaffold assembly and related methods of manufacturing and/or using the scaffold for stem cell culture and tissue engineering applications are disclosed which at least partially mimic a native biological environment by providing biochemical, topographical, mechanical and electrical cues by using an electroactive material. The assembly includes at least one layer of substantially aligned, electrospun polymer fiber having an operative connection for individual voltage application. A method of cell tissue engineering and/or stem cell differentiation uses the assembly seeded with a sample of cells suspended in cell culture media, incubates and applies voltage to one or more layers, and thus produces cells and/or a tissue construct. In another aspect, the invention provides a method of manufacturing the assembly including the steps of providing a first pre-electroded substrate surface; electrospinning a first substantially aligned polymer fiber layer onto the first surface; providing a second pre-electroded substrate surface; electrospinning a second substantially aligned polymer fiber layer onto the second surface; and, retaining together the layered surfaces with a clamp and/or an adhesive compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/969076 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/16 (20130101) A61L 27/3834 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 27/16 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 13/00 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09007569 | Amzajerdian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Diego F. Pierrottet (Poquoson, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farzin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Diego F. Pierrottet (Poquoson, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A Doppler lidar sensor system includes a laser generator that produces a highly pure single frequency laser beam, and a frequency modulator that modulates the laser beam with a highly linear frequency waveform. A first portion of the frequency modulated laser beam is amplified, and parts thereof are transmitted through at least three separate transmit/receive lenses. A second portion of the laser beam is used as a local oscillator beam for optical heterodyne detection. Radiation from the parts of the laser beam transmitted via the transmit/receive lenses is received by the respective transmit/receive lenses that transmitted the respective part of the laser beam. The received reflected radiation is compared with the local oscillator beam to calculate the frequency difference therebetween to determine various navigational data. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/566077 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/68 (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 17/58 (20130101) G01S 17/325 (20130101) G01S 17/875 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09007570 | Beyon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Y. Beyon (Yorktown, Virginia); Grady J. Koch (Yorktown, Virginia); Michael J. Kavaya (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and devices of the present invention enable airborne Doppler Wind LIDAR system measurements and INS/GPS measurements to be combined to estimate wind parameters and compensate for instrument misalignment. In a further embodiment, the wind speed and wind direction may be computed based on two orthogonal line-of-sight LIDAR returns. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/079914 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 17/95 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09009003 | Chan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hon Man Chan (Canyon Country, California); Allen R. Parker, Jr. (Lancaster, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hon Man Chan (Canyon Country, California); Allen R. Parker, Jr. (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an apparatus and method of eliminating polarization-induced fading in interferometric fiber-optic sensor system having a wavelength-swept laser optical signal. The interferometric return signal from the sensor arms are combined and provided to a multi-optical path detector assembly and ultimately to a data acquisition and processing unit by way of a switch that is time synchronized with the laser scan sweep cycle. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/463246 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/344 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01D 5/35303 (20130101) G01D 5/35383 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09003965 | Lanning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of baling switchgrass whole stalks into square bales at bulk densities between 12.5 and 20.5 lbs/ft3, optimized for highway transport after dry down to maximize semi-trailer truck payloads. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/412899 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Processing of Harvested Produce; Hay or Straw Presses; Devices for Storing Agricultural or Horticultural Produce A01F 15/0825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Presses in General B30B 9/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09005758 | Dooley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of comminution of corn stover having a grain direction to produce a mixture of corn stover, by feeding the corn stover in a direction of travel substantially randomly to the grain direction one or more times through a counter rotating pair of intermeshing arrays of cutting discs (D) arrayed axially perpendicular to the direction of corn stover travel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/312312 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 13/0262 (20130101) Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 18/16 (20130101) B02C 23/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 5/363 (20130101) C10L 5/442 (20130101) C10L 5/445 (20130101) Fibrous Raw Materials or Their Mechanical Treatment D21B 1/061 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09007683 | Kubala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FiveFocal LLC (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Scott Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Robert Matthew Bates (Erie, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A passively athermalized infrared imaging system includes an object side meniscus lens that forms at least one aspheric surface, and an image side meniscus lens that forms two aspheric surfaces. Each of the meniscus lenses are formed of a material selected from the group consisting of a chalcogenide glass, germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide, zinc selenide and glass. An optical power of the image side meniscus lens is at least 1.6 times an optical power of the object side meniscus lens such that an effective focus position of the imaging system is athermalized over a range of 0 to +40 degrees Celsius. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/355478 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09008962 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glendale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glendale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented compute a more accurate tracking estimate for trackees. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/616408 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 17/38 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 21/3438 (20130101) G01C 21/3626 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0294 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) G01S 19/49 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/028 (20130101) H04W 4/043 (20130101) H04W 64/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09005425 | Burrows et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia J. Burrows (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryuji Kawano (Salt Lake City, Utah); Aaron M. Fleming (Salt Lake City, Utah); Na An (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and compounds for detecting modified nucleic acid bases are disclosed and described. The methods provide for detecting a nucleic acid lesion and can include directing a nucleic acid adduct into a channel, wherein the nucleic acid adduct includes a nucleic acid having a lesion and a current modulating compound coupled to the nucleic acid at the lesion (110), and measuring a change in current through the channel in response to the current modulating compound to detect the lesion (112). The method can optionally include forming the nucleic acid adduct. Also provided is a method for identifying the number of repeat nucleotides in at least a portion of a nucleic acid strand, a method of assigning a registration marker within a nucleic acid, and a method of obtaining sequence information from a nucleic acid comprising assigning a registration marker on the nucleic acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/227212 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) 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 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2525/101 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) C12Q 2565/631 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09005524 | Deans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Deans (Grafton, Massachusetts); Aimee Rose (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kevin M. Bardon (Marshfield, Massachusetts); Lawrence F. Hancock (North Andover, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Deans (Grafton, Massachusetts); Aimee Rose (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kevin M. Bardon (Marshfield, Massachusetts); Lawrence F. Hancock (North Andover, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a series of systems, devices, and methods relating to the determination of explosives, such as peroxides or peroxide precursors, and other species. Embodiments of the invention may allow a sample suspected of containing an explosive (e.g., a peroxide) or other species to interact with a reactant, wherein the sample may react and cause light emission from the reactant. Advantages of the present invention may include the simplification of devices for determination of peroxide-based explosives, wherein the devices are portable and, in some cases, disposable. Other advantages may include relative ease of fabrication and operation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/833245 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/643 (20130101) G01N 21/783 (20130101) G01N 33/0057 (20130101) G01N 2021/7786 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/10 (20150115) Y10T 436/20 (20150115) Y10T 436/206664 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09009829 | Stolfo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Shlomo Hershkop (Brooklyn, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Malek Ben Salem (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Brian M. Bowen (New York, New York); Shlomo Hershkop (Brooklyn, New York); Vasileios P. Kemerlis (New York, New York); Pratap V. Prabhu (New York, New York); Malek Ben Salem (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing trap-based defenses are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing trap-based defenses is provided, the method comprising: generating decoy information based at least in part on actual information in a computing environment, wherein the decoy information is generated to comply with one or more document properties; embedding a beacon into the decoy information; and inserting the decoy information with the embedded beacon into the computing environment, wherein the embedded beacon provides a first indication that the decoy information has been accessed by an attacker and wherein the embedded beacon provides a second indication that differentiates between the decoy information and the actual information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565394 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/566 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1466 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 09005989 | Harper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Douglas Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Richard Hart Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Martha Susan Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Ann Rundell (West Lafayette, Indiana); Frances Ellen Nargi (Concord, Massachusetts); Timothy Stephens (Lexington, Massachusetts); Linda Marie Mendenhall (Acton, Massachusetts); Mark Alexander Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Eric David Schwoebel (Belmont, Massachusetts); Trina Rae Vian (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Douglas Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Richard Hart Mathews (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Bernadette Johnson (Hollis, New Hampshire); Martha Susan Petrovick (Barre, Massachusetts); Ann Rundell (West Lafayette, Indiana); Frances Ellen Nargi (Concord, Massachusetts); Timothy Stephens (Lexington, Massachusetts); Linda Marie Mendenhall (Acton, Massachusetts); Mark Alexander Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York); Todd H. Rider (Littleton, Massachusetts); Eric David Schwoebel (Belmont, Massachusetts); Trina Rae Vian (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to optoelectronic systems for detecting one or more target particles. The system includes a reaction chamber, a specimen collector, an optical detector, and a reservoir containing cells, each of the cells having receptors which are present on the surface of each cell and are specific for the target particle to be detected, where binding of the target particle to the receptors directly or indirectly activates a reporter molecule, thereby producing a measurable optical signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039780 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/76 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/808 (20130101) Y10S 436/805 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09008962 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glendale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel Hakim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Eric Asher Kohn (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole A. Teolis (Glendale, Maryland); Gilmer Blankenship (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (collectively “trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from any number of sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented compute a more accurate tracking estimate for trackees. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic and/or compass data if and when available, and with GPS, if and when available. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/616408 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 17/38 (20130101) G01C 21/16 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/206 (20130101) G01C 21/3438 (20130101) G01C 21/3626 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/0294 (20130101) G01S 19/39 (20130101) G01S 19/48 (20130101) G01S 19/49 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/028 (20130101) H04W 4/043 (20130101) H04W 64/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09007084 | Babcock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond F. Babcock (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Boraas (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew A. Butterbaugh (Rochester, Minnesota); Jeffrey L. Justin (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond F. Babcock (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Boraas (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew A. Butterbaugh (Rochester, Minnesota); Jeffrey L. Justin (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A support structure for installation of a component assembly housed in a rotating, translating carriage chassis, the support structure including: a stationary rail that includes a shaft extruding perpendicular to the stationary rail; a rotating rail adapted to receive a carriage chassis rail, the rotating rail parallel to the stationary rail when the rotating rail is in a non-rotated position, the rotating rail including a shaft receptacle that receives the shaft, the rotating rail configured to rotate about the shaft and relative to the stationary rail; and a translation mechanism attached to the rotating rail, the translation mechanism enabling the carriage chassis rail to translate parallel to and along the rotating rail. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815755 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09009723 | Degenaro 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) | Louis Ralph Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James Ryan Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Gabriela Jacques Da Silva (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing distributed computer data stream acceleration devices is provided that utilizes distributed acceleration devices on nodes within the computing system to process inquiries by programs executing on the computing system. The available nodes and available acceleration devices in the computing system are identified. In addition, a plurality of virtual acceleration device definitions is created. Each virtual acceleration device definition includes attributes used to configure at least one of the plurality of identified acceleration devices. When an inquiry containing an identification of computing system resources to be used in processing the inquiry is received, at least one virtual acceleration device definition that is capable of configuring an acceleration device in accordance with the computing system resources identified by the inquiry is identified. That acceleration device is configured in accordance with the identified virtual acceleration device definition and is used to process the inquiry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847478 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 49/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09008452 | Jaffe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Jaffe (Morgantown, West Virginia); Alfred H. Stiller (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jaffe (Morgantown, West Virginia); Alfred H. Stiller (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for the global quantitative characterization of patterns. In one representative embodiment, a method is provided in which fractal analysis is performed on a pattern to generate a global quantitative characterization of the pattern in a computer system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559660 |
| 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 9/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00067 (20130101) G06K 9/00885 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09006473 | Freeman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); State of Oregon Acting By and Through the Board of Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University College Cardiff Consultants Limited (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); The State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of The University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); University College Cardiff Consultants Limited (Cardiff, United Kingdom); Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Freeman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Francisco Schopfer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerie O'Donnell (Penarth, United Kingdom); Paul Baker (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yuqing E. Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Bruce Branchaud (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are nitrated lipids and methods of making and using the nitrated lipids. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646985 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/21 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 43/02 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 205/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 205/50 (20130101) C07C 205/51 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09009495 | Daniel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Envieta LLC (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Envieta, LLC (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Mark Daniel (Odenton, Maryland); John Petro (Columbia, Maryland); Timothy Mark Millhollon (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, apparatus, method, and/or computer program product is disclosed for decreasing side channel signal leakage and increasing speed of cryptographic combining operations. An exemplary method may be incorporated, in an exemplary embodiment, in an exemplary programmable logic device (PLD) such as, e.g., but not limited to, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of at least one cryptographic combining process, or may include an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design where cryptographic combining with minimal side channel signal leakage and high speed are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/931585 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/602 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/00 (20130101) H04L 9/0816 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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