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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 19, 2015
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| US 09032640 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Harold Miller (San Pedro, California); Christopher Thad Ullmer (San Pedro, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A measurement gauge, comprising a pair of jaws biased in a closed position; a normalizing member surrounding one of the jaws when the pair of jaws is closed, the normalizing member biased in an extended position; a handle coupled to the pair of jaws and normalizing member such that movement from an extended handle position to an retracted handle position opens the pair of jaws and moves the normalizing member to an retracted position. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/717476 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09032737 | Ress, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Ress, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Victor L. Oechsle (Avon, Indiana); Randall E. Yount (Indianapolis, Indiana); Stephen A. Bergeron (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Ress, Jr. (Carmel, Indiana); Victor L. Oechsle (Avon, Indiana); Randall E. Yount (Indianapolis, Indiana); Stephen A. Bergeron (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine having a ramburner is disclosed. The ramburner is disposed downstream of a gas turbine engine combustor and receives an engine exhaust flow from the gas turbine engine combustor. The ramburner also accepts a bypass air. Fuel is injected into the ramburner and a combustion reaction is auto-initiated based upon local gas temperatures. No mechanical flame holders need be used. A slidable valve may be used to vary the amount of bypass air into the ramburner. A movable cowl and a plug nozzle form an exit flow path of the gas turbine engine. The movable cowl can be positioned to vary a throat area and exit area of the gas turbine engine based upon the operation of the ramburner, which may be influenced by the amount of bypass air entering the ramburner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/976517 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/10 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/80 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/06 (20130101) F23R 3/26 (20130101) F23R 3/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 2900/00014 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/675 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09032878 | Kokodis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Kokodis (Wharton, New Jersey); George Sudol (Kenvil, New Jersey); Stephen Bielamowicz (Morristown, New Jersey); Eric Barker (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Kokodis (Wharton, New Jersey); George Sudol (Kenvil, New Jersey); Stephen Bielamowicz (Morristown, New Jersey); Eric Barker (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An Ottawa Convention—compliant system that replaces the current battlefield utility provided by anti-personnel landmines. This system utilizes obscurants to inhibit and deter the enemy's ability to breach and clear ground based mine and munition systems. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/015212 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 9/06 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 23/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09032893 | Caccamo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Caccamo (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Caccamo (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device to permit a water vessel to releasably capture a line in a towing station, remote from a parent ship. The towing station may be attached to the parent ship via a tow line. The line capturing device is an actuated catch that includes a hook assembly that is moveable between a release mode and a retrieval and holding mode. The actuated catch also includes a spring biased retaining catch that prevents a captured line from being inadvertently released. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/929736 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 21/56 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09032899 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Hoffman (Manassas, Virginia); Robert Kent Tacey (Alexandria, Virginia); Erwin Thomas Moyer, Jr. (Poolesville, Maryland); Jason S. Craft (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ronald S. Barbaro (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An arrangement and a method for implosion mitigation, and in particular a structural arrangement of a water vessel and a method thereof for mitigating implosion loads. The water vessel includes first and second end portions connected by a middle portion, with one portion structurally weaker than the others so that when the vessel experiences an overmatching load, only the structurally weaker portion of the vessel fails. The vessel may further include energy absorbing structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/658265 |
| ART UNIT | 3788 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 3/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 43/00 (20130101) Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/001 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09032901 | Braun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Joseph Braun (San Diego, California); James Benjamin Penney (Carlsbad, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Joseph Braun (San Diego, California); James Benjamin Penney (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptor for an unmanned vehicle for inspecting an object, the adaptor includes a moveable ring assembly and a fixed ring. The moveable ring assembly rotates around a periphery of the unmanned vehicle and allows the unmanned vehicle to move along a surface of the object while maintaining a fixed stand-off distance between an exterior surface of the adaptor and the surface of the object. The fixed ring is connected around the exterior surface of the unmanned vehicle and secures a lateral position of the moveable ring assembly with respect to the unmanned vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/093709 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63G 2008/002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09033108 | Matucheski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph V. Matucheski (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph V. Matucheski (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A lubricant flow suppressor positioned proximate a rotating component for receiving ejected lubricant therefrom and reducing the kinetic energy of the ejected lubricant. The suppressor includes at least two perforated walls with a lubricant flow path formed therebetween. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002258 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 57/0423 (20130101) F16H 57/0436 (20130101) F16H 57/0456 (20130101) F16H 57/0495 (20130101) Lubricating F16N 31/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09033283 | Hemmelgarn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Douglas Hemmelgarn (South Charleston, Ohio); Bryan Michael Pelley (Miamisburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of an aerodynamic structural insert frame comprise a leading edge, a trailing edge opposite the leading edge, and at least one cavity between the leading edge and trailing edge, wherein the aerodynamic structural insert frame is configured to deflect upon activation by an external stimulus; at least one deformable buckling member extending the distance between opposite edges of the cavity, wherein the deflection of the aerodynamic structural insert frame is configured to trigger deflection of the deformable buckling member; a pivot region; and at least one stopper bar attached to and extending from one edge of the cavity a distance less than the distance between opposite edges of the cavity, wherein the stopper bar is configured to stop the deflection of the aerodynamic structural insert and the buckling member when the stopper bar strikes an opposite edge of the cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800678 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 3/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 2003/445 (20130101) Wind Motors F03D 1/0675 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Wind, Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors, to Machines or Engines for Liquids Covered by Subclasses F03B, F03D and F03G F05B 2240/311 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09033301 | Toossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mostafa Toossi (Scottsdale, Arizona); Murugappan Meyyappa (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Toossi (Scottsdale, Arizona); Murugappan Meyyappa (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus comprising an interface section and a vibration reduction structure associated with the interface section. The vibration reduction structure extends from a surface of the interface section. The interface section and the vibration reduction structure are configured to reduce vibrations at a number of frequencies that travel through the interface section and the vibration reduction structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/094004 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Soil Working in Agriculture or Forestry; Parts, Details, or Accessories of Agricultural Machines or Implements, in General A01B 59/00 (20130101) Buildings or Like Structures for Particular Purposes; Swimming or Splash Baths or Pools; Masts; Fencing; Tents or Canopies, in General E04H 9/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 15/073 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09033374 | Sadeck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James E. Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible multi-load connection includes a coil of a flexible high strength cord having a loop end and two running ends, a releasable connection joining the two running ends, the releasable connection comprising a knot, and a connecting arrangement releasably joining the loop end and the two running ends. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625329 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling Thin or Filamentary Material, e.g Sheets, Webs, Cables B65H 69/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Making Nets by Knotting of Filamentary Material; Making Knotted Carpets or Tapestries; Knotting Not Otherwise Provided for D04G 5/00 (20130101) Belts, Cables, or Ropes, Predominantly Used for Driving Purposes; Chains; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor F16G 11/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09033648 | Caswell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Owen Caswell (Avon, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Owen Caswell (Avon, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine is disclosed having a vane disposed in a flow path of a gas turbine engine component, for example a gas turbine engine compressor. The vane is in thermal contact with a heat tube that extends through a wall of the engine component and into a space in which a thermal fluid passes. The thermal fluid can be at a different temperature than the vane such that heat is transferred between the two. In one embodiment the vane forms part of an intercooler for a compressor of the gas turbine engine. The vane can have a fin disposed at the end of the heat tube to facilitate a heat transfer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/335113 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/08 (20130101) F01D 25/12 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/143 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/211 (20130101) F05D 2260/213 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034055 | Vinjamuri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wei Wang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Douglas John Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wei Wang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Douglas John Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A synergy-based human-machine interface that uses low-dimensional command signals to control a high dimensional virtual, robotic or paralyzed human hand is provided. Temporal postural synergies are extracted from angular velocities of finger joints of five healthy subjects when they perform hand movements that are similar to activities of daily living. Extracted Synergies are used in real-time brain control, where a virtual, robotic or paralyzed human hand is controlled to manipulate virtual or real world objects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246190 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1107 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6806 (20130101) A61B 2505/09 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/72 (20130101) A61F 2/583 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/763 (20130101) A61F 2002/764 (20130101) A61F 2002/6827 (20130101) A61F 2002/7615 (20130101) A61F 2002/7625 (20130101) A61F 2002/7635 (20130101) A61F 2002/7665 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 2230/08 (20130101) A61H 2230/10 (20130101) A61H 2230/60 (20130101) A61H 2230/085 (20130101) A61H 2230/105 (20130101) A61H 2230/605 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40195 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034117 | Lombardi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition to decommission firearms is presented. The composition comprises a monomer, a quantity of calcium chloride; and sulfur-containing compound. The sulfur containing compound includes sodium persulfate and/or sodium thiosulfate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/183382 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 12/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/16 (20130101) C08K 5/17 (20130101) C08K 2003/3045 (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 7/1216 (20130101) Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 4/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034213 | Hersam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Alexander L. Antaris (Evanston, Illinois); Alexander A. Green (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Alexander L. Antaris (Evanston, Illinois); Alexander A. Green (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), by electronic type using centrifugation of compositions of SWNTs and surface active block copolymers in density gradient media. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134167 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Flotation; Differential Sedimentation B03D 3/00 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0071 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0266 (20130101) C01B 2202/02 (20130101) C01B 2202/22 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/845 (20130101) |
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| US 09034266 | Virji et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shabnam Virji (Yorba Linda, California); Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Bruce H. Weiller (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shabnam Virji (Yorba Linda, California); Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Bruce H. Weiller (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for sensing hydrogen includes the use of a transduction device with a sensing layer, and means for measuring a mass and/or conductivity change caused by an interaction of a gas with the sensing layer to provide a measure of an amount of hydrogen in the gas. The sensing layer includes polyaniline nanofiber material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196011 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — 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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/126 (20130101) G01N 27/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09034289 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (APG, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America As Represented By the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Michael A. Pompeii (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extending the service life of a Collective Protection (CP) filter includes: providing at least one CP filter comprising a filter bed; and passing an airstream through a guard bed configured to protect the filter bed by removing one or more of airborne contaminants and battlefield contaminants. An apparatus for extending the service life of a CP filter includes: a CP filter comprising a filter bed; and a guard bed configured to protect the filter bed by removing one or more of airborne contaminants and battlefield contaminants. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/245426 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 23/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034355 | Reynolds et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Melissa M. Reynolds (Fort Collins, Colorado); Vinod B. Damodaran (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melissa M. Reynolds (Fort Collins, Colorado); Vinod B. Damodaran (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymeric composition capable of releasing nitric oxide and modulating biological responses comprises a biocompatible polymer and S-nitrosated thiol bonded to the biocompatible polymer. The polymeric composition can have a thiol conversion of at least 40%. The polymeric composition can also have a nitric oxide recovery of at least 40% when under thermal decomposition conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/403557 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 47/482 (20130101) A61K 47/4823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09034371 | Giannelis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Emmanuel P. Giannelis (Ithaca, New York); Athanasios B. Bourlinos (Athens, Greece) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuel P. Giannelis (Ithaca, New York); Athanasios B. Bourlinos (Athens, Greece) |
| ABSTRACT | Compound containing at least 15% inorganic content demonstrates liquid-like behavior and is distinct in exhibiting liquid-like behavior in the absence of solvent. In one case it is quaternary ammonium derivative of a heteropolyacid. In another case, it is a salt formed by reaction of heteropolyacid and polyethylene glycol alkylamine. In other cases, it is condensation product of oxide and quaternary ammonium cation where the balancing anion has a molecular weight greater than 200. In still other cases it is a salt formed by reaction of sulfonated silica or sulfonated fullerene and polyethylene glycol alkylamine. In still other cases, it is a neutral organic-inorganic hybrid which is PEG-functionalized silica nanoparticle or is a layered-nanoparticle obtained by hydrolytic polymerization of organosilane in nonpolar solvent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/660148 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/143 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0206 (20130101) C01B 31/0213 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 41/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/3063 (20130101) C09C 1/3081 (20130101) |
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| US 09034613 | Robertson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Robertson (Oxford, United Kingdom); Kieran Clarke (Oxford, United Kingdom); Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ISIS Innovation Limited (Rockville Maryland, None); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Robertson (Oxford, United Kingdom); Kieran Clarke (Oxford, United Kingdom); Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing a compound which is (3R)-hydroxybutyl (3R)-hydroxybutyrate of formula (I) which process comprises submitting, to enantioselective reduction, a compound of the following formula (II), (III) or (IV). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/264533 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0008 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 41/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09034645 | Turker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mitchell Turker (Portland, Oregon); Jon A. Oyer (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell Turker (Portland, Oregon); Jon A. Oyer (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of identifying inhibitors of gene silencing or re-silencing, which can include repressing expression of a selectable marker gene in mammalian cells, treating the cells with at least one test compound, growing the cells under selective conditions, and quantifying the relative number of cells that live, wherein a change in the relative number of cells as compared to cells that were not treated with the test compound, identifies the compound as an inhibitor of gene silencing or re-silencing. Also disclosed herein are transgenic mice and isolated cell lines that are useful in the disclosed methods and kits for use in performing the disclosed methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/992168 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/203 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) C12N 2830/006 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09034659 | Bhattacharyya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dhiman Bhattacharyya (Arlington, Massachusetts); Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dhiman Bhattacharyya (Arlington, Massachusetts); Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemiresistive biosensor for detecting an analyte can include a high specific surface area substrate conformally coated with a conductive polymer, and a binding reagent immobilized on the conductive polymer, wherein the binding reagent has a specific affinity for the analyte. The conductive polymer can be deposited on a substrate by oCVD. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548521 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/3275 (20130101) G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09034946 | 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 | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/463807 |
| 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 09035354 | Saxler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Primit Parikh (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Primit Parikh (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterojunction transistor may include a channel layer comprising a Group III nitride, a barrier layer comprising a Group III nitride on the channel layer, and an energy barrier comprising a layer of a Group III nitride including indium on the channel layer such that the channel layer is between the barrier layer and the energy barrier. The barrier layer may have a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the channel layer, and a concentration of indium (In) in the energy barrier may be greater than a concentration of indium (In) in the channel layer. Related methods are also discussed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566973 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/207 (20130101) H01L 29/802 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) H01L 29/7785 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66462 (20130101) |
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| US 09035408 | Boudreau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew J. Boudreau (Washington, District of Columbia); Michael K. Yetzbacher (Burke, Virginia); Marc Christophersen (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Bernard F. Phlips (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew J. Boudreau (Washington, District of Columbia); Michael K. Yetzbacher (Burke, Virginia); Marc Christophersen (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Bernard F. Phlips (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A ramped etalon cavity structure and a method of fabricating same. A bi-layer stack is deposited on a substrate. The bi-layer stack includes a plurality of bi-layers. Each bi-layer of the plurality of bi-layers includes an etch stop layer and a bulk layer. A three dimensional photoresist structure is formed by using gray-tone lithography. The three dimensional photoresist is plasma etched into the bi-layer stack, thereby generating an etched bi-layer stack. The etched bi-layer stack is chemically etched with a first chemical etchant to generate a multiple-step structure on the substrate, wherein the first chemical etchant stops at the etch stop layer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/269292 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14601 (20130101) H01L 27/14629 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14683 (20130101) H01L 27/14685 (20130101) |
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| US 09035452 | Weaver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanton Earl Weaver (Broadalbin, New York); Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock (Clifton Park, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanton Earl Weaver (Broadalbin, New York); Hendrik Pieter Jacobus De Bock (Clifton Park, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device includes a die having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The die has at least one circuit element positioned on its first surface. At least one micro-channel is defined in the second surface of the die. The integrated circuit device includes a cooling substrate attached to the second surface of the die. At least one fluid routing channel is defined in the cooling substrate. The at least one fluid routing channel is connected to the at least one micro-channel defined in the die. Additionally, the cooling substrate has at least one valve positioned within the at least one fluid routing channel. The at least one valve is configured to autonomously regulate a flow rate of a cooling fluid flowing through the at least one fluid routing channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/568667 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 15/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 2260/02 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/473 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aritra Dey (Folsom, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aritra Dey (Folsom, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of complementary biasing circuits and related methods are described herein. Other embodiments and related implementations are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798796 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 3/24 (20130101) Analogue Computers G06G 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Amplifiers H03F 1/301 (20130101) H03F 2203/45244 (20130101) |
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| US 09036001 | 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) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 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) |
| ABSTRACT | Security guards at big 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 will 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 360-degree, 100-megapixel views on a single screen. (Other resolutions may also be employed.) 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 | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438693 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/19602 (20130101) G08B 13/19619 (20130101) G08B 13/19626 (20130101) G08B 13/19643 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09036253 | Esener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Haijiang Zhang (Milpitas, California); Pengyue Wen (La Jolla, California); Matthias Gross (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Haijiang Zhang (Milpitas, California); Pengyue Wen (La Jolla, California); Matthias Gross (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers for various photonic devices including all optical logic gate devices and oscillators, where such devices can be implemented to achieve various advantages, including Boolean inversion at high speeds, low power, workable noise margins for cascadability because of input output isolation, and easy of integration in large arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/444155 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/041 (20130101) H01S 5/50 (20130101) H01S 5/423 (20130101) H01S 5/0607 (20130101) H01S 5/18308 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/2914 (20130101) |
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| US 09036407 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang L. Wang (Santa Monica, California); Pedram Khalili Amiri (Los Angeles, California); Juan G. Alzate (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory cell including information that is stored in the state of a magnetic bit (i.e. in a free layer, FL), where the FL magnetization has two stable states that may be canted (form an angle) with respect to the horizontal and vertical directions of the device is presented. The FL magnetization may be switched between the two canted states by the application of a voltage (i.e. electric field), which modifies the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the free layer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/101260 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/228 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09036420 | Vigoda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Vigoda (Winchester, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Bernstein (Middleton, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Venuti (Somerville, Massachusetts); Alexander Alexeyev (Gorham, Maine); Eric Nestler (Concord, Massachusetts); David Reynolds (Scarborough, Maine); William Bradley (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Vladimir Zlatkovic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ANALOG DEVICES, INC. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Vigoda (Winchester, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Bernstein (Middleton, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Venuti (Somerville, Massachusetts); Alexander Alexeyev (Gorham, Maine); Eric Nestler (Concord, Massachusetts); David Reynolds (Scarborough, Maine); William Bradley (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Vladimir Zlatkovic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A storage device includes a storage array having a group of storage elements. Each storage element can written to a discrete set of physical states. A read circuit selects one or more storage elements and generates, for each selected storage element, an analog signal representative of the physical state of the selected storage element. A signal processing circuit processes the analog signal to generate a plurality of outputs, with each output representing a degree of an association of the selected storage element with a different subset of one or more of the discrete set of physical states. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/471816 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 7/16 (20130101) G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 11/24 (20130101) G11C 11/5642 (20130101) G11C 16/04 (20130101) G11C 27/005 (20130101) G11C 29/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09036676 | Rawlins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Terry Rawlins (Reading, Massachusetts); Seonkyung Lee (Boston, Massachusetts); Steven J. Davis (Londonderry, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Singlet oxygen metastables can be formed. A catalytic coating is formed on an interior surface of a flow reactor, and an oxygen containing species is flowed into the flow reactor to produce singlet oxygen metastables by a chemical reaction in the presence of the catalytic coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/156531 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/02 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/036 (20130101) H01S 3/0305 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0953 (20130101) H01S 3/2215 (20130101) |
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| US 09036688 | Su |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Su (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments associated with modulation scheme determination for an unknown signal with noise are described. An unknown signal can have an unknown modulation scheme to a system. In order to determine a modulation scheme to use with the unknown signal, the unknown signal can be compared to a plurality of known signals, with an individual known signal being associated with a particular modulation scheme. A rapid classification method can be used that is less computationally intensive than an average likelihood ratio test method based on the distances between unknown symbols and constellation alphabets of a set of known modulation schemes. Signal to noise ratios before and after classification can be used to check an accuracy of classification and distribution of signal symbols can be used to verify a classification result. |
| FILED | Monday, July 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/947514 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/2647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09036693 | Isnardi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Anthony Isnardi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Arkady Kopansky (Havertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Anthony Isnardi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Arkady Kopansky (Havertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide for a region-of-interest compression methodology wherein a variety of encoders may be utilized to perform video compression on a plurality of filtered video frames without the need to generate specific instructions for each of the variety of encoders. Embodiments of the present invention receive a video frame and create a region-of-interest map based on the received video frame. The region-of-interest map is utilized to create a filtered video frame based on the received video frame. This process may be repeated for each video frame within a video stream, thereby creating a plurality of filtered video frames. The plurality of filtered video frames is transmitted to an encoder for video compression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644707 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 9/007 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/17 (20141101) H04N 19/61 (20141101) H04N 19/80 (20141101) Original (OR) Class H04N 19/117 (20141101) |
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| US 09036891 | Cobb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E Cobb (Beavercreek, Ohio); Michael A. Temple (Huber Heights, Ohio); Rusty O. Baldwin (Huber Heights, Ohio); Eric W Garcia (Dayton, Ohio); Eric D. Laspe (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of generating and comparing a fingerprint for an integrated circuit is provided. A sensor module captures electromagnetic emissions from the integrated circuit. A feature extraction module extracts discriminating features from the captured electromagnetic emissions. A classifier training module generates a plurality of authentication fingerprints of the integrated circuit from the extracted discriminating features creating a reference fingerprint template for the integrated circuit. The reference template for the integrated circuit is stored in a database. For authentication, the reference fingerprint template from the database is compared to the generated authentication fingerprint. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/663051 |
| 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 19/0718 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 1/0021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09036942 | Badger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Badger (Ocean Grove, New Jersey); Dennis Bushmitch (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile can be equipped with a camera and be configured to detonate after receiving a command to detonate. After the projectile is thrown the camera can capture images. These images can be sent by way of the physical link to the handheld device. The handheld device can display the images. A user of the handheld device can view the images and determine if the projectile should detonate based on the images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/742844 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/42 (20130101) F42B 12/48 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 13/00 (20130101) F42C 13/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09037314 | Waite et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James W. Waite (Los Gatos, California); Thorkell Gudmundsson (San Jose, California); Dimitar Gargov (Merced, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optimal Ranging, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Waite (Los Gatos, California); Thorkell Gudmundsson (San Jose, California); Dimitar Gargov (Merced, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing autonomous navigation for an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) in the vicinity of power lines is presented. Autonomous navigation is achieved by measuring the magnitude and phase of the electromagnetic field at an unknown location within a space under excitation by a set of power cables of the power line with one or more orthogonal electromagnetic sensors formed on the UAV; modeling a set of expected complex electromagnetic strengths of the set of power cables at the currently estimated position and orientation of the UAV based on a model of the set of power cables; and estimating parameters related to a position and orientation of the UAV, and load parameters of each cable based on the residual error between the measured set of complex electromagnetic field values and the set of expected electromagnetic field values corresponding to a combined model of the set of power cables. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164611 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 2201/141 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/101 (20130101) |
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| US 09037416 | Yeatman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Yeatman (Thonotosassa, Florida); Steven Alan Enkemann (Lutz, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Yeatman (Thonotosassa, Florida); Steven Alan Enkemann (Lutz, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Actively dividing tumors appear to progress to a life threatening condition more rapidly than slowly dividing tumors. Assessing actively dividing tumors currently involves a manual assessment of the number of mitotic cells in a histological slide prepared from the tumor and assessed by a trained pathologist. Disclosed is a method for using cumulative information from a series of expressed genes to determine tumor prognosis. This cumulative information can be used to categorize tumor samples into high mitotic states or low mitotic states using a mathematical algorithm and gene expression data derived from microarrays or quantitative-Polymerase Chain Reaction (Q-PCR) data. The specific mathematical description outlines how the algorithm assesses the most informative subset of genes from the full list of genes during the assessment of each sample. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728840 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09037418 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. Each sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) sensor that is coated with a sensing material. In order to collect data, an impedance spectrum is acquired over a relatively narrow frequency range, such as the resonant frequency range of the LCR circuit. A multivariate signature may be calculated from the acquired spectrum to discern the presence of certain fluids and/or fluid mixtures. The presence of fluids is detected by measuring the changes in dielectric, dimensional, resistance, charge transfer, and other changes in the properties of the materials employed by observing the changes in the resonant electronic properties of the circuit. By using a mathematical procedure, such as principal components analysis (PCA) and others, multiple fluids and mixtures can be detected in the presence of one another, even in a high humidity environment or an environment wherein one or more fluids has a substantially higher concentration (e.g. 10×, 1,000,000×) compared to other components in the mixture. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/031951 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/026 (20130101) G01N 33/48792 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09037452 | Fan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Fan (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); David Gondek (Brooklyn, New York); Aditya A. Kalyanpur (Westwood, New Jersey); Chang Wang (Elmsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AFRL/RIJ (Rome, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Fan (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey); David Gondek (Brooklyn, New York); Aditya A. Kalyanpur (Westwood, New Jersey); Chang Wang (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and method automatically collect training data from manually created semantic relations, automatically extract rules from the training data to produce extracted rules, and automatically characterize existing semantic relations in the training data based on co-occurrence of the extracted rules in the existing semantic relations. Such systems and methods automatically construct semantic relation topics based on the characterization of the existing semantic relations, and group instances of the training data into the semantic relation topics to detect new semantic relations. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/421908 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/2785 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09037805 | Jea 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) | Tsai-Yang Jea (Poughkeepsie, New York); Zhi Zhang (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for managing a cache region including receiving a new region to be stored within the cache, the cache including multiple regions defined by one or more ranges having a starting index and an ending index, and storing the new region in the cache in accordance with a cache invariant, the cache invariant ensuring that regions in the cache are not overlapping and that the regions are stored in a specified order. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/093036 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0895 (20130101) G06F 17/30132 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09037894 | Mason et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deric Keith Mason (Ridgecrest, California); Michael David Haddon (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Timing circuits including supervisor chip(s), capacitors, and latches. The supervisor chip(s) and capacitors cooperate to generate an electrical signal (window signal) having a high logic state when the window is open. The latches are used to determine whether an event of interest occurred while the window was open using the generated window signal and an electrical signal asserted upon occurrence of the event of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/753276 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 15/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/00 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 3/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09037895 | Sethumadhavan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); Adam Waksman (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York, New York); Adam Waksman (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for preventing activation of hardware backdoors installed in a digital circuit, the digital circuit comprising one or more hardware units to be protected. A timer is repeatedly initiated for a period less than a validation epoch, and the hardware units are reset upon expiration of the timer to prevent activation of a time-based backdoor. Data being sent to the hardware unit is encrypted in an encryption element to render it unrecognizable to a single-shot cheat code hardware backdoor present in the hardware unit. The instructions being sent to the hardware unit are reordered randomly or pseudo-randomly, with determined sequential restraints, using an reordering element, to render an activation instruction sequence embedded in the instructions unrecognizable to a sequence cheat code hardware backdoor present in the hardware unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/273016 |
| ART UNIT | 2492 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09038012 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Nathan D. Hindman (Chandler, Arizona); Dan Wheeler Patterson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Nathan D. Hindman (Chandler, Arizona); Dan Wheeler Patterson (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates generally to triple-redundant sequential state (TRSS) machines formed as integrated circuits on a semiconductor substrate, such as CMOS, and computerized methods and systems of designing the triple-redundant sequential state machines. Of particular focus in this disclosure are sequential state elements (SSEs) used to sample and hold bit states. The sampling and holding of bits states are synchronized by a clock signal thereby allowing for pipelining in the TRSS machines. In particular, the clock signal may oscillate between a first clock state and a second clock state to synchronize the operation of the SSE according to the timing provided by the clock states. The SSEs has a self-correcting mechanism to protect against radiation induced soft errors. The SSE may be provided in a pipeline circuit of a TRSS machine to receive and store a bit state of bit signal generated by combinational circuits within the pipeline circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/304155 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/505 (20130101) G06F 17/5072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pulse Technique H03K 19/00315 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09038045 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yaoqing Gao (Markham, Canada); Liangxiao Hu (Markham, Canada); Raul Esteban Silvera (Markham, Canada); Ettore Tiotto (Markham, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaoqing Gao (Markham, Canada); Liangxiao Hu (Markham, Canada); Raul Esteban Silvera (Markham, Canada); Ettore Tiotto (Markham, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Control flow information and data flow information associated with a program containing a upc_forall loop are built. A shared reference map data structure using the control flow information and the data flow information is created. All local shared accesses are hashed to facilitate a constant access stride after being rewritten. All local shared references in a hash entry having a longest list are privatized. The upc_forall loop is rewritten into a for loop. Responsive to a determination that an unprocessed upc_forall loop does not exist, dead store elimination is run. The control flow information and the data flow information associated with the program containing the for loop is rebuilt. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/296705 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/51 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/314 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09038048 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for protecting applications from races are provided. In some embodiments, methods for protecting applications from races are provided, the methods comprising: adding to at least one cycle of the application an update check to determine when an update to the application is to be made; adding an update engine to the application, wherein the update engine is configured to: receive an update plan that is based on an execution filter that specifies how operations of the application are to be synchronized; and cause synchronization operations to be added to the application based on the update plan that prevent the race from occurring. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/189263 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE45517 | Doverspike et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kathleen Marie Doverspike (Cary, North Carolina); John Adam Edmond (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-shuang Kong (Cary, North Carolina); Heidi Marie Dieringer (Cary, North Carolina); David B. Slater, Jr. (Baskerville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathleen Marie Doverspike (Cary, North Carolina); John Adam Edmond (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-shuang Kong (Cary, North Carolina); Heidi Marie Dieringer (Cary, North Carolina); David B. Slater, Jr. (Baskerville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical geometry light emitting diode is disclosed that is capable of emitting light in the red, green, blue, violet and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The light emitting diode includes a conductive silicon carbide substrate, an InGaN quantum well, a conductive buffer layer between the substrate and the quantum well, a respective undoped gallium nitride layer on each surface of the quantum well, and ohmic contacts in a vertical geometry orientation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942673 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Jarvik (New York, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jarvik (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly miniaturized electro-mechanical medical implants for certain applications cannot be fit into the available anatomic space unless their diameter can be made small enough. With devices such as rotary blood pumps or linear actuators, using rotary or linear electric motors, a thin motor stator that provides sufficient power must be encased in a corrosion resistant hermetically sealed enclosure into which electric wires must pass. Hermetic feedthroughs of the prior art are not structurally suited to maximal miniaturization with optimal electrical properties because of the need for welding of ferrules or other support components. The sub-miniature medical implants having the robust feedthrough of the present invention integrate the feedthrough wires, insulators, and sealing within a radially extending flange that is part of the end wall of the motor enclosure. This permits the largest feedthrough wire and thickest insulator to be built into the limited available space. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/047848 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/101 (20130101) A61M 1/122 (20140204) A61M 1/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 25/06 (20130101) F04D 29/605 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 3/22 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09033931 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vital Access Corporation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); G. Doug Smith (Sandy, Utah); Mark A. Crawford (Sandy, Utah); Randall K. Jones (Murray, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Ports for accessing a vessels within a patient include passageways that can guide needles or other access devices directly into the vessels. The ports can be implanted subcutaneously within a patient. Some ports may be used in the creation and use of vascular access buttonholes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725529 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/0057 (20130101) A61B 17/3423 (20130101) A61B 2017/3425 (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 1/14 (20130101) A61M 1/3653 (20130101) A61M 1/3659 (20140204) A61M 1/3661 (20140204) A61M 39/0208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034016 | Panjabi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manohar M. Panjabi (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manohar M. Panjabi (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic spine stabilizer moves under the control of spinal motion providing increased mechanical support within a central zone corresponding substantially to the neutral zone of the injured spine. The dynamic spine stabilizer includes a support assembly and a resistance assembly associated with the support assembly. The resistance assembly generates greater increase in mechanical force during movement within the central zone and lesser increase in mechanical force during movement beyond the central zone. A method for using the stabilizer is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/190828 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/7004 (20130101) A61B 17/7007 (20130101) A61B 17/7025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/7028 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034055 | Vinjamuri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wei Wang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Douglas John Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wei Wang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Douglas John Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A synergy-based human-machine interface that uses low-dimensional command signals to control a high dimensional virtual, robotic or paralyzed human hand is provided. Temporal postural synergies are extracted from angular velocities of finger joints of five healthy subjects when they perform hand movements that are similar to activities of daily living. Extracted Synergies are used in real-time brain control, where a virtual, robotic or paralyzed human hand is controlled to manipulate virtual or real world objects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246190 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1107 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6806 (20130101) A61B 2505/09 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/72 (20130101) A61F 2/583 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/763 (20130101) A61F 2002/764 (20130101) A61F 2002/6827 (20130101) A61F 2002/7615 (20130101) A61F 2002/7625 (20130101) A61F 2002/7635 (20130101) A61F 2002/7665 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 2230/08 (20130101) A61H 2230/10 (20130101) A61H 2230/60 (20130101) A61H 2230/085 (20130101) A61H 2230/105 (20130101) A61H 2230/605 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40195 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034083 | Galea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anna M Galea (Stow, Massachusetts); Kristen LeRoy (Somerville, Massachusetts); Nicholas Vitale (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vivonics, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna M Galea (Stow, Massachusetts); Kristen LeRoy (Somerville, Massachusetts); Nicholas Vitale (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of hollow fibers including a plurality of hollow fibers of a predetermined diameter configured to receive a gas having oxygen therein and transfer the oxygen to a fluid and/or transfer carbon dioxide in the fluid to a gas. The array is configured in a predetermined pattern having a predetermined packing density that is a fraction of a total cross-sectional area of the array occupied by the hollow fibers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/506306 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 63/02 (20130101) B01D 63/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 63/021 (20130101) B01D 63/022 (20130101) B01D 67/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09034299 — ATF4 inhibitors and their use for neural protection, repair, regeneration, and plasticity
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajiv R. Ratan (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajiv R. Ratan (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method for identifying a drug candidate with activity as a neuroprotective agent. The method includes determining whether a compound reduces ATF4 activity; and identifying the compound that reduces ATF4 activity as a drug candidate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672013 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/4706 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034343 | Skiadopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Silver Spring, Maryland); Sheila Nolan (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Silver Spring, Maryland); Sheila Nolan (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides self replicating infectious recombinant paramyxoviruses. The recombinant paramyxovirus preferably have one or more attenuating mutations. In some embodiments, the recombinant paramyxovirus has a separate variant polynucleotide encoding a P protein and a separate monocistronic polynucleotide encoding a V protein. In some embodiments, recombinant paramyxovirus have at least one temperature sensitive mutation and one non-temperature sensitive mutation. Also provided are compositions and methods for using the recombinant paramyxoviruses as described herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 13/501447 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2760/18722 (20130101) C12N 2760/18743 (20130101) C12N 2760/18761 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034345 | Granoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); Victor Chen-Hsi Hou (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan M. Granoff (Berkeley, California); Victor Chen-Hsi Hou (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides methods and compositions for eliciting an immune response against Neisseria spp. bacteria in a subject, particularly against a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/795739 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 530/825 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034347 | Castor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aphios Corporation (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arphios Corporation (Woburn, Massachusetts); For the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College acting on behalf of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport (Shreveport, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor Percival Castor (Arlington, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steven Alexander (Shreveport, Louisiana); Geoffrey Purdum (Hamilton, New Jersey); J. David Rios (Burlington, Massachusetts); Lisa M. Schrott (Decatur, Georgia); Theodore A. Tyler (Framingham, Massachusetts); Maria I. Vizcaino (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the oral administration of Bryostatins for the treatment of neuro-degenerative disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/720157 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/4858 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034354 | Renne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter George Renne (Charleston, South Carolina); Anthony Samuel Mennito (Charleston, South Carolina); Michael Gerard Schmidt (Charleston, South Carolina); Jompobe Vuthiganon (Charleston, South Carolina); George Chumanov (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are antibacterial and antimicrobial surface coatings and dental materials by utilizing the antimicrobial properties of copper chalcogenide and/or copper halide (CuQ, where Q=chalcogens including oxygen, or halogens, or nothing). An antimicrobial barrier is created by incorporation of CuQ nanoparticles of an appropriate size and at a concentration necessary and sufficient to create a unique bioelectrical environment. The unique bioelectrical environment results in biocidal effectiveness through a multi-factorial mechanism comprising a combination of the intrinsic quantum flux of copper (Cu0, Cu1+, Cu2+) ions and the high surface-to-volume electron sink facilitated by the nanoparticle. The result is the constant quantum flux of copper which manifests and establishes the antimicrobial environment preventing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria. The presence of CuQ results in inhibiting or delaying bacterial destruction and endogenous enzymatic breakdown of the zone of resin inter-diffusion, the integrity of which is essential for dental restoration longevity. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/900942 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 5/08 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/007 (20130101) A61K 6/0835 (20130101) A61K 33/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 3/02 (20130101) C01G 3/04 (20130101) C01G 3/12 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 09034391 | Geibel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John P. Geibel (Branford, Connecticut); Philipp Kirchhoff (Attendorn, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Geibel (Branford, Connecticut); Philipp Kirchhoff (Attendorn, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of pharmaceutically acceptable zinc salts, preferably water soluble zinc salts alone or optionally, in combination with one or more of a protein pump inhibitor (PPI), H2 blocker, anti-H. pylori antibiotic/antimicrobial, cytoprotective agent or a combination agent as otherwise described herein for providing fast action with optional long duration effect in reducing gastric acid secretion, raising the pH of the stomach during resting phase as well as decreasing the duration of stomach acid release during a secretagogue phase and for treating conditions including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), non-erosive reflux disease (NERD), Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZE disease), ulcer disease, and gastric cancer, as well as preventing or reducing the likelihood of ulcer disease. In addition, the present methods are useful for treating patients who are non-responsive to proton pump inhibitors (PPI) and as an alternative to traditional therapies or conditions which are caused by rapid and complete inhibition of secretagogue induced acid secretion. The present invention also relates to the use of one or more water soluble zinc salts, administered in combination with a therapeutic compound or agent (second therapeutic agent) which may be delivered orally with enhanced bioavailability (compared to compounds which are administered in the absence of water soluble zinc salts) or other favorable benefits. In addition, therapeutic agents which exhibit sensitivity to low pH may be advantageously orally administered in combination with an effective amount of at least one water soluble zinc salt. Compositions according to the present invention exhibit greater bioavailability of the active agent when formulated in combination with a water soluble zinc salt in oral dosage form than when administered with the water soluble zinc salt. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/452637 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/315 (20130101) A61K 31/315 (20130101) A61K 33/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/30 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09034574 | Nelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William G. Nelson (Towson, Maryland); Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiaohui Lin (Redlands, California); Traci J. Speed (Baltimore, Maryland); Zachery Reichert (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Nelson (Towson, Maryland); Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiaohui Lin (Redlands, California); Traci J. Speed (Baltimore, Maryland); Zachery Reichert (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for discovering agents that are effective in reversing epigenetic silencing by inhibiting the interaction of methyl-binding (MBD) proteins with methylated genomic DNA. Also provided are methods for reactivating silenced genes having CpG island hypermethylation along with methods for treatment and prevention of diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, by administering an agent that modulates methyl-binding domain (MBD) protein-mediated transcriptional repression, thereby increasing gene transcription to prevent or treat disease. Additionally, compounds identified by the present invention useful for treatment and prevention of diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/521109 |
| 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 31/4184 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6875 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09034577 | Lois-Caballe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos Lois-Caballe (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Xiao-Feng Qin (Sugarland, Texas); Irvin S. Y. Chen (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Dong Sung An (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods and compositions for the expression of small RNA molecules within a cell using a retroviral vector (FIG. 1A). Small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be expressed using the methods of the invention within a cell. In a further aspect, the invention provides methods for producing siRNA encoding lentivirus where the siRNA activity may interfere with the lentiviral life cycle. In yet a further aspect, the invention provides methods for expression of a small RNA molecule within a cell, such as an siRNA capable of downregulating CCR5, wherein expression of the small RNA molecule is relatively non-cytotoxic to the cell. The invention also includes small RNA molecules, such as an siRNA capable of downregulating CCR5, that are relatively non-cytotoxic to cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/749319 |
| 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 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1132 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2330/30 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2740/16045 (20130101) C12N 2760/20122 (20130101) C12N 2799/027 (20130101) C12N 2810/609 (20130101) C12N 2830/003 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/48 (20130101) C12N 2840/203 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034613 | Robertson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Robertson (Oxford, United Kingdom); Kieran Clarke (Oxford, United Kingdom); Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ISIS Innovation Limited (Rockville Maryland, None); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Robertson (Oxford, United Kingdom); Kieran Clarke (Oxford, United Kingdom); Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing a compound which is (3R)-hydroxybutyl (3R)-hydroxybutyrate of formula (I) which process comprises submitting, to enantioselective reduction, a compound of the following formula (II), (III) or (IV). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/264533 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0008 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 41/002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034638 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Tim R. Mosmann (Pittsford, New York); Robert C. Rose (Geneseo, New York); Charles R. Mace (Auburn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Tim R. Mosmann (Pittsford, New York); Robert C. Rose (Geneseo, New York); Charles R. Mace (Auburn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor chip for detecting an immune response against a virus, the sensor chip including a substrate having a surface and a plurality of virus-like particles or capsid fragments bound to discrete locations on the surface of the substrate. Detection devices containing the sensor chip and methods of detecting anti-viral immune responses are also described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/898143 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034645 | Turker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mitchell Turker (Portland, Oregon); Jon A. Oyer (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell Turker (Portland, Oregon); Jon A. Oyer (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of identifying inhibitors of gene silencing or re-silencing, which can include repressing expression of a selectable marker gene in mammalian cells, treating the cells with at least one test compound, growing the cells under selective conditions, and quantifying the relative number of cells that live, wherein a change in the relative number of cells as compared to cells that were not treated with the test compound, identifies the compound as an inhibitor of gene silencing or re-silencing. Also disclosed herein are transgenic mice and isolated cell lines that are useful in the disclosed methods and kits for use in performing the disclosed methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/992168 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/203 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0393 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) C12N 2830/006 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034815 | Panitch |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alyssa Panitch (W. Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Moerae Matrix, Inc (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alyssa Panitch (W. Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The described invention provides compositions and methods for treating or preventing adhesions in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising the step of (a) administering an adhesion-reducing amount of a composition comprising a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence YARAAARQARAKALARQLGVAA [SEQ ID NO: 1] or a functional equivalent thereof and a carrier. The methods are clinically useful for reducing formation of adhesions initially and for therapeutic treatment of existing scars. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582516 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — 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 38/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034825 | Muzumdar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radhika Muzumdar (Hartsdale, New York); David J. Lefer (Dacatur, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radhika Muzumdar (Hartsdale, New York); David J. Lefer (Dacatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of using humanin and humanin analogs to treat a mammal exhibiting or at risk for insulin resistance, increase insulin sensitivity in a mammal exhibiting or at risk for insulin resistance, treat type-2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and neurodegeneration, treat and prevent myocardial injury, and determine longevity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186331 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1716 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4711 (20130101) |
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| US 09034827 | Rapraeger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Rapraeger (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for peptides from syndecan 1 and methods of use therefor. These peptides can inhibit α4β6 interaction with HER2, thereby preventing tumor cell growth and tissue invasion. |
| FILED | Monday, July 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/936854 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034828 | Rapraeger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Rapraeger (Stoughton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for peptides from syndecan 4 and methods of use therefor. These peptides can inhibit α6β4 integrin interaction with EGFR, thereby preventing tumor cell growth and tissue invasion. |
| FILED | Monday, July 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/936872 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034829 | Messersmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Jing Su (Chicago, Illinois); Vincent L. Cryns (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric delivery systems for boronic acid-containing therapeutics, related compounds and methods of use, for a pH-sensitive chemoselective approach to delivery of such a therapeutic. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/663114 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 47/183 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09034847 | Morrow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ardythe L. Morrow (Cincinnati, Ohio); David S. Newburg (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Guillermo M. Ruiz-Palacios (Mexico City, Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas Y Nutricion (Mexico, Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ardythe L. Morrow (Cincinnati, Ohio); David S. Newburg (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Guillermo M. Ruiz-Palacios (Mexico City, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting inflammation in a subject comprising the administration of milk oligosaccharides or glycoconjugates containing milk oligosaccharides is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/382323 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/20 (20130101) A61K 47/48 (20130101) A61K 47/4823 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034857 | Burhans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Burhans (Buffalo, New York); Catherine E. Prudom Gineste (Harrisonburg, Virginia); Christopher P. Allen (Fort Collins, Colorado); Oleg Ursu (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anna Waller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York); STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Burhans (Buffalo, New York); Catherine E. Prudom Gineste (Harrisonburg, Virginia); Christopher P. Allen (Fort Collins, Colorado); Oleg Ursu (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anna Waller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for reducing superoxide anions such that a prophylactic or therapeutic effect against conditions associated with excess oxidative stress achieved. The compositions and methods provide for reducing inflammation and for enhancing lifespan of eukaryotic organisms. A screen for identifying compounds that can be used in these methods is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/636785 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/498 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/7009 (20130101) |
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| US 09034859 | Ren |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shunlin Ren (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shunlin Ren (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the prevention and treatment of liver damage or disease in a subject in need thereof are provided. The methods involve providing the sulfated oxysterol 25-hydroxycholesterol-3-sulfate (25HC3S) to the subject e.g. by 1) administering 25HC3S to the subject; or 2) overexpressing, in the subject, the hydroxysterol sulfotransferase enzyme SULT2B1b, which catalyzes the sulfation of 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC) to form 25HC3S. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441241 |
| 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 2207/25 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0362 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/13 (20130101) C12N 2799/022 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/893 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034862 | Lippard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ga Young Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ga Young Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for treatment of cancers. In some cases, the composition comprises a platinum compound comprising a phenanthridine ligand. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/529965 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09034870 | Cushman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); United States Government National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); United States Government National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Evgeny A. Kiselev (Silver Spring, Maryland); Andrew E. Morrell (San Diego, California); Yves George Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein pertains to substituted azaindenoisoquinoline compounds, in particular 7-, 8-, 9-, and 10-azaindenoisoquinoline compounds, which are inhibitors of topoisomerase I, processes and intermediates for their syntheses, pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds, and methods of using them in the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199754 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09034877 | Dutta |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aloke K. Dutta (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aloke K. Dutta (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A precursor for the deposition of a thin film by atomic layer deposition is provided. The compound has the formula MxLy where M is a metal and L is an amidrazone-derived ligand or an amidate-derived ligand. A process of forming a thin film using the precursors is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/264505 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 215/26 (20130101) C07D 215/38 (20130101) C07D 215/46 (20130101) C07D 215/54 (20130101) C07D 231/56 (20130101) C07D 277/82 (20130101) C07D 307/85 (20130101) C07D 333/70 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09034895 | Stella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nephi Stella (Seattle, Washington); Toni Kline (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nephi Stella (Seattle, Washington); Toni Kline (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of treating glioblastoma, methods of screening for compounds that treat glioblastoma, and pharmaceutical compositions useful the treatment of glioblastoma. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/818026 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 219/12 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 471/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/94 (20130101) |
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| US 09034903 | Hammock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Kin Sing Lee (Davis, California); Christophe Morisseau (West Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of the soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) are provided that incorporate multiple pharmacophores and are useful in the treatment of diseases. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a method for monitoring the activity of a soluble epoxide hydrolase, the method including contacting the soluble epoxide hydrolase with an amount of a compound of the present invention sufficient to produce a detectable change in the fluorescence of the soluble epoxide hydrolase by interacting with one or more tryptophan residues present in the catalytic site of said sEH. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/375224 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (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) Enzymes C12Y 303/0201 (20130101) |
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| US 09034928 | Millward et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Niki Zacharias Millward (Bellaire, Texas); Pratip Bhattacharya (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMAGNX, Inc. (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niki Zacharias Millward (Bellaire, Texas); Pratip Bhattacharya (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present embodiments disclose the preparation of hyperpolarized 13C dialkyl succinate compounds and hyperpolarized 13C dialkyl fumarate compounds and their use in real time, in vivo metabolic imaging of the TCA cycle. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157519 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/40 (20130101) C07C 69/60 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/46 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) |
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| US 09035003 | Hanson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Ronald Hanson (Lawrence, Kansas); Oliver Reiser (Regensburg, Germany); Alexander Schätz (Obernzell, Germany); Alan Rolfe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Ronald Hanson (Lawrence, Kansas); Oliver Reiser (Regensburg, Germany); Alexander Schätz (Obernzell, Germany); Alan Rolfe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic particle-polymer hybrid material can include: a substance having a structure of Formula 1 or derivative or salt thereof: Z(Y-Triazole-CH2—X—CH2—(FP)n)m (Formula 1), wherein Z is a magnetic particle smaller than 1 mm; n and m are independently integers; Y includes a first linker having an alkyl and/or aryl linked to the magnetic particle; X is CH2 or a heteroatom; FP is a functionalized polymer having: a first structure derived from a first norbornene compound linked to the magnetic particle through the Y-Triazole-CH2—X—CH2 linker; and one or more monomeric units each including a second structure derived from a second norbornene compound, where one of the monomeric units is linked to the first structure through a saturated or unsaturated alkyl, each monomeric unit includes a functional group capable of binding with another substance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/222247 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 232/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/838 (20130101) |
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| US 09035022 | Rivier |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cyclic CRF antagonist peptides having improved properties of “drugability”. The peptides are 33 residues in length with a lactam bond between the residues in position 22 and 25; however, they may be N-terminally shortened by up to 3 residues. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/996186 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/57509 (20130101) |
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| US 09035024 | Altieri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dario C. Altieri (Worcester, Massachusetts); Janet Plescia (Meriden, Connecticut); Whitney Salz (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds that inhibit Hsp90 interactions with IAP proteins, such as Survivin, XIAP, cIAP1, or cIAP2, and methods for identifying and using such compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/861959 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4747 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09035036 | Bell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Winifred Bell (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Daniel A. Haber (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Pasi Antero Janne (Newton, Massachusetts); Bruce E. Johnson (Brookline, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Lynch (Newton, Massachusetts); Matthew Meyerson (Concord, Massachusetts); Juan Guillermo Paez (Dean Funes, Argentina); William R. Sellers (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Jeffrey E. Settleman (Newton, Massachusetts); Raffaella Sordella (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and reagents for determining the responsiveness of cancer to an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) targeting treatment. The detection of these mutations will allow for the administration of gefitinib, erlotinib and other tyrosine kinase inhibitors to those patients most likely to respond to the drug. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896772 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/485 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/74 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 2333/485 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09035057 | Mach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert H. Mach (Eureka, Missouri); Mark Mintun (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Wenhua Chu (Saint Louis, Missouri); Laura Dugan (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Mach (Eureka, Missouri); Mark Mintun (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Wenhua Chu (Saint Louis, Missouri); Laura Dugan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Tracers for imaging distribution of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are disclosed. The tracers include radiolabeled dihydroethidine (DHE) analogues. Further disclosed are uses of the compounds, including methods of imaging tissue distribution of ROS in vivo by positron emission tomography (PET). Methods of synthesizing the compounds are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/516783 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09035068 | Muir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tom W. Muir (Princeton, New Jersey); Jung-Min Kee (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom W. Muir (Princeton, New Jersey); Jung-Min Kee (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the phosphohistidine analogs of the present invention which of the formula (I) and the hapten containing the residue of same. It also relates to the hapten conjugated to a carrier molecule and the isolated antibodies raised against the immunogens, said antibodies recognizing polypeptide containing a phosphorylated histidine or the phosphotriazole residue but it does not recognize an amino acid or polypeptide that is not phosphorylated or a polypeptide which is phosphorylated on amino acids other than histidine but not on histidine. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/825699 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48061 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 249/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4015 (20130101) C07F 9/65182 (20130101) C07F 9/65186 (20130101) |
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| US 09037215 | Higgins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William E. Higgins (State College, Pennsylvania); Jason D. Gibbs (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Higgins (State College, Pennsylvania); Jason D. Gibbs (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus assist in planning routes through hollow, branching organs in patients to optimize subsequent endoscopic procedures. Information is provided about the organ and a follow-on endoscopic procedure associated with the organ. The most appropriate navigable route or routes to a target region of interest (ROI) within the organ are then identified given anatomical, endoscopic-device, or procedure-specific constraints derived from the information provided. The method may include the step of modifying the viewing direction at each site along a route to give physically meaningful navigation directions or to reflect the requirements of a follow-on live endoscopic procedure. An existing route may further be extended, if necessary, to an ROI beyond the organ. The information provided may include anatomical constraints that define locations or organs to avoid; anatomical constraints that confine the route within specific geometric locations; or a metric for selecting the most appropriate route. For example, the metric may define the closest route to the ROI such that the route satisfies all applicable anatomical, device, and procedural constraints. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018953 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2019/505 (20130101) A61B 2019/507 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 19/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/30061 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) |
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| US 09037223 | Oral et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hakan Oral (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Omer Berenfeld (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Grant Kruger (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An atrial fibrillation classification system collects celectrocardiogram signals and converts them to a frequency, time, or phase domain representation for analysis. An evaluation stage extracts energy density profile over a range of frequencies, time intervals, or phases, which is then summed and normalized to form dispersion metrics. The system then analyzes the dispersion metrics, in their respective domains, to determine whether a patient is experiencing an arrhythmia and then to classify the type of arrhythmia being experienced. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/738626 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0428 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04014 (20130101) A61B 5/04017 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3956 (20130101) |
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| US 09037266 | Barlow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven M. Barlow (Lawrence, Kansas); David L. Stalling (Shawnee, Kansas); Kenneth Aron (Shawnee, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innara Health, Inc. (Olathe, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Barlow (Lawrence, Kansas); David L. Stalling (Shawnee, Kansas); Kenneth Aron (Shawnee, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method for using the system. In particular, the present invention relates to an application, executable by a processing device to assess the organization of a non-nutritive suck (NNS) pattern of a patient and to entrain an organized NNS pattern in the patient. The software system receives data from an orofacial stimulation appliance to assess the patient's natural NNS pattern and generates a precise therapeutic pulse profile that is actuated as a tactile stimulus via the orofacial stimulation appliance to entrain an organized NNS pattern. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/457203 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/486 (20130101) A61B 5/682 (20130101) A61B 5/6896 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 23/02 (20130101) A61H 2201/5005 (20130101) A61H 2201/5007 (20130101) A61H 2201/5071 (20130101) A61H 2205/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09037416 | Yeatman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Yeatman (Thonotosassa, Florida); Steven Alan Enkemann (Lutz, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Yeatman (Thonotosassa, Florida); Steven Alan Enkemann (Lutz, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Actively dividing tumors appear to progress to a life threatening condition more rapidly than slowly dividing tumors. Assessing actively dividing tumors currently involves a manual assessment of the number of mitotic cells in a histological slide prepared from the tumor and assessed by a trained pathologist. Disclosed is a method for using cumulative information from a series of expressed genes to determine tumor prognosis. This cumulative information can be used to categorize tumor samples into high mitotic states or low mitotic states using a mathematical algorithm and gene expression data derived from microarrays or quantitative-Polymerase Chain Reaction (Q-PCR) data. The specific mathematical description outlines how the algorithm assesses the most informative subset of genes from the full list of genes during the assessment of each sample. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728840 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09037418 | Potyrailo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo (Niskayuna, New York); Cheryl Margaret Surman (Albany, New York); Andrew Arthur Paul Burns (Schenectady, New York); Nandini Nagraj (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and sensors for selective fluid sensing are provided. Each sensor includes a resonant inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) sensor that is coated with a sensing material. In order to collect data, an impedance spectrum is acquired over a relatively narrow frequency range, such as the resonant frequency range of the LCR circuit. A multivariate signature may be calculated from the acquired spectrum to discern the presence of certain fluids and/or fluid mixtures. The presence of fluids is detected by measuring the changes in dielectric, dimensional, resistance, charge transfer, and other changes in the properties of the materials employed by observing the changes in the resonant electronic properties of the circuit. By using a mathematical procedure, such as principal components analysis (PCA) and others, multiple fluids and mixtures can be detected in the presence of one another, even in a high humidity environment or an environment wherein one or more fluids has a substantially higher concentration (e.g. 10×, 1,000,000×) compared to other components in the mixture. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/031951 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/026 (20130101) G01N 33/48792 (20130101) |
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| US 09037445 | Oltvai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zoltan N. Oltvai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alexei Vazquez (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zoltan N. Oltvai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alexei Vazquez (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided herein for: calculating cell growth rates in various environments and genetic backgrounds; calculating the order of substrate utilization from a defined growth medium; calculating metabolic flux reorganization in various environments and at various growth rates; and calculating the maximum metabolic rate and optimal metabolite concentrations and enzyme activities by applying a computational optimization method to a kinetic model of a metabolic pathway. The optimization methods use intracellular molecular crowding parameters and/or well as kinetic rates to assist in modeling metabolic activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170852 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09032721 | Orosa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Orosa (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Pawel Matys (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Orosa (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Pawel Matys (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow passage defined between an inner and an outer boundary for guiding a fluid flow in an axial direction. A flow control vane is supported at a radial location between the inner and outer boundaries. A fluid discharge opening is provided for discharging a flow of the compressed fluid from a trailing edge of the vane, and a fluid control surface is provided adjacent to the fluid discharge opening and extends in the axial direction at the trailing edge of the vane. The fluid control surface has a curved trailing edge forming a Coanda surface. The fluid discharge opening is selectively provided with a compressed fluid to produce a Coanda effect along the control surface. The Coanda effect has a component in the radial direction effecting a turning of the fluid flow in the flow path radially inward or outward toward one of the inner and outer boundaries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/325178 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/305 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/38 (20130101) F02K 1/386 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/122 (20130101) F05D 2270/173 (20130101) |
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| US 09032731 | Halas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter Nordlander (Houston, Texas); Oara Neumann (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter Nordlander (Houston, Texas); Oara Neumann (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for powering a cooling unit. The method including applying electromagnetic (EM) radiation to a complex, where the complex absorbs the EM radiation to generate heat, transforming, using the heat generated by the complex, a fluid to vapor, and sending the vapor from the vessel to a turbine coupled to a generator by a shaft, where the vapor causes the turbine to rotate, which turns the shaft and causes the generator to generate the electric power, wherein the electric powers supplements the power needed to power the cooling unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326521 |
| 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 6/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09033376 | Bzorgi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fariborz M. Bzorgi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments an apparatus is presented for securing a structure such as a door, window, hatch, or gate that moves between an open and a closed position relative to a fixed structure to provide or deny access to a compartment, a room, an outdoor area, or a facility. Various embodiments provide a delay in opening the closure of sufficient duration to frustrate a rapid activation that might be desired by a person who is attempting to pass through the closure for some illicit purpose. Typically, hydraulics are used to activate the apparatus and no electrical energy or electronic signals are employed. In one embodiment, a plurality of actuations of a hand lever operates a hydraulic pump that moves a locking bolt from a first position in which a locking bolt is engaged with a recess in the fixed structure (preventing opening of a gate) to a second position in which the locking bolt is disengaged from the recess to permit opening of the gate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752704 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Locks; Accessories Therefor; Handcuffs E05B 51/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E05B 2043/007 (20130101) E05B 2051/026 (20130101) |
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| US 09034066 | Brown |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik P. Brown (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik P. Brown (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An anti-clogging filter system for filtering a fluid containing large particles and small particles includes an enclosure with at least one individual elongated tubular filter element in the enclosure. The individual elongated tubular filter element has an internal passage, a closed end, an open end, and a filtering material in or on the individual elongated tubular filter element. The fluid travels through the open end of the elongated tubular element and through the internal passage and through the filtering material. An anti-clogging element is positioned on or adjacent the individual elongated tubular filter element and provides a fluid curtain that preferentially directs the larger particulates to one area of the filter material allowing the remainder of the filter material to remain more efficient. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/610331 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 45/12 (20130101) B01D 46/42 (20130101) B01D 46/2407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 46/2411 (20130101) B01D 50/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09034165 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jia Xu Wang (East Setauket, New York); Radoslav R. Adzic (East Setauket, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jia Xu Wang (East Setauket, New York); Radoslav R. Adzic (East Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing contiguous, conformal submonolayer-to-multilayer thin films with atomic-level control is described. The process involves the use of underpotential deposition of a first element to mediate the growth of a second material by overpotential deposition. Deposition occurs between a potential positive to the bulk deposition potential for the mediating element where a full monolayer of mediating element forms, and a potential which is less than, or only slightly greater than, the bulk deposition potential of the material to be deposited. By cycling the applied voltage between the bulk deposition potential for the mediating element and the material to be deposited, repeated desorption/adsorption of the mediating element during each potential cycle can be used to precisely control film growth on a layer-by-layer basis. This process is especially suitable for the formation of a catalytically active layer on core-shell particles for use in energy conversion devices such as fuel cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/000800 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/18 (20130101) B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 37/0215 (20130101) B01J 37/0228 (20130101) B01J 37/341 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 5/18 (20130101) C25D 5/34 (20130101) C25D 7/006 (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 4/8657 (20130101) H01M 4/8853 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09034170 | Blackburn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan M. Blackburn (Gainesville, Florida); Eric D. Wachsman (Gainesville, Florida); Frederick Martin Van Assche, IV (Maitland, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan M. Blackburn (Gainesville, Florida); Eric D. Wachsman (Gainesville, Florida); Frederick Martin Van Assche, IV (Maitland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrode configurations for electric-field enhanced performance in catalysis and solid-state devices involving gases are provided. According to an embodiment, electric-field electrodes can be incorporated in devices such as gas sensors and fuel cells to shape an electric field provided with respect to sensing electrodes for the gas sensors and surfaces of the fuel cells. The shaped electric fields can alter surface dynamics, system thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and adsorption/desorption processes. In one embodiment, ring-shaped electric-field electrodes can be provided around sensing electrodes of a planar gas sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/743490 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/406 (20130101) G01N 27/4074 (20130101) G01N 27/4075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0432 (20130101) H01M 8/04537 (20130101) H01M 8/04574 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09034216 | Yost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vernon Yost (Lakewood, Colorado); Hao-Chih Yuan (Golden, Colorado); Matthew Page (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vernon Yost (Lakewood, Colorado); Hao-Chih Yuan (Golden, Colorado); Matthew Page (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A wet-chemical method of producing a black silicon substrate. The method comprising soaking single crystalline silicon wafers in a predetermined volume of a diluted inorganic compound solution. The substrate is combined with an etchant solution that forms a uniform noble metal nanoparticle induced Black Etch of the silicon wafer, resulting in a nanoparticle that is kinetically stabilized. The method comprising combining with an etchant solution having equal volumes acetonitrile/acetic acid:hydrofluoric acid:hydrogen peroxide. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/825541 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/30604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/67086 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09034354 | Renne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter George Renne (Charleston, South Carolina); Anthony Samuel Mennito (Charleston, South Carolina); Michael Gerard Schmidt (Charleston, South Carolina); Jompobe Vuthiganon (Charleston, South Carolina); George Chumanov (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are antibacterial and antimicrobial surface coatings and dental materials by utilizing the antimicrobial properties of copper chalcogenide and/or copper halide (CuQ, where Q=chalcogens including oxygen, or halogens, or nothing). An antimicrobial barrier is created by incorporation of CuQ nanoparticles of an appropriate size and at a concentration necessary and sufficient to create a unique bioelectrical environment. The unique bioelectrical environment results in biocidal effectiveness through a multi-factorial mechanism comprising a combination of the intrinsic quantum flux of copper (Cu0, Cu1+, Cu2+) ions and the high surface-to-volume electron sink facilitated by the nanoparticle. The result is the constant quantum flux of copper which manifests and establishes the antimicrobial environment preventing or inhibiting the growth of bacteria. The presence of CuQ results in inhibiting or delaying bacterial destruction and endogenous enzymatic breakdown of the zone of resin inter-diffusion, the integrity of which is essential for dental restoration longevity. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/900942 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 5/08 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/007 (20130101) A61K 6/0835 (20130101) A61K 33/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 3/02 (20130101) C01G 3/04 (20130101) C01G 3/12 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 09034426 | Aglan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY (Tuskegee, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tuskegee University (Tuskegee, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heshmat Aglan (Tuskegee, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Structured films containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (“MWCNTs”) have enhanced mechanical performance in terms of strength, fracture resistance, and creep recovery of polyimide (“PI”) films. Preferably, the loadings of MWCNTs can be in the range of 0.1 wt % to 0.5 wt %. The strength of the new PI films dried at 60° C. increased by 55% and 72% for 0.1 wt % MWCNT and 0.5 wt % MWCNT loadings, respectively, while the fracture resistance increased by 23% for the 0.1 wt % MWCNTs and then decreases at a loading of 0.5 wt % MWCNTs. The films can be advantageously be created by managing a corresponding shift in the annealing temperature at which the maximum strength occurs as the MWCNT loadings increase. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678914 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/005 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/205 (20130101) C08J 2379/08 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08K 7/24 (20130101) C08K 7/24 (20130101) C08K 2201/011 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 79/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/752 (20130101) Y10S 977/753 (20130101) |
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| US 09034618 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen S. Adams (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Syrona Scott (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ching-Whan Ko (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INEOS BIO SA (Rolle, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Adams (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Syrona Scott (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ching-Whan Ko (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for sustaining microorganism culture in a syngas fermentation reactor in decreased concentration or absence of various substrates comprising: adding carbon dioxide and optionally alcohol; maintaining free acetic acid concentrations; and performing the above mentioned steps within specified time. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381193 |
| 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 | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/08 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/065 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09034628 | England et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George R. England (Redwood City, California); Aaron Kelley (Mountain View, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. England (Redwood City, California); Aaron Kelley (Mountain View, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a composition useful for inducing expression of genes whose expression is under control of an inducible promoter sequence and methods for the compositions preparation and use. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/029940 |
| 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 1/14 (20130101) C12N 1/38 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 21/02 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) |
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| US 09034641 | Pfleger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Pfleger (Madison, Wisconsin); Daniel Mendez-Perez (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods for coupling translation of a target gene to a detectable response gene. A version of the invention includes a translation-coupling cassette. The translation-coupling cassette includes a target gene, a response gene, a response-gene translation control element, and a secondary structure-forming sequence that reversibly forms a secondary structure masking the response-gene translation control element. Masking of the response-gene translation control element inhibits translation of the response gene. Full translation of the target gene results in unfolding of the secondary structure and consequent translation of the response gene. Translation of the target gene is determined by detecting presence of the response-gene protein product. The invention further includes RNA transcripts of the translation-coupling cassettes, vectors comprising the translation-coupling cassettes, hosts comprising the translation-coupling cassettes, methods of using the translation-coupling cassettes, and gene products produced with the translation-coupling cassettes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/043097 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/1075 (20130101) C12N 15/1086 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09035019 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Yang (Pleasanton, California); Kulandaivelu Sivanandan (Fremont, California); Jonathan Pistorino (Oakland, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seeo, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Yang (Pleasanton, California); Kulandaivelu Sivanandan (Fremont, California); Jonathan Pistorino (Oakland, California); Hany Basam Eitouni (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new synthetic method to prepare high molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) with a very narrow molecular weight distribution (PDI<1.5) is described. The method involves a metal free initiator system, thus avoiding dangerous, flammable organometallic compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684147 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/2612 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/2675 (20130101) |
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| US 09035733 | Ludtka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerard M Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gail M Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John B Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Bart L Murphy (Friendsville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard M Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gail M Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John B Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Bart L Murphy (Friendsville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A carriage for high magnetic field environments includes a plurality of work-piece separators disposed in an operable relationship with a work-piece processing magnet having a magnetic field strength of at least 1 Tesla for supporting and separating a plurality of work-pieces by a preselected, essentially equal spacing, so that, as a first work-piece is inserted into the magnetic field, a second work-piece is simultaneously withdrawn from the magnetic field, so that an attractive magnetic force imparted on the first work-piece offsets a resistive magnetic force imparted on the second work-piece. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/225766 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 17/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B65G 17/32 (20130101) Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/04 (20130101) C21D 9/0025 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/15341 (20130101) H01F 7/0242 (20130101) H01F 13/00 (20130101) H01F 13/003 (20130101) H01F 13/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09035790 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Perry T. Jones (Knoxville, Tennessee); John M. Miller (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry T. Jones (Knoxville, Tennessee); John M. Miller (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmit pad inspection device includes a magnetic coupling device, which includes an inductive circuit that is configured to magnetically couple to a primary circuit of a charging device in a transmit pad through an alternating current (AC) magnetic field. The inductive circuit functions as a secondary circuit for a set of magnetically coupled coils. The magnetic coupling device further includes a rectification circuit, and includes a controllable load bank or is configured to be connected to an external controllable load back. The transmit pad inspection device is configured to determine the efficiency of power transfer under various coupling conditions. In addition, the transmit pad inspection device can be configured to measure residual magnetic field and the frequency of the input current, and to determine whether the charging device has been installed properly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526659 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/00 (20130101) G01R 33/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09036677 | Bayramian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew James Bayramian (Manteca, California); Kenneth R. Manes (Brentwood, California); Robert Deri (Pleasanton, California); Alvin Erlandson (Livermore, California); John Caird (San Francisco, California); Mary L. Spaeth (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical gain architecture includes a pump source and a pump aperture. The architecture also includes a gain region including a gain element operable to amplify light at a laser wavelength. The gain region is characterized by a first side intersecting an optical path, a second side opposing the first side, a third side adjacent the first and second sides, and a fourth side opposing the third side. The architecture further includes a dichroic section disposed between the pump aperture and the first side of the gain region. The dichroic section is characterized by low reflectance at a pump wavelength and high reflectance at the laser wavelength. The architecture additionally includes a first cladding section proximate to the third side of the gain region and a second cladding section proximate to the fourth side of the gain region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/910996 |
| 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 3/005 (20130101) H01S 3/07 (20130101) H01S 3/17 (20130101) H01S 3/042 (20130101) H01S 3/0092 (20130101) H01S 3/094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/165 (20130101) H01S 3/0404 (20130101) H01S 3/0606 (20130101) H01S 3/0612 (20130101) H01S 3/0941 (20130101) H01S 3/1603 (20130101) H01S 3/1608 (20130101) H01S 3/1611 (20130101) H01S 3/1616 (20130101) H01S 3/1618 (20130101) H01S 3/1643 (20130101) H01S 3/2316 (20130101) H01S 3/2341 (20130101) H01S 3/09415 (20130101) H01S 3/094057 (20130101) H01S 3/094084 (20130101) H01S 5/4012 (20130101) H01S 5/4025 (20130101) H01S 2301/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09036866 | Polese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luigi Gentile Polese (Thornton, Colorado); Larry Brackney (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An image-based occupancy sensor includes a motion detection module that receives and processes an image signal to generate a motion detection signal, a people detection module that receives the image signal and processes the image signal to generate a people detection signal, a face detection module that receives the image signal and processes the image signal to generate a face detection signal, and a sensor integration module that receives the motion detection signal from the motion detection module, receives the people detection signal from the people detection module, receives the face detection signal from the face detection module, and generates an occupancy signal using the motion detection signal, the people detection signal, and the face detection signal, with the occupancy signal indicating vacancy or occupancy, with an occupancy indication specifying that one or more people are detected within the monitored volume. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752101 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Air-conditioning; Air-humidification; Ventilation; Use of Air Currents for Screening F24F 11/0034 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00221 (20130101) G06K 9/00362 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00771 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09037202 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jie Yuan (South Grafton, Massachusetts); James Maguire (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORPORATION (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jie Yuan (South Grafton, Massachusetts); James Maguire (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling system includes a first section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a first flow of coolant and to permit the first flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a second section of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable configured to receive a second flow of coolant and to permit the second flow of coolant to flow therethrough. The system may further include a cable joint configured to couple the first section of HTS cable and the second section of HTS cable. The cable joint may be in fluid communication with at least one refrigeration module and may include at least one conduit configured to permit a third flow of coolant between said cable joint and said at least one refrigeration module through a coolant line separate from said first and second sections of HTS cable. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607130 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 12/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/00 (20130101) Installation of Electric Cables or Lines, or of Combined Optical and Electric Cables or Lines H02G 15/34 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 40/647 (20130101) Y02E 40/648 (20130101) |
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| US 09037214 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Louis-Serge Bouchard (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fanqing Chen (Moraga, California); Louis-Serge Bouchard (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments novel nanoparticles (nanowontons) are provided that are suitable for multimodal imaging and/or therapy. In one embodiment, the nanoparticles include a first biocompatible (e.g., gold) layer, an inner core layer (e.g., a non-biocompatible material), and a biocompatible (e.g., gold) layer. The first gold layer includes a concave surface that forms a first outer surface of the layered nanoparticle. The second gold layer includes a convex surface that forms a second outer surface of the layered nanoparticle. The first and second gold layers encapsulate the inner core material layer. Methods of fabricating such nanoparticles are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/202976 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/183 (20130101) A61K 49/225 (20130101) A61K 49/1857 (20130101) A61K 49/1866 (20130101) A61K 49/1875 (20130101) A61K 51/1244 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0025 (20130101) B22F 1/025 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/89 (20130101) Y10S 977/712 (20130101) Y10S 977/888 (20130101) Y10S 977/902 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20130101) |
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| US 09037892 | Coteus et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Rudolf A. Haring (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Gerard V. Kopcsay (Yorktown Heights, New York); Thomas A. Liebsch (Arlington, South Dakota); Don D. Reed (Mantorville, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Rudolf A. Haring (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Gerard V. Kopcsay (Yorktown Heights, New York); Thomas A. Liebsch (Arlington, South Dakota); Don D. Reed (Mantorville, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, method and computer program product for automatically controlling power dissipation of a parallel computing system that includes a plurality of processors. A computing device issues a command to the parallel computing system. A clock pulse-width modulator encodes the command in a system clock signal to be distributed to the plurality of processors. The plurality of processors in the parallel computing system receive the system clock signal including the encoded command, and adjusts power dissipation according to the encoded command. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085879 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/10 (20130101) G06F 1/12 (20130101) G06F 1/206 (20130101) G06F 1/324 (20130101) G06F 1/329 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3206 (20130101) G06F 1/3296 (20130101) |
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| US 09038180 | Neil |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Charles Neil (Jemez Springs, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Creation of new edges in a network may be used as an indication of a potential attack on the network. Historical data of a frequency with which nodes in a network create and receive new edges may be analyzed. Baseline models of behavior among the edges in the network may be established based on the analysis of the historical data. A new edge that deviates from a respective baseline model by more than a predetermined threshold during a time window may be detected. The new edge may be flagged as potentially anomalous when the deviation from the respective baseline model is detected. Probabilities for both new and existing edges may be obtained for all edges in a path or other subgraph. The probabilities may then be combined to obtain a score for the path or other subgraph. A threshold may be obtained by calculating an empirical distribution of the scores under historical conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/826995 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/577 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1408 (20130101) H04L 63/1425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/1433 (20130101) |
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 09034055 | Vinjamuri et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wei Wang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Douglas John Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramana Kumar Vinjamuri (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wei Wang (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Hong Mao (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Douglas John Weber (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A synergy-based human-machine interface that uses low-dimensional command signals to control a high dimensional virtual, robotic or paralyzed human hand is provided. Temporal postural synergies are extracted from angular velocities of finger joints of five healthy subjects when they perform hand movements that are similar to activities of daily living. Extracted Synergies are used in real-time brain control, where a virtual, robotic or paralyzed human hand is controlled to manipulate virtual or real world objects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246190 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1107 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6806 (20130101) A61B 2505/09 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/68 (20130101) A61F 2/72 (20130101) A61F 2/583 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/763 (20130101) A61F 2002/764 (20130101) A61F 2002/6827 (20130101) A61F 2002/7615 (20130101) A61F 2002/7625 (20130101) A61F 2002/7635 (20130101) A61F 2002/7665 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 2230/08 (20130101) A61H 2230/10 (20130101) A61H 2230/60 (20130101) A61H 2230/085 (20130101) A61H 2230/105 (20130101) A61H 2230/605 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40195 (20130101) |
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| US 09034213 | Hersam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Alexander L. Antaris (Evanston, Illinois); Alexander A. Green (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Alexander L. Antaris (Evanston, Illinois); Alexander A. Green (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), by electronic type using centrifugation of compositions of SWNTs and surface active block copolymers in density gradient media. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134167 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Flotation; Differential Sedimentation B03D 3/00 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0071 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0266 (20130101) C01B 2202/02 (20130101) C01B 2202/22 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/742 (20130101) Y10S 977/845 (20130101) |
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| US 09034309 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael A. Gelman (Madison, Wisconsin); Bernard Weisblum (Madison, Wisconsin); David M. Lynn (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael A. Gelman (Madison, Wisconsin); Bernard Weisblum (Madison, Wisconsin); David M. Lynn (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions containing biocidal co-polymers of poly(styrenes), poly(acrylates), poly(acrylamides), and poly(C1-C6)alkylene glycols are disclosed, along with methods of using the compositions to treat microbial infections in mammals. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933987 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/74 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 257/02 (20130101) C08F 265/04 (20130101) C08F 265/10 (20130101) C08F 283/06 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/04 (20130101) C08G 65/329 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 25/04 (20130101) C08L 25/04 (20130101) C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 33/08 (20130101) C08L 33/26 (20130101) C08L 33/26 (20130101) C08L 35/06 (20130101) C08L 51/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 51/003 (20130101) C08L 55/00 (20130101) C08L 55/00 (20130101) C08L 59/04 (20130101) C08L 59/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/02 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) C08L 2666/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09034568 | McLeod et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. McLeod (Boulder, Colorado); Adam Urness (Boulder, Colorado); Michael Cole (Longmont, Colorado); Eric Moore (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for liquid deposition photolithography are described. In particular, some embodiments relate to systems and methods for using photolithography to control the 2D structure of a thin layer of material (e.g., photopolymer) using various masks, projection optics and materials. In one or more embodiments, this thin layer can be manipulated by micro-fluidic techniques such that it can be formed, patterned and post-processed in a liquid environment, vastly simplifying the creation of multi-layer structures. Multiple layers are rapidly built up to create thick structures of possibly multiple materials that are currently challenging to fabricate by existing methods. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/849256 |
| 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 7/0035 (20130101) G03F 7/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/2022 (20130101) G03F 7/2041 (20130101) |
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| US 09034594 | Michaels et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony Michaels (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy (South Pasadena, California); Douglas Capone (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); James Moffett (South Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Michaels (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Sergio Sanudo-Wilhelmy (South Pasadena, California); Douglas Capone (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); James Moffett (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for verifying carbon storage in seawater to which a growth stimulant has been supplied for stimulating a bloom of nitrogen fixing organisms for enhancing carbon storage therein, comprises selecting a region of seawater including a surface mixed layer, a euphotic zone extending below the surface mixed layer, and a plurality of deeper zones; determining the effect of growth stimulant on the rate of nitrogen fixation and carbon transport in the region; and determining the amount of carbon stored at different depths and projected duration of carbon storage at each of the depths. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/108394 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/04 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 41/0064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09034623 | LaBelle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey T. LaBelle (Tempe, Arizona); Vincent B. Pizziconi (Phoenix, Arizona) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. LaBelle (Tempe, Arizona); Vincent B. Pizziconi (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, compositions, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed relating to the design and production of biological components and/or their incorporation in devices and systems, including biohybrid photosensitive devices and systems. In some embodiments, biological components include light antenna structures that collect light and emit Stokes-shifted light to a photoactive non-biological component. In some embodiments, the characteristics of biological components are engineered via force-adaptation of an organism or adaptive system. In some embodiments, biological components are modified by removing reaction centers or other structure not contributing to desired performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/466120 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/58 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/02322 (20130101) H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/447 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tom Nelson Oder (Youngstown, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Youngstown State University (Youngstown, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Nelson Oder (Youngstown, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved semiconductor devices are fabricated utilizing nickel gallide and refractory borides deposited onto a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate. Varying the deposition and annealing parameters of fabrication can provide a more thermally stable device that has greater barrier height and a low ideality. This improvement in the electrical properties allows use of Schottky barrier diodes in high power and high temperature applications. In one embodiment, a refractory metal boride layer is joined to a surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate. The refractory metal boride layer is deposited on the silicon carbon semiconductor substrate at a temperature greater than 200° C. In another embodiment, a Schottky barrier diode is fabricated via deposition of nickel gallide on a SiC substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/331515 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/47 (20130101) H01L 29/72 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/6606 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prathaban Mookiah (San Diego, California); Kapil Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prathaban Mookiah (San Diego, California); Kapil Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A bi-directional antenna includes a plurality of unit cells stacked in two perpendicular planes (Y-X and Z-X planes) to form cube shaped unit cells whereby inductive loops are placed on four faces corresponding to the Y-X and Z-X planes. Each unit cell includes a magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial. The resulting antenna has the ability to couple magnetic fields oriented in both the X and Y directions with increased permeabilities and can be used to realize a variety of different antenna architectures that do not have their magnetic field confined in a single direction. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805532 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 15/0053 (20130101) |
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| US 09036951 | Bhave et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunil Bhave (Ithaca, New York); Suresh Sridaran (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Bhave (Ithaca, New York); Suresh Sridaran (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic structure, which may comprise an acousto-optic modulator for use in an opto-acoustic oscillator, comprises a plurality of rigidly connected resonator core components located movably separated over a substrate and anchored to the substrate at an anchor point. An actuator electrode is located separated from a first one of the rigidly connected resonator core components and an optical waveguide is located separated from a second one of the rigidly connected resonator core components. Radio frequency and direct current actuation of the actuator electrode provides a mechanical vibration in the first rigidly connected resonator core component that is mechanically coupled to the second rigidly connected resonator core component which serves to optically modulate light transported through the wave guide. Reverse operation is also contemplated. Embodiments also contemplate a third rigidly connected resonator core component as a radiation pressure driven detector. Further contemplated are related fabrication and operation methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/556617 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 26/02 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/113 (20130101) G02F 1/125 (20130101) G02F 1/335 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2201/17 (20130101) G02F 2201/20 (20130101) G02F 2201/58 (20130101) G02F 2202/105 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09038048 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junfeng Yang (New York, New York); Heming Cui (New York, New York); Jingyue Wu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for protecting applications from races are provided. In some embodiments, methods for protecting applications from races are provided, the methods comprising: adding to at least one cycle of the application an update check to determine when an update to the application is to be made; adding an update engine to the application, wherein the update engine is configured to: receive an update plan that is based on an execution filter that specifies how operations of the application are to be synchronized; and cause synchronization operations to be added to the application based on the update plan that prevent the race from occurring. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/189263 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09032785 | Miles |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey H Miles (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey H Miles (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of measuring a residence time in a gas-turbine engine is provided, whereby the method includes placing pressure sensors at a combustor entrance and at a turbine exit of the gas-turbine engine and measuring a combustor pressure at the combustor entrance and a turbine exit pressure at the turbine exit. The method further includes computing cross-spectrum functions between a combustor pressure sensor signal from the measured combustor pressure and a turbine exit pressure sensor signal from the measured turbine exit pressure, applying a linear curve fit to the cross-spectrum functions, and computing a post-combustion residence time from the linear curve fit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/534870 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 21/003 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 15/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Chen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for maximizing a fraction of light energy absorbed in each of three classes of light concentrators (rectangular parallelepipeds, paraboloids and prisms) by choice of incident angle of radiation and of one or more geometrical or physical parameters (absorber thickness, paraboloid dimensions, location of paraboloid focus, prism angles, concentrator material, cladding, prism angles, etc.). Alternatively, the light energy absorbed plus the light energy that escapes through non-total internal reflection within the light concentrator can be minimized. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896284 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 17/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/126 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0543 (20130101) |
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| US 09035644 | Cairns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darran Robert Cairns (Morgantown, West Virginia); Wade W. Huebsch (Morgantown, West Virginia); Konstantinos A. Sierros (Morgantown, West Virginia); Matthew S. Shafran (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and systems related to stimulus responsive nanoparticles. In one embodiment includes a stimulus responsive nanoparticle system, the system includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a plurality of elongated electro-responsive nanoparticles dispersed between the first and second electrodes, the plurality of electro-responsive nanorods configured to respond to an electric field established between the first and second electrodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748239 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 3/0021 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 19/02 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 1/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/84 (20130101) Y10S 977/932 (20130101) |
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| US 09036674 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); LongWave Photonics LLC (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); LongWave Photonics LLC (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Alan Wei Min Lee (Mountain View, California); Tsung-Yu Kao (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A third-order distributed feedback laser has an active medium disposed on a substrate as a linear array of segments having a series of periodically spaced interstices therebetween and a first conductive layer disposed on a surface of the active medium on each of the segments and along a strip from each of the segments to a conductive electrical contact pad for application of current along a path including the active medium. Upon application of a current through the active medium, the active medium functions as an optical waveguide, and there is established an alternating electric field, at a THz frequency, both in the active medium and emerging from the interstices. Spacing of adjacent segments is approximately half of a wavelength of the THz frequency in free space or an odd integral multiple thereof, so that the linear array has a coherence length greater than the length of the linear array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/372135 |
| 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 1/02 (20130101) H01S 3/0675 (20130101) H01S 5/12 (20130101) H01S 5/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/1231 (20130101) H01S 5/2045 (20130101) H01S 5/2086 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09034204 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ian M. Kennedy (Davis, California); Sudheendra Lakshmana (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian M. Kennedy (Davis, California); Sudheendra Lakshmana (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel core-shell nanoparticles comprising a phosphorescent core and metal shell as well as methods of synthesizing and using said core-shell nanoparticles are provided. In a preferred embodiment, the phosphorescent core comprises an upconverting phosphor and the shell comprises gold. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/516421 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) |
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| US 09034436 | Finkenstadt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victoria L. Finkenstadt (Peoria, Illinois); Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois); Julious L. Willett (Morton, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victoria L. Finkenstadt (Peoria, Illinois); Gregory L. Cote (Edwards, Illinois); Julious L. Willett (Morton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for inhibiting corrosion on corrosion-sensitive metal with a bacterial exopolysaccharide. Specifically, exopolysaccharides precipitated from NRRL bacterial strains B-1254, B-1355, B-1498, and B-1500 coated on low carbon steel alloy confers anti-corrosion coating to corrosion sensitive metals. Preferably with the coating, the corrosion rate for coated metal is less than 0.4 milli-inch per year. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242050 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B05D 2202/10 (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 105/02 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 11/173 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09035129 — Method to develop high oleic acid soybeans using conventional soybean breeding techniques
| US 09035129 | Bilyeu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kristin Bilyeu (Columbia, Missouri); Grover Shannon (Kennett, Missouri); Jeong-Dong Lee (Daegu, South Korea); Anh Tung Pham (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri); The United States of America, as Represented By the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristin Bilyeu (Columbia, Missouri); Grover Shannon (Kennett, Missouri); Jeong-Dong Lee (Daegu, South Korea); Anh Tung Pham (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a soybean plant with mutations in FAD2-1A and FAD2-1B. Moreover, the present invention is directed to seeds from said plants with altered ratios of monosaturated and polyunsaturated fats. In particular, the present invention is directed to plants where the plants exhibit elevated levels of oleic acid. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832760 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 1/02 (20130101) A01H 1/04 (20130101) A01H 5/10 (20130101) Edible Oils or Fats, e.g Margarines, Shortenings, Cooking Oils A23D 9/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0083 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09034103 | Schujman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandra B. Schujman (Niskayuna, New York); Shailaja P. Rao (Albany, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CRYSTAL IS, INC. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandra B. Schujman (Niskayuna, New York); Shailaja P. Rao (Albany, New York); Robert T. Bondokov (Watervliet, New York); Kenneth E. Morgan (Castleton, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, methods of forming single-crystal AlN include providing a substantially undoped polycrystalline AlN ceramic having an oxygen concentration less than approximately 100 ppm, forming a single-crystal bulk AlN crystal by a sublimation-recondensation process at a temperature greater than approximately 2000° C., and cooling the bulk AlN crystal to a first temperature between approximately 1500° C. and approximately 1800° C. at a first rate less than approximately 250° C./hour. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/827507 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/00 (20130101) C30B 29/403 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09034650 | Padidam |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Malla Padidam (Chalfont, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intrexon Corporation (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malla Padidam (Chalfont, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for obtaining site-specific recombination in a eukaryotic cell, the method comprising providing a eukaryotic cell that comprises a first recombination attachment site and a second recombination attachment site; contacting the first and second recombination attachment sites with a prokaryotic recombinase polypeptide, resulting in recombination between the recombination attachment sites, wherein the recombinase polypeptide can mediate recombination between the first and second recombination attachment sites, the first recombination attachment site is a phage genomic recombination attachment site (attP) or a bacterial genomic recombination attachment site (attB), the second recombination site is attB or attP, and the recombinase is selected from the group consisting of a Listeria monocytogenes phage recombinase, a Streptococcus pyogenes phage recombinase, a Bacillus subtilis phage recombinase, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis phage recombinase and a Mycobacterium smegmatis phage recombinase, provided that when the first recombination attachment site is attB, the second recombination attachment site is attP and when the first recombination attachment site is attP, the second recombination attachment site is attB. The invention also describes compositions, vectors, and methods of use thereof, for the generation of transgenic cells, tissues, plants, and animals. The compositions, vectors and methods of the present invention are also useful in gene therapy applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/049552 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09035673 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Yu Tak Young (Cupertino, California); Scott Jong Ho Limb (Palo Alto, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California); Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Yu Tak Young (Cupertino, California); Scott Jong Ho Limb (Palo Alto, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California); Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for in-process yield evaluation and correction in an array type of device are provided. The system and method include measuring electrical resistance between individual GATE lines, DATA lines, a DATA bus I/O pad, and a GATE bus I/O pad; and analyzing the measured electrical resistance to identify at least one of the following: GATE line open defects, GATE line bridge defects, DATA line open defects, DATA line bridge defects, and interlayer shunt defects. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693019 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2853 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 29/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 2029/0403 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 22/14 (20130101) H01L 22/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09033931 | Young et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vital Access Corporation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); G. Doug Smith (Sandy, Utah); Mark A. Crawford (Sandy, Utah); Randall K. Jones (Murray, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Ports for accessing a vessels within a patient include passageways that can guide needles or other access devices directly into the vessels. The ports can be implanted subcutaneously within a patient. Some ports may be used in the creation and use of vascular access buttonholes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725529 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/0057 (20130101) A61B 17/3423 (20130101) A61B 2017/3425 (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 1/14 (20130101) A61M 1/3653 (20130101) A61M 1/3659 (20140204) A61M 1/3661 (20140204) A61M 39/0208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09035003 | Hanson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Ronald Hanson (Lawrence, Kansas); Oliver Reiser (Regensburg, Germany); Alexander Schätz (Obernzell, Germany); Alan Rolfe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Ronald Hanson (Lawrence, Kansas); Oliver Reiser (Regensburg, Germany); Alexander Schätz (Obernzell, Germany); Alan Rolfe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic particle-polymer hybrid material can include: a substance having a structure of Formula 1 or derivative or salt thereof: Z(Y-Triazole-CH2—X—CH2—(FP)n)m (Formula 1), wherein Z is a magnetic particle smaller than 1 mm; n and m are independently integers; Y includes a first linker having an alkyl and/or aryl linked to the magnetic particle; X is CH2 or a heteroatom; FP is a functionalized polymer having: a first structure derived from a first norbornene compound linked to the magnetic particle through the Y-Triazole-CH2—X—CH2 linker; and one or more monomeric units each including a second structure derived from a second norbornene compound, where one of the monomeric units is linked to the first structure through a saturated or unsaturated alkyl, each monomeric unit includes a functional group capable of binding with another substance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/222247 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 232/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/838 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09036001 | 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) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 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) |
| ABSTRACT | Security guards at big 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 will 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 360-degree, 100-megapixel views on a single screen. (Other resolutions may also be employed.) 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 | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438693 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/19602 (20130101) G08B 13/19619 (20130101) G08B 13/19626 (20130101) G08B 13/19643 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09036160 | Maurer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chris Maurer (Constance, Germany); Roger Peter Van Diepen (Kilchberg, Switzerland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TOUCHLESS BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS AG (Pfäffikon, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Maurer (Constance, Germany); Roger Peter Van Diepen (Kilchberg, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention refers to a device for recording biometric data, such as lines of finger or hand. A rest is provided on the device for the hand and finger, respectively, as well as an illuminating unit. According to the invention an illuminating unit and/or rest is provided that can traverse and be positioned. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/737757 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00382 (20130101) G06K 9/2036 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09036861 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina); Charles G. Boyle (Denver, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shen-En Chen (Charlotte, North Carolina); Edwin W. Hauser (Charlotte, North Carolina); Charles G. Boyle (Denver, North Carolina); Meenu Natarajan (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Spatially Integrated Small-Format Aerial Photography (SFAP) is one aspect of the present invention. It is a low-cost solution for bridge surface imaging and is proposed as a remote bridge inspection technique to supplement current bridge visual inspection. Providing top-down views, the airplanes flying at about 1000 feet can allow visualization of sub-inch (large) cracks and joint openings on bridge decks or highway pavements. On board Global Positioning System (GPS) is used to help geo-reference images collected and facilitate damage detection. Image analysis is performed to identify structural defects such as cracking. A deck condition rating technique based on large crack detection is used to quantify the condition of the existing bridge decks. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/762864 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/10032 (20130101) G06T 2207/30184 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
09032635 — Physiological measurement device or wearable device interface simulator and method of use
| US 09032635 | Herr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugh M. Herr (Somerville, Massachusetts); Arthur Petron (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A physiological measurement device or wearable device simulator includes a frame and a plurality of surfaces distributed within the frame. For each surface, a surface actuator links the surface of the frame. At least one of: i) force or position imparted by the surface on a physiological feature of a subject by the surface actuator; and ii) the force imparted by the physiological feature of the subject on the surface, can be employed to modulate the positions of the surfaces relative to each other independently of the forces imparted by or on those surfaces, thereby measuring the physiological feature of the subject or simulating a wearable device interface. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715441 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/107 (20130101) A61B 5/1077 (20130101) A61B 5/4848 (20130101) A61B 5/4851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2562/046 (20130101) A61B 2562/0247 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/76 (20130101) A61F 2002/762 (20130101) A61F 2002/5049 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09032723 | Haugen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A shut off valve is configured to shut off flow from the high pressure fluid line to the high pressure accumulator in a series hydraulic hybrid vehicle in order to quickly raise system pressure in the high pressure fluid line and enable additional torque output from the hydraulic motor for vehicle propulsion. A pressure relief valve is further provided to vent excess flow from the high pressure line to the high pressure accumulator as needed to avoid exceeding a maximum desired system pressure in the high pressure fluid line, thereby providing for safe and efficient hydrostatic operation in the vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/580814 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 6/12 (20130101) Gearing F16H 61/4096 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/6208 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US RE45517 | Doverspike et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kathleen Marie Doverspike (Cary, North Carolina); John Adam Edmond (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-shuang Kong (Cary, North Carolina); Heidi Marie Dieringer (Cary, North Carolina); David B. Slater, Jr. (Baskerville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathleen Marie Doverspike (Cary, North Carolina); John Adam Edmond (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-shuang Kong (Cary, North Carolina); Heidi Marie Dieringer (Cary, North Carolina); David B. Slater, Jr. (Baskerville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical geometry light emitting diode is disclosed that is capable of emitting light in the red, green, blue, violet and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The light emitting diode includes a conductive silicon carbide substrate, an InGaN quantum well, a conductive buffer layer between the substrate and the quantum well, a respective undoped gallium nitride layer on each surface of the quantum well, and ohmic contacts in a vertical geometry orientation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/942673 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
09034299 — ATF4 inhibitors and their use for neural protection, repair, regeneration, and plasticity
| US 09034299 | Ratan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajiv R. Ratan (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajiv R. Ratan (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method for identifying a drug candidate with activity as a neuroprotective agent. The method includes determining whether a compound reduces ATF4 activity; and identifying the compound that reduces ATF4 activity as a drug candidate. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/672013 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/4706 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09035692 | Dey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aritra Dey (Folsom, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aritra Dey (Folsom, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of complementary biasing circuits and related methods are described herein. Other embodiments and related implementations are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798796 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Regulating Electric or Magnetic Variables G05F 3/24 (20130101) Analogue Computers G06G 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Amplifiers H03F 1/301 (20130101) H03F 2203/45244 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09036262 | Staver et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip R. Staver (Wilton, New Hampshire); Michael J. Shaw (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip R. Staver (Wilton, New Hampshire); Michael J. Shaw (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for laser beam splitting and shaping is disclosed wherein two beam splitters are used to split one input laser beam into four beams in a generally rectangular pattern. Half-wave plates are used to adjust the power of the input laser beam between the four laser beams. A variable power optical telescope comprising negative and positive lens pairs for the four laser beams is used to adjust the divergence of the four beams, and pointing control prism wedges are used to point or steer the four beams to be parallel to each other and to adjust their relative spacing to create a flat top profile. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/825213 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2015/fedinvent-patents-20150519.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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