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09049845 — System apparatus and method of training dogs to detect complex hazardous substances

US 09049845	Albuquerque
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Lisa Lee Albuquerque (Dumfries, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Lisa Lee Albuquerque (Dumfries, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A training apparatus composed of pvc pipe used to train scent dogs to detect complex hazardous substances from an odor mixture having at least two separated component odors housed in at least two ventilated containers. At least two elbow shaped pipes having compartments, in which the containers reside. The apparatus further includes end caps securing the containers in the compartments. A two way clean out adapter pipe, having three openings, is connected to the elbow pipes, where separate odors, from separate explosive components situated in the separated containers, mix by diffusion and provide an odor mixture developed from the separated components. A drain assembly, having a drain cover, with holes is affixed on top of the drain assembly; allowing odor mixtures to rise up and out of the drain assembly, where the scent detecting dogs are trained to identify the explosive components.
FILED	Friday, January 31, 2014
APPL NO	14/169455
ART UNIT	4123 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09050149 — Compression transmission collar for fastening

US 09050149	LeCronier et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA)
APPLICANT(S)	David LeCronier (Oxford, Michigan); Patrick Atkinson (Grand Blanc, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	David LeCronier (Oxford, Michigan); Patrick Atkinson (Grand Blanc, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A compression transmission collar apparatus (20) for implantation into a bone (22) with a hole (28) having a hole wall (32) comprising an intramedullary nail (34) defining a bore (40) and a threaded fastener (42) and a compression transmission collar (58) including an exterior face (64) and a top edge (60) and a bottom edge (62) and a first end (70) intersecting the top edge (60) at an acute angle and the bottom edge (62) at an obtuse angle and a second end (72) intersecting the top edge (60) at an obtuse angle and the bottom edge (62) at an acute angle and the first end (70) partially overlapping and opposing the second end (72) to define a slit (74) such that applying a compressional load to the top edge (60) causes the first end (70) to slide relative to and along the second end (72) causing the compression transmission collar (58) to compress axially and expand radially pressing the exterior face (64) against the hole wall (32).
FILED	Tuesday, October 30, 2012
APPL NO	13/663812
ART UNIT	3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/686 (20130101) A61B 17/7241 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/7258 (20130101) A61B 17/7275 (20130101) A61B 17/8695 (20130101) A61B 2017/564 (20130101) A61B 2017/681 (20130101)
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09050180 — Microvascular stamp for patterning of functional neovessels

US 09050180	Kong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Graduate Education (DGE) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Hyunjoon Kong (Champaign, Illinois); Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Jaehyun Jeong (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent Chan (Urbana, Illinois); Chaenyung Cha (Penndel, Pennsylvania); Pinar Zorlutuna (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions and methods for making and using microvascular stamps for stimulation and spatial organization of neovessels in tissue.
FILED	Thursday, March 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/788023
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	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 2/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09050322 — Targeted identification of immunogenic peptides

US 09050322	Ponniah et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc (HJF)
APPLICANT(S)	The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Sathibalan Ponniah (Columbia, Maryland); George E Peoples (Fulton, Maryland); Catherine E Storrer (Columbia, Maryland); Michael Flora (Mt. Airy, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates generally to identifying peptide sequences involved in antibody binding to any protein for synthesis of vaccine treatments. This novel method allows for a more manageable vaccine peptide discovery and specific generation of unique immunogenic peptides from self-tumor associated proteins and/or foreign proteins from infectious organisms for specific and/or enhanced expression only in the presence of the antibody.
FILED	Friday, February 22, 2013
APPL NO	13/774829
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/32 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/6803 (20130101) G01N 33/6845 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101)
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09050463 — Systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in tissue

US 09050463	Wagner
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy Andrew Wagner (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for stimulating cellular function within tissue that involves providing a first type of energy to a region of tissue, in which the first type is provided in an amount that inhibits cellular function within the region of tissue, and providing a second type of energy to the region of tissue, in which the second type is provided in an amount that facilitates cellular function within the region of tissue, wherein the combined effect stimulates cellular function within the tissue.
FILED	Monday, June 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/293525
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00994 (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 7/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/36021 (20130101) A61N 1/36025 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) A61N 2007/0026 (20130101)
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09051031 — Rotary capture device with passive engagement and active release

US 09051031	Dooley
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Richard E. Dooley (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard E. Dooley (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A vehicle recovery system is provided which includes a capture device having a body with two arms defining an open ended cavity with a shaft attached to and between each of the arms and extending through the cavity. A tow line is attached to the body opposite the cavity and a buoyant member disposed in the cavity and rotatable around the shaft. A plurality of capture loops disposed within the cavity are rotatable with the buoyant member and define closed loops with the buoyant member. A spring-loaded towing latch is attached to the vehicle to be recovered. The latch includes a hook having a first open position and a second closed position. The hook is moveable from the first position to the second position under action of a biasing spring upon engagement of one of the capture loops over the hook.
FILED	Monday, March 17, 2014
APPL NO	14/215259
ART UNIT	3617 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 21/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051177 — Active optical limiting semiconductor device and method with active region transparent to light becoming opaque when not biased

US 09051177	Hoffman
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Robert C. Hoffman (Woodstock, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert C. Hoffman (Woodstock, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An optical switching system comprising an embodiment with a high pass filter operable to eliminate a portion of frequencies present in an image and an optical device operative to receive the spectrally modified image from the high pass filter, alternatively amplify the spectrally modified image, and propagate at least those frequency components in the spectrally modified image exhibiting a frequency less than an absorption frequency of the optical switching device when the optical switching device is active. Alternatively, the optical switching system may transmit an image only when the system is active. The optical switching system may, for example, comprise superluminescent light emitting diodes which may be, for example, formed in the shape of an inverted truncated prism. For human viewing purposes, the operative transmission ranges may closely coincide with the maximum sensitivity of the photopic response of the corresponding red, blue and green cones in human eyes.
FILED	Monday, October 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/258664
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/207 (20130101) G02B 27/46 (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 1/017 (20130101) G02F 1/1506 (20130101) G02F 2201/17 (20130101) G02F 2201/38 (20130101) G02F 2202/101 (20130101) G02F 2202/102 (20130101) G02F 2202/108 (20130101) G02F 2203/52 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 31/50 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14625 (20130101) H01L 33/0004 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 2213/1301 (20130101)
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09051180 — Method of controlling shape of synthesized ferroelectric oxide nanocrystal particles

US 09051180	Zhiqun et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)	Lin Zhiqun (Ames, Iowa); Jun Wang (Ames, Iowa)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Lin Zhiqun (Ames, Iowa); Jun Wang (Ames, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	Shape controlled synthesis of ferroelectric nanocrystals such as barium titanate (BaTiO₃) nanocrystals is described. By tuning the molar ratio between the surfactant and the metal precursors, BaTiO₃nanocrystals with different shapes are readily obtained. This provides the nanoscopic ferroelectric building blocks for the fabrication of various electronic devices, as well as for fundamental research in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
FILED	Tuesday, June 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/171021
ART UNIT	1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/85 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) C01P 2004/54 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101)
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09051186 — Silicon carbide synthesis from agricultural waste

US 09051186	Qadri et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Ame W Fliflet (Alexandria, Virginia); M Ashraf Iman (Great Falls, Virginia); Bhakta B Rath (Oakton, Virginia); Edward P Gorzkowski, III (Odenton, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Syed B Qadri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Ame W Fliflet (Alexandria, Virginia); M Ashraf Iman (Great Falls, Virginia); Bhakta B Rath (Oakton, Virginia); Edward P Gorzkowski, III (Odenton, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure concerns a method of making silicon carbide involving adding one from the group of rice husk material, sorghum, peanuts, maple leaves, and/or corn husk material to a container, creating a vacuum or an inert atmosphere inside the container, applying conventional heating or microwave heating, heating rapidly, and reacting the material and forming silicon carbide (SiC).
FILED	Friday, March 08, 2013
APPL NO	13/791549
ART UNIT	1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101)
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09051357 — Reconstituted polypeptides

US 09051357	Koide
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides modified fibronectin type III (Fn3) molecules, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the modified Fn3 molecules. Also provided are methods of preparing these molecules, and kits to perform the methods.
FILED	Monday, July 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/555379
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2318/20 (20130101)
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09051383 — Spider silk dragline polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods of use thereof

US 09051383	Hayashi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
APPLICANT(S)	Cheryl Y. Hayashi (Riverside, California); Jessica E. Garb (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nadia A. Ayoub (Riverside, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Cheryl Y. Hayashi (Riverside, California); Jessica E. Garb (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nadia A. Ayoub (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides spider silk dragline polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the same. Methods of using such polypeptides and polynucleotides and designing novel biomaterials using repeat units of the polypeptides and polynucleotides.
FILED	Tuesday, June 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/664309
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/43518 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051401 — Bis(thienyl)isopyrazoles and process for preparing and method for using bis(thienyl)isopyrazoles

US 09051401	Irvin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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)	David J. Irvin (San Marcos, Texas); Jennifer A. Irvin (San Marcos, Texas); John D. Stenger-Smith (Ridgecrest, California); David L. Witker (Bay City, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A synthesis of a new pyrazole-containing monomer by means of an easily implemented two-step process. This monomer can be electropolymerized to yield a stable n-doping polymer that may easily be electrochemically characterized. It is demonstrated that the electrochemical behavior of the polymer films produced is dependent upon the conditions applied during electrodeposition. Films deposited by cycling only at relatively positive potentials (0 to 2000 mV) show less intense n-doping responses than those films obtained by scanning the applied potential throughout a wider range (−2000 mV to 2000 mV).
FILED	Monday, February 03, 2014
APPL NO	14/171313
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 128/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051413 — Modified glycidyl carbamate resins

US 09051413	Webster et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Umesh Harkal (Fargo, North Dakota); James Garrett (Gordonsville, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota)
INVENTOR(S)	Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Umesh Harkal (Fargo, North Dakota); James Garrett (Gordonsville, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to alcohol-modified glycidyl carbamate resins wherein at least some of the glycidol groups in the resin have been replaced with an alcohol. The invention also relates to coating compositions containing the resins.
FILED	Monday, September 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/680401
ART UNIT	1734 — 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 18/2845 (20130101) C08G 18/7831 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 59/3236 (20130101) C08G 59/5026 (20130101) C08G 65/3322 (20130101) C08G 65/33327 (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)
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09051414 — Polyphenols and high-performance resins from syringaldehyde

US 09051414	Harvey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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 he Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin G Harvey (Ridgecrest, California); Matthew C Davis (Ridgecrest, California); Heather A. Meylemans (Ridgecrest, California); William Lai (Ridgecrest, California)
ABSTRACT	A method to generate renewable high performance composites and thermoplastics. These materials can be generated from a renewable phenol (syringaldehyde) that can be derived from lignocellulosic biomass. The use of syringaldehyde as a precursor to composites has the potential to reduce the cost and environmental impact of structural materials, while meeting or exceeding the performance of current petroleum derived resins.
FILED	Tuesday, February 10, 2015
APPL NO	14/618424
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 63/19 (20130101)
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09051475 — Rheology modified pretreatment compositions and associated methods of use

US 09051475	Silvernail et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP)
APPLICANT(S)	PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Nathan J. Silvernail (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Thor G. Lingenfelter (Evans City, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are methods for treating metal substrates that include contacting the metal with pretreatment compositions comprising: (a) a group IIIB metal, a group IVB metal and/or a group VB metal; and (b) a rheology modifier composition.
FILED	Thursday, August 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/459359
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (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 1/00 (20130101) C09D 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 7/002 (20130101) C09D 7/004 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 22/34 (20130101) C23C 22/73 (20130101) C23C 22/76 (20130101) C23C 22/83 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/20 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/265 (20150115) Y10T 428/12778 (20150115)
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09051489 — Polyureas made from aminocrotonates

US 09051489	Verborgt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Arthur A. Webb (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Arthur A. Webb (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A polymer made by reacting a polyisocyanate with a compound having the formula below. R¹is an organic group. R²is an aliphatic group. R³is an aliphatic group. The polyisocyanate reactants are at least 50 mol % aromatic polyisocyanates. The reaction forms urea groups from the isocyanate groups of the polyisocyanate and the NH groups of the compound.
FILED	Tuesday, April 29, 2014
APPL NO	14/264459
ART UNIT	1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 225/14 (20130101) C07C 225/20 (20130101) C07C 229/30 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/325 (20130101) C08G 18/797 (20130101) C08G 18/3253 (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 175/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051516 — Melt stabilization and vapor-phase synthesis of cesium germanium halides

US 09051516	Bowman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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)	Steven R. Bowman (Edgewater, Maryland); Nicholas J. Condon (Silver Spring, Maryland); Shawn P. O'Connor (Dunkirk, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The method described herein allows for melt stabilization and vapor-phase synthesis of a cesium germanium halide utilizing germanium dihalides formed in situ. This disclosure allows for the melting of cesium germanium halides without decomposition, which allows for growing crystals of these materials from the melt. This disclosure allows for a direct synthesis of these materials without the use of water or the introduction of other possible contaminants.
FILED	Friday, December 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/577711
ART UNIT	1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 17/04 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/665 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/02 (20130101) C30B 29/12 (20130101)
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09051583 — Modified silica shell particles, and methods of making and using the same

US 09051583	Mirkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Kaylie L. Young (Endicott, New York); Alexander Wesley Scott (Aldie, Virginia); Liangliang Hao (Evanston, Illinois); Sarah Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are silica shell particles modified on their surface with biomolecules, methods of making these particles, and methods of using these particles, e.g., in transfection methods, methods of inhibiting gene expression, and methods of delivering a therapeutic.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/719913
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/87 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115)
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09051619 — Methods and compositions for prostate cancer metastasis

US 09051619	Reams
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Romonia Renee Reams (Tallahassee, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FAMU) (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Romonia Renee Reams (Tallahassee, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Provided are methods and compositions for determining an increased likelihood of prostate cancer cells in a subject to metastasize.
FILED	Friday, March 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/428750
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 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101)
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09051630 — Amorphous steel composites with enhanced strengths, elastic properties and ductilities

US 09051630	Poon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	S. Joseph Poon (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gary J. Shiflet (Charlottesville, Virginia); Xiao-Jun Gu (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	S. Joseph Poon (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gary J. Shiflet (Charlottesville, Virginia); Xiao-Jun Gu (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Amorphous steel composites with enhanced mechanical properties and related methods for toughening amorphous steel alloys. The composites are formed from monolithic amorphous steel and hard ceramic particulates, which must be embedded in the glass matrix through melting at a temperature above the melting point for the steel but below the melting point for the ceramic. The ceramics may be carbides, nitrides, borides, iron-refractory carbides, or iron-refractory borides. An optical micrograph of such a composite including niobium carbide particulates is shown in FIG. 2A. The produced composites may be one of two types, primarily distinguished by the methods for embedding the ceramic particulates in the steel. These methods may be applied to a variety of amorphous steels as well as other non-ferrous amorphous metals, and the resulting composites can be used in various applications and utilizations.
FILED	Thursday, February 23, 2006
APPL NO	11/884917
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0003 (20130101) B22F 3/02 (20130101) B22F 3/1035 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/1042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C22C 33/0228 (20130101) C22C 45/02 (20130101)
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09051635 — Lower-cost, ultra-high-strength, high-toughness steel

US 09051635	Jou
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC)
APPLICANT(S)	Herng-Jeng Jou (Wilmette, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Herng-Jeng Jou (Wilmette, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A non-stainless steel alloy includes, in combination by weight, about 0.20% to about 0.33% carbon, about 4.0% to about 8.0% cobalt, about 7.0 to about 11.0% nickel, about 0.8% to about 3.0% chromium, about 0.5% to about 2.5% molybdenum, about 0.5% to about 5.9% tungsten, about 0.05% to about 0.20% vanadium, and up to about 0.02% titanium, the balance essentially iron and incidental elements and impurities.
FILED	Friday, February 20, 2009
APPL NO	12/390147
ART UNIT	1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	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 6/02 (20130101) C21D 6/004 (20130101) C21D 6/04 (20130101) C21D 6/007 (20130101) Alloys C22C 38/44 (20130101) C22C 38/46 (20130101) C22C 38/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051881 — Electrical power generation and windmill starting for turbine engine and aircraft

US 09051881	Bettner
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)	James Lee Bettner (Pittsboro, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	James Lee Bettner (Pittsboro, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	One embodiment of the present invention is a unique gas turbine engine. Another embodiment is a unique aircraft. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for gas turbine engines and gas turbine engine powered aircraft. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
FILED	Thursday, December 22, 2011
APPL NO	13/335477
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/32 (20130101) F02C 7/262 (20130101) F02C 7/275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/76 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101)
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09052159 — System for determining the spatial orientation of a movable apparatus

US 09052159	Winker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Bruce K. Winker (Ventura, California); Jian Ma (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce K. Winker (Ventura, California); Jian Ma (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A system for determining the spatial orientation of a movable apparatus includes at least one optical angle-of-arrival (OAOA) sensor array, each of which comprises multiple OAOA sensors arranged to provide a 360° field-of-view (FOV). At least one sensor array is mounted on and has a known spatial relationship to a movable apparatus, the spatial orientation of which is to be determined. Point sources are located at one or more stationary positions within the FOV of at least one of the mounted arrays. An initial-north-finding/initial-vertical-finding (INF/INV) system determines the spatial orientation of at least one of the point sources. Processing circuitry coupled to the INF/INV system and the sensor arrays derives the spatial orientation of the mounted arrays—and thereby the spatial orientation of the apparatus—based on the angular positions of the stationary point sources detected by the mounted arrays.
FILED	Monday, October 29, 2012
APPL NO	13/663310
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41G 3/14 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/26 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/163 (20130101)
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09052173 — Sabots for rifled guns

US 09052173	Minnicino, II
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael A. Minnicino, II (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael A. Minnicino, II (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A sabot petal having an axis parallel to or coinciding with the launch axis. The sabot petal is formed from a plurality of stacked sheets of composite material consisting of a fiber reinforcement and a polymer resin matrix. Each composite sheet is in a plane rotationally offset from the meridional plane which is defined by the launch axis and radial axis of the sabot petal's cylindrical coordinate system.
FILED	Monday, January 27, 2014
APPL NO	14/164735
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 14/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 14/061 (20130101)
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09052337 — Method for height control for single electron tunneling force spectroscopy and dynamic tunneling force microscopy

US 09052337	Williams et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Clayton Covey Williams (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jon Paul Johnson (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	Height control systems and/or methods are implemented for dynamic force tunneling microscopy and single electron tunneling force spectroscopy to improve their accuracy.
FILED	Thursday, July 31, 2014
APPL NO	14/448828
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 35/00 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 10/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01Q 60/12 (20130101)
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09052434 — Zero group-velocity modes in chalcogenide holey photonic crystal fibers

US 09052434	Farjadpour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Ardavan Farjadpour (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joanopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ardavan Farjadpour (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joanopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A fiber structure for propagating one or more zero group-velocity modes is provided. The fiber structure includes a cladding arrangement comprising a photonic crystal having a complete bandgap at a specified index. A core is formed in a selective region of the cladding arrangement. The core allows the propagation of the one or more group-velocity modes.
FILED	Friday, February 26, 2010
APPL NO	12/713464
ART UNIT	1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02328 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/02347 (20130101)
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09052447 — Optical device with echelle grating and wavefront tailoring

US 09052447	Luo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	An optical de-MUX includes a sub-wavelength grating that magnifies an input optical signal. In particular, along a direction perpendicular to a propagation direction of the optical signal, the sub-wavelength grating has a spatially varying effective index of refraction that is larger at a center of the sub-wavelength grating than at an edge of the sub-wavelength grating. Moreover, the optical de-MUX includes an optical device that images and diffracts the optical signal using a reflective geometry, and which provides different diffraction orders to output ports. For example, the optical device may include an echelle grating.
FILED	Wednesday, November 30, 2011
APPL NO	13/307298
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/124 (20130101) G02B 6/126 (20130101) G02B 6/2813 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29326 (20130101)
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09052448 — Two-dimensional coupled resonator optical waveguide arrangements and systems, devices, and methods thereof

US 09052448	Hafezi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	Mohammad Hafezi (Washington, District of Columbia); Jacob Taylor (Washington, District of Columbia); Eugene Demler (Newton, Massachusetts); Mikhail Lukin (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohammad Hafezi (Washington, District of Columbia); Jacob Taylor (Washington, District of Columbia); Eugene Demler (Newton, Massachusetts); Mikhail Lukin (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Two-dimensional coupled resonator optical waveguide arrangements and systems, devices, and methods thereof. Networks of coupled resonator optical waveguides are arranged so as to exploit topological properties of these optical networks. Such arrangement affords topological protection against disorders or perturbations in the network that may hinder or block photon flow. As a result of a disorder, photons traversing along edge states of the array are rerouted based on the disorder or perturbation. Photon routing in the network is accordingly protected against disorder or defects.
FILED	Friday, February 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/366122
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) G01N 21/552 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29331 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/00 (20130101) H04J 14/02 (20130101)
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09052450 — Nano-fabricated plasmonic optical transformer

US 09052450	Choo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Hyuck Choo (Albany, California); Stefano Cabrini (Albany, California); P. James Schuck (Berkeley, California); Xiaogan Liang (Berkeley, California); Eli Yablonovitch (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Hyuck Choo (Albany, California); Stefano Cabrini (Albany, California); P. James Schuck (Berkeley, California); Xiaogan Liang (Berkeley, California); Eli Yablonovitch (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a plasmonic optical transformer to produce a highly focuses optical beam spot, where the transformer includes a first metal layer, a dielectric layer formed on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer formed on the dielectric layer, where the first metal layer, the dielectric layer, and the second layer are patterned to a shape including a first section having a first cross section, a second section following the first section having a cross-section tapering from the first section to a smaller cross-section, and a third section following the second section having a cross-section matching the tapered smaller cross-section of the second section.
FILED	Friday, April 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/083228
ART UNIT	2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 7/22 (20130101) G11B 7/1387 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 428/24612 (20150115)
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09052464 — Transfer of light signals between optical devices

US 09052464	Liao et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Kotura, Inc. (Monterey Park, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Kotura, Inc. (Monterey Park, California); Oracle International Corporation (Redwood Shores, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Shirong Liao (Mira Loma, California); Mehdi Asghari (Pasadena, California); Dazeng Feng (El Monte, California); Roshanak Shafiiha (La Canada-Flintridge, California); Daniel C. Lee (Montclair, California); Wei Qian (Torrance, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Kannan Raj (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	An optical device has a waveguide immobilized on a base. A lens is defined by the base. A reflecting side reflects a light signal that travels on an optical pathway that extends through the lens and into the waveguide. The reflecting side is positioned to reflect the light signal as the light signal travels along a portion of the optical pathway between the lens and the waveguide. An optical insulator that confines the light signal within the waveguide. The portion of the optical pathway between the lens and the waveguide extends through the optical insulator such that the light signal is transmitted through the optical insulator.
FILED	Monday, May 06, 2013
APPL NO	13/888229
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052712 — Regulator valve with axial vent

US 09052712	Pruden et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary L. Pruden (Somers, Connecticut); George D. Rogers (Enfield, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A first inlet port extends radially through a valve sleeve into an internal bore. A first outlet port extends radially outwardly through an outer periphery of the valve sleeve. A second inlet port on an opposed side of the first outlet port from the first inlet port, extends radially through a wall of the valve sleeve. A valve spool is received in the internal bore and has a first channel at an outer peripheral surface selectively communicating the first inlet port to the first outlet port. The valve spool has a second channel at the outer peripheral surface that communicates the second inlet port to an axial vent formed in an internal surface of the valve sleeve. The axial vent extends axially to communicate the second channel to the first outlet port. A pumping system is also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2012
APPL NO	13/661102
ART UNIT	3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing
CURRENT CPC	Systems Acting by Means of Fluids in General; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g Servomotors; Details of Fluid-pressure Systems, Not Otherwise Provided for F15B 11/17 (20130101) F15B 13/042 (20130101) F15B 2211/255 (20130101) F15B 2211/528 (20130101) F15B 2211/2654 (20130101) F15B 2211/5157 (20130101) F15B 2211/20584 (20130101) F15B 2211/50536 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09053127 — System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles

US 09053127	Sample et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	John T. Sample (Pearl River, Louisiana); Elias Z. K. Ioup (New Orleans, Louisiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	John T. Sample (Pearl River, Louisiana); Elias Z. K. Ioup (New Orleans, Louisiana)
ABSTRACT	System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles. Method includes determining a number of zoom levels, accessing a cluster file that includes a subset of the zoom levels, and accessing the image tiles. For each of the image tiles, a cluster name is computed. For each of the image tiles, if the cluster file has a name that matches the computed cluster name, an image tile pointer is stored in a fixed length index, and the image tile associated with the computed cluster name is stored. For each of the image tiles, if the cluster file name does not match the computed cluster name, another subset of the zoom levels is computed, a new cluster file is created, an image tile pointer is created and stored, and the image tile is stored associated with the computed cluster name in the new cluster file according to the image tile pointer.
FILED	Friday, December 06, 2013
APPL NO	14/099487
ART UNIT	2156 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30011 (20130101) G06F 17/30244 (20130101) G06F 17/30286 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 1/60 (20130101) G06T 3/40 (20130101) G06T 17/05 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 29/003 (20130101)
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09053268 — Analytic antenna design for a dipole antenna

US 09053268	Jones, III
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas O. Jones, III (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas O. Jones, III (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to an analytic antenna design for a dipole antenna by eliminating or reducing antenna pattern nulls and impedance anti-resonances. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method for designing a wide bandwidth includes the steps of defining a charge distribution in terms of at least one form factor related parameter where the Legendre polynomial expansion of the electrostatic potential is uniquely linked to each eigenmode of the wideband antenna, and modifying one or more eigenmodes of the wideband antenna by modifying the charge distribution and unique linked Legendre polynomial coefficient.
FILED	Thursday, August 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/854955
ART UNIT	2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/44 (20130101) H01Q 9/40 (20130101)
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09053421 — Systems and methods for determining social perception scores

US 09053421	Miller et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)	f;SMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Christopher A. Miller (St. Paul, Minnesota); Peggy Wu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jeffrey M. Rye (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Harry B. Funk (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Tammy Elizabeth Ott (Hilbert, Wisconsin); Sonja Maria Schmer-Galunder (Basel, Switzerland)
ABSTRACT	A system for evaluating communicative acts to determine a social perception network based on communicative acts between a plurality of communicative pairs. Each communicative pair includes two communicating entities. The system includes a patterns database, a scoring processor, and a communications network aggregation processor. The patterns database stores behavior recognition patterns defining particular behaviors and a score associated with each of the particular behaviors. The scoring processor is configured to determine a pairwise social perception score for the communicative pair based on the particular behaviors identified in the communicative acts. The scoring processor is configured to determine a different pairwise social perception score for each one of the plurality of communicative pairs. The communications network aggregation processor is configured to combine the pairwise social perception scores for each of the plurality of communicative pairs into a social perception network. Other embodiments including other systems, methods, and products are also disclosed.
FILED	Tuesday, September 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/475135
ART UNIT	2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09053429 — Mapping neural dynamics of a neural model on to a coarsely grained look-up table

US 09053429	Alvarez-Icaza Rivera et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera (San Jose, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Pallab Datta (San Jose, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention relate to mapping neural dynamics of a neural model on to a lookup table. One embodiment comprises defining a phase plane for a neural model. The phase plane represents neural dynamics of the neural model. The phase plane is coarsely sampled to obtain state transition information for multiple neuronal states. The state transition information is mapped on to a lookup table.
FILED	Friday, December 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/725442
ART UNIT	2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/063 (20130101)
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09053903 — Characterization of nanoscale structures using an ultrafast electron microscope

US 09053903	Zewail
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods and systems for 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM)—in situ imaging with ultrafast time resolution in TEM. Single electron imaging is used as a component of the 4D UEM technique to provide high spatial and temporal resolution unavailable using conventional techniques. Other embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for convergent beam UEM, focusing the electron beams onto the specimen to measure structural characteristics in three dimensions as a function of time. Additionally, embodiments provide not only 4D imaging of specimens, but characterization of electron energy, performing time resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS).
FILED	Monday, December 09, 2013
APPL NO	14/101229
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/22 (20130101) H01J 37/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/28 (20130101) H01J 37/263 (20130101) H01J 2237/2482 (20130101) H01J 2237/2809 (20130101) H01J 2237/2813 (20130101)
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09053919 — Miniature toroidal radio frequency ion trap mass analyzer

US 09053919	Lammert et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen A. Lammert (Glenburn, Maine); Samuel E. Tolley (Springville, Utah); Jeffrey L. Jones (Orem, Utah); Randall W. Waite (Springville, Utah); Edgar D. Lee (Highland, Utah); Milton L. Lee (Pleasant Grove, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (Provo, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen A. Lammert (Glenburn, Maine); Samuel E. Tolley (Springville, Utah); Jeffrey L. Jones (Orem, Utah); Randall W. Waite (Springville, Utah); Edgar D. Lee (Highland, Utah); Milton L. Lee (Pleasant Grove, Utah)
ABSTRACT	A scaled down version of a toroidal radio frequency (RF) ion trap mass analyzer operating with RF trapping voltages on the order of 1 kV_p-pyet despite the reduced dimensions, retains roughly the same ion trapping volume as conventional 3D quadrupole ion traps, wherein the curved geometry enables construction of a compact mass analyzer and easy interface with conventional electron multipliers.
FILED	Wednesday, December 13, 2006
APPL NO	11/639373
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 59/44 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0013 (20130101) H01J 49/422 (20130101) H01J 49/423 (20130101) H01J 49/424 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/4225 (20130101)
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09054169 — Strained InGaAs quantum wells for complementary transistors

US 09054169	Bennett et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Brian R. Bennett (Arlington, Virginia); John Bradley Boos (Springfield, Virginia); Theresa F. Chick (Alexandria, Virginia); James G. Champlain (Alexandria, Virginia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian R. Bennett (Arlington, Virginia); John Bradley Boos (Springfield, Virginia); Theresa F. Chick (Alexandria, Virginia); James G. Champlain (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An InGaAs n-channel quantum well heterostructure for use in a complementary transistor having a Sb-based p-channel. The heterostructure includes a buffer layer having a lattice constant intermediate that of the n- and p-channel materials and which is configured to accommodate the strain produced by a lattice-constant mismatch between the n-channel and p-channel materials.
FILED	Thursday, October 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/504559
ART UNIT	2816 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/092 (20130101) H01L 29/20 (20130101) H01L 29/151 (20130101) H01L 29/365 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 29/1079 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101)
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09054330 — Stable and all solution processable quantum dot light-emitting diodes

US 09054330	Qian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Ying Zheng (Gainesville, Florida); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Ying Zheng (Gainesville, Florida); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention are directed to quantum dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) where the electron injection and transport layer comprises inorganic nanoparticles (I-NPs). The use of I-NPs results in an improved QD-LED over those having a conventional organic based electron injection and transport layer and does not require chemical reaction to form the inorganic layer. In one embodiment of the invention the hole injection and transport layer can be metal oxide nanoparticles (MO-NPs) which allows the entire device to have the stability of an all inorganic system and permit formation of the QD-LED by a series of relatively inexpensive steps involving deposition of suspensions of nanoparticles and removing the suspending vehicle.
FILED	Wednesday, July 07, 2010
APPL NO	13/382340
ART UNIT	2898 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/502 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101)
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09054433 — Junction box fitting for marine cables

US 09054433	Corbett et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
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)	Blaise L. Corbett (King George, Virginia); David J. Griffiths (King George, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	An electrical conduit ground assembly is provided for electrically and environmentally shielding an electric cable that inserts into a junction box via a through-hole. The assembly includes an adapter flange, first and second annular gaskets, first and second annular washers, a slip-ring, a ground adapter, first and second lock-nuts and a gland nut. The adapter flange has an internally threaded proximate end, an externally threaded mezzanine, a hexagonal seat, and an externally threaded distal end insertable into the through-hole. The first annular gasket inserts into the proximate end. The first and second washers insert into the proximate end. The annular ground adapter electrically connects the cable and the annular conduit between the first and second washers. The second annular gasket has an annular shaft and a circular brim. The gland nut screws into the proximate end of the adapter flange.
FILED	Monday, April 28, 2014
APPL NO	14/263467
ART UNIT	2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 4/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01R 4/643 (20130101) H01R 4/5025 (20130101) H01R 13/533 (20130101) H01R 13/6592 (20130101)
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09054493 — Multiple-wavelength laser

US 09054493	Krishnamoorthy et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)	Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	In a multiple-wavelength laser source, a multiple-mode laser outputs a set of wavelengths in a range of wavelengths onto an optical waveguide, where a spacing between adjacent wavelengths in the set of wavelengths is smaller than a width of channels in an optical link. Furthermore, a set of ring-resonator filters in the multiple-wavelength laser source, which are optically coupled to the optical waveguide, output corresponding subsets of the set of wavelengths for use in the optical link based on free spectral ranges and quality factors of the set of ring-resonator filters. These subsets may include one or more groups of wavelengths, with another spacing between adjacent groups of wavelengths that is larger than the width of the given channel in the optical link. In addition, the one or more groups of wavelengths may include one or more wavelengths, with the spacing between adjacent wavelengths in the given group of wavelengths.
FILED	Tuesday, June 22, 2010
APPL NO	12/820833
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 5/0078 (20130101) H01S 5/0085 (20130101) H01S 5/0287 (20130101) H01S 5/1096 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 10/506 (20130101)
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09054497 — Quantum cascade lasers with improved performance using interface roughness scattering

US 09054497	Gmachl et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Claire Gmachl (Princeton, New Jersey); YenTing Chiu (Princeton, New Jersey); Yamac Dikmelik (Baltimore, Maryland); Jacob B. Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A quantum cascade laser and method of making are disclosed. The quantum cascade laser includes a plurality stages configured in a cascade structure, each stage having a quantum well emission layer and an injection layer, each stage having an upper laser level and a lower laser level. A scattering barrier is located in the quantum well emission layer, the scattering barrier being positioned such that interface roughness (IFR) scattering at the lower laser level is greater than IFR scattering at the upper laser level. The scattering barrier may be located to maximize IFR scattering for the lower laser level and/or minimize IFR scattering for the upper laser level.
FILED	Friday, September 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/624330
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 5/2004 (20130101) H01S 5/2231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3401 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) H01S 5/32316 (20130101)
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09054499 — Seeded Raman amplifier in linear configuration for laser applications in the 1100-1500 nm spectral range

US 09054499	Henry et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)	Leanne J. Henry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas M. Shay (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gerald T. Moore (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacob R. Grosek (Seattle, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Leanne J. Henry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas M. Shay (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gerald T. Moore (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacob R. Grosek (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A desired N^th-order Stokes output and corresponding zeroth-order Stokes pump wavelengths are seeded into a Raman amplifier comprised of one or more Raman resonators in series sequentially tuned to the 1^st, 2^nd, . . . N−1^stStokes orders. The pump wavelength is amplified and sequentially converted to the 1^st, 2^nd, . . . N−1^storder Stokes wavelengths as it propagates through the apparatus. The desired N^th-order Stokes output wavelength is then amplified by the N−1^stStokes order as it propagates through the final resonator tuned to the N−1^stStokes order. Each Raman resonator includes a Raman photosensitive Raman fiber located between a pair of Bragg gratings. The linewidths of the various Stokes orders can be controlled through adjusting the resonant bandwidths of the Raman resonators by offsetting, through heating, the reflectivity bandwidths of each pair of Bragg gratings respectively located in the Raman resonators.
FILED	Monday, June 23, 2014
APPL NO	14/312657
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 3/302 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0826 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101)
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09054640 — Method and system of an ultra high Q silicon cantilever resonator for thin film internal friction and Young's modulus measurements

US 09054640	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Xiao Liu (Fairfax, Virginia); Thomas H. Metcalf (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)	Xiao Liu (Fairfax, Virginia); Thomas H. Metcalf (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	This invention provides an extremely accurate way to characterize the Young's modulus of thin film materials with thicknesses in the nanometer range. It takes advantage of a recently developed high Q silicon Young's modulus resonator (YMR), which has a record high quality factor of about fifty million in operation at temperatures below 10 degrees Kelvin (10K). Because of the high Q of the YMR, the temperature stability of the YMR's resonance frequency below 1K, and the extremely high degree of vibration isolation inherent in the inventive design, the relative resolution of the resonant frequency is typically in 2×10⁻⁷. This is enough to resolve a resonant frequency shift after a deposition of a thin film onto the sensitive part of the resonator, and to compute the Young's modulus of thin film materials of even a few monolayers thickness.
FILED	Thursday, June 27, 2013
APPL NO	13/929243
ART UNIT	2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/12 (20130101) G01N 2203/0282 (20130101) G01N 2203/0286 (20130101) G01N 2291/0427 (20130101) G01N 2291/02827 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 22/12 (20130101) H01L 22/30 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 28/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/2457 (20130101)
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09055145 — Recovery of DTMF tones in the presence of periodic interference and obstruction

US 09055145	Su et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
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); Muhammed Karim (Ocean Township, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	While a dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signal can be easily processed if cleanly obtained, difficulties can arise if the DTMF signal is not cleanly obtained. In one example, part of the signal can be cleanly obtained, but part of the signal can be obstructed. In order to determine the content of the DTMF signal the parts that are cleanly obtained can be compared with known DTMF signals, such as DTMF signals that correspond with buttons on a telephone keypad. A classification of a closest matching known DTMF signal can be identified and that classification can be assigned to the partially obtained DTMF signal. Thus, without clearly obtaining the whole DTMF signal a content of the DTMF signal can be ascertained.
FILED	Wednesday, August 28, 2013
APPL NO	14/011813
ART UNIT	2653 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications
CURRENT CPC	Telephonic Communication H04M 7/1295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Selecting H04Q 1/453 (20130101)
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09055368 — Sound identification and discernment device

US 09055368	Johnson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)	Anne M. Johnson (Bristol, Rhode Island); William R. D'Angelo (North Kingstown, Rhode Island)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Anne M. Johnson (Bristol, Rhode Island); William R. D'Angelo (North Kingstown, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	The disclosed invention provides the ability for an operator, such as a sonar watch stander, to pay attention to both ambient sounds and system audio sound simultaneously. Further, the disclosed invention allows an operator to hear information being disseminated in the immediate environment, while still maintaining full sonar audio capability. The present invention allows the operator to take advantage of the benefits of binaural processing.
FILED	Friday, August 17, 2012
APPL NO	13/587994
ART UNIT	2654 — Audio Signals
CURRENT CPC	Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/1083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

09050006 — System and method for reconstructing cardiac activation information

US 09050006	Narayan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Topera, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	An example system and method of reconstructing cardiac activation information are disclosed. An analysis signal and a reference signal are processed to determine whether there is a first point of change in a first selected-order derivative of the analysis signal with respect to a first selected-order derivative of the reference signal above a first threshold. The analysis signal and the reference signal are processed to determine whether there is a second point of change in a second selected-order derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a second selected-order derivative of the reference cardiac signal above a second threshold. An activation onset time is assigned in the analysis cardiac signal at a point based on a mathematical association of the first point of change and the second point of change to define cardiac activation indicating a beat in the analysis cardiac signal.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/840334
ART UNIT	3766 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/04011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04012 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101)
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09050117 — Dynamic cooling of human skin using a nontoxic cryogen with no ozone depletion and minimal global warming potential

US 09050117	Nelson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	J. Stuart Nelson (Laguna Niguel, California); Lars O. Svaasand (Trondheim, Norway)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	J. Stuart Nelson (Laguna Niguel, California); Lars O. Svaasand (Trondheim, Norway)
ABSTRACT	An improvement in a method for providing localized cooling of tissue when thermally mediated by electromagnetic radiation including directing at least one spurt of a heat transferring substance onto a selected location on the tissue, and preventing ignition of the heat transferring substance by heating from the electromagnetic radiation. Preferably liquid carbon dioxide under pressure is supplied as the heat transferring substance, and adiabatically expanded to provide a solid carbon dioxide spray onto the selected location.
FILED	Monday, August 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/845503
ART UNIT	3732 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/02 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 18/203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2018/00029 (20130101) A61B 2018/00452 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 5/06 (20130101)
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09050269 — Protection of virus particles from phagocytosis by expression of CD47

US 09050269	Discher et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Richard Kuo-An Tsai (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Richard Kuo-An Tsai (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a viral particle. The viral particle has a radius of less than about 1 μm, and at least one peptide comprising at least a biologically active portion of CD47. The present invention also includes a method of increasing the life of a particle in vivo in a mammal. The method includes the steps of expressing at least one peptide comprising at least a biologically active portion of CD47 in a viral particle, and administering the viral particle having CD47 expressed to a mammal, wherein the administered viral particle has a longer half life in the mammal than an otherwise identical viral particle that does not have CD47 expressed thereon.
FILED	Wednesday, March 10, 2010
APPL NO	12/721287
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/13 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/15051 (20130101)
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09050276 — Autism-associated biomarkers and uses thereof

US 09050276	Lipkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	W. Ian Lipkin (New York, New York); Mady Hornig (New York, New York); Brent L. Williams (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	W. Ian Lipkin (New York, New York); Mady Hornig (New York, New York); Brent L. Williams (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention discloses biomarkers for human autism. The invention provides methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing human autism and autism-related disorders.
FILED	Friday, December 16, 2011
APPL NO	13/328982
ART UNIT	1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/47 (20130101) A61K 38/47 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/62 (20130101) G01N 2333/924 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101)
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09050279 — Compositions and methods using recombinant MHC molecules for the treatment of stroke

US 09050279	Offner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Patricia D. Hurn (Portland, Oregon); Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Two-domain MHC polypeptides are useful for modulating activities of antigen-specific T-cells, including for modulating pathogenic potential and effects of antigen-specific T-cells. Exemplary MHC class II-based recombinant T-cell ligands (RTLs) of the invention include covalently linked β1 and α1 domains, and MHC class I-based molecules that comprise covalently linked α1 and α2 domains. These polypeptides may also include covalently linked antigenic determinants, toxic moieties, and/or detectable labels. The disclosed polypeptides can be used to target antigen-specific T-cells, and are useful, among other things, to detect and purify antigen-specific T-cells, to induce or activate T-cells, to modulate T-cell activity, including by regulatory switching of T-cell cytokine and adhesion molecule expression, to treat conditions mediated by antigen-specific T-cells, including treatment and/or prevention of central nervous system damage relating to stroke.
FILED	Friday, June 21, 2013
APPL NO	13/924275
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/395 (20130101)
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09050283 — Broad spectrum vaccine against non-typhoidal Salmonella

US 09050283	Levine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Myron M. Levine (Columbia, Maryland); Raphael Simon (Baltimore, Maryland); James Galen (Sykesville, Maryland); Sharon Tennant (Baltimore, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Myron M. Levine (Columbia, Maryland); Raphael Simon (Baltimore, Maryland); James Galen (Sykesville, Maryland); Sharon Tennant (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is drawn to attenuated Salmonella serovar strains S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis, conjugate vaccines derived from these attenuated strains of S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis, comprising an O polysaccharide covalently linked to a flagellin protein, and methods for inducing an immune response in a subject comprising administering the attenuated strains and/or the conjugate vaccines of the invention.
FILED	Saturday, January 16, 2010
APPL NO	13/144336
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/627 (20130101) A61K 2039/6068 (20130101)
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09050285 — Recombinant bacterium capable of eliciting an immune response against Streptococcus pneumoniae

US 09050285	Curtiss, III et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Roy Curtiss, III (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Javier Santander-Morales (Tempe, Arizona); Soo-Young Wanda (Chandler, Arizona); Shifeng Wang (Tempe, Arizona); Karen Brenneman (Phoenix, Arizona); Huoying Shi (Tempe, Arizona); Wei Xin (Tempe, Arizona); Qingke Kong (Tempe, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America National Institutes of Health (NH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Roy Curtiss, III (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Javier Santander-Morales (Tempe, Arizona); Soo-Young Wanda (Chandler, Arizona); Shifeng Wang (Tempe, Arizona); Karen Brenneman (Phoenix, Arizona); Huoying Shi (Tempe, Arizona); Wei Xin (Tempe, Arizona); Qingke Kong (Tempe, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	The invention encompasses a recombinant bacterium capable of eliciting an immune response against Streptococcus pneumoniae, a vaccine comprising the bacterium, and methods of using the bacterium.
FILED	Friday, April 15, 2011
APPL NO	13/088141
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101)
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09050296 — Methods for treating metabolic syndrome with Cthrc1 polypeptide

US 09050296	Lindner
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
APPLICANT(S)	Volkhard Lindner (South Portland, Maine)
ASSIGNEE(S)	MAINE MEDICAL CENTER (Scarborough, Maine)
INVENTOR(S)	Volkhard Lindner (South Portland, Maine)
ABSTRACT	The present invention features compositions and methods for treating and preventing a metabolic syndrome featuring the collagen triple helix repeat containing-1 (Cthrc1) protein.
FILED	Wednesday, July 03, 2013
APPL NO	13/934455
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0276 (20130101) A01K 2217/075 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0362 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/005 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2800/04 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101)
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09050299 — Administration of growth factors for the treatment of CNS disorders

US 09050299	Bankiewicz
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Krystof S. Bankiewicz (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and system that is directed to the local delivery of growth factors to the mammalian CNS to treat CNS disorders associated with neuronal death and/or dysfunction is described.
FILED	Thursday, February 28, 2013
APPL NO	13/781174
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0085 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/0083 (20130101) A61K 49/0466 (20130101) A61K 49/1812 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2750/14143 (20130101)
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09050315 — In vivo and ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells with a targeted combination of clinically tested, FDA approved drugs

US 09050315	Klein et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Peter S. Klein (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jian Huang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter S. Klein (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jian Huang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a therapeutic approach to maintain and expand HSCs in vivo using currently available medications that target GSK-3 and mTOR. The present invention also provides a system and method for the ex vivo culturing of HSCs, where an mTOR inhibitor is combined with a GSK-3 inhibitor within the culturing conditions.
FILED	Monday, April 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/084180
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 2501/04 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101)
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09050334 — MIF inhibitors and their uses

US 09050334	Gaweco et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Anderson Gaweco (Brooklyn, New York); John K. Walker (St. Charles, Missouri); Joseph B. Monahan (St. Louis, Missouri); Jerry W. Cubbage (Wildwood, Missouri); Jeffery Carroll (St. Louis, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INNOV88 LLC (Brooklyn, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Anderson Gaweco (Brooklyn, New York); John K. Walker (St. Charles, Missouri); Joseph B. Monahan (St. Louis, Missouri); Jerry W. Cubbage (Wildwood, Missouri); Jeffery Carroll (St. Louis, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to MIF inhibitors; compositions comprising an effective amount of a MIF inhibitor; and methods for treating or preventing diseases associated with MIF.
FILED	Friday, July 15, 2011
APPL NO	13/184058
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/54 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101)
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09050350 — Method for modulating or controlling connexin 43(Cx43) level of a cell and reducing arrhythmic risk

US 09050350	Dudley, Jr.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) American Heart Association (AHA)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method of modulating or controlling connexin 43 (Cx43) level of a cell includes inducing mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the cell.
FILED	Thursday, June 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/507319
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09050372 — High molecular weight derivatives of vitamin K-dependent polypeptides

US 09050372	Nelsestuen
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary L. Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Modifications of vitamin K-dependent polypeptides that lead to enhanced protein function on a weight or molar basis and/or increase of protein lifetime in the circulation are described. Both objectives are important for using vitamin K-dependent polypeptides for pro- and anti-coagulation therapies, as well as for other uses in the circulation.
FILED	Thursday, October 11, 2012
APPL NO	13/649707
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/647 (20130101) C12N 9/6437 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/21021 (20130101)
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09050376 — Conjugates of synthetic TLR agonists and uses therefor

US 09050376	Carson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis A. Carson (La Jolla, California); Howard B. Cottam (Escondido, California); Wolfgang Wrasidlo (La Jolla, California); Christina C. N. Wu (Escondido, California); Gregory A. Daniels (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides TLR agonists and conjugates thereof useful in vaccines and to prevent, inhibit or treat a variety of disorders including pathogen infection and asthma.
FILED	Thursday, June 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/309245
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 31/52 (20130101) A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65616 (20130101)
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09050463 — Systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in tissue

US 09050463	Wagner
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Highland Instruments, Inc. (Somerville, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy Andrew Wagner (Somerville, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention generally relates to systems and methods for stimulating cellular function in biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for stimulating cellular function within tissue that involves providing a first type of energy to a region of tissue, in which the first type is provided in an amount that inhibits cellular function within the region of tissue, and providing a second type of energy to the region of tissue, in which the second type is provided in an amount that facilitates cellular function within the region of tissue, wherein the combined effect stimulates cellular function within the tissue.
FILED	Monday, June 02, 2014
APPL NO	14/293525
ART UNIT	3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00994 (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 7/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/205 (20130101) A61N 1/325 (20130101) A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/36021 (20130101) A61N 1/36025 (20130101) A61N 7/00 (20130101) A61N 2007/0026 (20130101)
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09050468 — Field of view matching in a visual prosthesis

US 09050468	Greenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Avraham I Caspi (Rehovot, Israel); Matthew J McMahon (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A visual prosthesis apparatus including a video capture device for capturing a video image, a video processing unit associated with the video capture device, the video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns, and a stimulation system configured to stimulate subject's neural tissue based on the stimulation patterns, wherein the stimulation system provides a span of visual angle matched to the subject's neural tissue being stimulated.
FILED	Friday, March 14, 2014
APPL NO	14/214181
ART UNIT	3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/1005 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09050606 — Bead manipulation techniques

US 09050606	Pamula et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC. (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC. (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Arjun Sudarsan (Carlsbad, California); Ramakrishna Sista (Morrisville, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides a method of redistributing magnetically responsive beads in a droplet. The method may include conducting on a droplet operations surface one or more droplet operations using the droplet without removing the magnetically responsive beads from the region of the magnetic field. The droplet operations may in some cases be electrode-mediated. The droplet operations may redistribute and/or circulate the magnetically responsive beads within the droplet. In some cases, the droplet may include a sample droplet may include a target analyte. The redistributing of the magnetically responsive beads may cause target analyte to bind to the magnetically responsive beads. In some cases, the droplet may include unbound substances in a wash buffer. The redistributing of the magnetically responsive beads causes unbound substances to be freed from interstices of an aggregated set or subset of the magnetically responsive beads.
FILED	Friday, September 19, 2014
APPL NO	14/491231
ART UNIT	1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/01 (20130101) B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54326 (20130101)
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09051305 — Compositions and methods useful for treating diseases

US 09051305	Cardone et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael H. Cardone (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Andrew F. Kolodziej (Winchester, Massachusetts); David Richard (Littleton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael H. Cardone (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Andrew F. Kolodziej (Winchester, Massachusetts); David Richard (Littleton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a compositions for and methods of cancer treatment in which compounds of Formula I or Formula II. In some aspects, the treatment of B-cell Lymphoma or other hematopoietic cancers is encompassed. In other aspects, the invention provides methods for treating particular types of hematopoietic cancers, such as B-cell lymphoma, using a combination of one or more compounds of Formula I or Formula II. Combination therapy with, for example, a class of therapeutics known as 26S proteasome inhibitors, for example, Bortezomib, are also included. In another aspect the present invention relates to autoimmune treatment with compounds of Formula I or Formula II. In another aspect, this invention relates to methods for identifying compounds, for example, compounds of the BH3 mimic class, that have unique in vitro properties that predict in vivo efficacy against B-cell lymphoma tumors and other cancers as well as autoimmune disease.
FILED	Thursday, March 08, 2012
APPL NO	14/003733
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101)
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09051345 — Metalloinsertor complexes targeted to DNA mismatches

US 09051345	Barton et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jacqueline K. Barton (San Marino, California); Alexis Komor (Pasadena, California); Curtis J. Schneider (Pasadena, California); Alyson Weidmann (Pasadena, California); Russell Ernst (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A composition including a Rh or Ru metalloinsertor complex specifically targets mismatch repair (MMR)-deficient cells. Selective cytotoxicity is induced in MMR-deficient cells upon uptake of the inventive metalloinsertor complexes.
FILED	Thursday, June 13, 2013
APPL NO	13/917447
ART UNIT	1628 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/36 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07F 15/0053 (20130101)
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09051357 — Reconstituted polypeptides

US 09051357	Koide
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Shohei Koide (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides modified fibronectin type III (Fn3) molecules, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the modified Fn3 molecules. Also provided are methods of preparing these molecules, and kits to perform the methods.
FILED	Monday, July 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/555379
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2318/20 (20130101)
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09051359 — Influenza virus vaccines and uses thereof

US 09051359	Garcia-Sastre et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Anice C. Lowen (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); John F. Steel (New York, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Anice C. Lowen (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); John F. Steel (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are influenza hemagglutinin stem domain polypeptides, compositions comprising the same, vaccines comprising the same and methods of their use.
FILED	Tuesday, March 30, 2010
APPL NO	12/750393
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (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 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16222 (20130101) C12N 2760/16234 (20130101) C12N 2760/18143 (20130101)
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09051362 — Monoclonal antibodies directed against trimeric forms of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein with broad and potent neutralizing activity

US 09051362	Chan-Hui et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Po-Ying Chan-Hui (Bellevue, Washington); Steven Frey (Redmond, Washington); Ole Olsen (Everitt, Washington); Jennifer Mitcham (Redmond, Washington); Matthew Moyle (Redmond, Washington); Sanjay K. Phogat (Frederick, Maryland); Dennis R. Burton (La Jolla, California); Laura Marjorie Walker (San Diego, California); Pascal Raymond Georges Poignard (San Diego, California); Wayne Koff (Stony Brook, New York); Melissa Danielle De Jean De St. Marcel Simek-Lemos (Brooklyn, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Theraclone Sciences, Inc. (Seattle, Washington); International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (New York, New York); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Po-Ying Chan-Hui (Bellevue, Washington); Steven Frey (Redmond, Washington); Ole Olsen (Everitt, Washington); Jennifer Mitcham (Redmond, Washington); Matthew Moyle (Redmond, Washington); Sanjay K. Phogat (Frederick, Maryland); Dennis R. Burton (La Jolla, California); Laura Marjorie Walker (San Diego, California); Pascal Raymond Georges Poignard (San Diego, California); Wayne Koff (Stony Brook, New York); Melissa Danielle De Jean De St. Marcel Simek-Lemos (Brooklyn, New York)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides a method for obtaining a broadly neutralizing antibody (bNab), including screening memory B cell cultures from a donor PBMC sample for neutralization activity against a plurality of HIV-1 species, cloning a memory B cell that exhibits broad neutralization activity; and rescuing a monoclonal antibody from that memory B cell culture. The resultant monoclonal antibodies are characterized by their ability to selectively bind epitopes from the Env proteins in native or monomeric form, as well as to inhibit infection of HIV-1 species from a plurality of clades. Compositions containing human monoclonal anti-HIV antibodies used for prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection are provided. Methods for generating such antibodies by immunization using epitopes from conserved regions within the variable loops of gp120 are provided. Immunogens for generating anti-HIV1 bNAbs are also provided. Furthermore, methods for vaccination using suitable epitopes are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, March 17, 2010
APPL NO	12/726245
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1063 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101)
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09051386 — Method of treating inflammation using human immunosuppressive protein

US 09051386	Sanberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Paul R. Sanberg (Spring Hill, Florida); Robert W. Engelman (Tampa, Florida); William R. Gower (Seffner, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul R. Sanberg (Spring Hill, Florida); Robert W. Engelman (Tampa, Florida); William R. Gower (Seffner, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A method of treating inflammation by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a human immunosuppressant protein (HISP) to a subject is presented. The inventors have discovered a novel immunosuppressive protein purified from the supernatant of hNT cell culture. The immunosuppressant protein has a molecular weight of about 40-100 kDa, an isoelectric point of about 4.4, a net ionic charge and is capable of suppressing T-cell activation, T-cell proliferation and the production of IL-2. This protein can be used in treating inflammation, preventing graft rejection after transplantation, treating autoimmune diseases and suppressing allergic responses as well as other uses.
FILED	Thursday, March 20, 2014
APPL NO	14/220714
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4703 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051387 — Inhibition of MyBP-C binding to myosin as a treatment for heart failure

US 09051387	Moss et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard L. Moss (Madison, Wisconsin); Ariel Fernandez (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides for methods of treating and slowing the onset of heart failure. The inventors have determined that myosin binding to unphosphorylated Myosin Binding Protein C (MyBP-C) plays a key role in the diminution of cardiac contractile force and frequency in heart failure. The present invention provides peptide inhibitors of the MyBP-C/myosin interaction, thereby increasing both cardiac contractile force and frequency in the failing heart, as well as in patients not yet exhibiting frank heart failure.
FILED	Thursday, March 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/827023
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/1719 (20130101) A61K 38/1719 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4716 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051392 — Inhibitors of pre-ligand assembly doman and function of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family

US 09051392	Lenardo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael J. Lenardo (Potomac, Maryland); Francis Ka-Ming Chan (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Richard M. Siegel (Bethesda, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael J. Lenardo (Potomac, Maryland); Francis Ka-Ming Chan (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Richard M. Siegel (Bethesda, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a polypeptide comprising the isolated amino acid sequence of a pre-ligand assembly domain (PLAD) of a TNF-like receptor. Also provided by this invention is a polypeptide comprising the isolated amino acid sequence of a pre-ligand assembly domain (PLAD), wherein the PLAD is selected from the group consisting of: the PLAD of a TNF-R, the PLAD of p60, the PLAD of p80, the PLAD of Fas (CD95/APO-1), the PLAD of TRAIL receptors, the PLAD of LTβR, the PLAD of CD40, the PLAD of CD30, the PLAD of CD27, the PLAD of HVEM, the PLAD of OX40 and the PLAD of DR4. TNF-R, p60, p80, Fas, TRAIL receptor, LTβR, CD40, CD30, CD27, HVEM, OX40, DR4, TROY, EDAR, XEDAR, DCR3, AITR, 4-1BB, DR3, RANK, TACI, BCMA, DR6, DPG, DR5, DCR1 AND DCR2 are all members of the TNF receptor superfamily or the TNF-like receptor family. The invention also provides the PLAD for other members of the TNF receptor superfamily. The polypeptides of the present invention can be utilized to inhibit oligomerization of members of the TNF receptor superfamily. These polypeptides can also be utilized to inhibit ligand binding to members of the TNF receptor superfamily. The present invention also provides a composition comprising an inhibitor of TNF receptor oligomerization. Further provided by this invention are members of the TNF receptor superfamily that are lacking a PLAD.
FILED	Tuesday, December 12, 2006
APPL NO	11/637272
ART UNIT	1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/7151 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/2878 (20130101)
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09051564 — Compositions for and methods of identifying antigens

US 09051564	Higgins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Darren E. Higgins (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Michael N. Starnbach (Needham, Massachusetts); Todd Gierahn (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nadia R. Roan (San Francisco, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Darren E. Higgins (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Michael N. Starnbach (Needham, Massachusetts); Todd Gierahn (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nadia R. Roan (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	Replicable libraries having discrete members in defined locations for screening for antigens to a pathogenic organism are provided. Also provided are methods for using such libraries as well as a specific antigen, CT788, which induces T-cell activation during a Chlamydia infection.
FILED	Wednesday, February 21, 2007
APPL NO	12/224074
ART UNIT	1639 — 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 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/295 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/70 (20130101)
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09051565 — Compositions and methods for the display of proteins on the surface of bacteria and their derived vesicles and uses thereof

US 09051565	Delisa et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Matthew Delisa (Ithica, New York); Jae-Young Kim (Suwon, South Korea); David A. Putnam (Ithaca, New York); Anne M. Doody (Brooktondale, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew Delisa (Ithica, New York); Jae-Young Kim (Suwon, South Korea); David A. Putnam (Ithaca, New York); Anne M. Doody (Brooktondale, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compositions and methods for displaying proteins and polypeptides on the surface of cells and cellular vesicles. Methods and compositions for drug and vaccine delivery using cell surface display systems of the present invention are also disclosed.
FILED	Wednesday, May 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/601133
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051573 — Newly discovered bacterium in the family acetobacteraceae

US 09051573	Holland et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)	Steven M. Holland (Bethesda, Maryland); David E. Greenberg (Bethesda, Maryland); Adrian Zelazny (Silver Spring, Maryland); Patrick Murray (Gibson Island, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven M. Holland (Bethesda, Maryland); David E. Greenberg (Bethesda, Maryland); Adrian Zelazny (Silver Spring, Maryland); Patrick Murray (Gibson Island, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Provided is an isolated novel Gram-negative bacterium, wherein the bacterium is an aerobic, facultative methylotroph that produces colonies that are yellow pigmented, wherein the bacterium can use methanol as a sole carbon source and can oxidize glucose and ethanol into acid. Also provided are novel purified polypeptides and isolated nucleic acids from the bacterium. Further provided are methods of using the bacterium and the purified polypeptides to degrade organic material and for use in biofuel cells.
FILED	Wednesday, March 28, 2007
APPL NO	12/225615
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/52 (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 7/54 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/01 (20130101) C12R 1/02 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/90 (20130101) H01M 8/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/527 (20130101)
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09051574 — Non-hemolytic ClyA for excretion of proteins

US 09051574	Galen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	James E. Galen (Sykesville, Maryland); Yuansha Chen (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Galen (Sykesville, Maryland); Yuansha Chen (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure below provides a protein export system utilizing non-hemolytic variants of HlyE family member proteins for efficiently producing recombinant protein from a host cell. In a preferred embodiment, the protein export system utilizes protein export machinery endogenous to the host bacterium into which the protein export system vector is introduced.
FILED	Tuesday, June 02, 2009
APPL NO	12/995644
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/255 (20130101) C07K 2319/036 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051583 — Modified silica shell particles, and methods of making and using the same

US 09051583	Mirkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Kaylie L. Young (Endicott, New York); Alexander Wesley Scott (Aldie, Virginia); Liangliang Hao (Evanston, Illinois); Sarah Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are silica shell particles modified on their surface with biomolecules, methods of making these particles, and methods of using these particles, e.g., in transfection methods, methods of inhibiting gene expression, and methods of delivering a therapeutic.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/719913
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/87 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115)
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09051618 — Methods for diagnosing lung cancer using MicroRNA signatures

US 09051618	Croce et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)	Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); George A. Calin (Pearland, Texas); Stefano Volinia (Ferrara, Italy)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of solid cancers. The invention also provides methods of identifying inhibitors of tumorigenesis.
FILED	Wednesday, February 29, 2012
APPL NO	13/407894
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) C12N 2320/12 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101)
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09051620 — Pharmaceutical angiogenic composition including a microRNA-382 activator

US 09051620	Lee
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	You Mie Lee (Suseong-gu, South Korea)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Kyungpook National University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation (, South Korea)
INVENTOR(S)	You Mie Lee (Suseong-gu, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to an angiogenic composition, and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical angiogenic composition including a microRNA-382 activator. The inventors of the present invention have confirmed that microRNA-382, the expression of which is elevated in stomach cancer cells in a low oxygen environment, affects the promotion of angiogenesis. Therefore, provided in the present invention is the pharmaceutical angiogenic composition which includes the microRNA-382 activator, which is angiogenic and thus promotes cell proliferation, and can be valuably used in treating injuries, ischemic myocardial infarctions, or foot ischemia.
FILED	Wednesday, August 29, 2012
APPL NO	14/240530
ART UNIT	1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/03067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052180 — Spatial light interference tomography

US 09052180	Popescu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Zhuo Wang (Urbana, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Methods and a computer readable medium for deriving a quantitative phase contrast tomographic image of a specimen. The specimen is illuminated and a focus of the illuminating light is scanned to a plurality of depths within the specimen. Light transmitted through the specimen is spatially Fourier transformed at each of the plurality of depths to form a spatially transformed image, and at least one of the phase and amplitude of a plurality of spatial frequency components of the spatially transformed image is spatially modulated. An intensity image of the specimen plane as modulated with respect to spatial frequency components is detected and deconvolved at a plurality of spatially modulated instances to obtain a three-dimensional phase representation of the specimen at each of the plurality of distances relative to a fiducial plane.
FILED	Thursday, December 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/727875
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052239 — Multidimensional spectrometer

US 09052239	Zanni et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Martin T. Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter Hamm (Zurich, Switzerland); Jan Helbing (Zurich, Switzerland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin T. Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter Hamm (Zurich, Switzerland); Jan Helbing (Zurich, Switzerland)
ABSTRACT	A multidimensional spectrometer encodes frequency information into laser pulses so that a frequency insensitive detector may be used to collect data for a multi-dimensional spectrograph only from intensity information and knowledge of a modulation providing the encoding. In one embodiment the frequency encoding may be done by a conventional interferometer greatly simplifying construction of the spectrometer.
FILED	Monday, March 14, 2011
APPL NO	13/047462
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/433 (20130101) G01J 3/457 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052308 — Assays and methods of treatment relating to vitamin D insufficiency

US 09052308	Thadhani et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ravi Thadhani (Boston, Massachusetts); S. Ananth Karumanchi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Anders Hayden Berg (Dedham, Massachusetts); Ishir Bhan (West Newton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are assays directed to determining the level of bioavailable or free vitamin D in a blood sample in a subject. The values determined for bioavailable or free vitamin D indicate whether the subject suffers from insufficient levels of vitamin D. Also described herein are methods of treatment for vitamin D insufficiency.
FILED	Friday, June 14, 2013
APPL NO	13/918563
ART UNIT	1629 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/59 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/82 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052321 — Flavivirus-based system for production of hepatitis C virus (HCV)

US 09052321	Saunier et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)	Bertrand Saunier (Versailles, France); Miriam Triyatni (Montclair, New Jersey); Edward A. Berger (Rockville, Maryland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); INSERM (Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale) (Paris, France)
INVENTOR(S)	Bertrand Saunier (Versailles, France); Miriam Triyatni (Montclair, New Jersey); Edward A. Berger (Rockville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein is a mammalian cell transformed to contain a plasmid encoding a T7 or SP6 promoter operably linked to one or more HCV genes, a subgenomic replicon from a flavivirus and a cytoplasmic T7 and SP6 RNA amplification system. Also provided herein are isolated replication-competent HCV particles produced by the method comprising the steps of providing a transformed mammalian cell according to the first embodiment, culturing the cell, and recovering the replication-competent HCV particles from the cell culture. Provided herein are isolated HCV structural proteins produced by the method comprising the steps of providing a transformed mammalian cell according to the first embodiment, culturing the cell, and recovering the HCV structural proteins from the cell culture. Further provided herein is a system for assaying HCV entry into a cell comprising a first plasmid encoding a T7 or SP6 promoter operably linked to an HCV polynucleotide comprising at least the 5′-UTR to NS2 operably linked to an EMCV IRES in frame with an SP6 or T7 polymerase gene, respectively, a first host cell line expressing a replicon from a flavivirus and comprising a cytoplasmic T7 and SP6 RNA amplification system, a second plasmid encoding a reporter gene operably linked to both T7 and SP6 promoters in tandem, and a second host cell line comprising a cytoplasmic T7 polymerase or SP6 polymerase RNA amplification system.
FILED	Monday, September 28, 2009
APPL NO	13/122154
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	Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/24144 (20130101) C12N 2770/24222 (20130101) C12N 2770/24243 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5767 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052323 — Osmolyte mixture for protein stabilization

US 09052323	Fisher et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark T. Fisher (Shawnee Mission, Kansas); Hiroo Katayama (Kansas City, Kansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark T. Fisher (Shawnee Mission, Kansas); Hiroo Katayama (Kansas City, Kansas)
ABSTRACT	An osmolyte composition comprising 4 M glycerol and 4M urea for stabilizing previously transient protein folding intermediates as long-lived stable forms. A method to search for other possible stabilizing osmolyte mixtures using a screening array is also provided. These additional osmolyte mixtures may complement or augment the successful 4M glycerol/4 M urea mixture.
FILED	Friday, August 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/870236
ART UNIT	1639 — 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 9/96 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052384 — System and method for calibration for image-guided surgery

US 09052384	Hartov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)	Alexander Hartov (Enfield, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); David William Roberts (Lyme, New Hampshire)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Alexander Hartov (Enfield, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); David William Roberts (Lyme, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	A method of calibrating a transformation of ultrasound data in an imaging system from a first coordinate system into a second coordinate system, the method including applying a transformation having parameters. The parameters are calibrated by imaging a planar object, extracting points corresponding to ultrasound rays intersecting the planar object, and fitting the parameters such that the points when transformed by the transformation describe a planar surface in the second coordinate system.
FILED	Friday, May 22, 2009
APPL NO	12/994044
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/06 (20130101) A61B 8/483 (20130101) A61B 8/488 (20130101) A61B 8/0816 (20130101) A61B 8/4245 (20130101) A61B 8/5238 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/5205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09053534 — Voxel-based approach for disease detection and evolution

US 09053534	Ross et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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)	Brian D. Ross (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Thomas L. Chenevert (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Craig Galban (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Benjamin Lemasson (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A voxel-based technique is provided for performing quantitative imaging and analysis of tissue image data. Serial image data is collected for tissue of interest at different states of the issue. The collected image data may be normalized, after which the registered image data is analyzed on a voxel-by-voxel basis, thereby retaining spatial information for the analysis. Various thresholds are applied to the registered tissue data to predict or determine the evolution of a disease state, such as brain cancer, for example.
FILED	Wednesday, November 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/683746
ART UNIT	2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4842 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101)
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09053903 — Characterization of nanoscale structures using an ultrafast electron microscope

US 09053903	Zewail
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods and systems for 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM)—in situ imaging with ultrafast time resolution in TEM. Single electron imaging is used as a component of the 4D UEM technique to provide high spatial and temporal resolution unavailable using conventional techniques. Other embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for convergent beam UEM, focusing the electron beams onto the specimen to measure structural characteristics in three dimensions as a function of time. Additionally, embodiments provide not only 4D imaging of specimens, but characterization of electron energy, performing time resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS).
FILED	Monday, December 09, 2013
APPL NO	14/101229
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/22 (20130101) H01J 37/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/28 (20130101) H01J 37/263 (20130101) H01J 2237/2482 (20130101) H01J 2237/2809 (20130101) H01J 2237/2813 (20130101)
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09053916 — Method to perform beam-type collision-activated dissociation in the pre-existing ion injection pathway of a mass spectrometer

US 09053916	Coon et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Joshua J. Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Graeme C. McAlister (San Jose, California)
ABSTRACT	Described herein are methods and systems related to the use of the pre-existing ion injection pathway of a mass spectrometer to perform beam-type collision-activated dissociation, as well as other dissociation methods. The methods can be practiced using a wide range of mass spectrometer configurations and allows MSⁿexperiments to be performed on very basic mass spectrometers, even those without secondary mass analyzers and/or collision cells. Following injection and selection of a particular ion type or population, that population can be fragmented via beam-type collision-activated dissociation (CAD), as well as other dissociation methods, using the pre-existing ion injection pathway or inlet of a mass spectrometer. For CAD applications, this is achieved by transmitting the ions back along the ion injection pathway with a high degree of kinetic energy. As the ions pass into the higher pressure regions located in or near the atmospheric pressure inlet, the ions are fragmented and then trapped. Following fragmentation and trapping, the ions can either be re-injected into the primary ion selection device or sent on to a secondary mass analyzer.
FILED	Wednesday, March 05, 2014
APPL NO	14/198067
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/004 (20130101) H01J 49/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09054871 — Physical key-protected one time pad

US 09054871	Horstmeyer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) NIH Office of the Director (NIHOD)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, United Kingdom)
INVENTOR(S)	Roarke Horstmeyer (San Marino, California); Benjamin Judkewitz (Los Angeles, California); Changhuei Yang (Alhambra, California); Ivo M. Vellekoop (Enschede, Netherlands)
ABSTRACT	A device, including one or more Communication Physical Unclonable Function (CPUF) and key storage devices, the CPUF devices each including: a coherent Electromagnetic (EM) radiation source; a spatial light modulator (SLM) connected to the coherent EM radiation source; a volumetric scattering medium connected to the SLM; a detector connected to the volumetric scattering medium; and one or more processors or circuits connected to the detector and one or more processors or circuits connected to the SLM. A communication protocol is also provided.
FILED	Thursday, February 21, 2013
APPL NO	13/773490
ART UNIT	2497 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/0656 (20130101) H04L 9/0841 (20130101) H04L 9/0866 (20130101) H04L 9/0897 (20130101) H04L 27/2278 (20130101) H04L 27/3818 (20130101)
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09050579 — Method for the production of fabricated hollow microspheroids

US 09050579	Wickramanayake et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
APPLICANT(S)	Shan Wickramanayake (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David R. Luebke (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Shan Wickramanayake (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David R. Luebke (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The method relates to the fabrication of a polymer microspheres comprised of an asymmetric layer surrounding a hollow interior. The fabricated hollow microsphere is generated from a nascent hollow microsphere comprised of an inner core of core fluid surrounded by a dope layer of polymer dope, where the thickness of the dope layer is at least 10% and less than 50% of the diameter of the inner core. The nascent hollow microsphere is exposed to a gaseous environment, generating a vitrified hollow microsphere, which is subsequently immersed in a coagulation bath. Solvent exchange produces a fabricated hollow microsphere comprised of a densified outer skin surrounding a macroporous inner layer, which surrounds a hollow interior. In an embodiment, the polymer is a polyimide or a polyamide-imide, and the non-solvent in the core fluid and the coagulation bath is water. The fabricated hollow microspheres are particularly suited as solvent supports for gas separation processes.
FILED	Tuesday, September 18, 2012
APPL NO	13/622001
ART UNIT	1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 13/06 (20130101)
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09050611 — High mass throughput particle generation using multiple nozzle spraying

US 09050611	Pui et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (St. Paul, Minnesota)
ASSIGNEE(S)	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	David Y. H. Pui (Plymouth, Minnesota); Da-Ren Chen (Creve Coeur, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Spraying apparatus and methods that employ multiple nozzle structures for producing multiple sprays of particles, e.g., nanoparticles, for various applications, e.g., pharmaceuticals, are provided. For example, an electrospray dispensing device may include a plurality of nozzle structures, wherein each nozzle structure is separated from adjacent nozzle structures by an internozzle distance. Sprays of particles are established from the nozzle structures by creating a nonuniform electrical field between the nozzle structures and an electrode electrically isolated therefrom.
FILED	Friday, February 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/768239
ART UNIT	1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/86 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 1/14 (20130101) B05B 5/08 (20130101) B05B 5/025 (20130101) B05B 5/032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B05B 5/087 (20130101) B05B 5/0255 (20130101) B05B 7/066 (20130101) B05B 7/0408 (20130101) B05B 13/06 (20130101)
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09050769 — Pre-form ceramic matrix composite cavity and method of forming and method of forming a ceramic matrix composite component

US 09050769	Monaghan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Philip Harold Monaghan (Hockessin, Delaware); John McConnell Delvaux (Fountain Inn, South Carolina); Glenn Curtis Taxacher (Simpsonville, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Philip Harold Monaghan (Hockessin, Delaware); John McConnell Delvaux (Fountain Inn, South Carolina); Glenn Curtis Taxacher (Simpsonville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A pre-form CMC cavity and method of forming pre-form CMC cavity for a ceramic matrix component includes providing a mandrel, applying a base ply to the mandrel, laying-up at least one CMC ply on the base ply, removing the mandrel, and densifying the base ply and the at least one CMC ply. The remaining densified base ply and at least one CMC ply form a ceramic matrix component having a desired geometry and a cavity formed therein. Also provided is a method of forming a CMC component.
FILED	Friday, April 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/446465
ART UNIT	1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
CURRENT CPC	Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 99/0028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/282 (20130101) F01D 5/284 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/222 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4998 (20150115)
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09051376 — Polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and polynucleotides encoding same

US 09051376	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC)
ABSTRACT	Provided are isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
FILED	Thursday, February 23, 2012
APPL NO	13/979223
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2434 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101)
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09051411 — Shape memory polymers

US 09051411	Wilson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, California); Jane P. Bearinger (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas S. Wilson (San Leandro, California); Jane P. Bearinger (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	New shape memory polymer compositions, methods for synthesizing new shape memory polymers, and apparatus comprising an actuator and a shape memory polymer wherein the shape memory polymer comprises at least a portion of the actuator. A shape memory polymer comprising a polymer composition which physically forms a network structure wherein the polymer composition has shape-memory behavior and can be formed into a permanent primary shape, re-formed into a stable secondary shape, and controllably actuated to recover the permanent primary shape. Polymers have optimal aliphatic network structures due to minimization of dangling chains by using monomers that are symmetrical and that have matching amine and hydroxyl groups providing polymers and polymer foams with clarity, tight (narrow temperature range) single transitions, and high shape recovery and recovery force that are especially useful for implanting in the human body.
FILED	Friday, October 15, 2010
APPL NO	12/905949
ART UNIT	1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/3498 (20130101) A61B 2017/00867 (20130101) A61B 2017/00871 (20130101) A61B 2017/2932 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/08 (20130101) C08G 18/73 (20130101) C08G 18/3203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 18/3221 (20130101) C08G 18/3271 (20130101) C08G 18/3281 (20130101) C08G 18/3284 (20130101) C08G 18/3287 (20130101) C08G 18/3851 (20130101) C08G 2280/00 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/0085 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) C08L 75/12 (20130101) C08L 75/14 (20130101)
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09051431 — Poly(arylene)-based anion exchange polymer electrolytes

US 09051431	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Chulsung Bae (Watervliet, New York)
ABSTRACT	Poly(arylene) electrolytes including copolymers lacking ether groups in the polymer may be used as membranes and binders for electrocatalysts in preparation of anodes for electrochemical cells such as solid alkaline fuel cells.
FILED	Wednesday, March 13, 2013
APPL NO	13/800038
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 75/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051521 — Using supercritical fluids to refine hydrocarbons

US 09051521	Yarbro
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Stephen Lee Yarbro (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen Lee Yarbro (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A system and method for reactively refining hydrocarbons, such as heavy oils with API gravities of less than 20 degrees and bitumen-like hydrocarbons with viscosities greater than 1000 cp at standard temperature and pressure, using a selected fluid at supercritical conditions. A reaction portion of the system and method delivers lightweight, volatile hydrocarbons to an associated contacting unit which operates in mixed subcritical/supercritical or supercritical modes. Using thermal diffusion, multiphase contact, or a momentum generating pressure gradient, the contacting unit separates the reaction products into portions that are viable for use or sale without further conventional refining and hydro-processing techniques.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/838746
ART UNIT	1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 3/009 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/047 (20130101) C10G 9/00 (20130101) C10G 21/06 (20130101) C10G 27/04 (20130101) C10G 31/08 (20130101) C10G 47/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 53/14 (20130101) C10G 55/04 (20130101) C10G 2300/405 (20130101) C10G 2300/4006 (20130101) C10G 2300/4012 (20130101) C10G 2300/4043 (20130101) Purifying or Modifying the Chemical Composition of Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide C10K 3/04 (20130101)
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09051638 — In-situ sputtering apparatus

US 09051638	Erickson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) at Upton, NY
APPLICANT(S)	Poole Ventura, Inc. (Oxnard, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	POOLE VENTURA, INC. (Oxnard, California); BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Upton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark R. Erickson (Newbury Park, California); Henry J. Poole (Ventura, California); Arthur W. Custer, III (Oxnard, California); Ady Hershcovitch (Mount Sinai, New York)
ABSTRACT	A sputtering apparatus that includes at least a target presented as an inner surface of a confinement structure, the inner surface of the confinement structure is preferably an internal wall of a circular tube. A cathode is disposed adjacent the internal wall of the circular tube. The cathode preferably provides a hollow core, within which a magnetron is disposed. Preferably, an actuator is attached to the magnetron, wherein a position of the magnetron within the hollow core is altered upon activation of the actuator. Additionally, a carriage supporting the cathode and communicating with the target is preferably provided, and a cable bundle interacting with the cathode and linked to a cable bundle take up mechanism provided power and coolant to the cathode, magnetron, actuator and an anode of the sputtering apparatus.
FILED	Friday, March 01, 2013
APPL NO	13/782270
ART UNIT	1756 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/35 (20130101) C23C 14/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 14/351 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/32669 (20130101)
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09052112 — Combustor and method for purging a combustor

US 09052112	Berry et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Jonathan Dwight Berry (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Michael John Hughes (Greer, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan Dwight Berry (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Michael John Hughes (Greer, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A combustor includes an end cap. The end cap includes a first surface and a second surface downstream from the first surface, a shroud that circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the first and second surfaces, a plate that extends radially within the shroud, a plurality of tubes that extend through the plate and the first and second surfaces, and a first purge port that extends through one or more of the plurality of tubes, wherein the purge port is axially aligned with the plate.
FILED	Monday, February 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/405564
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Burners F23D 2209/30 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/286 (20130101)
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09052152 — System and method for multi-stage bypass, low operating temperature suppressor for automatic weapons

US 09052152	Moss et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	William C. Moss (San Mateo, California); Andrew T. Anderson (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure relates to a suppressor for use with a weapon. The suppressor may be formed to have a body portion having a bore extending concentric with a bore axis of the weapon barrel. An opening in the bore extends at least substantially circumferentially around the bore. A flow path communicates with the opening and defines a channel for redirecting gasses flowing in the bore out from the bore, through the opening, into a rearward direction in the flow path. The flow path raises a pressure at the opening to generate a Mach disk within the bore at a location approximately coincident with the opening. The Mach disk forms as a virtual baffle to divert at least a portion of the gasses into the opening and into the flow path.
FILED	Monday, February 11, 2013
APPL NO	13/764380
ART UNIT	2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 21/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052255 — System for autonomous monitoring of bioagents

US 09052255	Langlois et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Richard G. Langlois (Livermore, California); Fred P. Milanovich (Lafayette, California); Billy W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); Steve B. Brown (Livermore, California); Don A. Masquelier (Tracy, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Kodomudi Venkateswaran (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard G. Langlois (Livermore, California); Fred P. Milanovich (Lafayette, California); Billy W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); Steve B. Brown (Livermore, California); Don A. Masquelier (Tracy, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Kodomudi Venkateswaran (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	An autonomous monitoring system for monitoring for bioagents. A collector gathers the air, water, soil, or substance being monitored. A sample preparation means for preparing a sample is operatively connected to the collector. A detector for detecting the bioagents in the sample is operatively connected to the sample preparation means. One embodiment of the present invention includes confirmation means for confirming the bioagents in the sample.
FILED	Monday, May 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/786248
ART UNIT	1677 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/2202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/2211 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 35/08 (20130101) G01N 2001/2217 (20130101)
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09052281 — Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods

US 09052281	Jain et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana)
INVENTOR(S)	Ankit Jain (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pradeep R. Nair (Mumbai, India); Muhammad Ashraful Alam (West Lafayette, Indiana)
ABSTRACT	Transistor-based particle detection systems and methods may be configured to detect charged and non-charged particles. Such systems may include a supporting structure contacting a gate of a transistor and separating the gate from a dielectric of the transistor, and the transistor may have a near pull-in bias and a sub-threshold region bias to facilitate particle detection. The transistor may be configured to change current flow through the transistor in response to a change in stiffness of the gate caused by securing of a particle to the gate, and the transistor-based particle detection system may configured to detect the non-charged particle at least from the change in current flow.
FILED	Wednesday, January 23, 2013
APPL NO	13/748171
ART UNIT	2823 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4143 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052283 — Nanodevices for generating power from molecules and batteryless sensing

US 09052283	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)	LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yinmin Wang (Tracy, California); Xianying Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Alex V. Hamza (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	A nanoconverter or nanosensor is disclosed capable of directly generating electricity through physisorption interactions with molecules that are dipole containing organic species in a molecule interaction zone. High surface-to-volume ratio semiconductor nanowires or nanotubes (such as ZnO, silicon, carbon, etc.) are grown either aligned or randomly-aligned on a substrate. Epoxy or other nonconductive polymers are used to seal portions of the nanowires or nanotubes to create molecule noninteraction zones. By correlating certain molecule species to voltages generated, a nanosensor may quickly identify which species is detected. Nanoconverters in a series parallel arrangement may be constructed in planar, stacked, or rolled arrays to supply power to nano- and micro-devices without use of external batteries. In some cases breath, from human or other life forms, contain sufficient molecules to power a nanoconverter. A membrane permeable to certain molecules around the molecule interaction zone increases specific molecule nanosensor selectivity response.
FILED	Friday, April 11, 2014
APPL NO	14/250737
ART UNIT	1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 27/417 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/90 (20130101) H01M 4/9016 (20130101) H01M 8/24 (20130101) H01M 8/0284 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 11/002 (20130101)
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09052450 — Nano-fabricated plasmonic optical transformer

US 09052450	Choo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Hyuck Choo (Albany, California); Stefano Cabrini (Albany, California); P. James Schuck (Berkeley, California); Xiaogan Liang (Berkeley, California); Eli Yablonovitch (Oakland, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Hyuck Choo (Albany, California); Stefano Cabrini (Albany, California); P. James Schuck (Berkeley, California); Xiaogan Liang (Berkeley, California); Eli Yablonovitch (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a plasmonic optical transformer to produce a highly focuses optical beam spot, where the transformer includes a first metal layer, a dielectric layer formed on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer formed on the dielectric layer, where the first metal layer, the dielectric layer, and the second layer are patterned to a shape including a first section having a first cross section, a second section following the first section having a cross-section tapering from the first section to a smaller cross-section, and a third section following the second section having a cross-section matching the tapered smaller cross-section of the second section.
FILED	Friday, April 08, 2011
APPL NO	13/083228
ART UNIT	2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 7/22 (20130101) G11B 7/1387 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 428/24612 (20150115)
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09052452 — Solar concentrator with integrated tracking and light delivery system with collimation

US 09052452	Maxey
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Batelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Lonnie Curt Maxey (Powell, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A solar light distribution system includes a solar light concentrator that is affixed externally to a light transfer tube. Solar light waves are processed by the concentrator into a collimated beam of light, which is then transferred through a light receiving port and into the light transfer tube. A reflector directs the collimated beam of light through the tube to a light distribution port. The interior surface of the light transfer tube is highly reflective so that the light transfers through the tube with minimal losses. An interchangeable luminaire is attached to the light distribution port and distributes light inside of a structure. A sun tracking device rotates the concentrator and the light transfer tube to optimize the receiving of solar light by the concentrator throughout the day. The system provides interior lighting, uses only renewable energy sources, and releases no carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.
FILED	Monday, December 09, 2013
APPL NO	14/100063
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/30 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/20 (20130101)
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09052485 — Optical interconnect assembly

US 09052485	Laughlin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC) NNSA Critical Mission Site Operated by Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (FM&T) at Kansas City, MO
APPLICANT(S)	Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Daric Laughlin (Overland Park, Kansas); Philip Abel (Overland Park, Kansas)
ABSTRACT	An optical assembly includes a substrate with a first row of apertures and a second row of apertures. A first optical die includes a first plurality of optical transducer elements and is mounted on the substrate such that an optical signal interface of each transducer element is aligned with an aperture of the first row of optical apertures. A second optical die includes a second plurality of optical transducer elements and is mounted on the substrate such that an optical signal interface of each of the second plurality of optical transducer elements is aligned with an aperture of the second row of optical apertures. A connector configured to mate with the optical assembly supports a plurality of optical fibers. A terminal end of each optical fiber protrudes from the connector and extends into one of the apertures when the connector is coupled with the optical assembly.
FILED	Tuesday, February 05, 2013
APPL NO	13/759696
ART UNIT	2883 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/43 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/12004 (20130101)
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09052535 — Electro-refractive photonic device

US 09052535	Zortman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	William A. Zortman (Corrales, New Mexico); Michael R. Watts (Hingham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The various technologies presented herein relate to phase shifting light to facilitate any of light switching, modulation, amplification, etc. Structures are presented where a second layer is juxtaposed between a first layer and a third layer with respective doping facilitating formation of p-n junctions at the interface between the first layer and the second layer, and between the second layer and the third layer. Application of a bias causes a carrier concentration change to occur at the p-n junctions which causes a shift in the effective refractive index per incremental change in an applied bias voltage. The effective refractive index enhancement can occur in both reverse bias and forward bias. The structure can be incorporated into a waveguide, an optical resonator, a vertical junction device, a horizontal junction device, a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, a tuneable optical filter, etc.
FILED	Wednesday, October 16, 2013
APPL NO	14/055709
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052722 — Dynamically limiting energy consumed by cooling apparatus

US 09052722	Chainer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
APPLICANT(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Milnes P. David (Fishkill, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Foster City, California); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Roger R. Schmidt (Poughkeepsie, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	Cooling methods are provided which include providing: one or more coolant-cooled structures associated with an electronics rack, a coolant loop coupled in fluid communication with one or more passages of the coolant-cooled structure(s), one or more heat exchange units coupled to facilitate heat transfer from coolant within the coolant loop, and N controllable components associated with the coolant loop or the heat exchange unit(s), wherein N≧1. The N controllable components facilitate circulation of coolant through the coolant loop or transfer of heat from the coolant via the heat exchange unit(s). A controller is also provided to dynamically adjust operation of the N controllable components, based on Z input parameters and one or more specified constraints, and provide a specified cooling to the coolant-cooled structure(s), while limiting energy consumed by the N controllable components, wherein Z≧1.
FILED	Wednesday, December 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/705300
ART UNIT	2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 7/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/206 (20130101) G06F 1/3206 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 33/144 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/2079 (20130101) H05K 7/20281 (20130101) H05K 7/20781 (20130101) H05K 7/20836 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1275 (20130101)
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09052775 — Optical based tactile shear and normal load sensor

US 09052775	Salisbury
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)	Curt Michael Salisbury (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Curt Michael Salisbury (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	Various technologies described herein pertain to a tactile sensor that senses normal load and/or shear load. The tactile sensor includes a first layer and an optically transparent layer bonded together. At least a portion of the first layer is made of optically reflective material. The optically transparent layer is made of resilient material (e.g., clear silicone rubber). The tactile sensor includes light emitter/light detector pair(s), which respectively detect either normal load or shear load. Light emitter(s) emit light that traverses through the optically transparent layer and reflects off optically reflective material of the first layer, and light detector(s) detect and measure intensity of reflected light. When a normal load is applied, the optically transparent layer compresses, causing a change in reflected light intensity. When shear load is applied, a boundary between optically reflective material and optically absorptive material is laterally displaced, causing a change in reflected light intensity.
FILED	Tuesday, July 24, 2012
APPL NO	13/556393
ART UNIT	2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/24 (20130101) G01L 1/241 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0421 (20130101)
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09052974 — Fencing data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface of a parallel computer

US 09052974	Blocksome et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York)
ABSTRACT	Fencing data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI including data communications endpoints, each endpoint including a specification of data communications parameters for a thread of execution on a compute node, including specifications of a client, a context, and a task; the compute nodes coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through data communications resources including at least one segment of shared random access memory; including initiating execution through the PAMI of an ordered sequence of active SEND instructions for SEND data transfers between two endpoints, effecting deterministic SEND data transfers through a segment of shared memory; and executing through the PAMI, with no FENCE accounting for SEND data transfers, an active FENCE instruction, the FENCE instruction completing execution only after completion of all SEND instructions initiated prior to execution of the FENCE instruction for SEND data transfers between the two endpoints.
FILED	Friday, November 05, 2010
APPL NO	12/940259
ART UNIT	2448 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/544 (20130101) G06F 9/546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 15/16 (20130101) G06F 15/17331 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/40 (20130101)
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09053832 — Lanthanide doped strontium-barium cesium halide scintillators

US 09053832	Bizarri et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (DHS-ST) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Ramesh B. Borade (Livermore, California); Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Zewu Yan (Albany, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Anurag Chaudhry (Portland, Oregon); Andrew Canning (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Ramesh B. Borade (Livermore, California); Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Zewu Yan (Albany, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Anurag Chaudhry (Portland, Oregon); Andrew Canning (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising an optionally lanthanide-doped strontium-barium, optionally cesium, halide, useful for detecting nuclear material.
FILED	Wednesday, October 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/272152
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7733 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21K 2004/06 (20130101)
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09054251 — Solar collector array

US 09054251	Hall et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	John Champlin Hall (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Guy Lawrence Martins (Downey, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	John Champlin Hall (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Guy Lawrence Martins (Downey, California)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for efficient manufacture, assembly and production of solar energy. In one aspect, the apparatus may include a number of modular solar receiver assemblies that may be separately manufactured, assembled and individually inserted into a solar collector array housing shaped to receive a plurality of solar receivers. The housing may include optical elements for focusing light onto the individual receivers, and a circuit for electrically connecting the solar receivers.
FILED	Thursday, July 28, 2011
APPL NO	13/193058
ART UNIT	1758 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09054264 — Systems and methods for solar cells with CIS and CIGS films made by reacting evaporated copper chlorides with selenium

US 09054264	Albin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	David S. Albin (Denver, Colorado); Rommel Noufi (Golden, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods for solar cells with CIS and CIGS films made by reacting evaporated copper chlorides with selenium are provided. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a thin film device comprises: providing a semiconductor film comprising indium (In) and selenium (Se) upon a substrate; heating the substrate and the semiconductor film to a desired temperature; and performing a mass transport through vapor transport of a copper chloride vapor and se vapor to the semiconductor film within a reaction chamber.
FILED	Wednesday, February 27, 2013
APPL NO	13/779363
ART UNIT	2816 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/22 (20130101) C23C 14/0623 (20130101) C23C 16/44 (20130101) C23C 16/305 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02614 (20130101) H01L 21/02631 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0322 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/541 (20130101)
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09054330 — Stable and all solution processable quantum dot light-emitting diodes

US 09054330	Qian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Ying Zheng (Gainesville, Florida); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Ying Zheng (Gainesville, Florida); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention are directed to quantum dot light emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) where the electron injection and transport layer comprises inorganic nanoparticles (I-NPs). The use of I-NPs results in an improved QD-LED over those having a conventional organic based electron injection and transport layer and does not require chemical reaction to form the inorganic layer. In one embodiment of the invention the hole injection and transport layer can be metal oxide nanoparticles (MO-NPs) which allows the entire device to have the stability of an all inorganic system and permit formation of the QD-LED by a series of relatively inexpensive steps involving deposition of suspensions of nanoparticles and removing the suspending vehicle.
FILED	Wednesday, July 07, 2010
APPL NO	13/382340
ART UNIT	2898 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/502 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5048 (20130101) H01L 51/5206 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101)
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09054335 — Concave-hemisphere-patterned organic top-light emitting device

US 09054335	Forrest et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
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)	Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Slootsky (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Richard Lunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A first device is provided. The first device includes an organic light emitting device, which further comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic emissive layer disposed between the first and second electrode. Preferably, the second electrode is more transparent than the first electrode. The organic emissive layer has a first portion shaped to form an indentation in the direction of the first electrode, and a second portion shaped to form a protrusion in the direction of the second electrode. The first device may include a plurality of organic light emitting devices. The indentation may have a shape that is formed from a partial sphere, a partial cylinder, a pyramid, or a pyramid with a mesa, among others. The protrusions may be formed between adjoining indentations or between an indentation and a surface parallel to the substrate.
FILED	Friday, December 20, 2013
APPL NO	14/136839
ART UNIT	2896 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/3244 (20130101) H01L 33/24 (20130101) H01L 51/5203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5271 (20130101) H01L 51/5275 (20130101) H01L 2251/5315 (20130101)
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09054348 — Protective coatings for metal alloys and methods incorporating the same

US 09054348	Seabaugh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	Matthew M. Seabaugh (Columbus, Ohio); Sergio Ibanez (Columbus, Ohio); Scott L. Swartz (Columbus, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NextTech Materials, Ltd. (Lewis Center, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Matthew M. Seabaugh (Columbus, Ohio); Sergio Ibanez (Columbus, Ohio); Scott L. Swartz (Columbus, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	An electrochemical device having one or more solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), each of the SOFCs including a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte layer positioned between the cathode and anode; and at least one additional component comprising a metallic substrate having an electronically conductive, chromium-free perovskite coating deposited directly thereon. The perovskite coating has the formula ABO₃, wherein A is a lanthanide element or Y, and B is a mixture of two or more transition elements, with the A site undoped by any alkaline earth element, and the perovskite coating exhibits limited or no ionic transport of oxygen.
FILED	Friday, April 13, 2012
APPL NO	13/447155
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1213 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101)
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09054361 — Utilizing vacuum to pre-compress foam to enable cell insertion during HV battery module assembly

US 09054361	Christian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)	GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin R. Christian (Novi, Michigan); Sami A. Syed (Windsor, Canada); Herman K. Phlegm (Oak Park, Michigan); John G. Dorrough (Oak Park, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method of assembling a battery module assembly includes a step of preparing a plurality of battery cell stacks. Each battery cell stack is constructed by positioning a pre-compressed foam unit interposed between a first battery cell and a second battery cell. Each battery cell stack is positioned in a receiving frame. After such positioning, the pre-compressed foam unit of each battery cell stack is expanded.
FILED	Tuesday, November 20, 2012
APPL NO	13/681941
ART UNIT	1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115)
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09054373 — Anode materials for lithium ion batteries

US 09054373	Abouimrane et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC (UCHICAGO) at Argonne, IL
APPLICANT(S)	Ali Abouimrane (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Ali Abouimrane (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A composite material has general Formula (1-x)J-(x)Q wherein: J is a metal carbon alloy of formula Sn_zSi_z′Met_wMet′_w′C_t; Q is a metal oxide of formula A_γM_αM′_α′O_β; A is Li, Na, or K; M, M′, Met, and Met′ are individually Ge, Mo, Al, Ga, As, Sb, Te, Ti, Ta, Zr, Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba, Li, Na, K, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Nb, Rt, Ru or Cd; 0<x<1; γ is 0, 1, or 2; 0<α≦1; 0≦α′≦1; β is 0.5, 1, 2, or 3; 0<t≦5; and the sum of z, z′, w, and w′ is greater than 0.
FILED	Friday, September 16, 2011
APPL NO	13/235138
ART UNIT	1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 4/139 (20130101) H01M 4/364 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/483 (20130101)
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09054530 — Pulsed interrupter and method of operation

US 09054530	Drake et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
APPLICANT(S)	GENERAL ATOMICS (San Diego, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Atomics (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Joel Lawton Drake (San Diego, California); Robert Kratz (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	Some embodiments provide interrupter systems comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; a piston movably located at a first position and electrically coupled with the first and second electrodes establishing a closed state, the piston comprises an electrical conductor that couples with the first and second electrodes providing a conductive path; an electromagnetic launcher configured to, when activated, induce a magnetic field pulse causing the piston to move away from the electrical coupling with the first and second electrodes establishing an open circuit between the first and second electrodes; and a piston control system comprising a piston arresting system configured to control a deceleration of the piston following the movement of the piston induced by the electromagnetic launcher such that the piston is not in electrical contact with at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode when in the open state.
FILED	Thursday, April 25, 2013
APPL NO	13/870615
ART UNIT	2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 3/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09050180 — Microvascular stamp for patterning of functional neovessels

US 09050180	Kong et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Graduate Education (DGE) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Hyunjoon Kong (Champaign, Illinois); Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Jaehyun Jeong (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent Chan (Urbana, Illinois); Chaenyung Cha (Penndel, Pennsylvania); Pinar Zorlutuna (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions and methods for making and using microvascular stamps for stimulation and spatial organization of neovessels in tissue.
FILED	Thursday, March 07, 2013
APPL NO	13/788023
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	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 2/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09050200 — System and method for brain machine interface (BMI) control using reinforcement learning

US 09050200	Digiovanna et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
APPLICANT(S)	John F. Digiovanna (Zurich, Switzerland); Babak Mahmoudi (Gainesville, Florida); Jeremiah D. Mitzelfelt (Gainesville, Florida); Justin C. Sanchez (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	John F. Digiovanna (Zurich, Switzerland); Babak Mahmoudi (Gainesville, Florida); Jeremiah D. Mitzelfelt (Gainesville, Florida); Justin C. Sanchez (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A Brain Machine Interface (BMI) agent (110) is provided, that when operatively coupled to a subject during a mental task by the subject to control a prosthetic device (130), monitors one or more states (125) of neural activity of the subject, receives feedback associated with a behavior of the prosthetic device responsive to the control, learns a functional mapping between the mental task and the behavior in view of the feedback, and applies at least one control action (115) to the prosthetic device in accordance with the learning to control the prosthetic device for a targeted behavior.
FILED	Friday, April 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/598217
ART UNIT	3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
CURRENT CPC	Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0482 (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) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/72 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/0265 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/015 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101)
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09050704 — Abrasive-delivery apparatuses for use with abrasive materials in abrasive-jet systems and related apparatuses, systems, and methods

US 09050704	Liu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter H.-T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Ernst H. Schubert (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Abrasive-delivery apparatuses for use in abrasive-jet systems and associated apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An abrasive-delivery apparatus configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a first funnel segment and a second funnel segment downstream from the first funnel segment. The first funnel segment can have a first inlet, a first outlet, and a first interior region extending between the first inlet and the first outlet. Similarly, the second funnel segment can have a second inlet, a second outlet, and a second interior region extending between the second inlet and the second outlet. The first interior region can have a first inward taper toward the first outlet, and the second interior region can have a second inward taper toward the second outlet. The second inward taper can be steeper than the first inward taper when the abrasive-delivery apparatus is vertically oriented.
FILED	Thursday, March 13, 2014
APPL NO	14/210017
ART UNIT	3727 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Abrasive or Related Blasting With Particulate Material B24C 1/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B24C 7/00 (20130101)
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09051176 — Massively parallel assembly of composite structures using depletion attraction

US 09051176	Mason
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE)
APPLICANT(S)	Thomas G. Mason (Los Angeles, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas G. Mason (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	Producing composite structures includes dispersing a first plurality of objects, a second plurality of objects, and a third plurality of objects in a fluid, the third and second plurality of objects having an average maximum dimension that is smaller than the first plurality of objects The first plurality of objects comprise a first, a second, a third and a forth object, each having mating surface regions The first and second objects' mating surfaces are complimentary and the third and forth objects' mating surfaces are complementary The first and second object aggregate together in response to the dispersing of the second plurality of objects in the fluid due to a depletion attraction between the first and the second object The third and forth object aggregate together in response to dispersing the third plurality of objects in the fluid due to a depletion attraction between the third and the fourth object.
FILED	Monday, February 04, 2008
APPL NO	12/524946
ART UNIT	1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 3/002 (20130101) B81C 3/005 (20130101) B81C 99/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) B81C 2201/0159 (20130101) B81C 2203/057 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/40 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24802 (20150115)
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09051185 — Carbon nanostructures from pyrolysis of organic materials

US 09051185	Levendis et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP)
APPLICANT(S)	Yiannis Levendis (Boston, Massachusetts); Henning Richter (Newton, Massachusetts); Chuanwei Zhuo (Malden, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts); Nano-C Inc. (Westwood, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Yiannis Levendis (Boston, Massachusetts); Henning Richter (Newton, Massachusetts); Chuanwei Zhuo (Malden, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus to generate carbon nanostructures from organic materials are described. Certain embodiments provide solid waste materials into a furnace, that pyrolyzes the solid waste materials into gaseous decomposition products, which are then converted to carbon nanostructures. Methods and apparatuses described herein provide numerous advantages over conventional methods, such as cost savings, reduction of handling risks, optimization of process conditions, and the like.
FILED	Friday, March 26, 2010
APPL NO	13/260397
ART UNIT	1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 33/1071 (20130101) C01B 2202/06 (20130101) C01B 2202/34 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101)
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09051383 — Spider silk dragline polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods of use thereof

US 09051383	Hayashi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
APPLICANT(S)	Cheryl Y. Hayashi (Riverside, California); Jessica E. Garb (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nadia A. Ayoub (Riverside, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Cheryl Y. Hayashi (Riverside, California); Jessica E. Garb (Arlington, Massachusetts); Nadia A. Ayoub (Riverside, California)
ABSTRACT	The disclosure provides spider silk dragline polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the same. Methods of using such polypeptides and polynucleotides and designing novel biomaterials using repeat units of the polypeptides and polynucleotides.
FILED	Tuesday, June 10, 2008
APPL NO	12/664309
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/43518 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051421 — Nanoporous linear polyethylene membranes and block copolymer precursors for same

US 09051421	Hillmyer et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Marc Hillmyer (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Louis Pitet (Cody, Wyoming); Mark Amendt (Dayton, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Marc Hillmyer (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Louis Pitet (Cody, Wyoming); Mark Amendt (Dayton, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A composition comprising a block copolymer that includes at least one polyester block and at least one linear polyolefin block, wherein the composition is in the form of a nano-structured, bicontinuous composite that includes a continuous matrix phase and a second continuous phase. The continuous matrix phase comprises the linear polyolefin block of the block copolymer, and the second continuous phase comprises the polyester block of the block copolymer. The composite may be treated to remove the polyester block, thereby forming a plurality of nano-pores.
FILED	Friday, March 11, 2011
APPL NO	13/634175
ART UNIT	1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Separation B01D 67/003 (20130101) B01D 71/26 (20130101) B01D 71/48 (20130101) B01D 71/76 (20130101) B01D 71/80 (20130101) B01D 2325/02 (20130101) B01D 2325/30 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 2261/126 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 8/102 (20130101) H01M 8/106 (20130101)
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09051555 — Methods and composition for isoprenoid diphosphate synthesis

US 09051555	Noel et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
APPLICANT(S)	Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Nikki M. Dellas (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Joseph P. Noel (San Diego, California); Nikki M. Dellas (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are methods and compositions relating to the synthesis of isoprenoid diphosphates using a mutated isopentenyl phosphate kinase.
FILED	Monday, July 19, 2010
APPL NO	13/384534
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1217 (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 9/00 (20130101)
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09051583 — Modified silica shell particles, and methods of making and using the same

US 09051583	Mirkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Kaylie L. Young (Endicott, New York); Alexander Wesley Scott (Aldie, Virginia); Liangliang Hao (Evanston, Illinois); Sarah Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Provided herein are silica shell particles modified on their surface with biomolecules, methods of making these particles, and methods of using these particles, e.g., in transfection methods, methods of inhibiting gene expression, and methods of delivering a therapeutic.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/719913
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/87 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115)
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09051605 — Magnetic bead quantum dot nanoparticle assay

US 09051605	Son et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of the Interior (DOI) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Ahjeong Son (Aurbun, Alabama); Yeomin Yoon (Irmo, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Alabama); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Ahjeong Son (Aurbun, Alabama); Yeomin Yoon (Irmo, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure includes a magnetic bead (MB) quantum dot (QD) nanoparticle assay for detecting, capturing, separating, and/or quantifying a target in a sample.
FILED	Friday, July 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/560162
ART UNIT	1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 2527/125 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2565/50 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 2021/6417 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101)
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09052180 — Spatial light interference tomography

US 09052180	Popescu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET)
APPLICANT(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Gabriel Popescu (Champaign, Illinois); Zhuo Wang (Urbana, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Methods and a computer readable medium for deriving a quantitative phase contrast tomographic image of a specimen. The specimen is illuminated and a focus of the illuminating light is scanned to a plurality of depths within the specimen. Light transmitted through the specimen is spatially Fourier transformed at each of the plurality of depths to form a spatially transformed image, and at least one of the phase and amplitude of a plurality of spatial frequency components of the spatially transformed image is spatially modulated. An intensity image of the specimen plane as modulated with respect to spatial frequency components is detected and deconvolved at a plurality of spatially modulated instances to obtain a three-dimensional phase representation of the specimen at each of the plurality of distances relative to a fiducial plane.
FILED	Thursday, December 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/727875
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052239 — Multidimensional spectrometer

US 09052239	Zanni et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Martin T. Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter Hamm (Zurich, Switzerland); Jan Helbing (Zurich, Switzerland)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin T. Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter Hamm (Zurich, Switzerland); Jan Helbing (Zurich, Switzerland)
ABSTRACT	A multidimensional spectrometer encodes frequency information into laser pulses so that a frequency insensitive detector may be used to collect data for a multi-dimensional spectrograph only from intensity information and knowledge of a modulation providing the encoding. In one embodiment the frequency encoding may be done by a conventional interferometer greatly simplifying construction of the spectrometer.
FILED	Monday, March 14, 2011
APPL NO	13/047462
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/433 (20130101) G01J 3/457 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052323 — Osmolyte mixture for protein stabilization

US 09052323	Fisher et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
APPLICANT(S)	Mark T. Fisher (Shawnee Mission, Kansas); Hiroo Katayama (Kansas City, Kansas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark T. Fisher (Shawnee Mission, Kansas); Hiroo Katayama (Kansas City, Kansas)
ABSTRACT	An osmolyte composition comprising 4 M glycerol and 4M urea for stabilizing previously transient protein folding intermediates as long-lived stable forms. A method to search for other possible stabilizing osmolyte mixtures using a screening array is also provided. These additional osmolyte mixtures may complement or augment the successful 4M glycerol/4 M urea mixture.
FILED	Friday, August 27, 2010
APPL NO	12/870236
ART UNIT	1639 — 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 9/96 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6803 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052434 — Zero group-velocity modes in chalcogenide holey photonic crystal fibers

US 09052434	Farjadpour et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Ardavan Farjadpour (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joanopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ardavan Farjadpour (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joanopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A fiber structure for propagating one or more zero group-velocity modes is provided. The fiber structure includes a cladding arrangement comprising a photonic crystal having a complete bandgap at a specified index. A core is formed in a selective region of the cladding arrangement. The core allows the propagation of the one or more group-velocity modes.
FILED	Friday, February 26, 2010
APPL NO	12/713464
ART UNIT	1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02328 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/02347 (20130101)
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09052562 — Method for electrophoresis in liquid crystals

US 09052562	Lavrentovich et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	Oleg D. Lavrentovich (Kent, Ohio); Israel Esteban Lazo-Martinez (Kent, Ohio); Oleg P. Pishnyak (Akron, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Kent State University (Kent, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Oleg D. Lavrentovich (Kent, Ohio); Israel Esteban Lazo-Martinez (Kent, Ohio); Oleg P. Pishnyak (Akron, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method of electrophoretic movement of particles through a liquid crystal utilizes a direct (DC) or alternating (AC) electric field that is applied along the liquid crystal director (for liquid crystals with a positive dielectric anisotropy) or perpendicular to the director (for liquid crystals with a negative dielectric anisotropy). A perpendicular or tilted orientation of the liquid crystal molecules at the surface of the particle causes distortions, such that the fore-aft (or left-right) symmetry of the particle is broken. The asymmetric orientation of the liquid crystal around the particle allows both charged and neutral particles to be transported, even when the particles themselves are perfectly symmetric (spherical).
FILED	Tuesday, December 13, 2011
APPL NO	13/324271
ART UNIT	2871 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/13 (20130101) G02F 1/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052895 — Power budget allocation in multi-processor systems

US 09052895	Harchol-Balter et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Mor Harchol-Balter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anshul Gandhi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Rajarshi Das (Armonk, New York); Jeffrey Kephart (Hawthorne, New York)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines (Armonk, New York); Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Mor Harchol-Balter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anshul Gandhi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Rajarshi Das (Armonk, New York); Jeffrey Kephart (Hawthorne, New York)
ABSTRACT	Systems, apparatuses, methods, and software that implement power budget allocation optimization algorithms in multi-processor systems, such as server farms. The algorithms are derived from a queuing theoretic model that minimizes the mean response time of the system to the jobs in the workload while accounting for a variety of factors. These factors include, but are not necessarily limited to, the type of power (frequency) scaling mechanism(s) available within the processors in the system, the power-to-frequency relationship(s) of the processors for the scaling mechanism(s) available, whether or not the system is an open or closed loop system, the arrival rate of jobs incoming into the system, the number of jobs within the system, and the type of workload being processed.
FILED	Thursday, April 07, 2011
APPL NO	13/082144
ART UNIT	2118 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/32 (20130101) G06F 1/324 (20130101) G06F 1/329 (20130101) G06F 1/3203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3206 (20130101) G06F 1/3228 (20130101) G06F 1/3296 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/4893 (20130101) G06F 9/5094 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/10 (20130101) Y02B 60/14 (20130101) Y02B 60/142 (20130101) Y02B 60/144 (20130101) Y02B 60/1217 (20130101) Y02B 60/1278 (20130101) Y02B 60/1282 (20130101)
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09052908 — Web application development framework

US 09052908	Fu et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Yupeng Fu (La Jolla, California); Kian Win Ong (San Diego, California); Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Keliang Zhao (La Jolla, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Yupeng Fu (La Jolla, California); Kian Win Ong (San Diego, California); Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Keliang Zhao (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	Techniques, systems, apparatus and computer-program products are disclosed for developing a web-hosted shared database system with improved user interface and reduced programming. In one aspect, using a web application development framework includes declaratively specifying a web application's pages using page configurations. The framework can automatically coordinate page state with the state of a database server and an applications server, so that the specified page is first rendered and then one or more portions of the page can be updated in response to a server data change, Also, programs that are executed when a request is issued are declaratively specified using program configurations. Either or both of the page configurations and the program configurations can be implemented by access to a unified application state virtual database. Further, the unified application state virtual database can include the persistent database of the application and transient memory-based data, such as session and page data.
FILED	Monday, January 24, 2011
APPL NO	13/012787
ART UNIT	2449 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09053903 — Characterization of nanoscale structures using an ultrafast electron microscope

US 09053903	Zewail
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Chemistry (CHE) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ahmed H. Zewail (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to methods and systems for 4D ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM)—in situ imaging with ultrafast time resolution in TEM. Single electron imaging is used as a component of the 4D UEM technique to provide high spatial and temporal resolution unavailable using conventional techniques. Other embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for convergent beam UEM, focusing the electron beams onto the specimen to measure structural characteristics in three dimensions as a function of time. Additionally, embodiments provide not only 4D imaging of specimens, but characterization of electron energy, performing time resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS).
FILED	Monday, December 09, 2013
APPL NO	14/101229
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/22 (20130101) H01J 37/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/28 (20130101) H01J 37/263 (20130101) H01J 2237/2482 (20130101) H01J 2237/2809 (20130101) H01J 2237/2813 (20130101)
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09054416 — Inverted conical sinuous antenna above a ground plane

US 09054416	Bradley et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI)at Charlottesville, VA
APPLICANT(S)	Richard F. Bradley (Charlottesville, Virginia); Rohit S. Gawande (Pasadena, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard F. Bradley (Charlottesville, Virginia); Rohit S. Gawande (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A wideband antenna is disclosed. The wideband antenna comprises an inverted cone, at least one sinuous arm coupled to the cone, and a ground plane behind the apex of the cone. The sinuous arm comprises at least two active resonators.
FILED	Monday, September 19, 2011
APPL NO	13/236305
ART UNIT	2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 11/10 (20130101)
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09054423 — MIMO antenna arrays built on metamaterial substrates

US 09054423	Dandekar et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Kapil R. Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Prathaban Mookiah (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial is used to enhance the antenna array of a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication system. A rectangular patch antenna array is formed including a stack of a plurality of unit cells, where each unit cell includes an inductive loop of magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterials embedded in a host dielectric substrate. The use of such metamaterials permits the antenna arrays to be made smaller, and have less mutual coupling, when using a metamaterial substrate. The measured channel capacities of the antenna arrays are similar for the metamaterial and conventional substrates; however, the capacity improvement when using MIMO relative to single antenna communication systems is greater for antennas on metamaterial substrates.
FILED	Friday, August 08, 2014
APPL NO	14/455411
ART UNIT	2887 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 65/403 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) H01Q 1/523 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 1/526 (20130101) H01Q 3/44 (20130101) H01Q 7/08 (20130101) H01Q 9/045 (20130101) H01Q 15/006 (20130101) H01Q 21/28 (20130101)
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09054497 — Quantum cascade lasers with improved performance using interface roughness scattering

US 09054497	Gmachl et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Claire Gmachl (Princeton, New Jersey); YenTing Chiu (Princeton, New Jersey); Yamac Dikmelik (Baltimore, Maryland); Jacob B. Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A quantum cascade laser and method of making are disclosed. The quantum cascade laser includes a plurality stages configured in a cascade structure, each stage having a quantum well emission layer and an injection layer, each stage having an upper laser level and a lower laser level. A scattering barrier is located in the quantum well emission layer, the scattering barrier being positioned such that interface roughness (IFR) scattering at the lower laser level is greater than IFR scattering at the upper laser level. The scattering barrier may be located to maximize IFR scattering for the lower laser level and/or minimize IFR scattering for the upper laser level.
FILED	Friday, September 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/624330
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 5/2004 (20130101) H01S 5/2231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3401 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) H01S 5/32316 (20130101)
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09050647 — Split-pass open-die forging for hard-to-forge, strain-path sensitive titanium-base and nickel-base alloys

US 09050647	Thomas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	Jean-Phillipe A. Thomas (Charlotte, North Carolina); Ramesh S. Minisandram (Charlotte, North Carolina); Jason P. Floder (Gastonia, North Carolina); George J. Smith, Jr. (Wingate, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Split pass forging a workpiece to initiate microstructure refinement comprises press forging a metallic material workpiece in a first forging direction one or more times up to a reduction ductility limit of the metallic material to impart a total strain in the first forging direction sufficient to initiate microstructure refinement; rotating the workpiece; open die press forging the workpiece in a second forging direction one or more times up to the reduction ductility limit to impart a total strain in the second forging direction to initiate microstructure refinement; and repeating rotating and open die press forging in a third and, optionally, one or more additional directions until a total amount of strain to initiate microstructure refinement is imparted in an entire volume of the workpiece.
FILED	Friday, March 15, 2013
APPL NO	13/844545
ART UNIT	3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Forging; Hammering; Pressing Metal; Riveting; Forge Furnaces B21J 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B21J 1/025 (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 7/13 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/10 (20130101) C22F 1/183 (20130101)
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09051350 — Macrocyclic antiproliferation agents and methods of treatment

US 09051350	Luesch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Smithsonian Institution (SI)
APPLICANT(S)	Hendrik Luesch (Gainesville, Florida); Valerie J. Paul (Fort Pierce, Florida); Jason C. Kwan (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Smithsonian Institution (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hendrik Luesch (Gainesville, Florida); Valerie J. Paul (Fort Pierce, Florida); Jason C. Kwan (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	The instant invention describes macrocyclic compounds having antiproliferation activity, and methods of treating disorders such as cancer, tumors and cell proliferation related disorders.
FILED	Thursday, January 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/863404
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/06026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052448 — Two-dimensional coupled resonator optical waveguide arrangements and systems, devices, and methods thereof

US 09052448	Hafezi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)	Mohammad Hafezi (Washington, District of Columbia); Jacob Taylor (Washington, District of Columbia); Eugene Demler (Newton, Massachusetts); Mikhail Lukin (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohammad Hafezi (Washington, District of Columbia); Jacob Taylor (Washington, District of Columbia); Eugene Demler (Newton, Massachusetts); Mikhail Lukin (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Two-dimensional coupled resonator optical waveguide arrangements and systems, devices, and methods thereof. Networks of coupled resonator optical waveguides are arranged so as to exploit topological properties of these optical networks. Such arrangement affords topological protection against disorders or perturbations in the network that may hinder or block photon flow. As a result of a disorder, photons traversing along edge states of the array are rerouted based on the disorder or perturbation. Photon routing in the network is accordingly protected against disorder or defects.
FILED	Friday, February 03, 2012
APPL NO	13/366122
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) G01N 21/552 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29331 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/00 (20130101) H04J 14/02 (20130101)
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09053870 — Supercapacitor with a meso-porous nano graphene electrode

US 09053870	Yu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)	Zhenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); David Neff (Fairborn, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (, None)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhenning Yu (Fairborn, Ohio); David Neff (Fairborn, Ohio); Chen-guang Liu (Fairborn, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A supercapacitor comprising a two electrodes, a porous separator disposed between the two electrodes, and an ionic liquid electrolyte in physical contact with the two electrodes, wherein at least one of the two electrodes comprises a meso-porous structure being formed of a plurality of nano graphene platelets and multiple pores having a pore size in the range of 2 nm and 25 nm, wherein the graphene platelets are not spacer-modified or surface-modified platelets. Preferably, the graphene platelets are curved, not flat-shaped. The pores are accessible to ionic liquid molecules, enabling the formation of large amounts of electric double layer charges in a supercapacitor, which exhibits an exceptionally high specific capacitance and high energy density.
FILED	Monday, August 02, 2010
APPL NO	12/804911
ART UNIT	2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/02 (20130101) H01G 11/04 (20130101) H01G 11/24 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/38 (20130101) H01G 11/46 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101)
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)

09050279 — Compositions and methods using recombinant MHC molecules for the treatment of stroke

US 09050279	Offner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)	Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Patricia D. Hurn (Portland, Oregon); Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Gregory G. Burrows (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	Two-domain MHC polypeptides are useful for modulating activities of antigen-specific T-cells, including for modulating pathogenic potential and effects of antigen-specific T-cells. Exemplary MHC class II-based recombinant T-cell ligands (RTLs) of the invention include covalently linked β1 and α1 domains, and MHC class I-based molecules that comprise covalently linked α1 and α2 domains. These polypeptides may also include covalently linked antigenic determinants, toxic moieties, and/or detectable labels. The disclosed polypeptides can be used to target antigen-specific T-cells, and are useful, among other things, to detect and purify antigen-specific T-cells, to induce or activate T-cells, to modulate T-cell activity, including by regulatory switching of T-cell cytokine and adhesion molecule expression, to treat conditions mediated by antigen-specific T-cells, including treatment and/or prevention of central nervous system damage relating to stroke.
FILED	Friday, June 21, 2013
APPL NO	13/924275
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/395 (20130101)
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09050300 — Surgical applications for BMP binding protein

US 09050300	Murray et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California); Elsa J. Brochmann-Murray (Saugus, California); Keyvan Behnam (Simi Valley, California); Jeffrey C. Wang (Sherman Oaks, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the clinical application of BBP, alone or in combination with other growth factors, for use in bone healing applications, such as spinal surgery. Additional applications include use in orthopedic implantable prostheses and implantation into other surgical sites (e.g., surgical reconstruction, regional osteopenia, etc.) where bone is desired.
FILED	Friday, April 05, 2013
APPL NO	13/857711
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/51 (20130101)
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09050350 — Method for modulating or controlling connexin 43(Cx43) level of a cell and reducing arrhythmic risk

US 09050350	Dudley, Jr.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) American Heart Association (AHA)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method of modulating or controlling connexin 43 (Cx43) level of a cell includes inducing mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the cell.
FILED	Thursday, June 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/507319
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09051550 — Cellular seeding and co-culture of a three dimensional fibroblast construct

US 09051550	Lancaster et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
APPLICANT(S)	Jordan Lancaster (Tucson, Arizona); Steve Goldman (Tucson, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arizona Board of Regents, on Behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Jordan Lancaster (Tucson, Arizona); Steve Goldman (Tucson, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods for cellular seeding onto three-dimensional fibroblast constructs, three-dimensional fibroblast constructs seeded with muscle cells, and uses therefore.
FILED	Friday, April 09, 2010
APPL NO	13/260610
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3826 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2502/28 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101)
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

09051063 — Space vehicle heat shield having edgewise strips of ablative material

US 09051063	Blosser et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Max L. Blosser (Newport News, Virginia); Carl C. Poteet (Yorktown, Virginia); Stan A. Bouslog (Friendswood, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A heat shield for a space vehicle comprises a plurality of phenolic impregnated carbon ablator (PICA) blocks secured to a surface of the space vehicle and arranged in a pattern with gaps therebetween. The heat shield further comprises a plurality of PICA strips disposed in the gaps between the PICA blocks. The PICA strips are mounted edgewise, such that the structural orientation of the PICA strips is substantially perpendicular to the structural orientation of the PICA blocks.
FILED	Tuesday, January 29, 2013
APPL NO	13/752495
ART UNIT	3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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09052236 — Method for ground-to-satellite laser calibration system

US 09052236	Lukashin et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Constantine Lukashin (Newport News, Virginia); Bruce A. Wielicki (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention comprises an approach for calibrating the sensitivity to polarization, optics degradation, spectral and stray light response functions of instruments on orbit. The concept is based on using an accurate ground-based laser system, Ground-to-Space Laser Calibration (GSLC), transmitting laser light to instrument on orbit during nighttime substantially clear-sky conditions. To minimize atmospheric contribution to the calibration uncertainty the calibration cycles should be performed in short time intervals, and all required measurements are designed to be relative. The calibration cycles involve ground operations with laser beam polarization and wavelength changes.
FILED	Monday, June 30, 2014
APPL NO	14/318967
ART UNIT	2886 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 1/4257 (20130101) G01J 11/00 (20130101) G01J 2001/4238 (20130101)
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09052250 — Method of calibrating a force balance

US 09052250	Parker et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter A. Parker (Gloucester, Virginia); Ray D. Rhew (Suffolk, Virginia); Thomas H. Johnson (Alexandria, Virginia); Drew Landman (Norfolk, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A calibration system and method utilizes acceleration of a mass to generate a force on the mass. An expected value of the force is calculated based on the magnitude and acceleration of the mass. A fixture is utilized to mount the mass to a force balance, and the force balance is calibrated to provide a reading consistent with the expected force determined for a given acceleration. The acceleration can be varied to provide different expected forces, and the force balance can be calibrated for different applied forces. The acceleration may result from linear acceleration of the mass or rotational movement of the mass.
FILED	Thursday, April 11, 2013
APPL NO	13/860697
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 25/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 21/00 (20130101)
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

09049818 — Cargo of rectangular switchgrass or Miscanthus bales optimized for high density transport to biorefineries

US 09049818	Lanning et al.
FUNDED BY	Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Cargo of rectangular switchgrass or miscanthus bales having a payload density of between 14.6 and 20.5 lb/ft³.
FILED	Thursday, April 11, 2013
APPL NO	13/861251
ART UNIT	3788 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Processing of Harvested Produce; Hay or Straw Presses; Devices for Storing Agricultural or Horticultural Produce A01F 15/0825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Presses in General B30B 9/30 (20130101)
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09051381 — Disease-related biomarkers specific to Florida hybrid bunch and muscadine grape, and uses thereof

US 09051381	Sheikh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)	Florida A and M University (Tallahassee, Florida)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Florida A and M University (Tallahassee, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Mehboob B. Sheikh (Tallahassee, Florida); Devaiah Kambiranda (Tallahassee, Florida); Hemanth KN. Vasanthaiah (Tallahassee, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Isolated disease-related genes from muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia) and Florida hybrid bunch grape (Vitis spp.) grapes, and complementary DNA associated therewith. The cDNA can be utilized in small RNA technologies to promote expression of disease tolerance-related genes to induce production of disease-tolerance related gene products for resisting disease occurrence in Florida hybrid bunch and V. vinifera. The genes include, but are not limited to, stilbene synthase, chalcone synthase, chitinase, PR 4, PR 10, β-1, 3-glucanase, peroxidase, and a subunit of Oxygen-Evolving Enhancer Protein 1. These genes were found to enhance tolerance of Florida hybrid bunch and muscadine grape to a plurality of pathogenic diseases, including, for example, Pierce's disease and anthracnose.
FILED	Wednesday, November 27, 2013
APPL NO	14/091551
ART UNIT	1663 — Plants
CURRENT CPC	Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1029 (20130101) C12N 9/2442 (20130101)
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

09051558 — Method for immune cell-assisted bacterial culturing

US 09051558	Brown et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (DHS-ST)
APPLICANT(S)	MRIGlobal (Kansas City, Missouri)
ASSIGNEE(S)	MRIGLOBAL (Kansas City, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Kelly Brown (Melbourne, Florida); Richard Winegar (Palm Bay, Florida); Jacqueline Bortzner (Melbourne, Florida); Nicole Moritz (Indialantic, Florida); Stephanie Sorrell (Palm Bay, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A method of culturing fastidious bacteria where a conditioned cell culture medium is prepared in which eukaryotic cells have been cultured, but where the medium is substantially free of the cultured cells. Fastidious bacteria are cultured in the medium. The conditioned cell culture medium can contain secreted factors from the cells. These factors promote the growth of the fastidious bacteria. The fastidious bacterial culture is maintained for a time period sufficient for the fastidious bacteria to multiply. The fastidious bacteria are analyzed using PCR, DNA sequencing or microbiology characterization.
FILED	Wednesday, August 21, 2013
APPL NO	13/972888
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 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/04 (20130101)
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09053832 — Lanthanide doped strontium-barium cesium halide scintillators

US 09053832	Bizarri et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (DHS-ST) Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)	Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Ramesh B. Borade (Livermore, California); Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Zewu Yan (Albany, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Anurag Chaudhry (Portland, Oregon); Andrew Canning (Berkeley, California)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Gregory Bizarri (San Francisco, California); Edith Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California); Ramesh B. Borade (Livermore, California); Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Zewu Yan (Albany, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Anurag Chaudhry (Portland, Oregon); Andrew Canning (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising an optionally lanthanide-doped strontium-barium, optionally cesium, halide, useful for detecting nuclear material.
FILED	Wednesday, October 12, 2011
APPL NO	13/272152
ART UNIT	1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7733 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21K 2004/06 (20130101)
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

09049818 — Cargo of rectangular switchgrass or Miscanthus bales optimized for high density transport to biorefineries

US 09049818	Lanning et al.
FUNDED BY	Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
APPLICANT(S)	Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Cargo of rectangular switchgrass or miscanthus bales having a payload density of between 14.6 and 20.5 lb/ft³.
FILED	Thursday, April 11, 2013
APPL NO	13/861251
ART UNIT	3788 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Processing of Harvested Produce; Hay or Straw Presses; Devices for Storing Agricultural or Horticultural Produce A01F 15/0825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Presses in General B30B 9/30 (20130101)
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09051305 — Compositions and methods useful for treating diseases

US 09051305	Cardone et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)	Michael H. Cardone (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Andrew F. Kolodziej (Winchester, Massachusetts); David Richard (Littleton, Massachusetts)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael H. Cardone (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Andrew F. Kolodziej (Winchester, Massachusetts); David Richard (Littleton, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a compositions for and methods of cancer treatment in which compounds of Formula I or Formula II. In some aspects, the treatment of B-cell Lymphoma or other hematopoietic cancers is encompassed. In other aspects, the invention provides methods for treating particular types of hematopoietic cancers, such as B-cell lymphoma, using a combination of one or more compounds of Formula I or Formula II. Combination therapy with, for example, a class of therapeutics known as 26S proteasome inhibitors, for example, Bortezomib, are also included. In another aspect the present invention relates to autoimmune treatment with compounds of Formula I or Formula II. In another aspect, this invention relates to methods for identifying compounds, for example, compounds of the BH3 mimic class, that have unique in vitro properties that predict in vivo efficacy against B-cell lymphoma tumors and other cancers as well as autoimmune disease.
FILED	Thursday, March 08, 2012
APPL NO	14/003733
ART UNIT	1625 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101)
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U.S. State Government

09050605 — Graphene nanocomposites

US 09050605	Guo
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Texas
APPLICANT(S)	Lamar University (Beaumont, Texas)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lamar University, A Component of the Texas State University System, An Agency of the State of Texas (Beaumont, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhanhu Guo (Beaumont, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A nanocomposite material for use as an electromagnetic wave or radio frequency absorber or as a filter to trap or remove heavy metals. The nanocomposite material may be made with a one-pot synthesis, or thermodecomposition process, of magnetic graphene nanocomposites decorated with core-double-shell nanoparticles, wherein the double shell iron nanoparticles may comprise a crystalline iron core, an inner iron oxide layer around the crystalline iron core, and an outermost amorphous Si—S—O compound shell around the iron oxide layer.
FILED	Monday, November 19, 2012
APPL NO	13/680464
ART UNIT	1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B03C 1/01 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/42 (20130101)
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09054688 — Sequential state elements radiation hardened by design

US 09054688	Clark et al.
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Arizona
APPLICANT(S)	Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Sandeep Shambhulingaiah (Tempe, Arizona); Sushil Kumar (Tempe, Arizona); Chandarasekaran Ramamurthy (Tempe, Arizona)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona)
INVENTOR(S)	Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Sandeep Shambhulingaiah (Tempe, Arizona); Sushil Kumar (Tempe, Arizona); Chandarasekaran Ramamurthy (Tempe, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	This disclosure relates generally to sequential state elements (SSEs). More specifically, embodiments of flip-flops are disclosed, along with computerized methods and systems of designing the same. In one embodiment, the flip-flop includes a substrate and subcircuits that are formed on the substrate. The subcircuits provide subfunctions, wherein each of the subcircuits provides at least one of the subfunctions. More specifically, the subfunctions are provided in a sequential logical order by the subcircuits so that the flip-flop provides a flip-flop function. However, the subcircuits are interleaved out of the sequential logical order with respect to a corresponding subfunction provided by each of the subcircuits along a vector defined by the substrate. In this manner, interleaving the subcircuits along the vector of the substrate can provide separation between charge collection nodes without requiring increases in size. Thus, the flip-flop can be more compact and less expensive to manufacture.
FILED	Thursday, September 19, 2013
APPL NO	14/031585
ART UNIT	2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5072 (20130101) G06F 2217/70 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 3/0375 (20130101) H03K 3/35606 (20130101) H03K 3/35625 (20130101) H03K 3/356086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Department of the Interior (DOI)

09051605 — Magnetic bead quantum dot nanoparticle assay

US 09051605	Son et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of the Interior (DOI) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)	Ahjeong Son (Aurbun, Alabama); Yeomin Yoon (Irmo, South Carolina)
ASSIGNEE(S)	AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Alabama); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Ahjeong Son (Aurbun, Alabama); Yeomin Yoon (Irmo, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure includes a magnetic bead (MB) quantum dot (QD) nanoparticle assay for detecting, capturing, separating, and/or quantifying a target in a sample.
FILED	Friday, July 27, 2012
APPL NO	13/560162
ART UNIT	1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 2527/125 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2563/143 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) C12Q 2563/157 (20130101) C12Q 2565/50 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 2021/6417 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) G01N 2201/0221 (20130101)
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Non-Profit Organization (NPO)

09050350 — Method for modulating or controlling connexin 43(Cx43) level of a cell and reducing arrhythmic risk

US 09050350	Dudley, Jr.
FUNDED BY	Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Non-Profit Organization (NPO) American Heart Association (AHA)
APPLICANT(S)	Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method of modulating or controlling connexin 43 (Cx43) level of a cell includes inducing mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production in the cell.
FILED	Thursday, June 21, 2012
APPL NO	13/507319
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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Smithsonian Institution (SI)

09051350 — Macrocyclic antiproliferation agents and methods of treatment

US 09051350	Luesch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Smithsonian Institution (SI)
APPLICANT(S)	Hendrik Luesch (Gainesville, Florida); Valerie J. Paul (Fort Pierce, Florida); Jason C. Kwan (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Smithsonian Institution (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Hendrik Luesch (Gainesville, Florida); Valerie J. Paul (Fort Pierce, Florida); Jason C. Kwan (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	The instant invention describes macrocyclic compounds having antiproliferation activity, and methods of treating disorders such as cancer, tumors and cell proliferation related disorders.
FILED	Thursday, January 15, 2009
APPL NO	12/863404
ART UNIT	1675 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/06026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class
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United States Postal Service (USPS)

09052992 — System and method of coordinating electronic parcel locker availability

US 09052992	Irwin et al.
FUNDED BY	United States Postal Service (USPS)
APPLICANT(S)	United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Donald E. Irwin (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Nan K. McKenzie (Garrett Park, Maryland); William A. Tartal (Baltimore, Maryland); Victoria K. Stephen (Burke, Virginia); Michael J. Amato (Reston, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A system, apparatus, and method for use in delivery of items to a storage unit. The storage unit may include one or several storage receptacles and a control unit that controls and monitors the status of the one or several storage receptacles. The storage unit may be included in a storage unit system that may include one or several storage units and a central control unit. The central control unit may communicate with the one or several storage units, and may receive status and availability updates from the one or several storage units.
FILED	Wednesday, December 05, 2012
APPL NO	13/706255
ART UNIT	2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
CURRENT CPC	Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 1/0485 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coin-freed or Like Apparatus G07F 7/08 (20130101) G07F 17/10 (20130101)
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, June 09, 2015.

The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.

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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:

APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC

APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)

INVENTOR(S)
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A61B 1/71 (20130101)
A61B 1/105 (20130101)

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