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| US 09072428 | Bigio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Irving Bigio (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Eladio Rodriguez-Diaz (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Castanon (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving Bigio (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Eladio Rodriguez-Diaz (Brookline, Massachusetts); David Castanon (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Mathematical/statistical pattern-recognition systems and methods to distinguish between different pathologies and benign conditions (e.g., normal or cancerous tissue) given spectra measured using optical spectroscopy such as elastic-scattering spectroscopy (EES). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/259094 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 5/7267 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00147 (20130101) G06K 9/6256 (20130101) G06K 9/6269 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09072481 | Shelhamer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark J. Shelhamer (Reistertown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Shelhamer (Reistertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for assessing vestibulo-ocular function includes a motion sensor system adapted to be coupled to a user's head; a data processing system configured to communicate with the motion sensor system to receive the head-motion signals; a visual display system configured to communicate with the data processing system to receive image signals from the data processing system; and a gain control device arranged to be operated by the user and to communicate gain adjustment signals to the data processing system. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229403 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6803 (20130101) A61B 5/6814 (20130101) |
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| US 09072660 | Epstein, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ervin H. Epstein, Jr. (Oakland, California); Jean Tang (Mountain View, California); Philip A. Beachy (Stanford, California); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California); James Kim (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California); CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL and RESEARCH CENTER OAKLAND (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ervin H. Epstein, Jr. (Oakland, California); Jean Tang (Mountain View, California); Philip A. Beachy (Stanford, California); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California); James Kim (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of transdermally delivering a therapeutic amount of a triazole-triazolone compound are provided, e.g. for the prevention or treatment of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in a subject. A therapeutic level of a triazole-triazolone compound such as itraconazole is delivered transdermally to a subject. Also provided are topical triazole-triazolone compositions that find use in practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607489 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/14 (20130101) A61K 47/26 (20130101) A61K 47/32 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09072706 | Hocking et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Denise Hocking (Rochester, New York); Daniel Roy (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denise Hocking (Rochester, New York); Daniel Roy (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to recombinant fibronectin peptide mimetics and wound healing compositions containing the same. Other aspects of the present invention include wound healing dressings that comprise the wound healing composition of the present invention and a wound dressing material and methods of treating wounds using these compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/994179 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/78 (20130101) |
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| US 09072708 | Jonker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johan W. Jonker (Gronigen, Netherlands); Michael Downes (San Diego, California); Ronald M. Evans (La Jolla, California); Jae Myoung Suh (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The method provides methods and compositions for treating metabolic disorders such as impaired glucose tolerance, elevated blood glucose, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, obesity, and fatty liver. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/526058 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09072722 | Fay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Fay (Pittsford, New York); Hironao Wakabayashi (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a recombinant factor VIII that includes one or more mutations that result in enhanced stability of both factor VIII and factor VIIIa. Methods of making and using the recombinant factor VIII, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same are also disclosed. The present invention further relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes the recombinant factor VIII, as well as DNA expression systems and host cells containing the isolated nucleic acid molecule. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/691474 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/755 (20130101) |
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| US 09072728 | Rufo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Rufo (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Wayne I. Lencer (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Rufo (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Wayne I. Lencer (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and materials involved in the treatment of diseases with severe distal colitis component, and more specifically non-fungal and/or non-microbial induced mucositis of the distal intestinal tract. Kits and pharmaceutical compositions for medical treatments also are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/572667 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4174 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09072744 | El-Deiry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wafik S. El-Deiry (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Joshua E. Allen (Hershey, Pennsylvania); Gen Sheng Wu (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relating to TIC10 are described according to aspects of the present invention. The compositions and methods have utility in treating disease, particularly cancer in a subject in need thereof, including a human subject as well as subjects of other species. The compositions have utility in treating brain cancer in a subject in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/338055 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09072761 | Arya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dev P. Arya (Greenville, South Carolina); Nihar Ranjan (Clemson, South Carolina); Sunil Kumar (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dev P. Arya (Greenville, South Carolina); Nihar Ranjan (Clemson, South Carolina); Sunil Kumar (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds, compositions and methods related to viral inhibition. In some forms, the compounds, compositions and methods are related to binding RNA. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857425 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/232 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/24 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09072764 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Da-Zhi Wang (Newton, Massachusetts); Jianfu Chen (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for modulating gene expression in myocytes. Also provided are cells comprising the compositions of the presently disclosed subject matter. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791309 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3517 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09072765 | Olson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric N. Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eva van Rooij (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of miRNAs that are involved in heart failure and the process of post-myocardial infarction remodeling in heart tissue. Modulation of these identified miRNAs as a treatment for myocardial infarction, cardiac remodelling, and heart failure is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321756 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09072766 | Kahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbara B. Kahn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qin Yang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Daniel Kraus (Wurzberg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara B. Kahn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qin Yang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Daniel Kraus (Wurzberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in various embodiments, relates to methods of inhibiting NNMT production or activity in a cell, and methods of treating or preventing obesity or a related metabolic condition in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering a nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) antagonist. The invention further provides methods of identifying NNMT antagonists useful for treating obesity and related metabolic disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/885284 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/712 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 201/01001 (20130101) |
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| US 09072772 | Pak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen C. Pak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David Hirsch Perlmutter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Silverman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Pak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David Hirsch Perlmutter (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Gary A. Silverman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treatment of clinical disorders associated with protein aggregation comprising administering, to a subject, an effective amount of an anti-protein aggregate (“APA”) compound selected from the group consisting of pimozide, fluphenazine (e.g., fluphenazine hydrochloride), tamoxifen (e.g., tamoxifen citrate), taxol, cantharidin, cantharidic acid, salts thereof and their structurally related compounds. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that each of the aforelisted compounds were able to promote degradation of aggregated ATZ protein in a Caenorhabditis elegans model system. According to the invention, treatment with one or more of these APA compounds may be used to ameliorate the symptoms and signs of AT deficiency as well as other disorders marked by protein aggregation, including, but not limited to, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and Huntington's Disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/463638 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/703 (20130101) A01K 2267/03 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/366 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/5415 (20130101) A61K 49/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09072778 | Bachmann |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andre S. Bachmann (Waipahu, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre S. Bachmann (Waipahu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating diseases. More specifically, the present invention relates to the administration of multiple drugs as part of a treatment of disease. Specific embodiments of the invention relate to a treatment regimen for neuroblastomas and other N-MYC, c-MYC, and L-MYC amplified and overexpressed tumors, comprising administering multiple therapeutic compounds like DFMO, SAM486A, a verinoid and a cytotoxic drug and placing the patient on a low polyamine diet and/or providing the patient with a polyamine limiting dietary supplement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158661 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) A61K 31/203 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09072783 | Ohtake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Satoshi Ohtake (Chesterfield, Missouri); Atul Saxena (Milpitas, California); Vu Truong-Le (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aridis Pharmaceuticals (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satoshi Ohtake (Chesterfield, Missouri); Atul Saxena (Milpitas, California); Vu Truong-Le (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the selection of pharmaceutically acceptable excipients that allow for the production of highly dispersible powders produced by spray drying. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/988248 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1617 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 47/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09072792 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tao Jiang (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Emilia S. Olson (La Jolla, California); Michael Whitney (San Diego, California); Roger Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Jiang (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Emilia S. Olson (La Jolla, California); Michael Whitney (San Diego, California); Roger Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A generic structure for the peptides of the present invention includes A-X-B-C, where C is a cargo moiety, the B portion includes basic amino acids, X is a cleavable linker sequence, and the A portion includes acidic amino acids. The intact structure is not significantly taken up by cells; however, upon extracellular cleavage of X, the B-C portion is taken up, delivering the cargo to targeted cells. Cargo may be, for example, a contrast agent for diagnostic imaging, a chemotherapeutic drug, or a radiation-sensitizer for therapy. X may be cleaved extracellularly or intracellularly. The molecules of the present invention may be linear, cyclic, branched, or have a mixed structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/155168 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0095 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48315 (20130101) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/085 (20130101) A61K 49/146 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4728 (20130101) |
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| US 09072813 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William L. Murphy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Martin C. Peters (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David J. Mooney (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David H. Kohn (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Murphy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Martin C. Peters (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David J. Mooney (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David H. Kohn (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are advantageous methods for patterning and/or mineralizing biomaterial surfaces. The techniques described are particularly useful for generating three-dimensional or contoured bioimplant materials with patterned surfaces or patterned, mineralized surfaces. Also provided are various methods of using the mineralized and/or patterned biomaterials in tissue engineering, such as bone tissue engineering, providing more control over ongoing biological processes, such as mineralization, growth factor release, cellular attachment and tissue growth. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433518 |
| 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 | 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 27/00 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/44 (20130101) A61L 27/44 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09072880 | Phillips et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher M. Phillips (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mark A. Crawford (Sandy, Utah); G. Doug Smith (Sandy, Utah); Steven Johnson (Lehi, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vital Access Corporation (Murray, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Phillips (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mark A. Crawford (Sandy, Utah); G. Doug Smith (Sandy, Utah); Steven Johnson (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Ports for accessing a vessels within a patient include passageways that can guide needles or other access devices directly into the vessels. The ports can be implanted subcutaneously within a patient. Some ports may be used in the creation and use of vascular access buttonholes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697192 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/0057 (20130101) A61B 17/3423 (20130101) A61B 2017/3425 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/14 (20130101) A61M 1/3653 (20130101) A61M 1/3659 (20140204) A61M 1/3661 (20140204) A61M 39/0208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2039/0223 (20130101) A61M 2039/0226 (20130101) A61M 2039/0238 (20130101) A61M 2205/0238 (20130101) |
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| US 09072894 | Chin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert K. Chin (Chicago, Illinois); Matthew Thomas Wheeler (Palo Alto, California); Peter G. Maxim (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Chin (Chicago, Illinois); Matthew Thomas Wheeler (Palo Alto, California); Peter G. Maxim (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for radioablation of sympathetic nerves include positioning a subject on a support in view of a volume imaging system and an ionizing radiation source; and collecting volume image data. Location of a treatment portion of a sympathetic nerve in the subject is determined based on the volume image data. Movement of the source is determined to apply a therapeutic radiation dose to the treatment portion based on the location of the treatment portion and relative location of the source to the volume imaging system. The source is operated to deliver the therapeutic radiation dose. An apparatus includes a mounting structure, an X-ray source and a shield. The source produces an X-ray beam with photon energy above one million electron volts (MeV) and not above six MeV. The shield is mounted in opposition to the source to block the X-ray beam with photon energies not greater than about six MeV. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522950 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2018/00434 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/01 (20130101) A61N 5/1042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/1081 (20130101) |
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| US 09072900 | Caspi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Avraham Caspi (La Jolla, California); Jessy Dorn (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avraham Caspi (La Jolla, California); Jessy Dorn (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual prosthesis and a method of operating a visual prosthesis are disclosed. Neural stimulation through electrodes is controlled by spatial maps, where a grouped or random association is established between the data points of the acquired data and the electrodes. In this way distortions from the foveal pit and wiring mistakes in the implant can be corrected. Moreover, broken electrodes can be bypassed and a resolution limit can be tested, together with testing the benefit the patient receives from correct spatial mapping. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/094210 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3605 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073038 | Carr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Alon V. McCormick (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Changyub Paek (Owasso, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Alon V. McCormick (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Changyub Paek (Owasso, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods using homogeneous precipitation of a metal on a surface of a particle to prepare silica particles having the metal adsorbed thereon are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, the silica particles having the metal adsorbed thereon can be used to prepare carbon coated silica particles. The carbon coated silica particles can be useful in a wide variety of applications including, for example, for use as sorbents in chromatography. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699992 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/0211 (20130101) B01J 20/0229 (20130101) B01J 20/0248 (20130101) B01J 20/283 (20130101) B01J 20/286 (20130101) B01J 20/324 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3236 (20130101) B01J 20/3289 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/18 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09073751 | Nie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuming Nie (Atlanta, Georgia); Andrew M. Smith (Atlanta, Georgia); Brad A. Kairdolf (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuming Nie (Atlanta, Georgia); Andrew M. Smith (Atlanta, Georgia); Brad A. Kairdolf (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide: methods of making a quantum dot, quantum dots, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/060513 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/007 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/80 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/025 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0256 (20130101) H01L 21/02562 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02601 (20130101) |
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| US 09073801 | Hoveyda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Miao Yu (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Chenbo Wang (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Miao Yu (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Chenbo Wang (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to olefin metathesis. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for Z-selective ring-closing metathesis. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/487067 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 37/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 225/02 (20130101) C07D 245/02 (20130101) C07D 267/00 (20130101) C07D 313/00 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) C07D 491/18 (20130101) C07D 491/22 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09073820 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiangshu Xiao (Portland, Oregon); Bingbing Li (Portland, Oregon); Fuchun Xie (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OREGON HEALTH and SCIENCE UNIVERSITY (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiangshu Xiao (Portland, Oregon); Bingbing Li (Portland, Oregon); Fuchun Xie (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are naphthamide and quinoline carboxamide compounds containing two bicyclic moieties, pharmaceutical compositions comprising those compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of cancers mediated by cyclic-AMP (cAMP) response element binding protein (CREB). The disclosed compositions have utility in the treatment of lung, prostate and breast cancers in a human subject. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/355926 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/165 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 235/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073829 | Myers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); David A. Kummer (La Jolla, California); Derun Li (Roselle Park, New Jersey); Evan Hecker (Arlington, Massachusetts); Amelie Dion (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter M. Wright (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); David A. Kummer (La Jolla, California); Derun Li (Roselle Park, New Jersey); Evan Hecker (Arlington, Massachusetts); Amelie Dion (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter M. Wright (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously thought susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The recent development of a modular synthesis of tetracycline analogs through a chiral enone intermediate has allowed for the efficient synthesis of novel tetracycline analogs never prepared before. The present invention provides more efficient routes for preparing the enone intermediate and allows for substituents at positions 4a, 5, 5a, and 12a of the tetracycline ring system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/266788 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 45/69 (20130101) C07C 45/673 (20130101) C07C 45/673 (20130101) C07C 49/637 (20130101) C07C 49/637 (20130101) C07C 49/637 (20130101) C07C 237/26 (20130101) C07C 311/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/02 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2103/46 (20130101) C07C 2103/66 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/16 (20130101) C07D 209/58 (20130101) C07D 213/30 (20130101) C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 233/61 (20130101) C07D 261/20 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 295/15 (20130101) C07D 295/155 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0814 (20130101) |
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| US 09073863 | Verkman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan S. Verkman (San Francisco, California); Puay-Wah Phuan (San Francisco, California); Mark J. Kurth (Davis, California); John Knapp (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan S. Verkman (San Francisco, California); Puay-Wah Phuan (San Francisco, California); Mark J. Kurth (Davis, California); John Knapp (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods for increasing activity of a mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein (mutant-CFTR). The pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods are useful for the study and treatment of disorders associated with mutant-CFTR, such as cystic fibrosis. The pharmaceutical compositions and pharmaceutical preparations may include one or more cyanoquinoline-containing compounds of the embodiments, or an analog or derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122193 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09073884 | Gerwick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Gerwick (La Jolla, California); Lena Gerwick (La Jolla, California); Hyuakjae Choi (San Diego, California); Francisco Villa (La Jolla, California); Jennifer Smith (San Diego, California); David C Rowley (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); University of Rhode Island Research Foundation (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Gerwick (La Jolla, California); Lena Gerwick (La Jolla, California); Hyuakjae Choi (San Diego, California); Francisco Villa (La Jolla, California); Jennifer Smith (San Diego, California); David C Rowley (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel compositions based on a structure designated as “Honaucin A”, including Honaucin A variants and analogs, and pharmaceutical compositions, liposomes and nanoparticles comprising them, and methods of making and using them. In one embodiment, these Honaucin A compounds, and variants and analogs thereof are used to ameliorate (including to treat or prevent) inflammation. In one embodiment, these Honaucin A compounds, and variants and analogs thereof are used to ameliorate (including to treat or prevent) inflammation. In one embodiment, these Honaucin A compounds, and variants and analogs thereof are used as bacterial quorumsensing inhibitors. Accordingly, in alternative embodiments the compositions of the invention are used as anti-bacterial agents. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696583 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2310/0097 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/14 (20130101) A61K 8/37 (20130101) A61K 8/42 (20130101) A61K 8/69 (20130101) A61K 8/4973 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/41 (20130101) A61L 2300/202 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 11/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 57/52 (20130101) C07C 57/54 (20130101) C07C 69/732 (20130101) C07C 233/15 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073896 | Tomkinson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan E. Tomkinson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Helen Xi Chen (Austin, Texas); Barbara Dziegielewska (Charlottesville, Virginia); Alexander D. Mackerell (Baltimore, Maryland); Shijun Zhong (Catonsville, Maryland); Gerald M. Wilson (Middle River, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating cancer using compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases. Methods for using compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases to provide insights into the reaction mechanisms of human DNA ligases, for example to identify the human DNA ligase involved in different DNA repair pathways. Screening methods for compounds that inhibit human DNA ligases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/864916 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/41 (20130101) A61K 31/175 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/397 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/423 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/553 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/30 (20130101) C07D 235/28 (20130101) C07D 257/04 (20130101) C07D 263/58 (20130101) C07D 267/18 (20130101) C07D 271/12 (20130101) C07D 277/74 (20130101) C07D 285/14 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073920 | Cushman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Evgeny A. Kiselev (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Evgeny A. Kiselev (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein pertains to substituted dibenzonaphthyridine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and formulations comprising the dibenzonaphthyridine compounds, their synthesis, and methods for their use in the treatment and/or prevention of cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/816972 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073935 | Lindsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Michael R. Wood (Brentwood, Tennessee); Corey R. Hopkins (Nolensville, Tennessee); Bruce J. Melancon (Nashville, Tennessee); Michael S. Poslusney (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to substituted benzylspiroindolin-2-one analogs compounds, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (mAChR M1); synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with muscarinic acetylcholine receptor dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/674016 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/10 (20130101) C07D 487/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 491/107 (20130101) C07D 491/113 (20130101) |
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| US 09073945 | Blue et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Blue (New York, New York); Barry S. Coller (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Blue (New York, New York); Barry S. Coller (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of thrombotic disorders comprising administration of alpha-IIB-beta-3 inhibitor compounds and compositions containing the compounds. The methods of the invention are useful for the treatment or prophylaxis of thrombotic disorders, including stroke, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, peripheral vascular disease, abrupt closure following angioplasty or stent placement and thrombosis as a result of vascular surgery. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441412 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 513/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073964 | Atwood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott X. Atwood (Stanford, California); Anthony Oro (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott X. Atwood (Stanford, California); Anthony Oro (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for modulating Hedgehog (Hh) pathway signaling in a cell. Aspects of the methods include methods for inhibiting Hh pathway-promoted cancer proliferation and/or metastasis that is promoted by Hh pathway signaling, methods for treating cancers promoted by Hh pathway signaling, and methods for screening candidate agents for the ability to treat a cancer promoted by Hh pathway signaling. In addition, reagents and kits thereof that find use in practicing the subject methods are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422936 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/40 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 491/107 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11013 (20130101) |
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| US 09073965 | Otvos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laszlo Otvos (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Eva Surmacz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laszlo Otvos (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Eva Surmacz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Short peptide mimetics of adiponectin suitable for development as pharmaceutical agonists in the treatment of cellular proliferative disorders such as cancer and atherosclerosis are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/110813 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/5759 (20130101) |
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| US 09073974 | Lam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Yan Wang (Sacramento, California); Wenwu Xiao (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Yan Wang (Sacramento, California); Wenwu Xiao (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to cyclic RGD peptides linked via a disulfide bond, where the terminal cysteines are preferably in the D configuration. These peptides target αvβ3 integrin on tumor cells and neovasculatures and function as targeting agents for tumor diagnostic imaging and therapy. Compared with the commonly used RGD ligands, compounds of the present invention have improved targeting efficacy and lower nonspecific binding to normal organs. Moreover, the compounds of the present invention can be functionalized to conjugate imaging payload without decreasing binding strength. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/517039 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/78 (20130101) |
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| US 09073982 | DeMore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Klauber DeMore (Durham, North Carolina); Cam Patterson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Rajendra Bhati (Durham, North Carolina); Bradley G. Bone (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of polynucleotides and polypeptides having increased expression in tumor blood vessels. The invention further relates to the use of the identified polynucleotides and polypeptides, and inhibitors of the polynucleotides and polypeptides, in the regulation of angiogenesis and the diagnosis and treatment of angiogenesis-related diseases such as cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222926 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/13 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 2800/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09073996 | Clemmons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Clemmons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Laura Maile (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Michael Naso (Radnor, Pennsylvania); Francis J. Carr (Balmedie, United Kingdom); Timothy D. Jones (Babraham, United Kingdom); Simon William Keen (West Wickham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that binds αVβ3 integrin, as well as methods of use in the treatment of diseases and disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/015457 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/2848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09074000 | Scheinberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David A. Scheinberg (New York, New York); Tao Dao (New York, New York); Cheng Liu (Oakland, California); Su Yan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York, New York); EUREKA THERAPEUTICS, INC. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Scheinberg (New York, New York); Tao Dao (New York, New York); Cheng Liu (Oakland, California); Su Yan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides antigen binding proteins that specifically bind to Wilms' tumor protein (WT1), including humanized, chimeric and fully human antibodies against WT1, antibody fragments, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), fusion proteins, and conjugates thereof. The antigen binding proteins and antibodies bind to HLA-A0201-restricted WT1 peptide. Such antibodies, fragments, fusion proteins and conjugates thereof are useful for the treatment of WT1 associated cancers, including for example, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, chronic myelocytic leukemia, multiple myeloma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid/myelogenous leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). In more particular embodiments, the anti-WT1/A antibodies may comprise one or more framework region amino acid substitutions designed to improve protein stability, antibody binding and/or expression levels. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/008447 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2833 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5748 (20130101) |
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| US 09074002 | Tonks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas Tonks (Huntington, New York); Aftabul Haque (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Tonks (Huntington, New York); Aftabul Haque (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are agents, including antibodies, antibody fragments, polypeptides and organic small molecules, that bind reversibly inactive PTP1B (designated herein in the alternative as PTP1B-SN or PTP1B-OX) and stabilize it (stabilize PTP1B-OX) in such a manner that they inhibit reactivation of reversibly oxidized, inactive PTP1B by reduction (by reducing agent) and have no substantial direct inhibitory effect on phosphatase activity/PTP1B activity (for example, as detectable in assays in vitro). |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/266430 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/80 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 2333/9121 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09074011 | Parsons |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramon Parsons (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon Parsons (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for delivering cargo molecules across biological membranes is provided comprising (i) a peptide comprising consecutive amino acid residues having the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO 1 for the transport of a cargo molecule across a biological membrane and (ii) the cargo molecule, wherein the cargo molecule is not a peptide comprising amino acid residues having the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO 4. Methods of delivering cargo molecules across biological membranes are also provided. Methods of treating a tumor, cancer, a metabolic disorder, and a cardiovascular disorder are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/579025 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 47/48315 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 301/03048 (20130101) |
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| US 09074012 | Seale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Seale (Media, Pennsylvania); Bruce M. Spiegelman (Waban, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Seale (Media, Pennsylvania); Bruce M. Spiegelman (Waban, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for inducing brown fat cell differentiation through modulation of Prdm 16 activity or expression. Also provided are methods for preventing or treating obesity or an obesity related disorder in a subject through stimulation of Prdm 16 expression or activity. Further provided are methods for identifying compounds that are capable of modulating Prdm 16 expression or activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446110 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0653 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2506/1307 (20130101) |
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| US 09074016 | Felder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robin A. Felder (Charlottesville, Virginia); Pedro Jose (Mason Neck, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Robin A. Felde (Charlottesville, Virginia); Pedro Jose (Mason Neck, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin A. Felder (Charlottesville, Virginia); Pedro Jose (Mason Neck, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for identifying individuals predisposed to essential hypertension and related conditions such as salt sensitivity by detecting the presence of polymorphic or mutant forms of the GRK4 gene, or its expression product. Also disclosed are methods for identifying polymorphic or mutant GRK4s in individuals known to be suffering from such conditions, as well as methods and compositions for conducting drug discovery and therapeutic intervention. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315338 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) A01K 2217/056 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/723 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09074185 | Dudley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Dudley (Washington, District of Columbia); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of promoting regression of a cancer in a mammal comprising (i) culturing autologous T cells; (ii) expanding the cultured T cells; (iii) administering to the mammal nonmyeloablative lymphodepleting chemotherapy; and (iv) after administering nonmyeloablative lymphodepleting chemotherapy, administering to the mammal the expanded T cells, wherein the T cells administered to the mammal are about 19 to about 35 days old and have not been screened for specific tumor reactivity, whereupon the regression of the cancer in the mammal is promoted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/742541 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 35/26 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/208 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2046 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 2039/515 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/23 (20130101) C12N 2501/515 (20130101) |
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| US 09074186 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Boston Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts); TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Murphy (Boston, Massachusetts); David H. Sherr (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Sarah S. Rozelle (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Brenden W. Smith (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods of making a megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cell (MEP), comprising differentiating a stem cell into a MEP in culture in the presence of an aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) agonist. In some embodiments the stem cell is a pluripotent stem cell. In some embodiments the MEP co-expresses CD41 and CD235. In some embodiments the number of MEPs produced in the culture increases exponentially. Methods of making a red blood cell (RBC) by culturing a MEP in the presence of an AhR agonist are also provided. Methods of making a megakaryocyte and/or a platelet, comprising culturing a MEP in the presence of an AhR modulator are also provided. In some embodiments the AhR modulator is an AhR antagonist. This disclosure also provides compositions comprising at least 1 million MEPs per ml and compositions in which at least 50% of the cells are MEPs. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/828357 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 35/18 (20130101) A61K 35/19 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0641 (20130101) C12N 5/0644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09074199 | Chavez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alejandro Chavez (Brookline, Massachusetts); Frank Poelwijk (Dallas, Texas); George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making mutant Cas9 proteins are described. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/319784 |
| 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 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09074220 | Mauro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent P. Mauro (San Diego, California); Gerald M. Edelman (La Jolla, California); Wei Zhou (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent P. Mauro (San Diego, California); Gerald M. Edelman (La Jolla, California); Wei Zhou (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A translation enhancer-driven positive feedback vector system is disclosed which is designed to facilitate identification of a Translational Enhancer Element (TEE) and to provide a means for overexpression of gene products. The system exploits both transcriptional and translational approaches to control the expression levels of genes and/or gene products. Methods are also disclosed for screening libraries of random nucleotide sequences to identify translational elements and for overproduction of proteins, which have uses in both research and industrial environments. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857286 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1051 (20130101) C12N 15/1086 (20130101) C12N 2800/107 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) C12N 2840/20 (20130101) C12N 2840/105 (20130101) C12N 2840/203 (20130101) |
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| US 09074221 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hai Yan (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Darell Bigner (Mebane, North Carolina); Christopher Gentry Duncan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hai Yan (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Darell Bigner (Mebane, North Carolina); Christopher Gentry Duncan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | IDH1 gene-defective cell lines (e.g., IDH1R132H heterozygous) have been made from a robust cell line, HCT116. The IDH1 gene-defective cell lines can be used to determine the effect of IDH1R132H on cell biology, tumorigenesis, and cellular metabolic profiles. These cell lines can be used to test potential therapeutic targets and to screen potential therapeutic agents. Kits and xenografts are also contemplated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/881417 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0693 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/902 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2799/025 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09074224 | Essner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey J. Essner (Ames, Iowa); Hsin-Kai Liao (Ames, Iowa); Scott C. Fahrenkrug (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Recombinetics, Inc. (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey J. Essner (Ames, Iowa); Hsin-Kai Liao (Ames, Iowa); Scott C. Fahrenkrug (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for gene targeting utilizing fusion molecules comprising a recombinase domain and a sequence-specific DNA-binding domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/869232 |
| 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 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/09 (20130101) C07K 2319/81 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/14022 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09074247 | Su et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ying-Hsiu Su (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Selena Y. Lin (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying-Hsiu Su (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Selena Y. Lin (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid and sensitive assay to detect p53 mutations in urine has been developed for use in screening cancer patients. The method uses a locked nucleic acid (LNA) clamp mediated one-step PCR-based assay with a sensitivity of up to a single copy and can be used not only in urine, but also other biological samples. The assay is particularly useful for hepatocellular carcinoma, colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, lymphoma, and stomach cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/647991 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09074257 | Rieder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Rieder (Seattle, Washington); Allan Rettie (Langley, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for predicting drug responses. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for determining individualized Warfarin dosages based on genotype of DNA polymorphisms and haplotypes derived from them in the VKORC1 gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/074289 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09074302 | Lo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tim Jia-Ching Lo (Medford, Massachusetts); Gary G. Leisk (Wilmington, Massachusetts); David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Jia-Ching Lo (Medford, Massachusetts); Gary G. Leisk (Wilmington, Massachusetts); David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and method for drawing egel silk fibroin fibers. The resulting fibers can transmit light and hence can be used as optical fiber. Silk fibroin fiber is produced by a method comprising applying an electric field to a solubilized silk fibroin solution to create a silk fibroin gel; converting the silk fibroin gel to a viscous silk liquid; and drawing a silk fiber from the viscous silk liquid. The silk fiber of the invention can be used in materials such as textile, medical sutures, and tissue materials, as well as conferring optical properties into these materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/498722 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 1/02 (20130101) D01D 5/00 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 4/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02033 (20130101) |
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| US 09074976 | Adolphi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Natalie L. Adolphi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward R. Flynn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Howard Bryant (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kimberly Butler (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Senior Scientific, LLC (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Natalie L. Adolphi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward R. Flynn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Howard Bryant (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kimberly Butler (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring the average viscosity of a test fluid uses calibrated magnetic nanoparticles, with certain chosen hydrodynamic diameters and actual lateral dimensions (e.g. diameters), that are mixed into a small volume of the test fluid and a single magnetic relaxation curve measurement to provide data for viscosity determination. The distribution of hydrodynamic particle sizes of an ensemble of magnetic nanoparticles that are magnetically blocked at room temperature can be determined. Modifications of the method can be used to determine the distribution of viscosities in a complex fluid at the sub-microscopic level providing a novel type of viscosity measurement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/385671 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 11/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2011/0086 (20130101) |
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| US 09074978 | Lo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Tsung-Feng Wu (La Jolla, California); Zhe Mei (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California); Tsung-Feng Wu (La Jolla, California); Zhe Mei (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, devices and systems are disclosed for characterizing particles in a fluid sample by optical space-time coding. In one aspect, a microfluidic device for optical detection of particles includes a substrate, a microfluidic channel formed on the substrate and structured to carry a fluid sample containing particles, in which the microfluidic channel is structured to transmit a probe light, and a mask formed on one side of the microfluidic channel and structured to include a pattern of openings along the microfluidic channel, in which at least two of the openings have varying dimensions across the microfluidic channel, and in which the pattern of openings encodes a waveform on the probe light that transmits through the microfluidic channel to allow optical detection of a position of a particle in the microfluidic channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/548160 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1459 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1486 (20130101) G01N 2015/1493 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/001 (20130101) G01P 5/20 (20130101) G01P 5/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09075011 | Inman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel Walker Inman (Boston, Massachusetts); Ian W. Hunter (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Walker Inman (Boston, Massachusetts); Ian W. Hunter (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A material is excited with light whose intensity is modulated according to a modulation signal. The modulation signal includes multiple transitions between at least two intensity levels, with times of at least a first contiguous sequence of the transitions being selected according to an irregular pattern. A response of the material to the excitation is detected. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118303 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — 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 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/4406 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6408 (20130101) G01N 21/7703 (20130101) G01N 2021/772 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) G01N 2021/6484 (20130101) G01N 2021/7786 (20130101) G01N 2201/0691 (20130101) |
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| US 09075044 | High et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Katherine A. High (Merion, Pennsylvania); Marcela V. Maus (New York, New York); Federico Mingozzi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Hui (Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine A. High (Merion, Pennsylvania); Marcela V. Maus (New York, New York); Federico Mingozzi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Daniel J. Hui (Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for inhibiting T cell mediated destruction of virally transduced, trangene containing cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302206 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/7051 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/015 (20130101) |
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| US 09075050 | Tsimikas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sotirios Tsimikas (San Diego, California); Joseph L. Witztum (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods to analyze oxidized phospholipids (OxPL) on apolipoprotein B-100 in patients at high risk or with documented coronary artery disease (CAD) or acute coronary syndromes (ACS) such as unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction or suspected of being at risk for ACS. Such methods are useful for diagnostic purposes and for monitoring the effects of dietary interventions or with drugs such as statins. More particularly, the disclosure provides methods for determining OxPL/apoB ratios as indices of atherosclerosis regression and plaque stability. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/048809 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/775 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/323 (20130101) |
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| US 09075059 | Kelly |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kimberly A. Kelly (Crozet, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly A. Kelly (Crozet, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for diagnostic and imaging techniques for detecting and localizing the biomarker Plectin-1. The present invention provides multimeric peptide ligand complexes for targeting Plectin-1, such as the multimeric peptide ligand complex having the formula (βAKTLLPTPGGS(PEG5000))4 KKKKDOTAβA-NH2, to which imaging agents and/or therapeutic agents can be conjugated. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/508120 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/574 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/4724 (20130101) |
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| US 09075062 | Ried et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Ried (Bethesda, Maryland); Jens Habermann (Celle, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Ried (Bethesda, Maryland); Jens Habermann (Celle, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of determining colorectal cancer status in a subject. The invention further relates to kits for determining colorectal cancer status in a subject. The invention further related to methods of identifying biomarker for determining colorectal cancer status in a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/886886 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57419 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09075070 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Longqin Hu (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Daigo Inoyama (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Longqin Hu (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Daigo Inoyama (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and kits for identifying modulators of the Keap1-Nrf2-ARE pathway. In particular, a high throughput fluorescent polarization assay is described that identifies small molecules that inhibit the binding of a fluorescently labeled Nrf2 peptide with the kelch domain of the Keap1 protein. Also provided are probes that can be used in the described fluorescent polarization assay. The small molecules identified using the described assay are useful for combating oxidative stress-related disorders, such as those associated with cancer, emphysema, Huntington's disease, light-induced retinal damage, and stroke. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/369902 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6445 (20130101) G01N 33/6875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/4703 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09075122 | Fleysher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lazar Fleysher (Brooklyn, New York); Matilde Inglese (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lazar Fleysher (Brooklyn, New York); Matilde Inglese (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes exemplary embodiments of process, system, computer-accessible medium and processing arrangement which can be used to provide multiple-quantum-filtered imaging. For example, provided herein is an exemplary system that can include an arrangement which can be configured to extract and/or determine at least one Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) signal provided from an anatomical sample utilizing differences of phases of excitation pulses provided from an apparatus. The NMR signal(s) can relate to at least one multiple-quantum coherence in a presence of B0 inhomogeneities associated with the anatomical sample. The exemplary arrangement can be or include a triple and/or double quantum filter arrangement. Exemplary extraction or detection can be from quantum systems having up to N orders of coherence using a pair of paired phase cycles. Further, it is possible to quantify the intracellular concentration contribution based on the signals, in accordance with certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/941923 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/56 (20130101) G01R 33/485 (20130101) G01R 33/4608 (20130101) G01R 33/5605 (20130101) G01R 33/56563 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09075796 | Markatou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The National Institutes of Health, a component of the US Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); The National Institutes of Health, A Component of the US Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marianthi Markatou (New York, New York); Robert Ball (Rockville, Maryland); Taxiarchis Botsis (Rockville, Maryland); Michael D. Nguyen (Bethesda, Maryland); Emily J. Woo (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques include performing text mining on a set of case reports in text format to determine a set of grammar rules to be used to determine whether case reports meet a medical condition. The text mining includes performing feature selection, used to determine the set of grammar rules, that combines standardized case definitions with experience of medical officers for the medical condition and outputting the set of grammar rules. Another technique includes applying grammar rule(s) to new case report(s), the grammar rule(s) previously determined at least by performing text mining comprised of performing feature selection, used to determine the set of grammar rules, that combines standardized case definitions with experience of medical officers for the medical condition. Indication(s) are output of whether the new case report(s) meet or do not meet the medical condition. The techniques may be performed by a method, an apparatus, and a program product. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/715186 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/3061 (20130101) G06F 19/3443 (20130101) |
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| US 09076104 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wang (La Jolla, California); Rui Chang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems and methods for identifying drug targets using biological networks. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for predicting the effects of drug targets on treating a disease. The method can include constructing a structure of a Bayesian network based at least in part on knowledge of drug inhibiting effects on a disease; associating a set of parameters with the constructed Bayesian network; determining values of a joint probability distribution of the Bayesian network via an automatic procedure; deriving a mean Bayesian network with one or more averaged parameters based at least in part on the joint probability values; and calculating a quantitative prediction based at least in part on the mean Bayesian network. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680297 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/18 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09076212 | Ernst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER (Honolulu, Hawaii); THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII (Honolulu, Hawaii); THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN, INC. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu, Hawaii); The University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii); The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Michael Ernst (Honolulu, Hawaii); Thomas Edmund Prieto (Grafton, Wisconsin); Brian Stewart Randall Armstrong (Shorewood, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a system that adaptively compensates for subject motion in real-time in an imaging system. An object orientation marker (30), preferably a retro-grate reflector (RGR), is placed on the head or other body organ of interest of a patient (P) during a scan, such as an MRI scan. The marker (30) makes it possible to measure the six degrees of freedom (x, y, and z-translations, and pitch, yaw, and roll), or “pose”, required to track motion of the organ of interest. A detector, preferably a camera (40), observes the marker (30) and continuously extracts its pose. The pose from the camera (40) is sent to the scanner (120) via an RGR processing computer (50) and a scanner control and processing computer (100), allowing for continuous correction of scan planes and position (in real-time) for motion of the patient (P). This invention also provides for internal calibration and for co-registration over time of the scanner's and tracking system's reference frames to compensate for drift and other inaccuracies that may arise over time. |
| FILED | Monday, September 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/034252 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/721 (20130101) A61B 5/1127 (20130101) A61B 5/7292 (20130101) A61B 6/0492 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/28 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 2009/3291 (20130101) G06K 2017/0045 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0012 (20130101) |
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| US 09076237 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin); Jie Tang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described here are a system and method for producing a statistical noise map that indicates the noise present in data acquired with an x-ray imaging system, such as an x-ray computed tomography system, an x-ray tomosynthesis system, a C-arm x-ray imaging system, and so on. In general, an image is reconstructed from the acquired data using, for example, any standard filtered back projection (“FBP”) image reconstruction algorithm. This image is used as a base line to estimate a noise standard distribution map. The raw projection data represents a typical measurement among many repeated measurements under the same experimental conditions; therefore, the measured projection data can be used to numerically generate an ensemble of many (e.g., twenty or more) noisy projection data sets. These noisy projection data sets are then used to reconstruct noisy images and from these noisy images and the original image, the statistical noise map can be computed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796783 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/508 (20130101) A61B 6/5205 (20130101) A61B 6/5258 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/002 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/10112 (20130101) G06T 2207/10116 (20130101) G06T 2207/20216 (20130101) |
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| US 09077975 | Zhuang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Zhuang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Wilfred M. Bates (Goettingen, Germany); Bo Huang (San Francisco, California); Wenqin Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to sub-diffraction limit image resolution and other imaging techniques, including imaging in three dimensions. In one aspect, the invention is directed to determining and/or imaging light from two or more entities separated by a distance less than the diffraction limit of the incident light. In some cases, the position of the entities can be determined in all three spatial dimensions (i.e., in the x, y, and z directions), and in certain cases, the positions in all three dimensions can be determined to an accuracy of less than about 1000 nm. In some cases, the z positions may be determined using one of a variety of techniques that uses intensity information or focal information (e.g., a lack of focus) to determine the z position. Non-limiting examples of such techniques include astigmatism imaging, off-focus imaging, or multi-focal-plane imaging. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/899215 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101) G02B 21/361 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) G02B 27/58 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) H04N 13/0203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073041 | Guo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qunhui Guo (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Carol L. Knox (Apollo, Pennsylvania); Raphael O. Kollah (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Justin J. Martin (Jeannette, Pennsylvania); Shantilal M. Mohnot (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Timothy A. Okel (Trafford, Pennsylvania); Daniel E. Rardon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qunhui Guo (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Carol L. Knox (Apollo, Pennsylvania); Raphael O. Kollah (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Justin J. Martin (Jeannette, Pennsylvania); Shantilal M. Mohnot (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Timothy A. Okel (Trafford, Pennsylvania); Daniel E. Rardon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a separation medium comprising rotary dried or spray dried precipitated silica. The silica has a pore surface area P wherein log10 P>2.2, and the ratio of BET to CTAB is at least 1.0 measured prior to any surface modification of the silica. The present invention is further directed to a method of separating suspended or dissolved materials from a fluid stream, comprising contacting the stream with the separation medium described above. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/599308 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 69/148 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/3208 (20130101) B01J 20/3236 (20130101) B01J 20/28033 (20130101) B01J 20/28057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/28069 (20130101) B01J 20/28078 (20130101) B01J 20/28088 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/18 (20130101) C01B 33/193 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/19 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/281 (20130101) |
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| US 09073258 | Helvajian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); William W. Hansen (Lakewood, California); Lee F. Steffeney (Lake Elsinore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photostructurable ceramic is processed using photostructuring process steps for embedding devices within a photostructurable ceramic volume, the devices may include one or more of chemical, mechanical, electronic, electromagnetic, optical, and acoustic devices, all made in part by creating device material within the ceramic or by disposing a device material through surface ports of the ceramic volume, with the devices being interconnected using internal connections and surface interfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779263 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/00 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Typewriters; Selective Printing Mechanisms,, i.e Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From a Forme; Correction of Typographical Errors B41J 2/00 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2203/0338 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00 (20130101) B81C 1/00634 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 23/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
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| US 09073631 | van der Westhuizen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob Johannes van der Westhuizen (South Jordan, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GROEN BROTHERS AVIATION, INC. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Johannes van der Westhuizen (South Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotorcraft is disclosed. The rotorcraft may include an airframe, at least one engine connected to the airframe, and a rotor connected to the airframe. The rotor may include a hub, a rotor blade, and a feathering spindle connecting the rotor blade to the hub. The rotorcraft may further include a flow of oil passing proximate the feathering spindle. The flow of oil may cool the feathering spindle during take off and landing of the rotorcraft. Additionally, the flow of oil may heat the feathering spindle during travel of the rotorcraft at altitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/199678 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/18 (20130101) B64C 27/025 (20130101) B64C 27/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073793 | Kirby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Cincinnati, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Cincinnati, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Slurry compositions for making an environmental barrier coating including from about 9 wt % to about 81 wt % water; from about 3 wt % to about 72 wt % primary material; and from about 0.1 wt % to about 18 wt % slurry sintering aid, and environmental barrier coatings including such compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627517 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/565 (20130101) C04B 35/584 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/89 (20130101) C04B 41/4523 (20130101) C04B 41/4539 (20130101) C04B 41/4539 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5037 (20130101) C04B 41/5096 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24967 (20150115) Y10T 428/24999 (20150401) |
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| US 09073800 | Stepanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Stepanov (Highland Park, New Jersey); Anthony DiStasio (New York, New York); Hongwei Qiu (Harrison, New Jersey); Woo Lee (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Stepanov (Highland Park, New Jersey); Anthony DiStasio (New York, New York); Hongwei Qiu (Harrison, New Jersey); Woo Lee (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An insensitive crystalline high explosive molding powder, usable as a booster HE. The subject insensitive crystalline high explosive molding powder being manufactured by adding the crystalline high explosive, and a polymer or wax based binder to a solvent to form a solution, spray drying the solution to drive off the solvent, thereby co-precipitating the HE and binder to form granules in which the crystals of HE are uniformly distributed in the binder. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751515 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 45/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073962 | Fracchia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Fracchia (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kenneth Cheung (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Fracchia (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil Gershenfeld (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kenneth Cheung (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, hierarchical, nanometer-precise assembly is performed: A first structural unit is attached to a solid substrate in a first fluidic flow. A second structural unit is attached to the first structural unit in a second fluidic flow, a third structural unit is attached to the second structural unit in a third fluidic flow, and so on, until a target structure comprising the structural units is assembled. The first, second, third and so on fluidic flows are separate and occur in order in a temporal sequence. During the temporal sequence, a specific permutation of nucleobases is used repeatedly, in separate fluidic flows which occur at different times, to form multiple attachments between structural units in an assembly. The assembled target structure is removed from the solid substrate. Attachments between the structural units may be formed by nucleobase pairing. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941405 |
| 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 | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09073965 | Otvos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laszlo Otvos (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Eva Surmacz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laszlo Otvos (Audubon, Pennsylvania); Eva Surmacz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Short peptide mimetics of adiponectin suitable for development as pharmaceutical agonists in the treatment of cellular proliferative disorders such as cancer and atherosclerosis are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/110813 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/5759 (20130101) |
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| US 09073982 | DeMore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Klauber DeMore (Durham, North Carolina); Cam Patterson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Rajendra Bhati (Durham, North Carolina); Bradley G. Bone (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of polynucleotides and polypeptides having increased expression in tumor blood vessels. The invention further relates to the use of the identified polynucleotides and polypeptides, and inhibitors of the polynucleotides and polypeptides, in the regulation of angiogenesis and the diagnosis and treatment of angiogenesis-related diseases such as cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222926 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/13 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 2800/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09074034 | Kharlampieva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); The US Army Corp of Engineers (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugenia P. Kharlampieva (Birmingham, Alabama); Veronika Koziovskaya (Birmingham, Alabama); Yun Wang (Birmingham, Alabama); Donald Cropek (Champaign, Illinois); Imee Arcibal (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel type of ultrathin cationic hydrogel coatings are provided that have high, quick and reversible swelling/shrinkage transitions and surface wettability in response to pH changes. The poly(4-vinyl pyridine) (PVP) hydrogel films are produced by selective cross-linking of PVP copolymers in layer-by-layer (LbL) films assembled by spin-assisted method. These multilayer hydrogels exhibit drastic and reversible 10-fold swelling when the pH is changed from neutral to acidic. The swelling amplitude of these coatings is controlled by varying cross-link densities within the films. The pH-responsive hydrogels open new prospects for developing “intelligent” materials with sharp stimuli-triggered responses for applications in sensing, transport regulation, and self-cleaning coatings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798870 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/005 (20130101) B05D 1/185 (20130101) B05D 3/107 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 5/04 (20130101) B05D 5/08 (20130101) B05D 7/50 (20130101) B05D 7/52 (20130101) B05D 7/56 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 226/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09074098 | Tew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Tew (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Melissa A. Lackey (Sunderland, Massachusetts); Jun Cui (Amherst, Massachusetts); Catherine N. Walker (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Alfred J. Crosby (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides highly resilient synthetic hydrogels, which can be prepared, for example, by using the efficient thiol-norbornene chemistry to cross-link hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and hydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer chains. The simple hydrogel system with enhanced mechanical properties is useful in many applications, including in the biomedical field and in the design of protective and corrective wear. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/190396 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/002 (20130101) C08G 77/20 (20130101) C08G 77/46 (20130101) C08G 81/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08L 87/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09074178 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Arnold (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Rudi Fasan (Brea, California); Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270268 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0071 (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 7/04 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/15003 (20130101) |
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| US 09074195 | Kinnan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark K. Kinnan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Heidi L. Gibson (Holliston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A water-based and surfactant-free microwave synthesis of polymer nanoparticles includes the entrapment of diisopropyl fluorophosphatase (DFPase) within poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PVP) nanoparticles. The resulting nanoparticles are approximately 80-100 nm in diameter and reactive activity of DFPase is maintained after encapsulation. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202375 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09074198 | Lovley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Derek R. Lovley (Leyden, Massachusetts); Kelly P. Nevin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Hana Yi (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek R. Lovley (Leyden, Massachusetts); Kelly P. Nevin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Hana Yi (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of producing genetically modified strains of electricigenic microbes that are specifically adapted for the production of electrical current in microbial fuel cells, as well as strains produced by such methods and fuel cells using such strains. In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides genetically modified strains of Geobacter sulfurreducens and methods of using such strains. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789294 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/01 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy 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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| US 09074302 | Lo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tim Jia-Ching Lo (Medford, Massachusetts); Gary G. Leisk (Wilmington, Massachusetts); David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Jia-Ching Lo (Medford, Massachusetts); Gary G. Leisk (Wilmington, Massachusetts); David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and method for drawing egel silk fibroin fibers. The resulting fibers can transmit light and hence can be used as optical fiber. Silk fibroin fiber is produced by a method comprising applying an electric field to a solubilized silk fibroin solution to create a silk fibroin gel; converting the silk fibroin gel to a viscous silk liquid; and drawing a silk fiber from the viscous silk liquid. The silk fiber of the invention can be used in materials such as textile, medical sutures, and tissue materials, as well as conferring optical properties into these materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/498722 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 1/02 (20130101) D01D 5/00 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 4/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02033 (20130101) |
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| US 09074849 | McIntosh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scotlund McIntosh (Framingham, Massachusetts); Lisa Bareiss Hepfinger (Holliston, Massachusetts); Cheryl Ann Stewardson (Hopedale, Massachusetts); Anabela Dugas (Rochester, Massachusetts); James George Fairneny (Roslindale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A garment assembly such as a uniform, a military uniform and a military combat uniform is presented. The garment assembly includes a helmet or head cover being cut from a fabric having a first camouflage pattern with a first set of intermixed colored blotches thereon. The colors of the first set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a first group of colors including an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. The uniform also includes a coat being configured to fit at least a portion of a human torso and a trouser configured to fit at least a portion of human legs, the coat and trouser each being cut from a fabric having a second camouflage pattern with a second set of intermixed colored blotches thereon, the colors of the second set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a second group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Light Sage 560 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/569158 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Outerwear; Protective Garments; Accessories A41D 13/00 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/00 (20130101) Woven Fabrics; Methods of Weaving; Looms D03D 1/00 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 2/90 (20130101) Y10S 428/919 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09074855 | Frericks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lonnie Frericks (King George, Virginia); Thomas Higdon (LaPlata, Maryland); Michael D Lincoln (Litchfield, New Hampshire); Bob Brush (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Mitchell Hovenga (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lonnie Frericks (King George, Virginia); Thomas Higdon (LaPlata, Maryland); Michael D Lincoln (Litchfield, New Hampshire); Bob Brush (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Mitchell Hovenga (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The assemblable module charge system includes a set of quadrant panels, where an individual quadrant panel is a fractional component of a cylindrical wall having a plurality of external longitudinal parallel rails separated by channels. The fractional cylindrical wall has a sectional length with fastening side edges. The set of panels may be stored as a flat-pack and assembled into a single module. The volume of the flat-pack is less than half the volume of the assembled module. The flat-pack is a group of unassembled quadrant panels nested to minimize space. The system uses elongate slides that may be frictionally positioned in channels shared by the module and a charge system. The charge system is a prepackaged explosive that may be fastened to the assembled module. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/998207 |
| 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 1/02 (20130101) F42B 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09074856 | Freitag et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Robert Freitag (Lebanon, New Jersey); Cameron James Martin (Saugus, California); Patrick Francis Coe (Rochester, Michigan); Kevin Michael Lucas (O'Fallon, Illinois); Brian Michael Walter (Syracuse, New York); Christopher Paul Knittle (Lehighton, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Robert Freitag (Lebanon, New Jersey); Cameron James Martin (Saugus, California); Patrick Francis Coe (Rochester, Michigan); Kevin Michael Lucas (O'Fallon, Illinois); Brian Michael Walter (Syracuse, New York); Christopher Paul Knittle (Lehighton, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A gun-launched, penetrating anchor projectile includes a dense, metallic, elongated penetrator having a central bore extending forward from its aft end. An expandable anchor in the form of a hollow cylinder is disposed aft of the penetrator. A spacer and hammer in the form of hollow cylinders are disposed aft of the anchor. A guide tube is disposed radially inward of the anchor, the spacer and the hammer. A semi-rigid cable has one end fixed in the central bore of the penetrator and extends aft through hollow interiors of the expandable anchor, the spacer, and the hammer. The other end of the cable forms a loop on which a pulley is mounted. A discarding sabot and fin assembly are disposed around the projectile. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/255185 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 29/027 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 12/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/68 (20130101) F42B 14/061 (20130101) |
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| US 09075011 | Inman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel Walker Inman (Boston, Massachusetts); Ian W. Hunter (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Walker Inman (Boston, Massachusetts); Ian W. Hunter (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A material is excited with light whose intensity is modulated according to a modulation signal. The modulation signal includes multiple transitions between at least two intensity levels, with times of at least a first contiguous sequence of the transitions being selected according to an irregular pattern. A response of the material to the excitation is detected. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118303 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — 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 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/4406 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6408 (20130101) G01N 21/7703 (20130101) G01N 2021/772 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) G01N 2021/6484 (20130101) G01N 2021/7786 (20130101) G01N 2201/0691 (20130101) |
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| US 09075128 | Chew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel S. Chew (Danville, California); Leo H. Hui (Alhambra, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Chew (Danville, California); Leo H. Hui (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method that digitally distinguishes mainlobe detections from grating lobe and sidelobe detections without need for added antenna or receiver architecture. The method includes applying receive weights to return radar data for each radar receive element to steer each subarray of a array radar antenna to a direction other than the subarray transmit angle and includes applying a subarray weight to each subarray to generate the array radar antenna receive beam data having magnitude and phase components. The method includes applying predetermined scale factors to the subarray beam data magnitude for each subarray to generate scaled subarray beam data magnitudes. The method includes generating guard beam data for each subarray based on the scaled subarray beam data magnitudes. The method also includes determining if the return radar data corresponds to a mainlobe or a grating lobe or sidelobe based on the receive beam data and the guard beam data. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/345915 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/36 (20130101) G01S 7/292 (20130101) G01S 7/2813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 7/2925 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/26 (20130101) H01Q 3/2629 (20130101) H01Q 3/2635 (20130101) |
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| US 09075129 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lam H Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland); Thong T. Do (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lam H Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland); Thong T. Do (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for generating enhanced images of a target area using projection data obtained using an electromagnetic radiation source, the method comprising forming an initial aperture of data points containing positional information of the transmitter and receiver of the electromagnetic radiation; and an associated data record; randomly removing data points from the initial aperture to form subapertures with randomly missing data points; creating a subset of data points from each of the plurality of subapertures; the subsets containing data points containing image data for portions of the target area which are the same or overlapping; comparing the subsets of data points to determine variations in the data points indicative of transient data; based upon the comparison between overlapping subsets of image data, determining whether the subsets of data points comprise image data relating to physical objects or noise. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/449983 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/885 (20130101) G01S 13/887 (20130101) |
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| US 09075282 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (Rome, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos M. Smith (Rome, New York); Michael L Fanto (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus providing an integrated waveguide device that creates entanglement between a sequence of periodically spaced (in time) photons in a single input and output mode. The invention comprises a polarization maintaining integrated waveguide chip containing a number of delay lines, integrated multimode interferometers with the potential for rapid switching, a polarization controller and off chip computer logic and timing. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/013355 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (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 1/225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/70 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0852 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/933 (20130101) |
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| US 09076342 | Brueckner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen Brueckner (Ithaca, New York); Frank N. Adelstein (Ithaca, New York); Haim Bar (Ithaca, New York); Matthew Donovan (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Brueckner (Ithaca, New York); Frank N. Adelstein (Ithaca, New York); Haim Bar (Ithaca, New York); Matthew Donovan (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure generally relates to automated execution and evaluation of computer network training exercises, such as in a virtual machine environment. An example environment includes a control and monitoring system, an attack system, and a target system. The control and monitoring system initiates a training scenario to cause the attack system to engage in an attack against the target system. The target system then performs an action in response to the attack. Monitor information associated with the attack against the target system is collected by continuously monitoring the training scenario. The attack system is then capable of sending dynamic response data to the target system, wherein the dynamic response data is generated according to the collected monitor information to adapt the training scenario to the action performed by the target system. The control and monitoring system then generates an automated evaluation based upon the collected monitor information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388425 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G09B 7/00 (20130101) G09B 9/00 (20130101) G09B 19/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09076509 | Chuang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Te Kent Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung Cai Ngo (Williamson County, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Kent Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung Cai Ngo (Williamson County, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for varying one or more of a supply voltage and reference voltage in an integrated circuit, using independent control of a diode voltage in an asymmetrical double-gate device. An integrated circuit is provided that is controlled by one or more of a supply voltage and a reference voltage. The integrated circuit comprises an independently controlled asymmetrical double-gate device to adjust one or more of the supply voltage and the reference voltage. The independent control may comprise, for example, a back gate bias. The independently controlled asymmetrical double-gate device may be employed in a number of applications, including voltage islands, static RAM, and to improve the power and performance of a processing unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511666 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 5/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/412 (20130101) G11C 11/417 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09076551 | Dally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California); John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Hastings Greer, III (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a control circuit and first, second, and third ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) driver circuits that are each coupled to an output signal. The control circuit is configured to generate a first, second, and third set of control signals that are each based on a respective phase of a clock signal. Each GRS driver circuit is configured to pre-charge a capacitor to store a charge based on the respective set of control signals during at least one phase of the clock signal and drive the output signal relative to a ground network by discharging the charge during a respective phase of the clock signal. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/933058 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/1057 (20130101) G11C 7/1069 (20130101) G11C 11/4096 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09076665 | Stern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods described herein include a sensor for suitable for sensing chemical and biological substances. The sensor comprises a semiconductor layer formed in or on a substrate and a channel having nano-scale dimensions formed in the semiconductor layer, where the structure creates an electrically conducting pathway between a first contact and a second contact on the semiconductor layer. In certain preferred embodiments, the nano-scale channel has a trapezoidal cross-section with an effective width and exposed lateral faces, where the effective width is selected to have same order of magnitude as a Debye length (LD) of the semiconductor material of which the semiconductor layer is formed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/517230 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) |
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| US 09076712 | Zebarjadi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mona Zebarjadi (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Bolin Liao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Keivan Esfarjani (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Gang Chen (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical mobility-controlled material includes a solid state host material having a controllable Fermi energy level and electrical charge carriers with a charge carrier mobility. At least one Fermi level energy at which a peak in charge carrier mobility is to occur is prespecified for the host material. A plurality of particles are distributed in the host material, with at least one particle disposed with an effective mass and a radius that minimize scattering of the electrical charge carriers for the at least one prespecified Fermi level energy of peak charge carrier mobility. The minimized scattering of electrical charge carriers produces the peak charge carrier mobility only at the at least one prespecified Fermi level energy, set by the particle effective mass and radius, the charge carrier mobility being less than the peak charge carrier mobility at Fermi level energies other than the at least one prespecified Fermi level energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017421 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/122 (20130101) H01L 29/158 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1075 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/7727 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/66977 (20130101) |
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| US 09076768 | Kippelen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Yinhua Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Antoine Kahn (Princeton, New Jersey); Jens Meyer (Princeton, New Jersey); Jae Won Shim (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth R. Marder (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Yinhua Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Antoine Kahn (Princeton, New Jersey); Jens Meyer (Princeton, New Jersey); Jae Won Shim (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth R. Marder (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, systems and methods are provided for producing low work function electrodes. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for reducing a work function of an electrode. The method includes applying, to at least a portion of the electrode, a solution comprising a Lewis basic oligomer or polymer; and based at least in part on applying the solution, forming an ultra-thin layer on a surface of the electrode, wherein the ultra-thin layer reduces the work function associated with the electrode by greater than 0.5 eV. According to another exemplary embodiment of the invention, a device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor; at least one electrode disposed adjacent to the semiconductor and configured to transport electrons in or out of the semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117965 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 29/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/105 (20130101) H01L 51/445 (20130101) H01L 51/5092 (20130101) H01L 51/5221 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) |
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| US 09076813 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seung-Chang Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel Feezell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung-Chang Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel Feezell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure for a semiconductor transistor, including various embodiments. In embodiments, a transistor channel can be formed between a semiconductor source and a semiconductor drain, wherein a transistor gate oxide completely surrounds the transistor channel and a transistor gate metal that completely surrounds the transistor gate oxide. Related fabrication processes are presented for similar device embodiments based on a Group III-V semiconductor material and silicon-on-insulator materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/156176 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28264 (20130101) H01L 29/7841 (20130101) H01L 29/66469 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09076822 | Loy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas E Loy (Chandler, Arizona); David Morton (Columbia, Missouri); Emmett Howard (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments can include a method of manufacturing first electronic device(s) and second electronic device(s), the method including: providing a carrier substrate having a first side and a second side, a first substrate bonded to the first side of the carrier substrate, and a second substrate bonded to the second side of the carrier substrate; depositing at least one layer of a first material over the first substrate while the first substrate is bonded to the first side of the carrier substrate to create a portion of the first electronic device(s); and depositing at least one layer of a second material over the second substrate while the second substrate is bonded to the second side of the carrier substrate to create a portion of the second electronic device(s). In many embodiments, the first substrate and/or the second substrate includes a flexible substrate. Other related systems and methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684150 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 27/1218 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 29/66765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78669 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) |
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| US 09076907 | Englund et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Englund (New York, New York); Jacob Mower (New York, New York); Faraz Najafi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiaolong Hu (New York, New York); Karl K. Berggren (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compactly-integrated electronic structures and associated systems and methods are provided. Certain embodiments relate to the ability to integrate nanowire-based detectors with optical components. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/633647 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/42 (20130101) G01J 5/0803 (20130101) G01J 5/0821 (20130101) G01J 5/0853 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/032 (20130101) H01L 31/035227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/12 (20130101) H01L 39/16 (20130101) H01L 39/2403 (20130101) H01L 39/2416 (20130101) |
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| US 09077060 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clark Tu-Cuong Nguyen (Oakland, California); Yang Lin (Albany, California); Wei-Chang Li (Berkeley, California); Bongsang Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark Tu-Cuong Nguyen (Oakland, California); Yang Lin (Albany, California); Wei-Chang Li (Berkeley, California); Bongsang Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A modally driven oscillating element periodically contacts one of more electrical contacts, thereby acting as a switch, otherwise known as a resonant switch, or “resoswitch”, with very high Q's, typically above 10000 in air, and higher in vacuum. Due to periodic constrained contacting of the contacts, the bandwidth of the switch is greatly improved. One or more oscillating elements may be vibrationally interconnected with conductive or nonconductive coupling elements, whereby increased bandwidths of such an overall switching system may be achieved. Using the resoswitch, power amplifiers and converters more closely approaching ideal may be implemented. Integrated circuit fabrication techniques may construct the resoswitch with other integrated CMOS elements for highly compact switching devices. Through introduction of specific geometries within the oscillating elements, displacement gains may be made where modal deflections are greatly increased, thereby reducing device drive voltages to 2.5 V or lower. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/878237 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Switches; Relays; Selectors; Emergency Protective Devices H01H 1/0036 (20130101) H01H 50/005 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Josypenko (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna for passing a cable to a second antenna includes shorts positioned along a circumferential perimeter of the antenna, first and second bicone sections of oppositely directed conductive cone sections energized at respective apices and opening along an antenna axis, first and second dipole sections, where the first dipole section is joined together with and extending from the first conical section to the circumferential perimeter of the antenna, and where the second dipole section is joined together with and extending from the second conical section to the circumferential perimeter of the antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/478355 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/28 (20130101) H01Q 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 13/06 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OMNI MEDSCI, INC. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Omni Medsci, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed N. Islam (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system for use in material processing includes a plurality of semiconductor diodes coupled to a beam combiner to generate a multiplexed optical beam. A cladding pumped fiber amplifier or laser receives the multiplexed optical beam and forms an intermediate beam having at least a first wavelength. An optical element receives the intermediate beam and forms an output beam with an output beam wavelength, wherein the output beam wavelength is at least in part longer than the first wavelength. A subsystem includes lenses or mirrors to deliver a delivered portion of the output beam to a sample. The delivered output beam has a temporal duration greater than about 30 picoseconds, a repetition rate between continuous wave and Megahertz or higher, and a time averaged intensity of less than approximately 50 MW/cm2. The output beam has a time averaged output power of 20 mW or more. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186171 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/108 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (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 2001/3528 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/302 (20130101) H01S 3/1024 (20130101) H01S 3/06725 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) H01S 3/094069 (20130101) H01S 3/094076 (20130101) H01S 5/0085 (20130101) H01S 5/146 (20130101) H01S 5/1092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 2301/085 (20130101) |
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| US 09077314 | Mehta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant G. Mehta (Urbana, Illinois); Tao Yang (Urbana, Illinois); Sean P. Meyn (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for estimating a conditional probability distribution for signal states of a non-linear random dynamic process. The filter is based on multiple particles, each defined by a state space model similar to the dynamic process. Each particle is updated on the basis of a control input derived by proportional gain feedback on an innovation process. The innovation process is the difference between an increment in an observed quantity measured by one or more sensors and an average of a function of the particles. The particle filter of the invention may also be applied to filtering problems with data association uncertainty where multiple measurements are obtained, of which at most one originates from a specified target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/670596 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 17/0261 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09077354 | Strabley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer S. Strabley (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Kenneth Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Karl D. Nelson (Plymouth, Minnesota); Ben Luey (Denver, Colorado); Mike Anderson (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing or eliminating clock bias in an atomic clock is provided. The method comprises cooling a population of atoms collected in the atomic clock using a laser locked at a predetermined frequency, turning off the laser, performing atomic clock spectroscopy, turning on the laser after the atomic clock spectroscopy, and relocking the frequency of the laser to an external reference cell. The population of atoms that are in each of two ground hyperfine levels is then probed using laser light that is on or near-resonant with a selected atomic transition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/759444 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Time-interval Measuring G04F 5/14 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09077372 | Schmuland |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd E. Schmuland (Pemberville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Optimized fully parallel mapped FFT structures where the bit-length of each phase factor used by the FFT is adjusted to meet a quality criteria of phase angle accuracy in terms of error percentage relative to π/4. Two quantization methods of round-to-zero and round-to-nearest are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266776 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/00 (20130101) H03M 7/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 7/4006 (20130101) |
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| US 09077457 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos M. Smith (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Fanto (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated waveguide device that creates entanglement between a sequence of periodically spaced (in time) photons in a single input and output mode. The device consists of a polarization maintaining integrated waveguide chip containing a number of delay lines, integrated multimode interferometers with the potential for rapid switching, a polarization controller, an entangling gate, and off chip computer logic and timing. The device is capable of creating a diverse array of outputs such as linear cluster states and ring cluster states in a single output mode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/248369 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0852 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for fast and precise estimation of frequency with relatively minimal sampling and relatively high tolerance to noise. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/486601 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 21/003 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/20 (20130101) H04L 27/2657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2676 (20130101) H04L 27/2688 (20130101) |
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| US 09078259 | Poovendran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radha Poovendran (Seattle, Washington); Sidharth Nabar (Seattle, Washington); Jeffrey Walling (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication-management method involves a recurring polling scheme, wherein network nodes are polled by a base station according to optimized and/or user-preferred polling intervals assigned to each network node. The polling interval assigned to a given node may be optimized to minimize and/or achieve user-preferred thresholds for energy consumption and latency associated with each network node in the sensor network. Optimized and/or user-preferred polling intervals may be constrained in accordance with various network performance considerations, for example, a recommended update interval for each network node, characteristics of the network nodes themselves, the duration of the timeslots at which the network nodes are polled, and/or other network performance considerations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011706 |
| ART UNIT | 2472 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/12 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/006 (20130101) H04W 52/0216 (20130101) H04W 52/0219 (20130101) H04W 72/10 (20130101) H04W 72/0446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 84/22 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tao Jiang (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Emilia S. Olson (La Jolla, California); Michael Whitney (San Diego, California); Roger Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Jiang (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Emilia S. Olson (La Jolla, California); Michael Whitney (San Diego, California); Roger Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A generic structure for the peptides of the present invention includes A-X-B-C, where C is a cargo moiety, the B portion includes basic amino acids, X is a cleavable linker sequence, and the A portion includes acidic amino acids. The intact structure is not significantly taken up by cells; however, upon extracellular cleavage of X, the B-C portion is taken up, delivering the cargo to targeted cells. Cargo may be, for example, a contrast agent for diagnostic imaging, a chemotherapeutic drug, or a radiation-sensitizer for therapy. X may be cleaved extracellularly or intracellularly. The molecules of the present invention may be linear, cyclic, branched, or have a mixed structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/155168 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0095 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48315 (20130101) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 49/0032 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) A61K 49/085 (20130101) A61K 49/146 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4728 (20130101) |
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| US 09073005 | Hornbostel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc D. Hornbostel (Palo Alto, California); Gopala N. Krishnan (Sunnyvale, California); Angel Sanjurjo (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc D. Hornbostel (Palo Alto, California); Gopala N. Krishnan (Sunnyvale, California); Angel Sanjurjo (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and reactor for removing a component from a gas stream is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing the gas stream containing the component that is to be removed and adsorbing the component out of the gas stream as the gas stream rises via microbeads of a sorbent falling down an adsorber section of a reactor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/489586 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/08 (20130101) B01D 53/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/34 (20130101) B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2253/302 (20130101) B01D 2256/245 (20130101) B01D 2257/406 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/012 (20130101) B01D 2258/0216 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/4009 (20130101) Removal or Treatment of Combustion Products or Combustion Residues; Flues F23J 15/02 (20130101) F23J 2215/50 (20130101) F23J 2219/60 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09073758 | Koc et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rasit Koc (Carbondale, Illinois); Jennifer R. Mawdsley (Woodridge, Illinois); John David Carter (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rasit Koc (Carbondale, Illinois); Jennifer R. Mawdsley (Woodridge, Illinois); John David Carter (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the synthesis of metal borides. Metal boride compounds synthesized by those methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/454022 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 35/00 (20130101) C01B 35/02 (20130101) C01B 35/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09073761 | Palanisamy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE STATE OF OREGON ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barath Palanisamy (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian K. Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Ravindranadh Tagore Eluri (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for synthesizing nanoparticles are provided. Methods for synthesizing nanoparticles are provided comprising mixing at least two solutions comprising the components of the nanoparticles within a micromixer; exposing the resultant mixed, unreacted, azeotropic solution to ultrasound; and collecting the generated nanoparticles. Apparatuses are also provided for synthesizing nanoparticles comprising a micromixer in fluid connection with a continuous reactor comprising at least one inlet, at least one outlet, and an ultrasound horn oriented such that the acoustic energy is transferred to the fluid within the continuous reactor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/203900 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 3/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) |
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| US 09073977 | Zuckermann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald N. Zuckermann (El Cerrito, California); Tammy K. Chu (San Leandro, California); Ki Tae Nam (Emeryville, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald N. Zuckermann (El Cerrito, California); Tammy K. Chu (San Leandro, California); Ki Tae Nam (Emeryville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for novel peptoid oligomers that are capable of self-assembling into two-dimensional sheet structures. The peptoid oligomers can have alternately hydrophilic or polar side-chains and hydrophobic or apolar side-chains. The peptoid oligomers, and the two-dimensional sheet structures, can be applied to biological applications where the peptoid plays a role as a biological scaffold or building block. Also, the two-dimensional sheet structures of the present invention can be used as two-dimensional nanostructures in device applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/022548 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 1/13 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09074198 | Lovley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Derek R. Lovley (Leyden, Massachusetts); Kelly P. Nevin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Hana Yi (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek R. Lovley (Leyden, Massachusetts); Kelly P. Nevin (Amherst, Massachusetts); Hana Yi (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of producing genetically modified strains of electricigenic microbes that are specifically adapted for the production of electrical current in microbial fuel cells, as well as strains produced by such methods and fuel cells using such strains. In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides genetically modified strains of Geobacter sulfurreducens and methods of using such strains. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789294 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/01 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy 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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| US 09074422 | Grubb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daryl L. Grubb (Houston, Texas); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FORO ENERGY, INC. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryl L. Grubb (Houston, Texas); Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power laser drilling system utilizing an electric motor laser bottom hole assembly. A high power laser beam travels within the electric motor for advancing a borehole. High power laser drilling system includes a down hole electrical motor having a hollow rotor for conveying a high power laser beam through the electrical motor. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/403287 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/10 (20130101) B23K 26/38 (20130101) B23K 26/0093 (20130101) B23K 26/403 (20130101) B23K 26/0648 (20130101) B23K 26/1464 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 4/04 (20130101) E21B 7/14 (20130101) E21B 7/15 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 2023/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09074979 | Kaduchak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Kaduchak (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Greg Goddard (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gary Salzman (White Rock, New Mexico); Dipen Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Martin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Christopher Kwiatkowski (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Steven Graves (San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Kaduchak (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Greg Goddard (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gary Salzman (White Rock, New Mexico); Dipen Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Martin (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Christopher Kwiatkowski (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Steven Graves (San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus and corresponding method for concentrating analytes within a fluid flowing through a tube using acoustic radiation pressure. The apparatus includes a function generator that outputs a radio frequency electrical signal to a transducer that transforms the radio frequency electric signal to an acoustic signal and couples the acoustic signal to the tube. The acoustic signal is converted within the tube to acoustic pressure that concentrates the analytes within the fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/618237 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1459 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/4094 (20130101) G01N 2015/142 (20130101) G01N 2015/1413 (20130101) |
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| US 09075012 | Repins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingrid L. Repins (Morrison, Colorado); Darius Kuciauskas (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-resolved photoluminescence-based system providing quality control during manufacture of thin film absorber layers for photovoltaic devices. The system includes a laser generating excitation beams and an optical fiber with an end used both for directing each excitation beam onto a thin film absorber layer and for collecting photoluminescence from the absorber layer. The system includes a processor determining a quality control parameter such as minority carrier lifetime of the thin film absorber layer based on the collected photoluminescence. In some implementations, the laser is a low power, pulsed diode laser having photon energy at least great enough to excite electron hole pairs in the thin film absorber layer. The scattered light may be filterable from the collected photoluminescence, and the system may include a dichroic beam splitter and a filter that transmit the photoluminescence and remove scattered laser light prior to delivery to a photodetector and a digital oscilloscope. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/673581 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6489 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/2601 (20130101) G01R 31/2656 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/10 (20141201) |
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| US 09075148 | Cordaro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph V. Cordaro (Martinez, Georgia); Steven M. Serkiz (Aiken, South Carolina); Christopher S. McWhorter (Evans, Georgia); Lindsay T. Sexton (Aiken, South Carolina); Scott T. Retterer (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAVANNAH RIVER NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph V. Cordaro (Martinez, Georgia); Steven M. Serkiz (Aiken, South Carolina); Christopher S. McWhorter (Evans, Georgia); Lindsay T. Sexton (Aiken, South Carolina); Scott T. Retterer (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Anodes for proportional radiation counters and a process of making the anodes is provided. The nano-sized anodes when present within an anode array provide: significantly higher detection efficiencies due to the inherently higher electric field, are amenable to miniaturization, have low power requirements, and exhibit a small electromagnetic field signal. The nano-sized anodes with the incorporation of neutron absorbing elements (e.g., 10B) allow the use of neutron detectors that do not use 3He. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/427254 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/185 (20130101) G01T 3/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09075759 | Blocksome et al. |
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| 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 direct memory access (‘DMA’) data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI including data communications endpoints, each endpoint including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the endpoints coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through DMA controllers operatively coupled to a deterministic data communications network through which the DMA controllers deliver data communications deterministically, including initiating execution through the PAMI of an ordered sequence of active DMA instructions for DMA data transfers between two endpoints, effecting deterministic DMA data transfers through a DMA controller and the deterministic data communications network; and executing through the PAMI, with no FENCE accounting for DMA data transfers, an active FENCE instruction, the FENCE instruction completing execution only after completion of all DMA instructions initiated prior to execution of the FENCE instruction for DMA data transfers between the two endpoints. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940282 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/544 (20130101) G06F 9/546 (20130101) G06F 15/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 15/17331 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09076551 | Dally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California); John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Hastings Greer, III (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a control circuit and first, second, and third ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) driver circuits that are each coupled to an output signal. The control circuit is configured to generate a first, second, and third set of control signals that are each based on a respective phase of a clock signal. Each GRS driver circuit is configured to pre-charge a capacitor to store a charge based on the respective set of control signals during at least one phase of the clock signal and drive the output signal relative to a ground network by discharging the charge during a respective phase of the clock signal. |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/933058 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/1057 (20130101) G11C 7/1069 (20130101) G11C 11/4096 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09076707 | Harmon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric S. Harmon (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure includes devices for detecting photons, including avalanche photon detectors, arrays of such detectors, and circuits including such arrays. In some aspects, the detectors and arrays include a virtual beveled edge mesa structure surrounded by resistive material damaged by ion implantation and having side wall profiles that taper inwardly towards the top of the mesa structures, or towards the direction from which the ion implantation occurred. Other aspects are directed to masking and multiple implantation and/or annealing steps. Furthermore, methods for fabricating and using such devices, circuits and arrays are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257179 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 27/14643 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14683 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) |
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| US 09076712 | Zebarjadi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mona Zebarjadi (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Bolin Liao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Keivan Esfarjani (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Gang Chen (Carlisle, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical mobility-controlled material includes a solid state host material having a controllable Fermi energy level and electrical charge carriers with a charge carrier mobility. At least one Fermi level energy at which a peak in charge carrier mobility is to occur is prespecified for the host material. A plurality of particles are distributed in the host material, with at least one particle disposed with an effective mass and a radius that minimize scattering of the electrical charge carriers for the at least one prespecified Fermi level energy of peak charge carrier mobility. The minimized scattering of electrical charge carriers produces the peak charge carrier mobility only at the at least one prespecified Fermi level energy, set by the particle effective mass and radius, the charge carrier mobility being less than the peak charge carrier mobility at Fermi level energies other than the at least one prespecified Fermi level energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/017421 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/122 (20130101) H01L 29/158 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1075 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/7727 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/66977 (20130101) |
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| US 09076753 | Iyengar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for the compact cooling of modules. The apparatus includes a clip, a first cover plate coupled to a first side of the clip, a second cover plate coupled to a second side of the clip opposite to the first side of the clip, a first frame thermally coupled to the first cover plate, and a second frame thermally coupled to the second cover plate. Each of the first frame and the second frame may include a plurality of channels for passing coolant through the first frame and the second frame, respectively. Additionally, the apparatus may further include a filler for directing coolant through the plurality of channels, and for blocking coolant from flowing along the first side of the clip and the second side of the clip. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475348 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/467 (20130101) H01L 23/3672 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 23/4093 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20154 (20130101) H05K 7/20509 (20130101) |
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| US 09076768 | Kippelen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Yinhua Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Antoine Kahn (Princeton, New Jersey); Jens Meyer (Princeton, New Jersey); Jae Won Shim (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth R. Marder (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Yinhua Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Antoine Kahn (Princeton, New Jersey); Jens Meyer (Princeton, New Jersey); Jae Won Shim (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth R. Marder (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, systems and methods are provided for producing low work function electrodes. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for reducing a work function of an electrode. The method includes applying, to at least a portion of the electrode, a solution comprising a Lewis basic oligomer or polymer; and based at least in part on applying the solution, forming an ultra-thin layer on a surface of the electrode, wherein the ultra-thin layer reduces the work function associated with the electrode by greater than 0.5 eV. According to another exemplary embodiment of the invention, a device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor; at least one electrode disposed adjacent to the semiconductor and configured to transport electrons in or out of the semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117965 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 29/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/105 (20130101) H01L 51/445 (20130101) H01L 51/5092 (20130101) H01L 51/5221 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) |
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09076903 — Forming high-efficiency silicon solar cells using density-graded anti-reflection surfaces
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao-Chih Yuan (Lakewood, Colorado); Howard M. Branz (Boulder, Colorado); Matthew R. Page (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (50) is provided for processing a graded-density AR silicon surface (14) to provide effective surface passivation. The method (50) includes positioning a substrate or wafer (12) with a silicon surface (14) in a reaction or processing chamber (42). The silicon surface (14) has been processed (52) to be an AR surface with a density gradient or region of black silicon. The method (50) continues with heating (54) the chamber (42) to a high temperature for both doping and surface passivation. The method (50) includes forming (58), with a dopant-containing precursor in contact with the silicon surface (14) of the substrate (12), an emitter junction (16) proximate to the silicon surface (14) by doping the substrate (12). The method (50) further includes, while the chamber is maintained at the high or raised temperature, forming (62) a passivation layer (19) on the graded-density silicon anti-reflection surface (14). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/150221 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/068 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/02167 (20130101) H01L 31/02168 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02363 (20130101) H01L 33/44 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09076915 | Mascarenhas |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Angelo Mascarenhas (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angelo Mascarenhas (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Isoelectronic co-doping of semiconductor compounds and alloys with acceptors and deep donors is sued to decrease bandgap, to increase concentration of the dopant constituents in the resulting alloys, and to increase carrier mobilities lifetimes. For example, Group III-V compounds and alloys, such as GaAs and GaP, are isoelectronically co-doped with, for example, B and Bi, to customize solar cells, and other semiconductor devices. Isoelectronically co-doped Group II-VI compounds and alloys are also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877092 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/207 (20130101) H01L 29/737 (20130101) H01L 29/66318 (20130101) H01L 31/0725 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/03042 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09076940 | Yuan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CREE, INC. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Yuan (Ventura, California); Bernd Keller (Santa Barbara, California); James Ibbetson (Santa Barbara, California); Eric Tarsa (Goleta, California); Gerald Negley (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An LED component comprising an array of LED chips mounted on a planar surface of a submount with the LED chips capable of emitting light in response to an electrical signal. The LED chips comprise respective groups emitting at different colors of light, with each of the groups interconnected in a series circuit. A lens is included over the LED chips. Other embodiments can comprise thermal spreading structures included integral to the submount and arranged to dissipate heat from the LED chips. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/971547 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 25/0753 (20130101) H01L 33/58 (20130101) H01L 33/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48247 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/01019 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/0821 (20130101) H05B 33/0857 (20130101) |
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| US 09076972 | Gust, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Devens Gust, Jr. (Mesa, Arizona); Paul Anthony Liddell (Apache Junction, 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) | John Devens Gust, Jr. (Mesa, Arizona); Paul Anthony Liddell (Apache Junction, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Porphyrin polymers of Structure 1, where n is an integer (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or greater) are synthesized by the method shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B. The porphyrin polymers of Structure 1 are soluble in organic solvents such as 2-MeTHF and the like, and can be synthesized in bulk (i.e., in processes other than electropolymerization). These porphyrin polymers have long excited state lifetimes, making the material suitable as an organic semiconductor for organic electronic devices including transistors and memories, as well as solar cells, sensors, light-emitting devices, and other opto-electronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/907452 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/009 (20130101) H01L 51/0035 (20130101) H01L 51/42 (20130101) H01L 51/0077 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0504 (20130101) |
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| US 09077011 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); Soowhan Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Zhenguo Yang (Bellevue, Washington); Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Baowei Chen (Richland, Washington); Jianlu Zhang (Dalian, China PRC); Guanguang Xia (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Redox flow battery systems having a supporting solution that contains Cl− ions can exhibit improved performance and characteristics. Furthermore, a supporting solution having mixed SO42− and Cl− ions can provide increased energy density and improved stability and solubility of one or more of the ionic species in the catholyte and/or anolyte. According to one example, a vanadium-based redox flow battery system is characterized by an anolyte having V2+ and V3+ in a supporting solution and a catholyte having V4+ and V5+ in a supporting solution. The supporting solution can contain Cl− ions or a mixture of SO42− and Cl− ions. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261262 |
| 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 8/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 2300/0005 (20130101) H01M 2300/0011 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09077039 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gao Liu (Oakland, California); Shidi Xun (Pinole, California); Vincent S. Battaglia (San Anselmo, California); Honghe Zheng (Albany, California); Mingyan Wu (Albany, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gao Liu (Oakland, California); Shidi Xun (Pinole, California); Vincent S. Battaglia (San Anselmo, California); Honghe Zheng (Albany, California); Mingyan Wu (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of carboxylic acid groups containing fluorene/fluorenon copolymers is disclosed as binders of silicon particles in the fabrication of negative electrodes for use with lithium ion batteries. Triethyleneoxide side chains provide improved adhesion to materials such as, graphite, silicon, silicon alloy, tin, tin alloy. These binders enable the use of silicon as an electrode material as they significantly improve the cycle-ability of silicon by preventing electrode degradation over time. In particular, these polymers, which become conductive on first charge, bind to the silicon particles of the electrode, are flexible so as to better accommodate the expansion and contraction of the electrode during charge/discharge, and being conductive promote the flow battery current. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/615402 |
| 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) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) C08G 2261/312 (20130101) C08G 2261/516 (20130101) C08G 2261/1414 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/1426 (20130101) C08G 2261/3142 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/005 (20130101) C08J 2365/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/08 (20130101) C08K 3/08 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/128 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09077046 | Tikhonov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A123 Systems LLC (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | A123 Systems LLC (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin Tikhonov (Pleasanton, California); Ka Ki Yip (San Leandro, California); Tzu-Yuan Lin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are electrochemical cells and electrolytes used to build such cells. The electrolytes include ion-supplying salts and fluorinated solvents capable of maintaining single phase solutions with the salts at between about −30° C. to about 80° C. The fluorinated solvents, such as fluorinated carbonates, fluorinated esters, and fluorinated esters, are less flammable than their non-fluorinated counterparts and increase safety characteristics of cells containing these solvents. The amount of fluorinated solvents in electrolytes may be between about 30% and 80% by weight not accounting weight of the salts. Fluorinated salts, such as fluoroalkyl-substituted LiPF6, fluoroalkyl-substituted LiBF4 salts, linear and cyclic imide salts as well as methide salts including fluorinated alkyl groups, may be used due to their solubility in the fluorinated solvents. In some embodiments, the electrolyte may also include a flame retardant, such as a phosphazene or, more specifically, a cyclic phosphazene and/or one or more ionic liquids. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/909014 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — 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 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0034 (20130101) H01M 2300/0037 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09077534 | Ferguson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dennis D. Ferguson (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crossfield Technology, LLC (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis D. Ferguson (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit includes a linear quadratic estimator (LQE) configured to receive a plurality of measurements a signal. The LQE is configured to weight the measurements based on their respective uncertainties to produce weighted averages. The circuit further includes a controller coupled to the LQE and configured to selectively adjust at least one data link parameter associated with a communication channel in response to receiving the weighted averages. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923283 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/001 (20130101) H04L 1/0003 (20130101) H04L 1/0007 (20130101) H04L 1/0009 (20130101) H04L 1/0015 (20130101) H04L 1/0019 (20130101) H04L 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 1/0045 (20130101) |
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| US D733974 | Lawton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cindy M. Lawton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jude M. Oka (Espanola, New Mexico); Starr A. Johnson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cindy M. Lawton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jude M. Oka (Espanola, New Mexico); Starr A. Johnson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
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| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 29/458716 |
| ART UNIT | 2913 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for safety, protection, and rescue D29/117.100 |
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| US 09072761 | Arya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dev P. Arya (Greenville, South Carolina); Nihar Ranjan (Clemson, South Carolina); Sunil Kumar (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dev P. Arya (Greenville, South Carolina); Nihar Ranjan (Clemson, South Carolina); Sunil Kumar (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds, compositions and methods related to viral inhibition. In some forms, the compounds, compositions and methods are related to binding RNA. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857425 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/232 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/24 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09072789 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Christopher A. Traina (Napa, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Christopher A. Traina (Napa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Oxide, oxysulfide, or phosphate host particles with a self-assembled organo-phosphonate monolayer covalently bonded thereto are disclosed. Methods for coating the host particles and use of rare earth ion-doped particles in imaging methods and photodynamic therapy methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176364 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0057 (20130101) A61K 47/48084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48861 (20130101) |
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| US 09074005 | Poovaiah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bachettira W. Poovaiah (Pullman, Washington); Liqun Du (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bachettira W. Poovaiah (Pullman, Washington); Liqun Du (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for enhancing plant cell disease resistance, comprising (1) generating a homozygous gene modification of AtSR1 (or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog) in a plant or plant cell characterized by sialic acid-mediated systemic acquired resistance (SA-mediated SAR), wherein said gene modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the respective AtSR1 or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog; or (2) expression of a recombinant or mutant AtSR1 sequence (or AtSR1 gene ortholog or homolog sequence) encoding a modified AtSR1, or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog protein, in a plant or plant cell, wherein said protein modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the respective AtSR1 or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog protein. Plants and/or plant cells comprising said modified AtSR1, or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog proteins, and/or said expression means (e.g., recombinant expression vector or expressible recombinant and/or mutant sequences), along with nucleic acids encoding said modified proteins are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/651951 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8281 (20130101) |
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| US 09074129 | Fraser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cassandra L. Fraser (Charlottesville, Virginia); Guoqing Zhang (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cassandra L. Fraser (Charlottesville, Virginia); Guoqing Zhang (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides luminescent solid-state compositions comprising difluoroboron beta-diketonates wherein the compositions can exhibit mechanochromic luminescence. The mechanochromic effect on the luminescence can be reversible, such as thermally reversible. Various solid-state forms of the invention can have emission spectra that differ from the properties of the respective difluoroboron beta-diketonate in solution. The mechanochromic effect can be stimulated by pressure such as handwriting, and can be reversed over a period of minutes to hours at room temperature. The invention also provides methods of making and methods of using the solid-state compositions, such as for sensors and for information displays for use in biological sensing, and in art, design, and consumer products. Compositions of the invention, such as compositions in nanoparticulate form, or contained within a matrix material, can be used in conjunction with fluorescence microscopy to provide information concerning pressures and tensions within and external to living cells, tissues, or organisms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/512052 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/02 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 23/141 (20130101) C09B 57/10 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 2211/1007 (20130101) C09K 2211/1096 (20130101) |
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| US 09074178 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Arnold (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Rudi Fasan (Brea, California); Mike M. Y. Chen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to modified hydroxylases. The invention further relates to cells expressing such modified hydroxylases and methods of producing hydroxylated alkanes by contacting a suitable substrate with such cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270268 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0071 (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 7/04 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/15003 (20130101) |
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| US 09074193 | Hannah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida); Nikolaos Georgelis (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Curtis Hannah (Gainesville, Florida); Nikolaos Georgelis (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased resistance to heat conditions. Increased resistance of a plant or plant tissue to heat conditions provides for decreased yield losses generally observed at elevated temperatures. One aspect of the invention concerns polynucleotides that encode a mutant plant small subunit of AGPase. The subject invention also comprises a mutant plant small subunit of AGPase encoded by a polynucleotide of the invention. The subject invention also concerns plants comprising a polynucleotide of the invention and method for making the plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082339 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 9/1241 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8271 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07027 (20130101) |
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| US 09074296 | Archer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lynden A. Archer (Ithaca, New York); Xiong Wen Lou (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lynden A. Archer (Ithaca, New York); Xiong Wen Lou (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | Each of: (1) a nanoparticle comprising a substantially single crystalline mesoporous Co3O4 material; (2) a battery electrode comprising a plurality of nanoparticles comprising the substantially single crystalline mesoporous Co3O4 material; (3) a battery comprising the battery electrode comprising the plurality of nanoparticles comprising the substantially single crystalline mesoporous Co3O4 material; and (4) a plurality of methods for preparing the nanoparticle comprising the substantially single crystalline mesoporous Co3O4 material, may be employed within the context of a lithium containing battery, such as a lithium ion battery. When the substantially single crystalline mesoporous Co3O4 material has a pore size of about 3 to about 8 nanometers enhanced lithium containing battery electrical performance properties are observed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858785 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) 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 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/16 (20130101) C30B 29/605 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/02 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2976 (20150115) Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09074300 | Mrksich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Milan Mrksich (Chicago, Illinois); Christian Hodneland (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milan Mrksich (Chicago, Illinois); Christian Hodneland (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method, comprising (a) providing a reactant ligand attached to a substrate; (b) contacting the substrate with a fusion polypeptide, said fusion polypeptide comprising a capture polypeptide fused to a display polypeptide under conditions such that said reactant ligand covalently binds to said capture polypeptide; and (c) analyzing said display polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/984948 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 323/58 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4006 (20130101) C07F 9/4084 (20130101) C07F 9/65515 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/551 (20130101) G01N 33/6845 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 530/811 (20130101) Y10S 530/812 (20130101) Y10S 530/815 (20130101) |
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| US 09074936 | Nelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts); Kenan Gundogdu (Cary, North Carolina); Katherine W. Stone (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel B. Turner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts); Kenan Gundogdu (Cary, North Carolina); Katherine W. Stone (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel B. Turner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are disclosed, and include: (a) separating an input electromagnetic waveform into a plurality of intermediate waveforms, each of the intermediate waveforms being spatially separated from one another; (b) dispersing frequency components of each intermediate waveform onto different regions of a spatial light modulator and modulating at least some of the dispersed frequency components with the spatial light modulator; and (c) recombining the dispersed frequency components for each of the intermediate waveforms to produce a plurality of temporally shaped output waveforms. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/147842 |
| 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 3/02 (20130101) G01J 3/0224 (20130101) G01J 3/433 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/1286 (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 2203/18 (20130101) G02F 2203/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09075010 | Moerner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William E. Moerner (Stanford, California); Anika Kinkhabwala (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univerity (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Moerner (Stanford, California); Anika Kinkhabwala (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, and methods of use, for enhancement of molecular emission by nano-antennas. Using the nano-antennas, the life-time is greatly shortened or the strength of broadly peaking spectral emission of fluorescent molecules is greatly enhanced by a generated electric field. The electric field generated is due to opposing charges located at two metallic end portions of the nano-antenna in response to receiving optical energy. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/274915 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09075056 | Tao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weiguo Andy Tao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Anton B. Iliuk (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weiguo Andy Tao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Anton B. Iliuk (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are reagents that include a moiety that includes a metal such as titanium and that readily binds to phosphorylated molecules the reagents also include at least one moiety that produces a signal or that binds to a molecule that produces a signal. The reagent may also include a moiety that binds to a larger molecule or to a surface. Some forms of the reagent include a dendrimer that can simultaneously bind to multiple metal moieties that include a metal such as titanium and multiple moieties that can be used to detected bound molecules. These reagents can be used in detection and/or measurement and/or at least partial purification of phosphorylated molecules. These reagents and methods using them are used to analyze proteins, polypeptides, nucleic acids, phospholipids and the like. They are readily adapted for use in gels, blots, plate based high through put assays and for mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/641038 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/338 (20130101) C08G 73/028 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/58 (20130101) G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 2440/14 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/70 (20130101) Y10S 977/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09075825 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xue-wen Chen (Lawrence, Kansas); Bo Luo (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xue-wen Chen (Lawrence, Kansas); Bo Luo (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a system and methods for image searching. Embodiments of the system integrate textual features and visual features for improved search performance. The system represents text terms in the visual feature space and develops a text-guided weighting scheme for visual features. The weighting scheme infers intention from query terms and enhances the visual features that are significant in light of such intention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/627716 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30247 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30265 (20130101) G06F 17/30268 (20130101) G06F 17/30539 (20130101) |
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| US 09075935 | Vasudevan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shobha Vasudevan (Champaign, Illinois); Samuel Hertz (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is configured to generate assertions for verification of an integrated circuit hardware design expressed at a register transfer level (RTL) for variables of interest, each including an antecedent and a consequent. A relative importance score for the variables is determined by characterizing respective variables by a level of importance with respect to a target variable of the consequent. The relative importance scores may be combined to form a relative importance score of the assertion. A relative complexity score for the variable is determined by characterizing the variable by a level of understandability of the variable with respect to the target variable. The relative complexity scores are combined to form a relative complexity score of the assertion. The relative importance and complexity scores are combined to generate a rank score, which is used in ranking the assertion with respect to the RTL design for which the assertion was generated. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/031949 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09076665 | Stern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods described herein include a sensor for suitable for sensing chemical and biological substances. The sensor comprises a semiconductor layer formed in or on a substrate and a channel having nano-scale dimensions formed in the semiconductor layer, where the structure creates an electrically conducting pathway between a first contact and a second contact on the semiconductor layer. In certain preferred embodiments, the nano-scale channel has a trapezoidal cross-section with an effective width and exposed lateral faces, where the effective width is selected to have same order of magnitude as a Debye length (LD) of the semiconductor material of which the semiconductor layer is formed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/517230 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) |
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| US 09076768 | Kippelen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Yinhua Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Antoine Kahn (Princeton, New Jersey); Jens Meyer (Princeton, New Jersey); Jae Won Shim (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth R. Marder (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Yinhua Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Antoine Kahn (Princeton, New Jersey); Jens Meyer (Princeton, New Jersey); Jae Won Shim (Atlanta, Georgia); Seth R. Marder (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an exemplary embodiment of the invention, systems and methods are provided for producing low work function electrodes. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is provided for reducing a work function of an electrode. The method includes applying, to at least a portion of the electrode, a solution comprising a Lewis basic oligomer or polymer; and based at least in part on applying the solution, forming an ultra-thin layer on a surface of the electrode, wherein the ultra-thin layer reduces the work function associated with the electrode by greater than 0.5 eV. According to another exemplary embodiment of the invention, a device is provided. The device includes a semiconductor; at least one electrode disposed adjacent to the semiconductor and configured to transport electrons in or out of the semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117965 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 29/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/105 (20130101) H01L 51/445 (20130101) H01L 51/5092 (20130101) H01L 51/5221 (20130101) H01L 51/5234 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) |
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| US 09077037 | Hwu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shiou-Jyh Hwu (Clemson, South Carolina); Gregory A. Becht (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CLEMSON UNIVERSITY (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiou-Jyh Hwu (Clemson, South Carolina); Gregory A. Becht (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are open-framework solids that possess superior ion-transport properties pertinent to the electrochemical performance of next-generation electrode materials for battery devices. Disclosed compounds including compositions and architectures relevant to electrical energy storage device applications have been developed through integrated solid-state and soft (solution) chemistry studies. The solids can adopt a general formula of AxMy(XO4)z, where A=mono- or divalent electropositive cations (e.g., Li+), M—trivalent transition metal cations (e.g., Fe3+, Mn3+), and X═Si, P, As, or V. Also disclosed are oxo analogs of these materials having the general formulae AaMbOc(PO4)d (a≧b), and more specifically, AnMnO3x(PO4)n-2x, where A=mono- or divalent electropositive cations (e.g., Li+), M is either Fe or Mn, and x is between 0 and n/2. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/201238 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — 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 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09077314 | Mehta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant G. Mehta (Urbana, Illinois); Tao Yang (Urbana, Illinois); Sean P. Meyn (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for estimating a conditional probability distribution for signal states of a non-linear random dynamic process. The filter is based on multiple particles, each defined by a state space model similar to the dynamic process. Each particle is updated on the basis of a control input derived by proportional gain feedback on an innovation process. The innovation process is the difference between an increment in an observed quantity measured by one or more sensors and an average of a function of the particles. The particle filter of the invention may also be applied to filtering problems with data association uncertainty where multiple measurements are obtained, of which at most one originates from a specified target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/670596 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 17/0261 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09078294 | Doumanidis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charalabos C. Doumanidis (Nicosia, Cyprus); Teiichi Ando (Belmont, Massachusetts); Julie Chen (Wilmington, Massachusetts); Claus G. Rebholz (Nicosia, Cyprus) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charalabos C. Doumanidis (Nicosia, Cyprus); Teiichi Ando (Belmont, Massachusetts); Julie Chen (Wilmington, Massachusetts); Claus G. Rebholz (Nicosia, Cyprus) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides devices and methods for making nano structures such a nanoheater. In one embodiment, the nanoheater element comprises a first reactive member and interlayer disposed in communication with at least a portion thereof. Preferably, contact between the first and second reactive members of the nanoheater element can yield at least one exothermic reaction. A nanoheater device of the invention can optionally comprise a substrate on which the first reactive member is positioned in combination with other components. The invention also provides a nanoheater system comprising a plurality of nanoheater elements. Exemplary nanoheater elements and systems can be used to perform a method of the invention in which heat is produced. Methods includes processes for fabricating nanostructures such as layered devices, nanorods and nanowires. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/375823 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 1/00 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05B 2214/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/265 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09072481 | Shelhamer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark J. Shelhamer (Reistertown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Shelhamer (Reistertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for assessing vestibulo-ocular function includes a motion sensor system adapted to be coupled to a user's head; a data processing system configured to communicate with the motion sensor system to receive the head-motion signals; a visual display system configured to communicate with the data processing system to receive image signals from the data processing system; and a gain control device arranged to be operated by the user and to communicate gain adjustment signals to the data processing system. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229403 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6803 (20130101) A61B 5/6814 (20130101) |
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| US 09073039 | Wójtowicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marek A. Wójtowicz (East Hartford, Connecticut); Joseph E. Cosgrove (Columbia, Connecticut); Michael A. Serio (Sturbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADAVANCED FUEL RESEARCH, INC. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek A. Wójtowicz (East Hartford, Connecticut); Joseph E. Cosgrove (Columbia, Connecticut); Michael A. Serio (Sturbridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A sorbent that is particularly effective for the efficient adsorption and subsequent desorption of ammonia is produced from a high-purity carbon material which is exposed to an oxidizing environment so as to produce an effective amount of at least one oxygen species on its exposed surfaces. The high purity carbon material may be produced by carbonizing a polymer material, and the sorbent may comprise a support having an open-cell, three dimensional, lattice-like structure. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/987229 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2257/406 (20130101) B01D 2259/4575 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/3085 (20130101) B01J 20/3416 (20130101) B01J 20/3491 (20130101) |
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| US 09073088 | Walton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Otis Walton (Livermore, California); Christopher Dreyer (Lakewood, Colorado); Edward Riedel (Boulder, Colorado) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Otis Walton (Livermore, California); Christopher Dreyer (Lakewood, Colorado); Edward Riedel (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A centrifugal sieve and method utilizes centrifugal force in rapidly-rotated cylindrical or conical screens as the primary body force contributing to size segregation. Within the centrifugal acceleration field, vibration and/or shearing flows are induced to facilitate size segregation and eventual separation of the fines from the coarse material. Inside a rotating cylindrical or conical screen, a separately-rotated screw auger blade can be used to transport material along the rotating cylinder or conical wall and to induce shearing in the material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/448480 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separating Solids From Solids by Sieving, Screening, Sifting or by Using Gas Currents; Separating by Other Dry Methods Applicable to Bulk Material, e.g Loose Articles Fit to be Handled Like Bulk Material B07B 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B07B 1/24 (20130101) B07B 1/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09073623 | Suh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (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 M. Suh (Tehachapi, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention proposes a hardware and software architecture for dynamic modal structural monitoring that uses a robust modal filter to monitor a potentially very large-scale array of sensors in real time, and tolerant of asymmetric sensor noise and sensor failures, to achieve aircraft performance optimization such as minimizing aircraft flutter, drag and maximizing fuel efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/207757 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 25/20 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 43/00 (20130101) B64D 47/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/04 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 3/047 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/00 (20130101) G01N 21/431 (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 15/88 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 39/00 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/06 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 15/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09074066 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Dennis C. Working (Norfolk, Virginia); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Dennis C. Working (Norfolk, Virginia); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Conventional toughening agents are typically rubbery materials or small molecular weight molecules, which mostly sacrifice the intrinsic properties of a matrix such as modulus, strength, and thermal stability as side effects. On the other hand, high modulus inclusions tend to reinforce elastic modulus very efficiently, but not the strength very well. For example, mechanical reinforcement with inorganic inclusions often degrades the composite toughness, encountering a frequent catastrophic brittle failure triggered by minute chips and cracks. Thus, toughening generally conflicts with mechanical reinforcement. Carbon nanotubes have been used as efficient reinforcing agents in various applications due to their combination of extraordinary mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Moreover, nanotubes can elongate more than 20% without yielding or breaking, and absorb significant amounts of energy during deformation, which enables them to also be an efficient toughening agent, as well as excellent reinforcing inclusion. Accordingly, an improved toughening method is provided by incorporating nanotubular inclusions into a host matrix, such as thermoset and thermoplastic polymers or ceramics without detrimental effects on the matrix's intrinsic physical properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/032045 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — 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) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08K 2201/011 (20130101) |
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| US 09074864 | Mathias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orbital ATK, Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward C. Mathias (North Logan, Utah); John L. Shipley (Tremonton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, devices, and systems relating to a sensing device are disclosed. A device may comprise a structure including a first surface and a second, opposite surface, wherein the structure comprises one or more segments. Further, the device may include a plurality of sensors disposed on the structure, wherein each segment of the one or more segments comprises a first sensor of the plurality of sensors coupled to the first surface and an associated second sensor of the plurality of sensors coupled to the second surface. Moreover, each sensor of the plurality of sensors may be configured to measure a strain exhibited on an adjacent surface of the structure at an associated segment of the one or more segments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/095775 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/06 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 9/346 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 5/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 7/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09074921 | Parker, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of NASA (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) | Allen R. Parker, Jr. (Lancaster, California); W. Lance Richards (Palmdale, California); Anthony Piazza (Palmdale, California); Hon Chan Man (Canyon County, California); John A. Bakalyar (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention proposed herein is a system and method for measuring the liquid level in a container that employs an optic fiber sensor which is heated using a simple power source and a wire and making an anemometry measurement. The heater wire is cycled between two levels of heat and the liquid level is obtained by measuring the heat transfer characteristics of the surrounding environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/733364 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/6884 (20130101) G01F 23/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01F 23/292 (20130101) G01F 23/2921 (20130101) |
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| US 09075140 | Garrison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Levi Garrison (Lafayette, Indiana); Michael Allen Walker (Newburgh, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Levi Garrison (Lafayette, Indiana); Michael Allen Walker (Newburgh, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing an extended propagation ephemeris model for a satellite in Earth orbit, the method includes obtaining a satellite's orbital position over a first period of time, applying a least square estimation filter to determine coefficients defining osculating Keplarian orbital elements and harmonic perturbation parameters associated with a coordinate system defining an extended propagation ephemeris model that can be used to estimate the satellite's position during the first period, wherein the osculating Keplarian orbital elements include semi-major axis of the satellite (a), eccentricity of the satellite (e), inclination of the satellite (i), right ascension of ascending node of the satellite (Ω), true anomaly (θ*), and argument of periapsis (ω), applying the least square estimation filter to determine a dominant frequency of the true anomaly, and applying a Fourier transform to determine dominant frequencies of the harmonic perturbation parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/889351 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 19/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09075188 | Bly |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent T. Bly (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent T. Bly (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a mirror from a single crystal blank may include fine grinding top and bottom surfaces of the blank to be parallel. The blank may then be heat treated to near its melting temperature. An optical surface may be created on an optical side of the blank. A protector may be bonded to the optical surface. With the protector in place, the blank may be light weighted by grinding a non-optical surface of the blank using computer controlled grinding. The light weighting may include creating a structure having a substantially minimum mass necessary to maintain distortion of the mirror within a preset limit. A damaged layer of the non-optical surface caused by light weighting may be removed with an isotropic etch and/or repaired by heat treatment. If an oxide layer is present, the entire blank may then be etched using, for example, hydrofluoric acid. A reflecting coating may be deposited on the optical surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/222839 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 33/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/02 (20130101) G02B 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 7/183 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland) |
| 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) | Bruce H. Dean (New Market, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An image-based phase retrieval technique has been developed that can be used on board a space based iterative transformation system. Image-based wavefront sensing is computationally demanding due to the floating-point nature of the process. The discrete Fourier transform (DFT) calculation is presented in “diagonal” form. By diagonal we mean that a transformation of basis is introduced by an application of the similarity transform of linear algebra. The current method exploits the diagonal structure of the DFT in a special way, particularly when parts of the calculation do not have to be repeated at each iteration to converge to an acceptable solution in order to focus an image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/043257 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09076658 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ari D. Brown (Ellicott City, Maryland); Amil A. Patel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal film liftoff process includes applying a polymer layer onto a silicon substrate, applying a germanium layer over the polymer layer to create a bilayer lift off mask, applying a patterned photoresist layer over the germanium layer, removing an exposed portion of the germanium layer, removing the photoresist layer and a portion of the polymer layer to expose a portion of the substrate and create an overhanging structure of the germanium layer, depositing a metal film over the exposed portion of the substrate and the germanium layer, and removing the polymer and germanium layers along with the overlaying metal film. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/496674 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/283 (20130101) H01L 21/0331 (20130101) H01L 21/0332 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0337 (20130101) |
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| US 09073761 | Palanisamy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE STATE OF OREGON ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barath Palanisamy (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian K. Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Ravindranadh Tagore Eluri (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for synthesizing nanoparticles are provided. Methods for synthesizing nanoparticles are provided comprising mixing at least two solutions comprising the components of the nanoparticles within a micromixer; exposing the resultant mixed, unreacted, azeotropic solution to ultrasound; and collecting the generated nanoparticles. Apparatuses are also provided for synthesizing nanoparticles comprising a micromixer in fluid connection with a continuous reactor comprising at least one inlet, at least one outlet, and an ultrasound horn oriented such that the acoustic energy is transferred to the fluid within the continuous reactor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/203900 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 3/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) |
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| US 09076822 | Loy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas E Loy (Chandler, Arizona); David Morton (Columbia, Missouri); Emmett Howard (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments can include a method of manufacturing first electronic device(s) and second electronic device(s), the method including: providing a carrier substrate having a first side and a second side, a first substrate bonded to the first side of the carrier substrate, and a second substrate bonded to the second side of the carrier substrate; depositing at least one layer of a first material over the first substrate while the first substrate is bonded to the first side of the carrier substrate to create a portion of the first electronic device(s); and depositing at least one layer of a second material over the second substrate while the second substrate is bonded to the second side of the carrier substrate to create a portion of the second electronic device(s). In many embodiments, the first substrate and/or the second substrate includes a flexible substrate. Other related systems and methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684150 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 27/1218 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 29/66765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78669 (20130101) H01L 2221/6835 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09076972 | Gust, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Devens Gust, Jr. (Mesa, Arizona); Paul Anthony Liddell (Apache Junction, 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) | John Devens Gust, Jr. (Mesa, Arizona); Paul Anthony Liddell (Apache Junction, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Porphyrin polymers of Structure 1, where n is an integer (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or greater) are synthesized by the method shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B. The porphyrin polymers of Structure 1 are soluble in organic solvents such as 2-MeTHF and the like, and can be synthesized in bulk (i.e., in processes other than electropolymerization). These porphyrin polymers have long excited state lifetimes, making the material suitable as an organic semiconductor for organic electronic devices including transistors and memories, as well as solar cells, sensors, light-emitting devices, and other opto-electronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/907452 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/009 (20130101) H01L 51/0035 (20130101) H01L 51/42 (20130101) H01L 51/0077 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0504 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09077183 | Thomas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the Portland State University (Portland, Oregon); Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Portland State University (Portland, Oregon); Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc. (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan A. Thomas (Portland, Oregon); Michael E. Fleming (Vancouver, Washington); William K Spiller (Vancouver, Washington); Chun Kit Chan (Clackamas, Oregon); Zdenek Zumr (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed wireless monitoring system with a cloud server and low-power remote sensors includes data encoding/compression at sensors to reduce power use from transmission and storage, event activated operation/data logging triggered by configurable thresholds, remote configuration via the cloud server of event triggering thresholds and correlation templates, distributed processing capabilities, and sensor clock synchronization from a network time service. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/959347 |
| ART UNIT | 2463 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/0216 (20130101) H04W 52/0219 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09072783 | Ohtake et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Satoshi Ohtake (Chesterfield, Missouri); Atul Saxena (Milpitas, California); Vu Truong-Le (Campbell, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aridis Pharmaceuticals (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satoshi Ohtake (Chesterfield, Missouri); Atul Saxena (Milpitas, California); Vu Truong-Le (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the selection of pharmaceutically acceptable excipients that allow for the production of highly dispersible powders produced by spray drying. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/988248 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1617 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 47/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09072880 | Phillips et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher M. Phillips (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mark A. Crawford (Sandy, Utah); G. Doug Smith (Sandy, Utah); Steven Johnson (Lehi, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vital Access Corporation (Murray, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Phillips (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nathaniel P. Young (Salt Lake City, Utah); Trent J. Perry (Kaysville, Utah); Duane D. Blatter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mark A. Crawford (Sandy, Utah); G. Doug Smith (Sandy, Utah); Steven Johnson (Lehi, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Ports for accessing a vessels within a patient include passageways that can guide needles or other access devices directly into the vessels. The ports can be implanted subcutaneously within a patient. Some ports may be used in the creation and use of vascular access buttonholes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/697192 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/0057 (20130101) A61B 17/3423 (20130101) A61B 2017/3425 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/14 (20130101) A61M 1/3653 (20130101) A61M 1/3659 (20140204) A61M 1/3661 (20140204) A61M 39/0208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2039/0223 (20130101) A61M 2039/0226 (20130101) A61M 2039/0238 (20130101) A61M 2205/0238 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09076707 | Harmon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LightSpin Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric S. Harmon (Norfolk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure includes devices for detecting photons, including avalanche photon detectors, arrays of such detectors, and circuits including such arrays. In some aspects, the detectors and arrays include a virtual beveled edge mesa structure surrounded by resistive material damaged by ion implantation and having side wall profiles that taper inwardly towards the top of the mesa structures, or towards the direction from which the ion implantation occurred. Other aspects are directed to masking and multiple implantation and/or annealing steps. Furthermore, methods for fabricating and using such devices, circuits and arrays are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/257179 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1446 (20130101) H01L 27/14643 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14683 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09074005 | Poovaiah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bachettira W. Poovaiah (Pullman, Washington); Liqun Du (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bachettira W. Poovaiah (Pullman, Washington); Liqun Du (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for enhancing plant cell disease resistance, comprising (1) generating a homozygous gene modification of AtSR1 (or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog) in a plant or plant cell characterized by sialic acid-mediated systemic acquired resistance (SA-mediated SAR), wherein said gene modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the respective AtSR1 or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog; or (2) expression of a recombinant or mutant AtSR1 sequence (or AtSR1 gene ortholog or homolog sequence) encoding a modified AtSR1, or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog protein, in a plant or plant cell, wherein said protein modification reduces or eliminates the calmodulin-binding activity of the respective AtSR1 or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog protein. Plants and/or plant cells comprising said modified AtSR1, or AtSR1 ortholog or homolog proteins, and/or said expression means (e.g., recombinant expression vector or expressible recombinant and/or mutant sequences), along with nucleic acids encoding said modified proteins are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/651951 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8281 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09074231 | Zhu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for reducing non-specific binding of an enzyme to lignin to enhance an enzymatic processing of a lignocellulosic material. The enhancements provide economic and process advantages to any process that converts a lignocellulosic biomass into a product using an enzyme. Systems are provided comprising a reaction vessel; a lignocellulosic feedstock comprising a component selected from the group consisting of a hardwood, a softwood, or a non-wood material; an enzyme component including a cellulase, a hemicellulase, or a combination thereof; and, water. The reaction vessel can contain a combination of the lignocellulosic feedstock, the water, and the enzyme component at a pH ranging from about 5.2 to about 6.2; and, the lignocellulosic feedstock can be saccharified in the reaction vessel. Moreover, the systems can include a lignosulfonate, with or without a pH of about 5.2 to about 6.2, to also reduce non-specific binding and enhance enzymatic activity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/652267 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2201/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09072709 | Murray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California); Elsa Murray (Saugus, California); Jeffrey Wang (Sherman Oaks, California); Keyvan Behnam (Simi Valley, California) |
| 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 Murray (Saugus, California); Jeffrey Wang (Sherman Oaks, California); Keyvan Behnam (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of autogenous bone graft is the current gold standard in the 1.5 million bone-grafting surgeries performed annually in the United States. Although this practice has resulted in high rates of fusion success, it is associated with increased operative time and blood loss, along with a significant degree of donor-site morbidity. Additionally, in certain settings such as revision cases, multilevel constructs, or in patients with medical co |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/379436 |
| 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 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) 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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09072732 | Kashyap et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Moti L. Kashyap (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Vaijinath S. Kamanna (Irvine, California); Shobha V. Kamanna (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Veterans Affairs Health Care System (Long Beach, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moti L. Kashyap (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Vaijinath S. Kamanna (Irvine, California); Shobha V. Kamanna (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Niacin prevents and/or reverses the development of experimental hepatic steatosis, deposition of triglycerides in liver and serum of individuals, deposition of total cholesterol in liver and serum in individuals, and inhibit liver lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in individuals at risk of developing fatty liver disease or NAFLD. In cultured human hepatocytes, niacin inhibits alcohol-induced fat accumulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/988972 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/80 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09076665 | Stern et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric D. Stern (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tarek M. Fahmy (New Haven, Connecticut); Mark A. Reed (Monroe, Connecticut); James F. Klemic (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods described herein include a sensor for suitable for sensing chemical and biological substances. The sensor comprises a semiconductor layer formed in or on a substrate and a channel having nano-scale dimensions formed in the semiconductor layer, where the structure creates an electrically conducting pathway between a first contact and a second contact on the semiconductor layer. In certain preferred embodiments, the nano-scale channel has a trapezoidal cross-section with an effective width and exposed lateral faces, where the effective width is selected to have same order of magnitude as a Debye length (LD) of the semiconductor material of which the semiconductor layer is formed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/517230 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 09075688 | Challa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Accenture Global Services Limited (Dublin, Ireland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Accenture Global Services Limited (Dublin, Ireland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabhakar Challa (Streamwood, Illinois); Jingying Li (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for establishing upgrade paths. In one aspect, a method includes establishing an interim environment and platform, migrating the data from the legacy environment and platform to the interim environment and platform, and migrating the data from the interim environment and platform to the upgraded environment and platform. |
| FILED | Monday, May 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/892914 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/61 (20130101) G06F 8/65 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/71 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 09076570 | Raffaelle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Cory D. Cress (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Cory D. Cress (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a polymer-free nano-composite structure containing nanostructured carbon and nanoparticles. Also disclosed are methods of making the polymer-free nano-composite structures. The present invention also relates to a lithium ion battery, a capacitor, a supercapacitor, a battery/capacitor, or a fuel cell containing the polymer-free nano-composite structures of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102201 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) H01B 1/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/058 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) H01G 11/42 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/92 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/621 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/921 (20130101) H01M 4/923 (20130101) H01M 4/925 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/9075 (20130101) H01M 4/9083 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09072766 | Kahn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Barbara B. Kahn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qin Yang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Daniel Kraus (Wurzberg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara B. Kahn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qin Yang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Daniel Kraus (Wurzberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in various embodiments, relates to methods of inhibiting NNMT production or activity in a cell, and methods of treating or preventing obesity or a related metabolic condition in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering a nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) antagonist. The invention further provides methods of identifying NNMT antagonists useful for treating obesity and related metabolic disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/885284 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/712 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 201/01001 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09072716 | Strober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren Strober (Bethesda, Maryland); Ivan Fuss (Kensington, Maryland); Peter Mannon (Chevey Chase, Maryland); Jan Preiss (Berlin, Germany); Raj Puri (Potomac, Maryland); Koji Kawakami (Kyoto, Japan); Stefan Fichtner-Feigl (Bethesda, Maryland); Atsushi Kitani (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary Department of Health by Human Servies (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren Strober (Bethesda, Maryland); Ivan Fuss (Kensington, Maryland); Peter Mannon (Chevey Chase, Maryland); Jan Preiss (Berlin, Germany); Raj Puri (Potomac, Maryland); Koji Kawakami (Kyoto, Japan); Stefan Fichtner-Feigl (Bethesda, Maryland); Atsushi Kitani (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating or preventing the inflammatory response of ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease in a subject comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a substance that inhibits the binding of IL-13 to IL-13 receptors on NKT cells or delivers an effector molecule to the NKT cells. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/918711 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/5437 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09077335 | Hughes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Hughes (Woodland Hills, California); Karim S. Boutros (Moorpark, California); Daniel M. Zehnder (Los Angeles, California); Sameh G. Khalil (Calabasas, California); Rongming Chu (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A half bridge circuit including an isolation substrate, a metal layer on one surface of the isolation substrate, a power loop substrate on the metal layer, an upper switch on the power loop substrate, a lower switch on the power loop substrate and coupled to the upper switch, a capacitor on the power loop substrate and coupled to the upper switch, a first via through the power loop substrate and coupled between the lower switch and the metal layer, and a second via through the power loop substrate and coupled between the capacitor and the metal layer, wherein the power loop substrate has a height and separates the metal layer from the upper switch, lower switch and capacitor by the height. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/065715 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 17/04106 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2015/fedinvent-patents-20150707.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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