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| US 09084554 | Jung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Youngkyoo Jung (La Jolla, California); Eric C. Wong (Del Mar, California); Thomas Liu (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youngkyoo Jung (La Jolla, California); Eric C. Wong (Del Mar, California); Thomas Liu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for magnetic resonance imaging. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system comprises a scanner comprising a magnet, gradient coils and a radio frequency (RF) system to perform various operations. The scanner can apply a gradient field and a train of RF pulses comprising more than two phases to tag a target blood vessel, and acquire magnetic resonance signals based on the applied train of RF pulses to sample the more than two phases. The MRI system includes a data processing system in communication with the scanner to receive the acquired magnetic resonance signals and process the received magnetic resonance signal to generate images proportional to perfusion. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728170 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/02028 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4833 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) |
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| US 09084611 | Amirana et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia); LuxCath, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia); LuxCath, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar Amirana (Boston, Massachusetts); Kenneth C. Armstrong (Cary, North Carolina); Matthew W. Kay (Kensington, Maryland); Marco A. Mercader (Arlington, Virginia); Terrance J. Ransbury (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Narine Sarvazyan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for visualizing ablated tissue are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for imaging tissue comprising: a catheter having a distal end and a proximal end; an inflatable balloon disposed about the distal end of the catheter; and an optical housing extending from the distal end of the catheter into the balloon, the optical housing being configured to position inside the balloon a light source for illuminating a tissue outside the balloon and a camera for imaging the illuminated tissue. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624902 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/004 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 19/5202 (20130101) A61B 19/5212 (20130101) A61B 2018/0022 (20130101) A61B 2018/0212 (20130101) A61B 2019/2211 (20130101) A61B 2019/5291 (20130101) |
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| US 09084722 | Gilbert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Gilbert (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michelle Manni (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tim D. Oury (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Gilbert (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michelle Manni (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tim D. Oury (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of preventing, lessening or treating pulmonary fibrosis in a subject. The methods comprise delivering an amount of a powdered extracellular matrix (ECM)-derived material to the respiratory system of the subject effective to prevent, lessen or treat pulmonary fibrosis in a subject. Also provided is an apparatus for delivering the powdered ECM-derived material to a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/132708 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/008 (20130101) A61K 9/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0078 (20130101) A61K 35/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09084746 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiao-Jing Wang (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Yosef Rafaeli (Denver, Colorado); Qinghong Zhang (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Jing Wang (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Yosef Rafaeli (Denver, Colorado); Qinghong Zhang (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of inflammatory and/or tissue damage conditions. In particular, the use of Smad7 compositions delivered locally or systemically to a site of inflammation and/or tissue damage is described. Other specific embodiments concern treatment or prevention of side effects caused by radiation and/or chemotherapy, including but not limited to mucositis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/822173 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09084771 | McAllister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean D. McAllister (San Francisco, California); Pierre-Yves Desprez (Richmond, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sutter West Bay Hospitals (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean D. McAllister (San Francisco, California); Pierre-Yves Desprez (Richmond, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides compositions and method useful for treating cell proliferative disorders including cancer. The disclosure provides cannabidiol derivatives and compositions thereof either alone or in combination with THC or a derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600553 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09084773 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Lee R. Swem (Montara, California); Scott M. Ulrich (Ithaca, New York); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel small molecule antagonizes two types of acyl homoserine lactone receptors: membrane-bound and cytoplasmic. A focused library of analogs and derivatives of the original antagonist was synthesized. Analog and derivative molecules harbor a range of activities. The novel small molecule and most potent antagonist protects the eukaryote Caenorhabditis elegans from quorum-sensing-mediated killing by the bacterial pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum. The saving of C. elegans demonstrates the use of these molecules as small molecule antimicrobials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/288984 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 43/08 (20130101) A01N 43/10 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/18 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/381 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/33 (20130101) C07D 333/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09084775 | North |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. North (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing neuroendocrine cancers via detecting the presence of N-methyl D-asparate-associated (NMDA) glutamate receptors type 1 and/or type 2. Methods for preventing and treating neuroendocrine cancers are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895682 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/286 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 2333/70571 (20130101) |
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| US 09084782 | Kwon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ohyun Kwon (Los Angeles, California); Jau-Nian Chen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ohyun Kwon (Los Angeles, California); Jau-Nian Chen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates, e.g., to a compound, aplexone, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates, and functional variants, thereof. Methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, e.g. to inhibit angiogenesis and to reduce cellular cholesterol levels, are also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/979566 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/435 (20130101) A61K 31/4418 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4436 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/74 (20130101) C07D 211/96 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09084783 | Grieg 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) | Nigel H. Grieg (Phoenix, Maryland); Weiming Luo (Lutherville, Maryland); David Tweedie (Baltimore, Maryland); Harold W. Holloway (Middle River, Maryland); Qian-Sheng Yu (Lutherville, Maryland); Edward J. Goetzl (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, having a structure of: wherein A, B and D are each oxygen or sulfur, provided that least one of A, B and D is sulfur; and R1-R8 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxyl, acyl, substituted acyl, acyloxy, substituted acyloxy, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, aryl, substituted aryl, amino, substituted amino, halogen, heterocycloalkyl, substituted heterocycloalkyl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, or a thio-containing group. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571138 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09084786 | Stokes |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander Stokes (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Stokes (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided of treating cardiac hypertrophy in a mammalian subject comprising administering to the subject an anti-hypertrophic effective amount of an ion channel TR-PV1 inhibitor. The methods include treatment of a symptom of cardiac hypertrophy in the subject comprises cardiac remodeling, cardiac fibrosis, apoptosis, hypertension, or heart failure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/824912 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09084789 | Sugaya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Winter Park, Florida); Tingyu Qu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Winter Park, Florida); Tingyu Qu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and materials for improving vision. Particularly exemplified herein are pyrimidine compounds that serve to proliferate retinal stem cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/626324 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 35/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0621 (20130101) C12N 5/0623 (20130101) C12N 2500/99 (20130101) C12N 2501/06 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/91 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/165 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2502/08 (20130101) C12N 2506/1353 (20130101) |
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| US 09084790 | Seykora |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the Unversity of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Seykora (Broomall, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating skin cancer associated diseases. Specifically, the invention relates to topically administering a signaling pathway inhibitor or a related compound to treat pre-cancerous skin lesions, skin tumors, and their associated diseases or disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/786926 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 31/277 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/20 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09084813 | Roberson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik D. Roberson (Vestavia Hills, Alabama); Lennart Mucke (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Agents that reduce the level of a tau gene product in a cell, e.g., in a neuron, include antisense nucleic acids. For example, antisense nucleic acids can be used to down-regulate expression of a tau gene in a cell (e.g., in a neuron). The antisense sequence is complementary to the mRNA of the targeted gene (e.g., tau), and inhibits expression of the targeted gene products. Suitable oligonucleotides can be chemically modified from the native phosphodiester structure, in order to increase their intracellular stability and binding affinity. A number of such modifications have been described in the literature, which modifications alter the chemistry of the backbone, sugars, or heterocyclic bases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029604 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (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 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5058 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2800/28 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09084814 | Porszasz-Reisz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suzanne Porszasz-Reisz (Lakewood, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Porszasz-Reisz (Lakewood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are novel nucleic acid sequences, vectors comprising such nucleic acid sequences, host cells comprising such vectors, and transgenic animals comprising such nucleic acid sequences, and related molecules and methods relating thereto. Such novel nucleic acid sequences, vectors comprising such nucleic acid sequences, host cells comprising such vectors, and transgenic animals comprising such nucleic acid sequences, and related molecules and methods provide conditional overexpression of genes, such as myostatin, and transgenic animals conditionally overexpression genes, such as myostatin. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542741 |
| 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 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2217/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/203 (20130101) A01K 2267/03 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 33/6887 (20130101) G01N 2800/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09084819 | Zabow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Rockville, Maryland); Alan Korelsky (Bethesda, Missouri); John M. Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Rockville, Maryland); Alan Korelsky (Bethesda, Missouri); John M. Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753689 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0515 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/563 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/56325 (20130101) |
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| US 09084820 | Zabow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Bethesda, Maryland); Alan Koretsky (Bethesda, Maryland); John Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America, Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Bethesda, Maryland); Alan Koretsky (Bethesda, Maryland); John Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance contrast agent has a medium, and a contrast structure dispersed in the medium. The contrast structure comprises a magnetic material arranged to create a local region of a local magnetic field such that nuclear magnetic moments of a material when arranged within the local region precess at a characteristic Larmor frequency about a total magnetic field in the local region while in use, the characteristic Larmor frequency being identifiable with the contrast structure, and the total magnetic field in the local region being a substantially spatially uniform magnetic field. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937843 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/281 (20130101) G01R 33/1269 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/5605 (20130101) G01R 33/5607 (20130101) G01R 33/34007 (20130101) G01R 33/34084 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09084837 | Ellis-Behnke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutledge Ellis-Behnke (Canton, Massachusetts); Yu-Xiang Liang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gerald E. Schneider (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kwok-Fai So (Hong Kong, China PRC); David Tay (Hong Kong, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Versitech Limited The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rutledge Ellis-Behnke (Canton, Massachusetts); Yu-Xiang Liang (Hong Kong, China PRC); Gerald E. Schneider (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kwok-Fai So (Hong Kong, China PRC); David Tay (Hong Kong, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions which self-assemble under physiological conditions are formulated for application to wounds. The formulations include a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or are provided as part of a medical device or coating. The formulations may also include other therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agents. The formulation can be administered as appropriate for treatment of one or more disorders or conditions. For example, the formulation may be applied to repair an injury or during surgery of the lung, eye or dura, or following an epidural or spinal tap, to stop leakage of blood, interstitial fluid, or cerebrospinal fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796132 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 26/0061 (20130101) |
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| US 09084840 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425541 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (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 39/003 (20130101) B29C 39/203 (20130101) B29C 55/005 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 7/01 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43536 (20130101) C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 9/26 (20130101) C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 2201/0444 (20130101) C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2389/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (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) |
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| US 09084888 | Poulsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Per Rugaard Poulsen (Aabyhoej, Denmark); Walther Fledelius (Horsens, Denmark); Paul Keall (Greenwich, Australia); Elisabeth Weiss (Williamsburg, Virginia); Jun Lu (Henrico, Virginia); Emily Brackbill (Wyomissing, Pennsylvania); Geoffrey Hugo (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Per Rugaard Poulsen (Aabyhoej, Denmark); Walther Fledelius (Horsens, Denmark); Paul Keall (Greenwich, Australia); Elisabeth Weiss (Williamsburg, Virginia); Jun Lu (Henrico, Virginia); Emily Brackbill (Wyomissing, Pennsylvania); Geoffrey Hugo (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a model of a marker includes obtaining projection images, each of the projection images having an image of a marker that indicates a shape of the marker, determining binary images of the marker for respective ones of the projection images, and constructing a three-dimensional model of the marker using the binary images, the three-dimensional model comprising a set of voxels in a three-dimensional space that collectively indicates a three-dimensional shape of the marker, wherein the act of constructing the three-dimensional model is performed using a processing unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/294038 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/1049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2005/1061 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) |
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| US 09084895 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard Williamson (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of automatically adjusting an electrode array to the neural characteristics of an individual patient. By recording neural response to a predetermined input stimulus, one can alter that input stimulus to the needs of an individual patient. A minimum input stimulus is applied to a patient, followed by recording neural response in the vicinity of the input stimulus. By alternating stimulation and recording at gradually increasing levels, one can determine the minimum input that creates a neural response, thereby identifying the threshold stimulation level. One can further determine a maximum level by increasing stimulus until a predetermined maximum neural response is obtained. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941088 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085562 | Conn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Kyle A. Emmitte (Spring Hill, Tennessee); Alice L. Rodriguez (Nashville, Tennessee); Andrew S. Felts (Nashville, Tennessee); Carrie K. Jones (Nashville, Tennessee); Brittney S. Bates (Nashville, Tennessee); Brian A. Chauder (Smyrna, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Kyle A. Emmitte (Spring Hill, Tennessee); Alice L. Rodriguez (Nashville, Tennessee); Andrew S. Felts (Nashville, Tennessee); Carrie K. Jones (Nashville, Tennessee); Brittney S. Bates (Nashville, Tennessee); Brian A. Chauder (Smyrna, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are negative allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate 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 | Monday, March 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/002309 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/513 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085566 | Uesugi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B-C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures, for example, but not limited to, heterocyclic, phenyl or benzyl ring structures with or without substitutions and are described in detail herein. Also provided are methods for the treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders, for example, obesity or diabetes, utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof and/or the A-B-C tripartite compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/013918 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4418 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 213/76 (20130101) C07D 235/14 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/52 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09085570 | Giaccia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amato Giaccia (Palo Alto, California); Edwin Lai (Menlo Park, California); Olga Razorenova (Menlo Park, California); Denise Chan (San Francisco, California); Michael Patrick Hay (Auckland, New Zealand); Muriel Bonnet (Auckland, New Zealand); Connie Sun (Palo Alto, California); Ray Tabibiazar (Portola Valley, California); Po-wai Yuen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); Auckland UniServices Limited (Auckland, New Zealand); Ruga Corporation (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amato Giaccia (Palo Alto, California); Edwin Lai (Menlo Park, California); Olga Razorenova (Menlo Park, California); Denise Chan (San Francisco, California); Michael Patrick Hay (Auckland, New Zealand); Muriel Bonnet (Auckland, New Zealand); Connie Sun (Palo Alto, California); Ray Tabibiazar (Portola Valley, California); Po-wai Yuen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are Substituted Benzamides, compositions, and method of their manufacture and use. |
| FILED | Monday, October 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/878682 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 413/14 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09085571 | Ghosh |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arun K. Ghosh (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds and compositions for treating patients in need of relief from HIV, AIDS and AIDS-related diseases are described. Methods for treating HIV, AIDS, and AIDS-related diseases using the compounds described herein are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/322808 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/29 (20130101) C07C 317/32 (20130101) C07C 317/50 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 217/04 (20130101) C07D 217/12 (20130101) C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 277/28 (20130101) C07D 277/30 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09085590 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Brett VanVeller (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew Aronoff (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Di- and trivalent protecting groups for organoboronic acids including phenyl boronic acids, benzoxaboroles and benzoxaborins, which are prepared from precursor compounds of formula I: where: R1 is a methyl, ethyl or a —(CH2)n—OH group, where n is 2 or 3; R2 and R3 are independently methyl or ethyl groups; R4 and R5 are independently halogens or hydrogens; R6 and R7 are independently hydrogens, halogens, or nitro groups; and R8 and R9 are independently hydrogens, halogens or nitro groups or R8 and R9 together with a portion of the naphthalene ring form a 5-member ring, where when R1 is —CH2—CH2—OH then the protecting group is a trivalent protecting group. Also provided are protected organoboronic acids including protected phenyl boronic acids, benzoxaboroles and benzoxaborins. Also provides are methods for conducting reactions employing protected organoboronic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/213433 |
| 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 5/04 (20130101) C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085602 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qinghai Zhang (San Diego, California); Wen-Xu Hong (San Diego, California); M. G. Finn (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qinghai Zhang (San Diego, California); Wen-Xu Hong (San Diego, California); M. G. Finn (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides amphiphilic compounds with hydrophobic and hydrophilic faces. The compounds can be readily prepared from steroids such as cholic acid or deoxycholic acid, which provide hydrophobic skeletons with structures similar to that of the lipid cholesterol. The compounds of the invention can be used to aid the solubilization, isolation, purification, stabilization, crystallization, and/or structural determination of membrane proteins, and to prepare micelles for delivery of a bioactive agent, such as a drug or a gene, to a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536423 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Steroids C07J 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07J 17/005 (20130101) C07J 51/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09085604 | Keay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); Zoltan Szekely (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Conrads (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy Veenstra (Jefferson, Maryland); Maria Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland); The United Sates of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); Christopher Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland); Zoltan Szekely (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Conrads (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy Veenstra (Jefferson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel antiproliferative factor comprising a glycopeptide is disclosed. In specific embodiments, the novel antiproliferative factor is associated with the bladder. Compositions, diagnostic kits and reagents, and methods of using the compounds for identifying and/or treating interstitial cystitis and cancer are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955755 |
| 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) Peptides C07K 9/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085616 | Aderem et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Aderem (Seattle, Washington); Fumitaka Hayashi (North Quincy, Massachusetts); Kelly D. Smith (Seattle, Washington); David M. Underhill (Seattle, Washington); Adrian Ozinsky (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (Seattle, Washington); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Aderem (Seattle, Washington); Fumitaka Hayashi (North Quincy, Massachusetts); Kelly D. Smith (Seattle, Washington); David M. Underhill (Seattle, Washington); Adrian Ozinsky (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods to elicit an immune response with an immunomodulatory flagellin polypeptide having toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) binding, and further comprising an ADCC targeting molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/191093 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/255 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09085638 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tzyy-Choou Wu (Stevenson, Maryland); Chien-Fu Hung (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Choou Wu (Stevenson, Maryland); Chien-Fu Hung (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating or preventing hyperproliferating diseases, e.g., cancer, are described. A method may comprise administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a nucleic acid encoding an MHC class I and/or II activator and optionally a nucleic acid encoding an antigen. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/043656 |
| 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 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085766 | Crane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian R. Crane (Ithaca, New York); Jawahar Sudhamsu (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Crane (Ithaca, New York); Jawahar Sudhamsu (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of producing recombinant functional heme-binding proteins with complete heme incorporation and purified preparations of the same. The present invention is further directed to methods of identifying agents that modulate the activity of heme-binding proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/113769 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/795 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/80 (20130101) G01N 2333/795 (20130101) G01N 2333/805 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Prognosys Biosciences, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Chee (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides oligonucleotide constructs, sets of such oligonucleotide constructs, and methods of using such oligonucleotide constructs to provide validated sequences or sets of validated sequences corresponding to desired ROIs. Such validated ROIs and constructs containing these have a wide variety of uses, including in synthetic biology, quantitative nucleic acid analysis, polymorphism and/or mutation screening, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/266568 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/131 (20130101) C12Q 2525/155 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2539/103 (20130101) C12Q 2539/103 (20130101) C12Q 2563/149 (20130101) C12Q 2563/149 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) C12Q 2563/179 (20130101) |
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| US 09086345 | Sista et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakrishna Sista (Morrisville, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (San Diego, California); Michael G. Pollack (San Diego, California); Allen Eckhardt (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of dispersing or circulating magnetically responsive beads within a droplet in a droplet actuator. The invention, in one embodiment, makes use of a droplet actuator with a plurality of droplet operations electrodes configured to transport the droplet, and a magnetic field present at a portion of the plurality of droplet operations electrodes. A bead-containing droplet is provided on the droplet actuator in the presence of the uniform magnetic field. Beads are circulated in the droplet during incubation by conducting droplet operations on the droplet within a uniform region of the magnate field. Other embodiments are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/308110 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 11/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0071 (20130101) B01F 13/0076 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/0647 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0861 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) B01L 2400/0436 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2035/1046 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/11 (20150115) Y10T 436/25 (20150115) Y10T 436/2575 (20150115) Y10T 436/25625 (20150115) |
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| US 09086365 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lihong Wang (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Zijian Guo (St. Louis, Missouri) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lihong Wang (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Zijian Guo (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Accurately quantifying optical absorption coefficient using acoustic spectra of photoacoustic signals. Optical absorption is closely associated with many physiological parameters, such as the concentration and oxygen saturation of hemoglobin, and it can be used to quantify the concentrations of non-fluorescent molecules. A sample is illuminated by, for example, a pulsed laser and following the absorption of optical energy, a photoacoustic pressure is generated via thermo-elastic expansion. The acoustic waves then propagate and are detected by a transducer. The optical absorption coefficient of the sample is quantified from spectra of the measured photoacoustic signals. Factors, such as system bandwidth and acoustic attenuation, may affect the quantification but are canceled by dividing the acoustic spectra measured at multiple optical wavelengths. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/637897 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 5/417 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) A61B 8/13 (20130101) A61B 8/5215 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/1702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086400 | Minch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley A. Minch (Plainville, Massachusetts); Sunitha Bandla Ayers (Ithaca, New York); Manfred Lindau (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley A. Minch (Plainville, Massachusetts); Sunitha Bandla Ayers (Ithaca, New York); Manfred Lindau (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of electrochemical detectors includes an array of electrodes that provide current responsive to oxidation events. Each electrode is coupled to a transistor, an amplifier coupled to an input of the transistor and having a feedback loop coupled to the electrode and providing a bias voltage to the electrode, an integrating capacitor coupled to the transistor operable to integrate charge from the electrode, and a reset switch coupled to the integrating capacitor. The amplifier may have a shared stage with other detectors. A shared buffer circuit may also provide a sampled output from multiple detectors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/744891 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/10 (20130101) G01N 27/49 (20130101) G01N 27/403 (20130101) G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/48728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086403 | Feinberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew P. Feinberg (Lutherville, Maryland); Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue (Ellicott City, Maryland); Dan L. Longo (Kensington, Maryland); Minoru Ko (Cockeysville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Feinberg (Lutherville, Maryland); Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue (Ellicott City, Maryland); Dan L. Longo (Kensington, Maryland); Minoru Ko (Cockeysville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying subjects having, or predisposed to having, a neoplastic or cell proliferation or neoplastic disorder. The methods are applicable to any type of tissue sample and can be conducted on otherwise normal tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145331 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/5017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5023 (20130101) |
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| US 09086408 | Egan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Laswell Egan (Oceanside, California); Graham Peter Lidgard (La Jolla, California); David Dickson Booker (Oceanside, California); Christopher Johann Johnson (San Diego, California); Alexander Belenky (San Diego, California); Stan Vukajlovich (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nexus Dx, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Laswell Egan (Oceanside, California); Graham Peter Lidgard (La Jolla, California); David Dickson Booker (Oceanside, California); Christopher Johann Johnson (San Diego, California); Alexander Belenky (San Diego, California); Stan Vukajlovich (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions, systems and methods for detecting multiple analytes from a sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/596835 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/0272 (20130101) B01L 3/5023 (20130101) B01L 3/5029 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086425 | Hazen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Zeneng Wang (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Zeneng Wang (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for characterizing a test subject's, particularly a human test subject's, risk of having cardiovascular disease or developing cardiovascular disease are provided. Also provided are methods for characterizing a test subject's risk of experiencing a complication of cardiovascular disease near term. The methods comprise determining levels of one or more carbamylated biomarkers in a bodily fluid of the test subject and/or comparing these levels with a reference value. In certain embodiments, the carbamylated biomarkers are carbamylated albumin, carbamylated fibrinogen, carbamylated immunoglobulin and carbamylated apolipoprotein A. In other embodiments, particularly where the test subject does not have clinical evidence of renal disease, the carbamylated biomarker is free and/or total peptide-bound homocitrulline. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/674715 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6812 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2333/75 (20130101) G01N 2333/765 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09086466 | Griswold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Griswold (Shaker Hts., Ohio); Gregory R. Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Griswold (Shaker Hts., Ohio); Gregory R. Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Example apparatus and methods order projections in a 3D MRI acquisition to achieve improved equidistant spacing or to achieve improved adherence to a target distribution. The equidistant or target spacing may exist in k-space and/or in kt-space. In one embodiment, the improved equidistant spacing is a substantially uniform spacing. The substantially uniform spacing may be achieved using a modification of a charge repulsion analysis that treats points of projections that intersect the surface of a 3D volume to be imaged as point charges distributed on the 3D volume. In another embodiment, the target spacing may be uniform, non-uniform, uniform in parts and non-uniform in other parts, and other combinations. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/446361 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/563 (20130101) G01R 33/4826 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086467 | Elgort et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Elgort (Cleveland, Ohio); Eddy Wong (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Claudia Hillenbrand (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Jonathan S. Lewin (Baltimore, Maryland); Jeffrey L. Duerk (Avon Lake, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Elgort (Cleveland, Ohio); Eddy Wong (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Claudia Hillenbrand (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Jonathan S. Lewin (Baltimore, Maryland); Jeffrey L. Duerk (Avon Lake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with automatically adapting MRI controlling parameters are described. One exemplary method embodiment includes configuring an MRI apparatus to acquire MR signal data using a non-rectilinear trajectory. The example method may also include acquiring MR signals, transforming the MR signals into image data, and selectively adapting the MRI controlling parameters based, at least in part, on information associated with the MR signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624903 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086509 | Knutson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jay R. Knutson (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay R. Knutson (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Polarizers and polarizing beam splitter include one or more pairs of axicons that are configured to separate an input beam into a radially polarized component and a tangentially (or azimuthally) polarized component. A second axicon pair can be provided to recombine the tangentially polarized component so as to provide a more uniform beam intensity. The radially polarized component can be reflected or otherwise directed so that one or both the radial and tangential components are available for use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/581107 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/283 (20130101) G02B 27/286 (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 7/70225 (20130101) G03F 7/70566 (20130101) |
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| US 09086536 | Pang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Talbot imaging systems comprising a Talbot element, a phase gradient generating device, a light detector, and a processor. The Talbot element repeats a Talbot image at a distance from the Talbot element. The phase gradient generating device scans the Talbot image at a plane at the distance from the Talbot element by incrementally changing a phase gradient of a light field incident the Talbot element. As the Talbot image is scanned, the light detector captures time varying data associated with light altered by an object located at the distance from the Talbot element. The processor reconstructs an image of the object based on the time-varying light data. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/415657 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1842 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/06 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) |
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| US 09087368 | Tearney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Brett E. Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Benjamin J. Vakoc (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Norman S. Nishioka (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Brett E. Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Benjamin J. Vakoc (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Norman S. Nishioka (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrangements, apparatus, systems and systems are provided for obtaining data for at least one portion within at least one luminal or hollow sample. The arrangement, system or apparatus can be (insertable via at least one of a mouth or a nose of a patient. For example, a first optical arrangement can be configured to transceive at least one electromagnetic (e.g., visible) radiation to and from the portion. A second arrangement may be provided at least partially enclosing the first arrangement. Further, a third arrangement can be configured to be actuated so as to position the first arrangement at a predetermined location within the luminal or hollow sample. The first arrangement may be configured to compensate for at least one aberration (e.g., astigmatism) caused by the second arrangement and/or the third arrangement. The second arrangement can include at least one portion which enables a guiding arrangement to be inserted there through. Another arrangement can be provided which is configured to measure a pressure within the at least one portion. The data may include a position and/or an orientation of the first arrangement with respect to the luminal or hollow sample. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/625135 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09087641 | Pollack |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/073840 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/20 (20130101) H01G 9/21 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 14/00 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 99/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Richardson-Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jeffrey L. Hendricks (Berkeley, California); David C. Martin (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania); Andrew Sereno (Chelsea, Michigan); Zachary King (Jackson, Michigan); Edward Jan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Richardson-Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jeffrey L. Hendricks (Berkeley, California); David C. Martin (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania); Andrew Sereno (Chelsea, Michigan); Zachary King (Jackson, Michigan); Edward Jan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Bioelectrodes having enhanced biocompatible and biomimetic features are provided. Methods of making and using the bioelectrodes are further provided. A biologically integrated bioelectrode device and method for detecting electronic signals using a bioelectrode comprising a first electrically conductive substrate and a biological component. The bioelectrode also comprises a conductive polymer electrically coupling the first electrically conductive substrate and the biological component to define a bioelectrode. The bioelectrode can transmit or receive an electrical signal between the electrically conductive substrate and the biological component and conductive polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755070 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2562/125 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) A61N 1/056 (20130101) A61N 1/0531 (20130101) A61N 1/0534 (20130101) A61N 1/0536 (20130101) A61N 1/0541 (20130101) A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 28/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. North (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing neuroendocrine cancers via detecting the presence of N-methyl D-asparate-associated (NMDA) glutamate receptors type 1 and/or type 2. Methods for preventing and treating neuroendocrine cancers are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895682 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/286 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 2333/70571 (20130101) |
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| US 09084809 | Guerry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patricia Guerry (Silver Spring, Maryland); Shahida Baqar (Olney, Maryland); Mario Artur Monteiro (Guelph, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia Guerry (Silver Spring, Maryland); Shahida Baqar (Olney, Maryland); Mario Artur Monteiro (Guelph, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An immunogenic composition, and method of using the composition, composed of a capsule polysaccharide polymer from one or more strains Campylobacter jejuni. The composition is either used alone or is conjugated to a carrier molecule, such as CRM197. An aspect of the invention is that the immunogenic composition induces an immune response without the induction of Gulliam Barre Syndrome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524057 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/715 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/105 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) A61K 47/48261 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) |
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| US 09084840 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425541 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (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 39/003 (20130101) B29C 39/203 (20130101) B29C 55/005 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 7/01 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43536 (20130101) C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 9/26 (20130101) C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 2201/0444 (20130101) C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2389/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (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) |
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| US 09085371 | Blechen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Charles Henry Blechen (Redmond, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Charles Henry Blechen (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and computer program product for adjusting a thrust for an aircraft. A level of thrust is dynamically identified using a drag on the aircraft needed to substantially maintain a speed of the aircraft in a turn to form an identified level of thrust during turning of the aircraft. The turn of the aircraft is performed using the identified level of thrust. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274756 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/00 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 31/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/042 (20130101) G05D 1/101 (20130101) G05D 1/0607 (20130101) G05D 1/0808 (20130101) |
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| US 09085566 | Uesugi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B-C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures, for example, but not limited to, heterocyclic, phenyl or benzyl ring structures with or without substitutions and are described in detail herein. Also provided are methods for the treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders, for example, obesity or diabetes, utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof and/or the A-B-C tripartite compounds. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/013918 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4418 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 213/76 (20130101) C07D 235/14 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/52 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09085661 | Tan 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) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David Huabin Wang (Beavercreei, Ohio); Kyung Min Lee (Dayton, Ohio); Timothy J. White (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of azobenzene-containing, photomechanically active, copoly(amic acids) and linear copolyimides comprising an azobenzenediamine, a rigid dianhydride, and a flexible dianhydride; and methods of making the same. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/661194 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/1007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 73/1096 (20130101) |
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| US 09085692 | Laskoski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew Saab (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Andrew Saab (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of: providing a solution of: a dichloroaromatic compound having an electron-withdrawing group bound to each aromatic ring containing one of the chloride groups; an excess of a dihydroxyaromatic compound; a base; and a solvent; heating the solution to a temperature at which the dichloroaromatic compound and the dihydroxyaromatic compound react to form an aromatic ether oligomer; and reacting the aromatic ether oligomer with a chlorodialkylvinylsilane to form one or more vinyl-terminated compounds having the formula below. The aromatic ether oligomer is a dihydroxy-terminated compound or a dimetallic salt thereof. Water formed during the heating is concurrently distilled from the solution. Each R is an alkyl group, Ar1 is a residue from the dichloroaromatic compound, Ar2 is a residue from the dihydroxyaromatic compound, and n is a non-negative integer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/629942 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 71/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085720 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M. Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making metal nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes is disclosed. A mixture of a transition metal compound and an aromatic polymer, a precursor of an aromatic polymer, or an aromatic monomer is heated to form a metal nanoparticle composition, optionally containing carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911117 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 9/30 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/842 (20130101) |
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| US 09086014 | Ahmed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sohail Ahmed (Carmel, Indiana); Nicholas Leonard (New York, New York); Christopher Waitkus (Henderson, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine has an oil tank mounted to an engine wall with clevis ears formed on both the oil tank and a mount bracket secured to the engine wall. A link connects the mount bracket clevis ears to the oil tank clevis ears. The link has a pair of spherical bearings providing a connection allowing movement between the link, the oil tank clevis ears, and the link and the mount bracket clevis ears. The link is provided with a stop such that movement of the oil tank relative to the mount bracket in one direction is stopped when the stop is engaged. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/207809 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 25/22 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 13/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09086085 | Lubchansky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam B. Lubchansky (St. Louis, Missouri); Mike McCracken (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam B. Lubchansky (St. Louis, Missouri); Mike McCracken (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastening system includes a fastener having a head portion and a shaft portion, wherein the head portion has a recess (e.g., a removal tool recess), and an insert (e.g., a plastic insert) having an insert shape substantially equal to the recess shape and an insert thickness substantially equal to or less than the recess depth, wherein the insert is configured to removeably seat within the recess of the head portion. In this way, the insert may be later removed from the recess, allowing easy tool access even in applications where an overlying fairing material or other such conformal coating is used. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459998 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 23/0007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16B 37/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09086258 | Vasudevan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srikanth Vasudevan (Vancouver, Washington); Paul Suchy (Parma, Ohio); Matthew C. Birch (Mentor, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A guided munition (e.g., a mortar round or a grenade) utilizes deployable flow effectors, activatable flow effectors and/or active flow control devices to extend the range and enhance the precision of traditional unguided munitions without increasing the charge needed for launch. Sensors such as accelerometers, magnetometers, IR sensors, rate gyros, and motor controller sensors feed signals into a controller which then actuates or deploys the flow effectors/flow control devices to achieve the enhanced characteristics. |
| FILED | Monday, February 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769560 |
| 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 10/14 (20130101) F42B 15/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086263 | Lotito et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael S. Lotito (New Market, Maryland); Stergios J. Papadakis (Ellicott City, Maryland); Ned A. Brokloff (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Lotito (New Market, Maryland); Stergios J. Papadakis (Ellicott City, Maryland); Ned A. Brokloff (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor assembly includes a carbon nanotube bundle and a controller. The carbon nanotube bundle is integrated into a host material and extends along a predetermined dimension of the host material. The controller is configured to control transmission of radio frequency energy through the carbon nanotube bundle to determine a round trip time between transmission and reception of the radio frequency energy at a proximal end of the carbon nanotube bundle responsive to reflection of the radio frequency energy at a distal end of the carbon nanotube bundle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/597984 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — 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) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 1/00 (20130101) G01B 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 7/16 (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 13/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09086317 | Mitchell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Mitchell (Nazareth, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Mitchell (Nazareth, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer having substantially increased spectral and spatial fields. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465523 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086351 | D'Onofrio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (APG, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrence G. D'Onofrio (Bel Air, Maryland); Richard D. Wallace, III (Bel Air, Maryland); Brian K. MacIver (Middle River, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for testing contact permeation of a glove using a mannequin hand having fingers and a thumb. A hand cradle supports the mannequin hand with the palm of the hand facing away from the hand cradle. A patterned weight block applies pressure to the palm, fingers, and thumb of the hand. A weight block is placed on the patterned weight block and the whole assembly is placed in an air tight containment box. The mannequin hand is covered with a protection layer, a sorptive glove layer, and a test glove. The test glove is contaminated with the chemical of interest. Pressure is applied to the palm, fingers, and thumb of the test glove, and the contaminant that permeates through the test glove into the sorptive glove layer is collected and measured. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/827891 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/0806 (20130101) |
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| US 09086386 | Rutherford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S. Rutherford (Maple Valley, Washington); Gary E. Georgeson (Tacoma, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Rutherford (Maple Valley, Washington); Gary E. Georgeson (Tacoma, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An inspection apparatus for nondestructive inspection/evaluation. The inspection apparatus may include a probe, and sensor, and a biasing spring. The probe may have a first end and a second, free end defining an opening. The sensor may be received in the opening. The biasing spring may be received in the opening in between the first end of the probe and the sensor to urge the sensor away from the first end of the probe. The probe may include a gimbal joint or ball and socket type joint and a spindle, where the joint provides for deflection of the probe relative to the spindle. A blocking pin for limiting the range of movement of the sensor retains part of the sensor in the opening. The sensor may have a position extending out of the opening, and a position where an end of the sensor is substantially flush with the end of the probe. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/547190 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/902 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09086421 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony Miller (San Francisco, California); Jason McKeever (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ENTANGLEMENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Burlingame, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Miller (San Francisco, California); Jason McKeever (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chromatography sensor device is provided that includes a first loading chamber into which a sample fluid can be inserted, a second loading chamber into which a buffer fluid can be inserted, a diffusion column adapted to communicate with the first loading chamber and the second loading chamber and having walls lined with a chromatography stationary phase, a first high finesse optical cavity communicating with the diffusion column at a first distance from the gate, a second high finesse optical cavity communicating with the diffusion column at a second distance from the gate; and one or more lasers for generating laser frequencies for exciting the first and second high finesse optical cavities, whereby the sample fluid may diffuse into the diffusion column containing the buffer fluid and the one or more lasers and associated detectors may be used to detect a molecule of interest in the sample fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/192714 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/02 (20130101) G01N 30/20 (20130101) G01N 30/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 30/466 (20130101) G01N 2030/204 (20130101) G01N 2030/385 (20130101) |
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| US 09086457 | Maliuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dzmitry Maliuk (Addison, Texas); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey); Alan J. Weger (Mohegan Lake, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A scan chain latch circuit, a method of operating a latch circuit in a scan chain, and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure defining a scan chain latch circuit for instantiation on a semiconductor die are disclosed. In an embodiment, the scan chain latch circuit comprises a first latch for holding one data value, a second latch for holding another data value, and a multiplexor. The one data value is applied to a first data input of the multiplexor and the another data value is applied to a second data input of the multiplexor. An alternating clock signal is applied to a select input of the multiplexor to control the output of the multiplexor, wherein the output of the multiplexor toggles between the two data values held in the two latches at a defined frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/850555 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/318516 (20130101) G01R 31/318519 (20130101) G01R 31/318541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/318572 (20130101) |
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| US 09086489 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371619 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09086536 | Pang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuo Pang (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Talbot imaging systems comprising a Talbot element, a phase gradient generating device, a light detector, and a processor. The Talbot element repeats a Talbot image at a distance from the Talbot element. The phase gradient generating device scans the Talbot image at a plane at the distance from the Talbot element by incrementally changing a phase gradient of a light field incident the Talbot element. As the Talbot image is scanned, the light detector captures time varying data associated with light altered by an object located at the distance from the Talbot element. The processor reconstructs an image of the object based on the time-varying light data. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/415657 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1842 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/06 (20130101) G02B 21/367 (20130101) |
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| US 09086583 | Jiang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wei Jiang (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Jiang (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for controlling and measuring modes possessing even and odd symmetry in a slow-light photonic crystal waveguide. An example device comprises a photonic crystal waveguide having modes possessing even and odd symmetry, and a Mach-Zehnder coupler comprising two waveguide branches one of which has a phase adjuster. Another example device, which can be used as an optical isolator, comprises two Mach-Zehnder couplers, and a photonic crystal waveguide comprising an electro-optic modulator therein. A method of measuring a group index of a mode with odd symmetry comprises: coupling light into a photonic crystal waveguide through a Mach-Zehnder coupler with a mixed even/odd symmetry, measuring insertion loss of the combined light signal after passing through the photonic crystal waveguide, determining the spacings of adjacent peaks or valleys from the insertion loss versus wavelength plot, and using the spacings to determine the group index of the odd symmetry mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/945291 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/17 (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 1/011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086609 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Yan (Los Angeles, California); Lin Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Alan E. Willner (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nondegenerate mirrorless four-wave mixing oscillation with frequency tunability is proposed in nonlinear waveguide of the third-order nonlinearity such as silicon waveguide) by using two different spatial modes. As low as ˜2 W threshold power is obtained in several centimeters long waveguide. In one aspect, a method includes propagating a first wave along an axis of a multimode waveguide in a forward direction, the first optical wave having a first frequency; propagating a second wave along the axis of the multimode waveguide in a backward direction, the second wave having a second frequency; the waveguide configured to support multiple modes, including at least a fundamental mode and a second mode; and the propagating the first wave occurs at a same time as the propagating the second wave to generate a third wave in the forward direction having a third frequency and fourth wave in the backward direction having a fourth frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/869730 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/39 (20130101) G02F 1/395 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086791 | Ishak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward W. Ishak (Jersey City, New Jersey); Steven K. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Ishak (Jersey City, New Jersey); Steven K. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing content-aware scrolling are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing content-aware scrolling is provided, the method comprising: determining whether one or more regions of content in a document are important regions; generating a scroll path that passes through the important regions, wherein at least one of direction, speed, and zoom are varied along the scroll path based on characteristics of the important regions; and, in response to receiving a user input, traversing the generated scroll path through the important regions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/674476 |
| ART UNIT | 2175 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09087228 | Ivanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Iankov Ivanov (Hyattsville, Maryland); John S. Baras (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems involving image processing extract from an image and estimate unique intrinsic characteristics (scanner pattern) of a biometric scanner, such as area type fingerprint scanner. The scanner pattern is permanent over time, can identify a scanner even among scanners of the same manufacturer and model, and can be used to verify if a scanner acquired an image is the same as the scanner used for biometric enrollment, i.e., to authenticate the scanner and prevent security attacks on it. One method comprises selecting pixels from an enrolled and query image, masking useful pixels from the images, computing a similarity score between the common pixels of the enrolled and query useful pixels, and comparing this score with a threshold to determine whether the query image has been acquired by the same scanner as the enrolled image. The method can further comprise inverting the pixel values and/or filtering the selected pixels. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/603387 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6215 (20130101) |
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| US 09087241 | Plagemann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Plagemann (Menlo Park, California); Hariraam Varun Ganapathi (Palo Alto, California); Sebastian Thrun (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for use with motion capture. One such method is implemented for identifying salient points from three-dimensional image data. The method involves the execution of instructions on a computer system to generate a three-dimensional surface mesh from the three-dimensional image data. Lengths of possible paths from a plurality of points on the three-dimensional surface mesh to a common reference point are categorized. The categorized lengths of possible paths are used to identify a subset of the plurality of points as salient points. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096898 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00342 (20130101) G06K 9/00718 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6215 (20130101) G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/2046 (20130101) G06T 17/205 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/30196 (20130101) |
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| US 09087295 | Dillon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. Dillon (King George, Virginia); Jeremy Gene Kelly (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented sequence analysis process is provided for determining frequency in an n-gram hash sequence of a symbolic string, such as a series of characters. The method includes initializing a hash table, creating a matrix, reading the present value in the sequence, determining whether the present value is unknown, inserting a value index into the hash table if unknown and identifying the value index otherwise, and incrementing a cell within the array. The hash table has a plurality of levels from one to n. The matrix includes first and second indices corresponding to an array of cells. The first index corresponds to an end of a prior value, while the second index corresponds to a start of a present value. The cell corresponds to the first index for the prior value and the second index for the present value. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783639 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09087301 | Alvarez-Icaza Rivera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera (San Jose, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Pallab Datta (San Jose, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to a neural network system for simulating neurons of a neural model. One embodiment comprises a memory device that maintains neuronal states for multiple neurons, a lookup table that maintains state transition information for multiple neuronal states, and a controller unit that manages the memory device. The controller unit updates a neuronal state for each neuron based on incoming spike events targeting said neuron and state transition information corresponding to said neuronal state. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725452 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/06 (20130101) G06N 3/049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/063 (20130101) G06N 3/0635 (20130101) |
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| US 09087641 | Pollack |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald H. Pollack (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for generating electrical energy from a volume of water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/073840 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/20 (20130101) H01G 9/21 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 14/00 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 99/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09087649 | Sherwood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven D. Sherwood (Chenango Forks, New York); William F. Kienzler, III (Johnson City, New York); Keith D. Rose (Binghamton, New York); Peter J. Minni (Endwell, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE SYSTEMS CONTROLS INC. (Endicott, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Sherwood (Chenango Forks, New York); William F. Kienzler, III (Johnson City, New York); Keith D. Rose (Binghamton, New York); Peter J. Minni (Endwell, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitive filter assembly and method including a housing having a power terminal connection for receiving electrical power. A plurality of capacitors in an electrically parallel configuration coupled to one or more side walls of the housing. The plurality of capacitors electrically communicating with a plurality of respective printed wiring boards (PWB) coupled to the capacitors inside the housing, and the plurality of capacitors being positioned between the power terminal connection in the housing and respective housing ground connections in the housing. A plurality of support structures coupled to the plurality of capacitors, respectively, the plurality of support structures being configured to mate with the respective printed wiring boards, the support structures being mounted in the housing such that the capacitors are coupled to the housing using their respective support structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/592028 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 2/06 (20130101) H01G 2/106 (20130101) H01G 4/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/224 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 7/01 (20130101) Transmission H04B 15/005 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/43 (20150115) |
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| US 09087944 | Roberts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Joseph Roberts (Ridgecrest, California); Simin Feng (Waldorf, Maryland); Zachary A. Sechrist (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoplasmonic cavities for photovoltaic applications include at least one transparent conductive substrate. A first plasmonic electrically conductive nanostructure layer is associated with the transparent conductive substrate. At least one photoabsorber layer is associated with the first plasmonic electrically conductive nanostructure layer. At least one electron transfer layer is associated with the photoabsorber layer. A second plasmonic electrically conductive nanostructure layer is associated with the electron transfer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/667188 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/035209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/542 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/742 (20130101) |
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| US 09088049 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-ping Zheng (Tallahassee, Florida); Guoqing Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium air battery cell includes an anode having lithium, a cathode having a Ag2Mn8O16 catalyst, and an electrolyte comprising a lithium salt. A cathode for a lithium air battery cell and a lithium air battery with a cathode including buckypaper and a Ag2Mn8O16 catalyst are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748323 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 45/1221 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/9016 (20130101) H01M 4/9041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 12/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09088059 | Church et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin A. Church (San Diego, California); John Meloling (San Diego, California); John D. Rockway (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin A. Church (San Diego, California); John Meloling (San Diego, California); John D. Rockway (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for establishing metamaterial transmission line (MTM TL's) for a phased array antenna can include the initial step of defining a defining a Composite Right/Left Hand (CRLH) CRLH unit cell architecture. A family of unit cells using CRLH TL microstrip architecture can be constructed so that each of the CRLH unit cells have the same physical length, but different cell phases and cell phase slopes. To do this, the stub length of each CRLH unit cell can be varied. Once the family of CRLH unit cells is constructed, different numbers of different CRLH unit cells from the family can be combined with different numbers of conventional right hand TL's, which results in TL's for a phased array antenna that each have the same overall phase and overall phase slope not only at the design frequency f0, but over the entire design frequency band for the antenna. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/903522 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 11/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09088123 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore G. Jones (Alexandria, Virginia); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel F. Gordon (Waldorf, Maryland); Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Virginia); Joseph R. Peñano (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore G. Jones (Alexandria, Virginia); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel F. Gordon (Waldorf, Maryland); Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Virginia); Joseph R. Peñano (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating an extended underwater plasma. A first laser pulse is fired into a body of water to form an underwater optical filament coinciding with a low-energy plasma. A second laser pulse is fired into the water, targeted at the plasma. The second pulse heats the plasma, causing the formation of an extended superheated plasma volume in the water. The two laser pulses can be simultaneous or can be sequential, with the second pulse following the first pulse by up to the filament plasma lifetime. The extended superheated plasma creates an underwater acoustic pulse, wherein the duration, waveform and directivity of the pulse can be tailored by controlling the shape of the underwater laser-generated plasma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/711752 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 13/005 (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 1/3511 (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 15/046 (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 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09088126 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Chai Zheng (Princeton, New Jersey); Qiang Liu (Zurich, Switzerland); Claire F. Gmachl (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, semiconductor lasers are provided. A semiconductor laser described herein comprises substrate and a cavity formed on the substrate, the cavity comprising an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder (AMZ) interferometer structure positioned between two straight waveguide segments, the straight waveguide segments and first and second arms of the AMZ interferometer structure comprising epitaxial semiconductor layers, wherein the second arm of the AMZ interferometer structure has a temperature control architecture independent of the first arm. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/056383 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3401 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/951 (20130101) |
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| US 09088555 | Koved et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Koved (Pleasantville, New York); Kapil Kumar Singh (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and structure) for enforcing authentication and authorization includes making a resource access request, by a client application being executed by a processor on a digital device, to invoke authentication and authorization services to evaluate the resource access request by the client application. A security application on the digital device is activated and executed, the security application being separate from the client application, the security application including instructions for processing a challenge-response protocol for the resource access request. The client application communicates outside the digital device using a primary communication channel and the security application uses a secondary communication channel that is out-of-band from the primary communication channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/856931 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09088569 | Arroyo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jesse P. Arroyo (Rochester, Minnesota); Ellen M. Bauman (Rochester, Minnesota); Timothy R. Block (Rochester, Minnesota); Leonardo Letourneaut (Rochester, Minnesota); Timothy J. Schimke (Stewartville, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse P. Arroyo (Rochester, Minnesota); Ellen M. Bauman (Rochester, Minnesota); Timothy R. Block (Rochester, Minnesota); Leonardo Letourneaut (Rochester, Minnesota); Timothy J. Schimke (Stewartville, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods to manage access to shared resources are provided. A particular method may include receiving a request to access a shared resource from a first client of a plurality of clients and determining whether the shared resource is being used. A first window credential associated with the first client may be retrieved. The first window credential may be one of a plurality of window credentials associated with the plurality of clients. The first window credential may be used to access the shared resource. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/105985 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) G06F 9/45558 (20130101) G06F 21/6209 (20130101) G06F 2221/2147 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09088903 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jae H. Kim (Bellevue, Washington); Bong K. Ryu (Poway, California); Claudiu B. Danilov (Irvine, California); Aleksandar Jovancevic (Clifton, Virginia); Orlie T. Brewer (Issaquah, Washington); Reza Ghanadan (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for dynamic routing under extreme cognitive jamming environments are presented. Jammer signals emitted by a network protocol-aware cognitive jammer are scanned for at a router node in an ad-hoc wireless network, and jammer behaviors are detected based on signal characteristics of the jammer signals. A network dynamic pattern caused by the network protocol-aware cognitive jammer is classified based on the detected jammer behaviors observed over a period of time, and dynamic routing strategies of the first router node are adapted to achieve robust data delivery based on the network behavioral pattern. Data packets sent by the router node are routed to avoid nodes and routes that are affected by the jammer signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/899550 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/22 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 28/0231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09089038 | Camara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlos Camara (Venice, California); Seth J. Putterman (Malibu, California); Jonathan Hird (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos Camara (Venice, California); Seth J. Putterman (Malibu, California); Jonathan Hird (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray source includes an enclosing vessel, a first roller arranged at least partially within the enclosing vessel, a second roller arranged at least partially within the enclosing vessel and to be in rolling contact with the first roller, and a drive assembly operatively connected to at least one of the first and second rollers. The drive assembly causes the first and second rollers to rotate while in contact to bring portions of the first and second rollers into and out of contact within the enclosing vessel as the first and second rollers rotate. The first roller has a surface at least partially of a first triboelectric material and the second roller has a surface at least partially of a second triboelectric material, the first triboelectric material having a negative triboelectric potential relative to the second triboelectric material. The enclosing vessel is structured to provide a controlled atmospheric environment, and the first triboelectric material, the second triboelectric material and the controlled atmospheric environment are selected such that rolling contact between the first and second rollers produces x-rays. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/113782 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray Technique H05G 2/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09084546 | Richardson-Burns et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarah Richardson-Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jeffrey L. Hendricks (Berkeley, California); David C. Martin (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania); Andrew Sereno (Chelsea, Michigan); Zachary King (Jackson, Michigan); Edward Jan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Richardson-Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jeffrey L. Hendricks (Berkeley, California); David C. Martin (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania); Andrew Sereno (Chelsea, Michigan); Zachary King (Jackson, Michigan); Edward Jan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Bioelectrodes having enhanced biocompatible and biomimetic features are provided. Methods of making and using the bioelectrodes are further provided. A biologically integrated bioelectrode device and method for detecting electronic signals using a bioelectrode comprising a first electrically conductive substrate and a biological component. The bioelectrode also comprises a conductive polymer electrically coupling the first electrically conductive substrate and the biological component to define a bioelectrode. The bioelectrode can transmit or receive an electrical signal between the electrically conductive substrate and the biological component and conductive polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755070 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2562/125 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) A61N 1/056 (20130101) A61N 1/0531 (20130101) A61N 1/0534 (20130101) A61N 1/0536 (20130101) A61N 1/0541 (20130101) A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 28/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09084773 | Bassler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Lee R. Swem (Montara, California); Scott M. Ulrich (Ithaca, New York); Colleen T. O'Loughlin (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel small molecule antagonizes two types of acyl homoserine lactone receptors: membrane-bound and cytoplasmic. A focused library of analogs and derivatives of the original antagonist was synthesized. Analog and derivative molecules harbor a range of activities. The novel small molecule and most potent antagonist protects the eukaryote Caenorhabditis elegans from quorum-sensing-mediated killing by the bacterial pathogen Chromobacterium violaceum. The saving of C. elegans demonstrates the use of these molecules as small molecule antimicrobials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/288984 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 43/08 (20130101) A01N 43/10 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/18 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/381 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/33 (20130101) C07D 333/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09084840 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Ung-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea); Jaehyung Park (Decatur, Georgia); Hyoung-Joon Jin (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for concentrated aqueous silk fibroin solutions and an all-aqueous mode for preparation of concentrated aqueous fibroin solutions that avoids the use of organic solvents, direct additives, or harsh chemicals. The invention further provides for the use of these solutions in production of materials, e.g., fibers, films, foams, meshes, scaffolds and hydrogels. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425541 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (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 39/003 (20130101) B29C 39/203 (20130101) B29C 55/005 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 7/01 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2089/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2007/00 (20130101) B29L 2009/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43536 (20130101) C07K 14/43586 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 5/18 (20130101) C08J 9/26 (20130101) C08J 9/28 (20130101) C08J 9/0061 (20130101) C08J 2201/0444 (20130101) C08J 2201/0504 (20130101) C08J 2205/022 (20130101) C08J 2389/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (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) |
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| US 09084989 | Krishna et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vijay Krishna (Gainesville, Florida); Brij M. Moudgil (Gainesville, Florida); Benjamin L. Koopman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay Krishna (Gainesville, Florida); Brij M. Moudgil (Gainesville, Florida); Benjamin L. Koopman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyhydroxyfullerenes (PHFs) having enhanced electron scavenging capabilities have a ratio of non-hydroxyl functional groups to hydroxyl functional groups that is less than or equal to 0.3. When combined with a semiconductor photocatalyst, such as titanium dioxide nanoparticles, the PHFs provide a photocatalyst for degradation of chemical and biological contaminates with an efficiency of at least twice that of titanium dioxide nanoparticles free of PHFs. The PRFs are included in these catalysts at a weight ratio to titanium dioxide of about 0.001 to about 0.003, whereas significantly lower and higher ratios do not achieve the highly improved photodegradation capability. PHFs outside of the desired structure are shown to be of little value for photodegradation, and can be inhibiting to the photocatalytic activity of TiO2. The enhanced electron scavenging PHFs can be employed as a component of materials for solar cells, field effect transistors, and radical scavengers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/000765 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/063 (20130101) B01J 23/06 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0206 (20130101) C01B 31/0213 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0047 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09085458 | Bao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Melburne Lemieux (Lahonda, California); Justin P. Opatkiewicz (Stanford, California); Soumendra N. Barman (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Melburne Lemieux (Lahonda, California); Justin P. Opatkiewicz (Stanford, California); Soumendra N. Barman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotube electronic devices exhibit selective affinity to disparate nanotube types. According to an example embodiment, a semiconductor device exhibits a treated substrate that selectively interacts (e.g., chemically) with nanotubes of a first type, relative to nanotubes of a second type, the respective types including semiconducting-type and metallic-type nanotubes. The selective interaction is used to set device configuration characteristics based upon the nanotube type. This selective-interaction approach can be used to set the type, and/or characteristics of nanotubes in the device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526780 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02606 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/882 (20130101) |
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| US 09085460 | Stoddart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois); Ross S. Forgan (Evanston, Illinois); Ronald A. Smaldone (Chicago, Illinois); Jeremiah J. Gassensmith (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Fraser Stoddart (Evanston, Illinois); Ross S. Forgan (Evanston, Illinois); Ronald A. Smaldone (Chicago, Illinois); Jeremiah J. Gassensmith (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are cyclodextrin-based metal organic frameworks comprising a metal cation and cyclodextrin or a cyclodextrin derivative. These metal organic frameworks are permanently porous and capable of molecule storage. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/050709 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 20/2808 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0015 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0012 (20130101) C08B 37/0015 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/80 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/328 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/204998 (20150115) |
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| US 09085511 | Wolf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian Wolf (Arlington, Virginia); Marwan Ghosn (Alekabar, Saudi Arabia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Wolf (Arlington, Virginia); Marwan Ghosn (Alekabar, Saudi Arabia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention related to atropisomeric 1,8-bisphenolnaphthalenes and derivatives thereof of the general formula (I): which are useful in resolution of enantiomers, enantioselective recognition and asymmetric synthesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/009572 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 39/15 (20130101) C07C 39/21 (20130101) C07C 47/57 (20130101) C07C 209/88 (20130101) C07C 209/88 (20130101) C07C 209/88 (20130101) C07C 209/88 (20130101) C07C 209/88 (20130101) C07C 211/03 (20130101) C07C 211/17 (20130101) C07C 211/27 (20130101) C07C 211/36 (20130101) C07C 249/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/14 (20130101) C07C 2102/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09085595 | Schrock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Royce Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts); Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Peryshkov (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The current application describes tungsten oxo alkylidene complexes for olefin metathesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/671109 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/34 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085766 | Crane et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian R. Crane (Ithaca, New York); Jawahar Sudhamsu (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Crane (Ithaca, New York); Jawahar Sudhamsu (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of producing recombinant functional heme-binding proteins with complete heme incorporation and purified preparations of the same. The present invention is further directed to methods of identifying agents that modulate the activity of heme-binding proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/113769 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/795 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/80 (20130101) G01N 2333/795 (20130101) G01N 2333/805 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09085799 | Bazan 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) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Brent S. Gaylord (San Diego, California); Shu Wang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor polynucleotide complementary to the target polynucleotide. The sensor polynucleotide comprises a signaling chromophore to receive energy from the excited multichromophore and increase emission in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits comprising reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/460245 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6813 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6818 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6834 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2523/313 (20130101) C12Q 2563/107 (20130101) C12Q 2565/107 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09085830 | Mitchell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart B. Mitchell (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Joan E. Sanders (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart B. Mitchell (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Joan E. Sanders (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospinning apparatus and methodology is described that produces medical devices, such as scaffolds that induce the formation of a natural fibrous structure (primarily collagen and elastin) in a tissue-engineered medical device. The apparatus uses collection surfaces designed to manipulate or change the electrostatic field so that the electrospun fibers are arranged in desirable patterns that are similar to or mimic the fibrillar structure of an animal tissue. The manipulation results in fibers that are preferentially oriented in a predefined pattern. In addition, the interfiber space between the fibers and the fiber diameter are consistently within a predefined range. Using these techniques in conjunction with controlling polymer properties enables the production of a scaffold that has the structural and mechanical characteristics similar to the native tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/176501 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 27/14 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (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 47/92 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D01D 5/0092 (20130101) |
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| US 09086400 | Minch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bradley A. Minch (Plainville, Massachusetts); Sunitha Bandla Ayers (Ithaca, New York); Manfred Lindau (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley A. Minch (Plainville, Massachusetts); Sunitha Bandla Ayers (Ithaca, New York); Manfred Lindau (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of electrochemical detectors includes an array of electrodes that provide current responsive to oxidation events. Each electrode is coupled to a transistor, an amplifier coupled to an input of the transistor and having a feedback loop coupled to the electrode and providing a bias voltage to the electrode, an integrating capacitor coupled to the transistor operable to integrate charge from the electrode, and a reset switch coupled to the integrating capacitor. The amplifier may have a shared stage with other detectors. A shared buffer circuit may also provide a sampled output from multiple detectors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/744891 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/10 (20130101) G01N 27/49 (20130101) G01N 27/403 (20130101) G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/48728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086430 | Rice et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer Rice (Lubbock, Texas); Gul Agha (Urbana, Illinois); Billie F. Spencer, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Rice (Lubbock, Texas); Gul Agha (Urbana, Illinois); Billie F. Spencer, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart sensor circuit board comprises an interface to a wireless smart sensor board platform, a multi-axis accelerometer having a measurement range and resolution set to provide sensitivity to measure ambient structural vibrations resulting from non-catastrophic routine environmental factors, an analog to digital converter (ADC) for converting signals from the multi-axis accelerometer having a plurality of individual channels including oversampling, filtering, and decimation, and each channel being individually programmable for gain, anti-aliasing, cut-off frequency, sampling, and frequency providing data to the interface, and a low noise and high sensitivity amplifier having the plurality of individual channels to receive signals from the multi-axis accelerometer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/696747 |
| ART UNIT | 2647 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0066 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/18 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/0235 (20130101) |
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| US 09086584 | Preble et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stefan Preble (Pittsford, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Preble (Pittsford, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength converter includes an optical resonator that is optically coupled to a waveguide. The refractive index of the optical resonator is dynamically changed, such as by injecting free carriers into the resonator. This effectively changes that optical path length of the light, thus converting the wavelength. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/438716 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0126 (20130101) G02F 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/0156 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09086791 | Ishak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward W. Ishak (Jersey City, New Jersey); Steven K. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Ishak (Jersey City, New Jersey); Steven K. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for providing content-aware scrolling are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing content-aware scrolling is provided, the method comprising: determining whether one or more regions of content in a document are important regions; generating a scroll path that passes through the important regions, wherein at least one of direction, speed, and zoom are varied along the scroll path based on characteristics of the important regions; and, in response to receiving a user input, traversing the generated scroll path through the important regions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/674476 |
| ART UNIT | 2175 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0485 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086923 | Parashar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manish Parashar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Hyunjoo Kim (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manish Parashar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Hyunjoo Kim (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomic workflow framework may include a federated cloud that includes a plurality of clouds, where each cloud in the federated cloud includes one or more nodes. An autonomic workflow framework may include a workflow manager configured to receive a workflow. The workflow may include a plurality of stages, and the workflow may be associated with a user objective. An autonomic workflow framework may include an autonomic scheduler in communication with the workflow manager. The autonomic scheduler may be configured to provision one or more of the one or more nodes to process the stages to achieve the user objective. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/621595 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/5072 (20130101) |
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| US 09086955 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anxiao Jiang (College Station, Texas); Eyal En Gad (Pasadena, California); Jehoshua Bruck (Pasadena, California); Eitan Yaakobi (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Rank modulation has been recently proposed as a scheme for storing information in flash memories. Three improved aspects are disclosed. In one aspect the minimum push-up scheme, for storing data in flash memories is provided. It aims at minimizing the cost of changing the state of the memory. In another aspect, multi-cells, used for storing data in flash memories is provided. Each transistor is replaced with a multi-cell of mm transistors connected in parallel. In yet another aspect, multi-permutations, are provided. The paradigm of representing information with permutations is generalized to the case where the number of cells in each level is a constant greater than one. In yet another aspect, rank-modulation rewriting schemes which take advantage of polar codes, are provided for use with flash memory. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791823 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Static Stores G11C 7/1006 (20130101) G11C 11/5628 (20130101) G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 2211/5649 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09087694 | Hutchings et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Arthur Hutchings (Elkins, Arkansas); Seth Daniel Shumate (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Hameed Naseem (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silicon Solar Solutions, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Arthur Hutchings (Elkins, Arkansas); Seth Daniel Shumate (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Hameed Naseem (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A seed layer structure is annealed. The seed layer structure comprises a crystallization catalyst material on a seed semiconductor over a substrate. The seed semiconductor comprises an amorphous portion. Annealing of the seed layer structure converts the amorphous portion into a crystalline portion. The crystalline portion is connected to the substrate by subsurface crystal legs. The crystallization catalyst material formed underneath the crystalline portion by annealing is removed from the underneath of the crystalline portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905966 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0245 (20130101) H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02529 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02612 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 21/02647 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 21/02672 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09087995 | Virkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Melburne C. LeMieux (La Honda, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures are doped to set conductivity characteristics. In accordance with various example embodiments, nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes are doped with a halogenated fullerene type of dopant material. In some implementations, the dopant material is deposited from solution or by vapor deposition, and used to dope the nanotubes to increase the thermal and/or electrical conductivity of the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/021796 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0273 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09088126 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Chai Zheng (Princeton, New Jersey); Qiang Liu (Zurich, Switzerland); Claire F. Gmachl (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, semiconductor lasers are provided. A semiconductor laser described herein comprises substrate and a cavity formed on the substrate, the cavity comprising an asymmetric Mach-Zehnder (AMZ) interferometer structure positioned between two straight waveguide segments, the straight waveguide segments and first and second arms of the AMZ interferometer structure comprising epitaxial semiconductor layers, wherein the second arm of the AMZ interferometer structure has a temperature control architecture independent of the first arm. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/056383 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3401 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/951 (20130101) |
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| US 09084970 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph M. Schwartz (Williamsville, New York); Joseph M. Corpus (Avon, Indiana); Hankwon Lim (East Amherst, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Schwartz (Williamsville, New York); Joseph M. Corpus (Avon, Indiana); Hankwon Lim (East Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a hydrogen transport membrane and the composite article itself. More specifically, the invention relates to producing a membrane substrate, wherein the ceramic substrate is coated with a metal oxide slurry, thereby eliminating the need for an activation step prior to plating the ceramic membrane through an electroless plating process. The invention also relates to modifying the pore size and porosity of the substrate by oxidation or reduction of the particles deposited by the metal oxide slurry. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542286 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 67/0039 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 67/0069 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 69/105 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 2323/18 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/503 (20130101) C01B 3/505 (20130101) C01B 2203/0405 (20130101) |
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| US 09085488 | Kalb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul D. Kalb (Wading River, New York); Vyacheslav P. Vagin (Korolev, Russian Federation); Lyudmila Vagina (Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Kalb (Wading River, New York); Vyacheslav P. Vagin (Korolev, Russian Federation); Sergey P. Vagin (Almaty, Kazakhstan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a stable, sulfur binding composite comprising impregnating a solid aggregate with an organic modifier comprising unsaturated hydrocarbons with at least one double or triple covalent bond between adjacent carbon atoms to create a modifier-impregnated aggregate; heating and drying the modifier-impregnated aggregate to activate the surface of the modifier-impregnated aggregate for reaction with sulfur. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/146344 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 14/00 (20130101) C04B 14/00 (20130101) C04B 14/06 (20130101) C04B 14/06 (20130101) C04B 18/04 (20130101) C04B 18/04 (20130101) C04B 18/06 (20130101) C04B 18/06 (20130101) C04B 18/10 (20130101) C04B 18/10 (20130101) C04B 18/12 (20130101) C04B 18/18 (20130101) C04B 18/062 (20130101) C04B 20/04 (20130101) C04B 20/008 (20130101) C04B 20/1044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 20/1044 (20130101) C04B 20/1044 (20130101) C04B 28/36 (20130101) C04B 28/36 (20130101) C04B 2103/0067 (20130101) |
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| US 09085494 | Retsina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | API Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | API Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodora Retsina (Atlanta, Georgia); Vesa Pylkkanen (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides processes and apparatus to convert biomass, including wood and agricultural residues, into low-ash biomass pellets for combustion, alone or in combination with another solid fuel. Some embodiments provide processes for producing low-ash biomass from cellulosic biomass, comprising providing an aqueous extraction solution with acetic acid; extracting the feedstock to produce an extract liquor containing soluble ash, hemicellulosic oligomers, acetic acid, dissolved lignin, and cellulose-rich solids; dewatering and drying the cellulose-rich, lignin-rich solids to produce a low-ash biomass; hydrolyzing the hemicellulosic oligomers to produce hemicellulosic sugars, wherein additional acetic acid is generated; removing a vapor stream comprising vaporized acetic acid from the extract; and recycling the vapor or its condensate to provide some starting acetic acid for the extraction solution. The disclosed processes can produce clean power from biomass. Co-products may include fermentable sugars, fermentation products such as ethanol, fertilizers, and lignin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/173239 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Fertilisers Not Covered by Subclasses C05B, C05C, e.g Fertilisers From Waste or Refuse C05F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 1/003 (20130101) Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 8/00 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 5/44 (20130101) C10L 2290/08 (20130101) C10L 2290/10 (20130101) C10L 2290/544 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/54 (20130101) C12P 7/56 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2201/00 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) Cremation Furnaces; Consuming Waste Products by Combustion F23G 7/12 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 30/43 (20150501) |
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| US 09085595 | Schrock et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Royce Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts); Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Peryshkov (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Amir H. Hoveyda (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The current application describes tungsten oxo alkylidene complexes for olefin metathesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/671109 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/34 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085981 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jay A. Morrison (Titusville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Pang Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jay A. Morrison (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A ducting arrangement (10) for a can annular gas turbine engine, including: a duct (12, 14) disposed between a combustor (16) and a first row of turbine blades and defining a hot gas path (30) therein, the duct (12, 14) having raised geometric features (54) incorporated into an outer surface (80); and a flow sleeve (72) defining a cooling flow path (84) between an inner surface (78) of the flow sleeve (72) and the duct outer surface (80). After a cooling fluid (86) traverses a relatively upstream raised geometric feature (90), the inner surface (78) of the flow sleeve (72) is effective to direct the cooling fluid (86) toward a landing (94) separating the relatively upstream raised geometric feature (90) from a relatively downstream raised geometric feature (94). |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/655675 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/20 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/002 (20130101) F23R 3/06 (20130101) F23R 3/54 (20130101) F23R 2900/03045 (20130101) |
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| US 09085984 | Ristau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neil Ristau (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gunnar Leif Siden (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Ristau (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Gunnar Leif Siden (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge downstream from the leading edge, a pressure surface between the leading and trailing edges, and a suction surface between the leading and trailing edges and opposite the pressure surface. A first convex section on the suction surface decreases in curvature downstream from the leading edge, and a throat on the suction surface is downstream from the first convex section. A second convex section is on the suction surface downstream from the throat, and a first convex segment of the second convex section increases in curvature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/545248 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/304 (20130101) F05D 2250/711 (20130101) F05D 2250/712 (20130101) |
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| US 09086151 | Dietle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lannie L. Dietle (Houston, Texas); John E. Schroeder (Richmond, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kalsi Engineering Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lannie L. Dietle (Houston, Texas); John E. Schroeder (Richmond, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrodynamically lubricating geometry for the generally circular dynamic sealing lip of rotary seals that are employed to partition a lubricant from an environment. The dynamic sealing lip is provided for establishing compressed sealing engagement with a relatively rotatable surface, and for wedging a film of lubricating fluid into the interface between the dynamic sealing lip and the relatively rotatable surface in response to relative rotation that may occur in the clockwise or the counter-clockwise direction. A wave form incorporating an elongated dimple provides the gradual convergence, efficient impingement angle, and gradual interfacial contact pressure rise that are conducive to efficient hydrodynamic wedging. Skewed elevated contact pressure zones produced by compression edge effects provide for controlled lubricant movement within the dynamic sealing interface between the seal and the relatively rotatable surface, producing enhanced lubrication and low running torque. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/242107 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pistons; Cylinders; Sealings F16J 15/324 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16J 15/3208 (20130101) F16J 15/3236 (20130101) F16J 15/3244 (20130101) |
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| US 09086429 | Biedermann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grant Biedermann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hayden James Evans McGuinness (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Akash Rakholia (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-pulse atomic interferometry (LPAI) apparatus is provided. The LPAI apparatus comprises a vessel, two sets of magnetic coils configured to magnetically confine an atomic vapor in two respective magneto-optical traps (MOTs) within the vessel when activated, and an optical system configured to irradiate the atomic vapor within the vessel with laser radiation that, when suitably tuned, can launch atoms previously confined in each of the MOTs toward the other MOT. In embodiments, the magnetic coils are configured to produce a magnetic field that is non-zero at the midpoint between the traps. In embodiments, the time-of-flight of the launched atoms from one MOT to the other is 12 ms or less. In embodiments, the MOTs are situated approximately 36 mm apart. In embodiments, the apparatus is configured to activate the magnetic coils according to a particular temporal magnetic field gradient profile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/643970 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/58 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09086487 | Gopalsami et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nachappa Gopalsami (Naperville, Illinois); Alexander Heifetz (Buffalo, Illinois); Hual-Te Chien (Naperville, Illinois); Shaolin Liao (Darien, Illinois); Eugene R. Koehl (Joliet, Illinois); Apostolos C. Raptis (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nachappa Gopalsami (Naperville, Illinois); Alexander Heifetz (Buffalo, Illinois); Hual-Te Chien (Naperville, Illinois); Shaolin Liao (Darien, Illinois); Eugene R. Koehl (Joliet, Illinois); Apostolos C. Raptis (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A millimeter wave measurement system has been developed for remote detection of airborne nuclear radiation, based on electromagnetic scattering from radiation-induced ionization in air. Specifically, methods of monitoring radiation-induced ionization of air have been investigated, and the ionized air has been identified as a source of millimeter wave radar reflection, which can be utilized to determine the size and strength of a radiation source. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422832 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — 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 21/359 (20130101) G01N 21/3581 (20130101) G01N 21/3586 (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 13/58 (20130101) G01S 13/95 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/958 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09086501 | Beer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California); David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarized detection system performs imaging, object detection, and change detection factoring in the orientation of an object relative to the orientation of transceivers. The polarized detection system may operate on one of several modes of operation based on whether the imaging, object detection, or change detection is performed separately for each transceiver orientation. In combined change mode, the polarized detection system performs imaging, object detection, and change detection separately for each transceiver orientation, and then combines changes across polarizations. In combined object mode, the polarized detection system performs imaging and object detection separately for each transceiver orientation, and then combines objects across polarizations and performs change detection on the result. In combined image mode, the polarized detection system performs imaging separately for each transceiver orientation, and then combines images across polarizations and performs object detection followed by change detection on the result. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748417 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| 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 7/024 (20130101) G01S 7/295 (20130101) G01S 13/00 (20130101) G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/885 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09086510 | Brener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igal Brener (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Young Chul Jun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength-tunable, depletion-type infrared metamaterial optical device is provided. The device includes a thin, highly doped epilayer whose electrical permittivity can become negative at some infrared wavelengths. This highly-doped buried layer optically couples with a metamaterial layer. Changes in the transmission spectrum of the device can be induced via the electrical control of this optical coupling. An embodiment includes a contact layer of semiconductor material that is sufficiently doped for operation as a contact layer and that is effectively transparent to an operating range of infrared wavelengths, a thin, highly doped buried layer of epitaxially grown semiconductor material that overlies the contact layer, and a metallized layer overlying the buried layer and patterned as a resonant metamaterial. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/908826 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/7783 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 33/0062 (20130101) H01L 2924/1032 (20130101) |
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| US 09086962 | Aho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael E. Aho (Rochester, Minnesota); John E. Attinella (Rochester, Minnesota); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael B. Mundy (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Aho (Rochester, Minnesota); John E. Attinella (Rochester, Minnesota); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael B. Mundy (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Aggregating job exit statuses of a plurality of compute nodes executing a parallel application, including: identifying a subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer to execute the parallel application; selecting one compute node in the subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer as a job leader compute node; initiating execution of the parallel application on the subset of compute nodes; receiving an exit status from each compute node in the subset of compute nodes, where the exit status for each compute node includes information describing execution of some portion of the parallel application by the compute node; aggregating each exit status from each compute node in the subset of compute nodes; and sending an aggregated exit status for the subset of compute nodes in the parallel computer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/524602 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) G06F 11/0709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/0715 (20130101) G06F 11/0784 (20130101) G06F 11/3006 (20130101) G06F 11/3055 (20130101) G06F 11/3082 (20130101) G06F 2201/865 (20130101) |
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| US 09087075 | Faibish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Zhenhua Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Zhenhua Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved techniques are provided for storing files in a parallel computing system using a list-based index to identify file replicas. A file and at least one replica of the file are stored in one or more storage nodes of the parallel computing system. An index for the file comprises at least one list comprising a pointer to a storage location of the file and a storage location of the at least one replica of the file. The file comprises one or more of a complete file and one or more sub-files. The index may also comprise a checksum value for one or more of the file and the replica(s) of the file. The checksum value can be evaluated to validate the file and/or the file replica(s). A query can be processed using the list. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536331 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09087359 | Chassin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Chassin (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for distributing a resource (such as electricity) using a resource allocation system. In one exemplary embodiment, a plurality of requests for electricity are received from a plurality of end-use consumers. The requests indicate a requested quantity of electricity and a consumer-requested index value indicative of a maximum price a respective end-use consumer will pay for the requested quantity of electricity. A plurality of offers for supplying electricity are received from a plurality of resource suppliers. The offers indicate an offered quantity of electricity and a supplier-requested index value indicative of a minimum price for which a respective supplier will produce the offered quantity of electricity. A dispatched index value is computed at which electricity is to be supplied based at least in part on the consumer-requested index values and the supplier-requested index values. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/166662 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 20/102 (20130101) G06Q 30/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 30/0611 (20130101) G06Q 40/04 (20130101) G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 50/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09087625 | Worsley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, California); Sergei O. Kucheyev (Oakland, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discovery Bay, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Alex V. Hamza (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcus A. Worsley (Hayward, California); Sergei O. Kucheyev (Oakland, California); Theodore F. Baumann (Discovery Bay, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California); Alex V. Hamza (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Using SWNT-CA as scaffolds to fabricate stiff, highly conductive polymer (PDMS) composites. The SWNT-CA is immersing in a polymer resin to produce a SWNT-CA infiltrated with a polymer resin. The SWNT-CA infiltrated with a polymer resin is cured to produce the stiff and electrically conductive composite of carbon nanotube aerogel and polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/281160 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — 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 3/04 (20130101) C08K 7/24 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09087718 | Lal |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Transphorm Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transphorm Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh K. Lal (Isla Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A III-N enhancement-mode transistor includes a III-N structure including a conductive channel, source and drain contacts, and a gate electrode between the source and drain contacts. An insulator layer is over the III-N structure, with a recess formed through the insulator layer in a gate region of the transistor, with the gate electrode at least partially in the recess. The transistor further includes a field plate having a portion between the gate electrode and the drain contact, the field plate being electrically connected to the source contact. The gate electrode includes an extending portion that is outside the recess and extends towards the drain contact. The separation between the conductive channel and the extending portion of the gate electrode is greater than the separation between the conductive channel and the portion of the field plate that is between the gate electrode and the drain contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/799989 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/8252 (20130101) H01L 27/085 (20130101) H01L 27/0605 (20130101) H01L 27/0883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/4236 (20130101) H01L 29/66522 (20130101) |
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| US 09087939 | Harley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SUNPOWER CORPORATION (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Harley (Mountain View, California); David D. Smith (Campbell, California); Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The formation of solar cell contacts using a laser is described. A method of fabricating a back-contact solar cell includes forming a poly-crystalline material layer above a single-crystalline substrate. The method also includes forming a dielectric material stack above the poly-crystalline material layer. The method also includes forming, by laser ablation, a plurality of contacts holes in the dielectric material stack, each of the contact holes exposing a portion of the poly-crystalline material layer; and forming conductive contacts in the plurality of contact holes. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/334401 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0682 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09084933 | Pope 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 Aeronatics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Pope (Poquoson, Virginia); Chad L. Stephens (Poquoson, Virginia); Christopher A. Jones (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for physiologically modulating videogames and simulations includes utilizing input from a motion-sensing video game system and input from a physiological signal acquisition device. The inputs from the physiological signal sensors are utilized to change the response of a user's avatar to inputs from the motion-sensing sensors. The motion-sensing system comprises a 3D sensor system having full-body 3D motion capture of a user's body. This arrangement encourages health-enhancing physiological self-regulation skills or therapeutic amplification of healthful physiological characteristics. The system provides increased motivation for users to utilize biofeedback as may be desired for treatment of various conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/838260 |
| ART UNIT | 3716 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09085302 | Borroni-Bird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The U.S.A. As Represented by 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) | Christopher E. Borroni-Bird (Oakland Township, Michigan); Robert L. Vitale (Macomb Township, Michigan); Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Michigan); Robert O. Ambrose (Houston, Texas); William J. Bluethmann (Houston, Texas); Lucien Q. Junkin (Houston, Texas); Jonathan J. Lutz (League City, Texas); Raymond Guo (Seabrook, Texas); Anthony Joseph Lapp (Houston, Texas); Justin S. Ridley (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular robotic vehicle includes a chassis, driver input devices, an energy storage system (ESS), a power electronics module (PEM), modular electronic assemblies (eModules) connected to the ESS via the PEM, one or more master controllers, and various embedded controllers. Each eModule includes a drive wheel containing a propulsion-braking module, and a housing containing propulsion and braking control assemblies with respective embedded propulsion and brake controllers, and a mounting bracket covering a steering control assembly with embedded steering controllers. The master controller, which is in communication with each eModule and with the driver input devices, communicates with and independently controls each eModule, by-wire, via the embedded controllers to establish a desired operating mode. Modes may include a two-wheel, four-wheel, diamond, and omni-directional steering modes as well as a park mode. A bumper may enable docking with another vehicle, with shared control over the eModules of the vehicles. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/032473 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 7/0007 (20130101) B60K 2007/0038 (20130101) Vehicle Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof; Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof, in General; Arrangement of Braking Elements on Vehicles in General; Portable Devices for Preventing Unwanted Movement of Vehicles; Vehicle Modifications to Facilitate Cooling of Brakes B60T 13/74 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/08 (20130101) B60W 10/20 (20130101) B60W 10/192 (20130101) B60W 30/18009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 5/0418 (20130101) |
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| US 09085893 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ASPEN AEROGELS, INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASPEN AEROGELS, INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenting Dong (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Wendell E Rhine (Belmont, Massachusetts); Decio Coutinho (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed herein are hybrid aerogels which are compositions of tetraalkoxysilanes and bis-(trialkoxysilyl)imides that exhibit low thermal conductivities and high compressive strengths. Methods for their preparation are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/508740 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/0091 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/54 (20130101) C08G 2220/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/20 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 59/028 (20130101) |
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| US 09086168 | Jansen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jansen's Aircraft Systems Controls, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jansen's Aircraft Systems Controls, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey B. Jansen (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure regulator includes a pressurized fluid, direct-drive, balanced dual poppet valve assembly that requires no dynamic seals and is pressure balanced. Each poppet has a knife edge that creates a bubble-tight seal against a cooperating seat. The sealing knife edge of one poppet faces into the pressure, and the sealing knife edge of the other poppet faces away from the pressure. The pressure balance negates performance impact of high or low fluid pressure. Furthermore, the design provides for a controlled depth of deformation by the sealing knife edges of the poppets into the soft surfaces of the seats. With this arrangement, no dynamic seals are required, reducing the friction to a very low value. The valve assembly is actuated by solenoid that is optimized for light weight, high speed response, and low power consumption. The solenoid is designed to be immersed and operated within the pressurized fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/012953 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 31/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09088048 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Junqing Ma (Andover, Massachusetts); Aron Newman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Lennhoff (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junqing Ma (Andover, Massachusetts); Aron Newman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Lennhoff (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon nanofiber can have a surface and include at least one crystalline whisker extending from the surface of the carbon nanofiber. A battery anode composition can be formed from a plurality of carbon nanofibers each including a plurality of crystalline whiskers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/948697 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/583 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09084819 | Zabow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Rockville, Maryland); Alan Korelsky (Bethesda, Missouri); John M. Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Rockville, Maryland); Alan Korelsky (Bethesda, Missouri); John M. Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753689 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0515 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/563 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/56325 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09084820 | Zabow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Bethesda, Maryland); Alan Koretsky (Bethesda, Maryland); John Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services Office of Technology Transfer, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America, Represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Zabow (Boulder, Colorado); Stephen Dodd (Bethesda, Maryland); Alan Koretsky (Bethesda, Maryland); John Moreland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance contrast agent has a medium, and a contrast structure dispersed in the medium. The contrast structure comprises a magnetic material arranged to create a local region of a local magnetic field such that nuclear magnetic moments of a material when arranged within the local region precess at a characteristic Larmor frequency about a total magnetic field in the local region while in use, the characteristic Larmor frequency being identifiable with the contrast structure, and the total magnetic field in the local region being a substantially spatially uniform magnetic field. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937843 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/281 (20130101) G01R 33/1269 (20130101) G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/5605 (20130101) G01R 33/5607 (20130101) G01R 33/34007 (20130101) G01R 33/34084 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09086489 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371619 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09088555 | Koved et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Koved (Pleasantville, New York); Kapil Kumar Singh (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and structure) for enforcing authentication and authorization includes making a resource access request, by a client application being executed by a processor on a digital device, to invoke authentication and authorization services to evaluate the resource access request by the client application. A security application on the digital device is activated and executed, the security application being separate from the client application, the security application including instructions for processing a challenge-response protocol for the resource access request. The client application communicates outside the digital device using a primary communication channel and the security application uses a secondary communication channel that is out-of-band from the primary communication channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/856931 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09084761 | Yeghiazarians et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yerem Yeghiazarians (San Francisco, California); Joel S. Karliner (San Francisco, California); Andrew Boyle (San Francisco, California); Franca Angeli (San Francisco, California); Jean-Philippe Coppe (San Francisco, 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) | Yerem Yeghiazarians (San Francisco, California); Joel S. Karliner (San Francisco, California); Andrew Boyle (San Francisco, California); Franca Angeli (San Francisco, California); Jean-Philippe Coppe (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to the field of cardiovascular diseases. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for treating cardiovascular diseases by administration of a cytokine alone, or in conjunction with other therapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/809154 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/5443 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09085604 | Keay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); Zoltan Szekely (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Conrads (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy Veenstra (Jefferson, Maryland); Maria Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland); The United Sates of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan K. Keay (Ellicott City, Maryland); Christopher Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland); Zoltan Szekely (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Thomas Conrads (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy Veenstra (Jefferson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel antiproliferative factor comprising a glycopeptide is disclosed. In specific embodiments, the novel antiproliferative factor is associated with the bladder. Compositions, diagnostic kits and reagents, and methods of using the compounds for identifying and/or treating interstitial cystitis and cancer are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955755 |
| 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) Peptides C07K 9/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 09085458 | Bao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Melburne Lemieux (Lahonda, California); Justin P. Opatkiewicz (Stanford, California); Soumendra N. Barman (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California); Melburne Lemieux (Lahonda, California); Justin P. Opatkiewicz (Stanford, California); Soumendra N. Barman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotube electronic devices exhibit selective affinity to disparate nanotube types. According to an example embodiment, a semiconductor device exhibits a treated substrate that selectively interacts (e.g., chemically) with nanotubes of a first type, relative to nanotubes of a second type, the respective types including semiconducting-type and metallic-type nanotubes. The selective interaction is used to set device configuration characteristics based upon the nanotube type. This selective-interaction approach can be used to set the type, and/or characteristics of nanotubes in the device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526780 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02606 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/882 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09087995 | Virkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay Virkar (Stanford, California); Melburne C. LeMieux (La Honda, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanostructures are doped to set conductivity characteristics. In accordance with various example embodiments, nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes are doped with a halogenated fullerene type of dopant material. In some implementations, the dopant material is deposited from solution or by vapor deposition, and used to dope the nanotubes to increase the thermal and/or electrical conductivity of the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/021796 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0273 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09086258 | Vasudevan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srikanth Vasudevan (Vancouver, Washington); Paul Suchy (Parma, Ohio); Matthew C. Birch (Mentor, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A guided munition (e.g., a mortar round or a grenade) utilizes deployable flow effectors, activatable flow effectors and/or active flow control devices to extend the range and enhance the precision of traditional unguided munitions without increasing the charge needed for launch. Sensors such as accelerometers, magnetometers, IR sensors, rate gyros, and motor controller sensors feed signals into a controller which then actuates or deploys the flow effectors/flow control devices to achieve the enhanced characteristics. |
| FILED | Monday, February 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769560 |
| 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 10/14 (20130101) F42B 15/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09087694 | Hutchings et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas Arthur Hutchings (Elkins, Arkansas); Seth Daniel Shumate (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Hameed Naseem (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silicon Solar Solutions, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Arthur Hutchings (Elkins, Arkansas); Seth Daniel Shumate (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Hameed Naseem (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A seed layer structure is annealed. The seed layer structure comprises a crystallization catalyst material on a seed semiconductor over a substrate. The seed semiconductor comprises an amorphous portion. Annealing of the seed layer structure converts the amorphous portion into a crystalline portion. The crystalline portion is connected to the substrate by subsurface crystal legs. The crystallization catalyst material formed underneath the crystalline portion by annealing is removed from the underneath of the crystalline portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905966 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0245 (20130101) H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02488 (20130101) H01L 21/02529 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02612 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 21/02647 (20130101) H01L 21/02658 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 21/02672 (20130101) H01L 29/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US PP25728 | Pounders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Capstone Plants Inc. (Grand Saline, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CAPSTONE PLANT, INC. (Grand Saline, Texas); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecil T Pounders (Poplarville, Mississippi); James B Berry (Mineola, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of hybrid Azalea named ‘AZ 15’ that is characterized by its repeat blooming habit, its bright red flowers with deeper red flecks on the upper surface of the petals, its mature foliage that is dark green and pest free with the new growth very pubescent, its strong and disease free root system, its stems and flower buds that are resistant to cold damage, its cold hardiness at least to U.S.D.A. Zone 7, and its ability to be readily propagated by softwood stem cuttings. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/987582 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09086489 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371619 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of State (DOS)
| US 09086489 | Patel |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JP Laboratories, Inc (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhabhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Monday, February 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371619 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09086457 | Maliuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dzmitry Maliuk (Addison, Texas); Franco Stellari (Waldwick, New Jersey); Alan J. Weger (Mohegan Lake, New York); Peilin Song (Lagrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A scan chain latch circuit, a method of operating a latch circuit in a scan chain, and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure defining a scan chain latch circuit for instantiation on a semiconductor die are disclosed. In an embodiment, the scan chain latch circuit comprises a first latch for holding one data value, a second latch for holding another data value, and a multiplexor. The one data value is applied to a first data input of the multiplexor and the another data value is applied to a second data input of the multiplexor. An alternating clock signal is applied to a select input of the multiplexor to control the output of the multiplexor, wherein the output of the multiplexor toggles between the two data values held in the two latches at a defined frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/850555 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/318516 (20130101) G01R 31/318519 (20130101) G01R 31/318541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/318572 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09084958 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chang-Yu Wu (Gainesville, Florida); Yu-Mei Hsu (Hukou Township, Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan); Alex Theodore (Plantation, Florida); Lin Shou (Gainesville, Florida); Danielle Lyon Hall (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Yu Wu (Gainesville, Florida); Yu-Mei Hsu (Hukou Township, Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan); Alex Theodore (Plantation, Florida); Lin Shou (Gainesville, Florida); Danielle Lyon Hall (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for collection devices, methods of making collection devices, methods of collecting gases and aerosol particles, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876305 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 46/0036 (20130101) B01D 53/0407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/2205 (20130101) G01N 1/2208 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09085753 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Liu (Milpitas, California); Mark Thompson (Morgan Hill, California); Luis J. Maranga (Santa Clara, California); Floro Cataniag (Pittsburg, California); Simon S. Hsu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEDIMMUNE, LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Liu (Milpitas, California); Mark Thompson (Morgan Hill, California); Luis J. Maranga (Santa Clara, California); Floro Cataniag (Pittsburg, California); Simon S. Hsu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel serum-free cell culture medium and methods for cultivating MDCK cells. In particular, non-tumorigenic MDCK cells. The present invention also provides methods for producing influenza viruses (e.g., particularly cold-adapted, and/or temperature sensitive, and/or attenuated influenza viruses) that eliminate the need for a cell culture medium exchange step. The novel medium and methods are useful to grow influenza viruses, in cell culture to high titer. The present invention further provides purification methods for purifying influenza viruses with high overall recovery of live virus and result in levels of host cell DNA (HCD), host cell protein (HCP) and non-specific endonuclease (e.g., Benzonase), which are below the specifications required by regulatory agencies. The immunogenic compositions can be used to actively immunize subjects or to generate antibodies for a variety of uses, including passive immunization and diagnostic immunoassays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/473494 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/145 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2760/16051 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16234 (20130101) C12N 2760/16251 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09088596 | Ciocarlie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriela F. Ciocarlie (New York, New York); Angelos Stavrou (Springfield, Virginia); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and generating anomaly detection models are provided. In some embodiments, methods for sanitizing anomaly detection models are provided. The methods including: receiving at least one abnormal anomaly detection model from at least one remote location; comparing at least one of the at least one abnormal anomaly detection model to a local normal detection model to produce a common set of features common to both the at least one abnormal anomaly detection model and the local normal detection model; and generating a sanitized normal anomaly detection model by removing the common set of features from the local normal detection model. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/778064 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 21, 2015.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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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)
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