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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 28, 2015
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| US 09089121 | Diclaro, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph W. Diclaro, II (Fleming Island, Florida); Roberto M. Pereira (Gainesville, Florida); Jeffrey C. Hertz (Okinawa, Japan); Philip G. Koehler (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Diclaro, II (Fleming Island, Florida); Roberto M. Pereira (Gainesville, Florida); Jeffrey C. Hertz (Okinawa, Japan); Philip G. Koehler (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, devices, apparatus and methods of attracting and capturing flies with toxicant treated darkened cords and printed or painted strips on sidewalls of housings. The darkened cords and strips black to confuse flies into believing they are cracks and crevices. Flies feed off the insecticide treated strips and are killed over time. At least one black line over a blue background can simulate a harborage to attract flying insects. At least one black line over a sticky surface card can be used. Geometrical housing shapes can include triangular, pentagon, cylindrical, rectangular, square, cube and/or other geometrical shapes. Housings can be tied off to be suspended. Second housings can be suspended beneath a main housing by attaching strips to the lower suspended housing. The housings can also work in an unassembled state where planar type sheets can be mounted on a wall. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250440 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Catching, Trapping or Scaring of Animals; Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals or Noxious Plants A01M 1/02 (20130101) A01M 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01M 1/20 (20130101) A01M 1/106 (20130101) A01M 1/145 (20130101) A01M 1/2016 (20130101) |
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| US 09089353 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tyler Wortman (Grand Island, Nebraska); Kyle Strabala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ryan McCormick (Arlington, Virginia); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tyler Wortman (Grand Island, Nebraska); Kyle Strabala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ryan McCormick (Arlington, Virginia); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various modular medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546831 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 19/5202 (20130101) A61B 19/5212 (20130101) A61B 2019/2215 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40418 (20130101) |
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| US 09089407 | Schaer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Schaer (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Suzanne Stewart (Kenneth Square, Pennsylvania); Alexander M. Klibanov (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Orthopedic and dental implants coated with an antibacterial coating and methods of making and using, are described herein. The implant can be coated with a hydrophobic, polycationic antibacterial polymer. The polymer can be covalently or non-covalently associated with the surface; however, in particular embodiments, the polymer is non-covalently associated with the surface. As shown in the examples below, clinical observations, digital radiography, and a battery of well-accepted ex vivo analytical methods show that the presence of a hydrophobic polycationic polymer coating, such as N,N-dodecyl,methyl-PEI coating on the surface of a metal implant, was effective in eliminating the clinical signs of infection in vivo in a large animal infection model. Moreover, the coated plates supported bone healing, and in fact decreased healing times, even in the presence of significant bacterial contamination compared to a control. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/647107 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/10 (20130101) A01N 25/34 (20130101) A01N 33/12 (20130101) A01N 33/12 (20130101) Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09089809 | Giurgiutiu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, South Carolina); Jingjing Bao (West Columbia, South Carolina); Gregory William Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, South Carolina); Jingjing Bao (West Columbia, South Carolina); Gregory William Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Glenn Rubel (Baldwin, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Active carbon filters and systems that are operative to detect active carbon filter degradations are provided. The active carbon filter can include a carbon filter comprising activated carbon and defining a filter surface; a first piezoelectric wafer active sensor on the filter surface that is electrically isolated from the carbon filter; and a second piezoelectric wafer active sensor on the filter surface that is electrically connected to the filter surface; and an impedance monitoring device electrically connected to the first piezoelectric wafer active sensor and the second piezoelectric wafer active sensor. Methods are also disclosed for determining if any degradation has occurred in an active carbon filter. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/466362 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2259/4583 (20130101) |
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09089815 — Catalyst-free removal of NOx from combustion exhausts using intense pulsed electron beams
| US 09089815 | Sethian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John D. Sethian (Burke, Virginia); Matthew Myers (Beltsville, Maryland); Mathew Wolford (Woodbridge, Virginia); Frank Hegeler (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Sethian (Burke, Virginia); Matthew Myers (Beltsville, Maryland); Mathew Wolford (Woodbridge, Virginia); Frank Hegeler (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and apparatus for removing NOx from exhaust gases produced by combustion-based energy sources. An array of high voltage pulsed electron beams are repetitively generated and transported through a thin foil into the exhaust gas containing NOx. The electron beam deposits its energy into the gas and produces reactive radicals N2+, N+, e, N2 from the NOx in the gas. These radicals recombine through chemical reactions to produce benign by-products nitrogen N2 and oxygen O2 which are output into the atmosphere. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/645556 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2257/404 (20130101) B01D 2259/812 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/085 (20130101) B01J 2219/0875 (20130101) |
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| US 09089819 | Walavalkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sameer Walavalkar (Los Angeles, California); Aditya Rajagopal (Irvine, California); Axel Scherer (Woodstock, Vermont); Thomas A. Tombrello (Altadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameer Walavalkar (Los Angeles, California); Aditya Rajagopal (Irvine, California); Axel Scherer (Woodstock, Vermont); Thomas A. Tombrello (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for isolating and sorting nanoparticles are disclosed herein. Nanopores of a desired size can be formed in silicon dioxide membranes and used as filters to separate nanoparticles. Devices are also provided herein for sorting nanoparticles with multiple filters having various sized nanopores. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250575 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/027 (20130101) B01D 61/145 (20130101) B01D 67/0062 (20130101) B01D 71/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Separating Solids From Solids by Sieving, Screening, Sifting or by Using Gas Currents; Separating by Other Dry Methods Applicable to Bulk Material, e.g Loose Articles Fit to be Handled Like Bulk Material B07B 1/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09089977 | Claffee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Claffee (Methuen, Massachusetts); Nicholas Roy Corson (Hollis, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A grasper includes a base, a finger, a tendon cable and a magnetic breakaway mechanism. The finger has a proximal end connected to the base by a proximal joint. The tendon cable is configured to move the finger relative to the base. The magnetic breakaway mechanism releasably couples the finger to the base. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833687 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0015 (20130101) B25J 9/104 (20130101) B25J 15/0009 (20130101) B25J 15/10 (20130101) B25J 15/103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 15/0475 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/31 (20130101) Y10S 901/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09090043 | Matsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc R. Matsen (Seattle, Washington); Mark A. Negley (Bellevue, Washington); Marc J. Piehl (Renton, Washington); Kay Y. Blohowiak (Issaquah, Washington); Alan E. Landmann (Woodinville, Washington); Richard H. Bossi (Renton, Washington); Robert L. Carlsen (Kent, Washington); Gregory Alan Foltz (Seattle, Washington); Geoffrey A. Butler (Seattle, Washington); Liam S. Cavanaugh Pingree (Seattle, Washington); Stephen G. Moore (Renton, Washington); John Mark Gardner (Newcastle, Washington); Robert A. Anderson (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc R. Matsen (Seattle, Washington); Mark A. Negley (Bellevue, Washington); Marc J. Piehl (Renton, Washington); Kay Y. Blohowiak (Issaquah, Washington); Alan E. Landmann (Woodinville, Washington); Richard H. Bossi (Renton, Washington); Robert L. Carlsen (Kent, Washington); Gregory Alan Foltz (Seattle, Washington); Geoffrey A. Butler (Seattle, Washington); Liam S. Cavanaugh Pingree (Seattle, Washington); Stephen G. Moore (Renton, Washington); John Mark Gardner (Newcastle, Washington); Robert A. Anderson (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a molybdenum composite hybrid laminate. The laminate has a plurality of composite material layers. The laminate further has a plurality of surface treated molybdenum foil layers interweaved between the composite material layers. The laminate further has a plurality of adhesive layers disposed between and bonding adjacent layers of the composite material layers and the molybdenum foil layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197750 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/06 (20130101) B32B 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 15/00 (20130101) B32B 15/08 (20130101) B32B 19/02 (20130101) B32B 27/00 (20130101) B32B 2250/42 (20130101) B32B 2260/021 (20130101) B32B 2405/00 (20130101) B32B 2605/18 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49208 (20150115) Y10T 29/49885 (20150115) Y10T 156/10 (20150115) Y10T 428/24752 (20150115) |
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| US 09090320 | Rufo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Boston Engineering Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Engineering Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Rufo (Abington, Massachusetts); David Shane (Waltham, Massachusetts); Michael Conry (Medford, Massachusetts); Will Ober (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater vehicle includes a fore-body and a flexible aft. The flexible aft includes a flexible body. The flexible body includes a spring body including a spring element extending along a main axis, and a cavity. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792689 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 7/085 (20130101) Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 1/36 (20130101) B63H 11/00 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/025 (20130101) F16F 3/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 70/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09090339 | Arms et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven W. Arms (Williston, Vermont); Chris Pruyn Townsend (Shelburne, Vermont); David Lawrence Churchill (Burlington, Vermont); Michael John Hamel (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LORD Corporation (Cary, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Arms (Williston, Vermont); Chris Pruyn Townsend (Shelburne, Vermont); David Lawrence Churchill (Burlington, Vermont); Michael John Hamel (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of obtaining data about a structure includes providing a plurality of sensor modules on the structure. Each of the sensor modules includes a sensor, a processor, a sensor module precision timekeeper, and a sensor module transceiver. One of the plurality of sensor modules includes an energy harvesting device. The processor and the sensor module transceiver of this one of the plurality of sensor modules are powered solely with electricity derived from the energy harvesting device. The method further includes providing a base station. The method further includes periodically wirelessly receiving a broadcast resynchronization timing packet with each of the sensor module transceivers, wherein the broadcast resynchronization timing packet received by each of the sensor module transceivers includes a common resynchronization time value. The method further includes periodically resynchronizing each of the sensor module precision timekeepers based on a signal derived from the resynchronization time value. The method further includes digital sampling of the sensor module sensor in each of the sensor modules to provide digital sensor data, and providing a time stamp to the digital sensor data wherein time in the time stamp is provided by the sensor module precision timekeeper. The method further includes wirelessly transmitting data from each of the plurality of sensor modules to the base station, wherein the data is derived from the time stamped digital sensor data. The method further includes receiving and aggregating the data from each of the plurality of sensor modules in the base station. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196031 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 2027/002 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/00 (20130101) Time or Attendance Registers; Registering or Indicating the Working of Machines; Generating Random Numbers; Voting or Lottery Apparatus; Arrangements, Systems or Apparatus for Checking Not Provided for Elsewhere G07C 5/085 (20130101) |
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| US 09090343 | Scott |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark W. Scott (Bethany, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Scott (Bethany, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor blade for a rotary wing aircraft includes a component bay located substantially enclosed in the rotor blade and one or more components positioned in the component bay. An airflow is located at the component bay and an airflow outlet is located at the component bay radially outboard of the airflow inlet. The airflow inlet and airflow outlet allow a continuous airflow through the component bay via centrifugal forces of rotation of the rotor blade, the continuous airflow cooling the one or more components disposed at the component bay. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/272781 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 2027/7205 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09090519 | Hawkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tommy W. Hawkins (Lancaster, California); Stefan Schneider (Palmdale, California); Michael Rosander (Lancaster, California); Leslie Hudgens (Lancaster, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the AirForce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy W. Hawkins (Lancaster, California); Stefan Schneider (Palmdale, California); Michael Rosander (Lancaster, California); Leslie Hudgens (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is an ionic liquid (IL) having anions and cations with a metalohydride in the IL of borohydrides and/or aluminum hydrides, as fuel and a choice of one or more oxidizers, which fuel and oxidizer have hypergolic tendencies. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/107488 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 43/00 (20130101) C06B 47/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090634 | Scheidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); John M. Roberts (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); John M. Roberts (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are metal-organic frameworks comprising at least two azolium rings. The azolium groups are used as a strategy for controlling catenation and morphology in metal-organic frameworks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/889988 |
| 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 1/08 (20130101) C07F 3/003 (20130101) C07F 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090674 | Reddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sai Reddy (Berkeley, Illinois); Xin Ge (Riverside, California); Jason Lavinder (Round Rock, Texas); Daniel Boutz (Austin, Texas); Andrew D. Ellington (Austin, Texas); Edward M. Marcotte (Austin, Texas); George Georgiou (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sai Reddy (Berkeley, Illinois); Xin Ge (Riverside, California); Jason Lavinder (Round Rock, Texas); Daniel Boutz (Austin, Texas); Andrew D. Ellington (Austin, Texas); Edward M. Marcotte (Austin, Texas); George Georgiou (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for identification of candidate antigen-specific variable regions as well as generation of antibodies or antigen-binding fragments that could have desired antigen specificity are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determining amino acid sequences of serum antibody CDR and abundancy level are described. In some aspects, methods for determining nucleic acid sequences of antibody variable region sequences and frequency are provided. Furthermore, the invention provides methods for identification and generation of antibody or antigen-binding fragments that comprise highly-represented CDR. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/109467 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (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 1/6881 (20130101) C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6857 (20130101) |
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| US 09090921 | Strobel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,8-cineole, and 1-methyl-1,4-cyclohexadiene is also described. The method includes culturing a microorganism on or within a culturing media in a container under conditions sufficient for producing the at least one compound. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796469 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/065 (20130101) C12P 17/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/645 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09091027 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Allen (Lincoln, Nebraska); Flavio Souza (Fortaleza, Brazil); Yong-Rak Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea); Roberto Soares (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Allen (Lincoln, Nebraska); Flavio Souza (Fortaleza, Brazil); Yong-Rak Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea); Roberto Soares (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A computational method is provided for predicting roadway failure due to degradation of the roadway over time as a function of the input loads, the roadway geometry, the material properties of the constituents in the asphaltic pavement, the shape, distribution, orientation and volume fractions of the constituents, and environmental conditions. The unique and new feature of the method is that it employs several physically based predictive methodologies simultaneously. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/512183 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Construction Of, or Surfaces For, Roads, Sports Grounds, or the Like; Machines or Auxiliary Tools for Construction or Repair E01C 1/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5018 (20130101) G06F 2217/44 (20130101) G06F 2217/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09091172 | Wolfgram et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Wolfgram (Indianapolis, Indiana); David A. Otero (Carmel, Indiana); Daniel G. Smith (Hope, Indiana); Bill Westphal (Avon, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Wolfgram (Indianapolis, Indiana); David A. Otero (Carmel, Indiana); Daniel G. Smith (Hope, Indiana); Bill Westphal (Avon, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine is disclosed having a cooling passage that rotates with a turbine and is capable of providing cooling flow to the turbine. In one embodiment the cooling passage can receive cooling flow from an interior of a shaft of the gas turbine engine and increase the pressure of the cooling flow before delivering it to a location near a blade of the turbine. In one form the cooling passage can have an inducer section. In one form the cooling passage can have internal vanes useful in increasing the pressure of the cooling flow. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/335708 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/081 (20130101) F01D 5/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/085 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 09091314 | Schuh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher A. Schuh (Wayland, Massachusetts); Jose M. San Juan (Bilbao, Spain); Ying Chen (Latham, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Schuh (Wayland, Massachusetts); Jose M. San Juan (Bilbao, Spain); Ying Chen (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical structure is provided with a crystalline superelastic alloy that is characterized by an average grain size and that exhibits a martensitic phase transformation resulting from a mechanical stress input greater than a characteristic first critical stress. A configuration of the superelastic alloy is provided with a geometric structural feature of the alloy that has an extent that is no greater than about 200 micrometers and that is no larger than the average grain size of the alloy. This geometric feature undergoes the martensitic transformation without intergranular fracture of the geometric feature. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/613049 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 5/02 (20130101) C22C 5/04 (20130101) C22C 5/10 (20130101) C22C 9/00 (20130101) C22C 9/01 (20130101) C22C 9/04 (20130101) C22C 9/05 (20130101) C22C 19/03 (20130101) C22C 20/00 (20130101) C22C 22/00 (20130101) C22C 28/00 (20130101) C22C 38/02 (20130101) C22C 38/04 (20130101) C22C 38/08 (20130101) C22C 38/12 (20130101) C22C 38/14 (20130101) C22C 38/34 (20130101) C22C 38/58 (20130101) C22C 38/105 (20130101) Braiding or Manufacture of Lace, Including Bobbin-net or Carbonised Lace; Braiding Machines; Braid; Lace D04C 1/06 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/021 (20130101) F16F 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12306 (20150115) Y10T 428/12424 (20150115) Y10T 428/12479 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091463 | Dodson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Star Dodson (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Star Dodson (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertance tube for a pulse tube refrigerator which can be tuned to optimize performance. Apertures in the inertance tube fluidly communicate the inertance tube with a fluid reservoir. The effective length of the inertance tube is changed by alternatively closing or opening the apertures. Changing the effective length of the inertance tube causes a phase shift between the mass flow and pressure waves in the working gas which, in turn, changes the acoustic power. Controlling the phase angle improves Carnot efficiency. The cooling load capacity of the pulse tube refrigerator is a function of the acoustic power. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/293100 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 6/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091549 | Taylor, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. A. Taylor, Jr. (Greensboro, North Carolina); Bradley David Farnsworth (Alexandria, Virginia); William Todd Faulkner (Sylva, North Carolina); Christopher Matthew Foster (Fairfax, Virginia); Robert Barlow Alwood (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ENSCO, INC. (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. A. Taylor, Jr. (Greensboro, North Carolina); Bradley David Farnsworth (Alexandria, Virginia); William Todd Faulkner (Sylva, North Carolina); Christopher Matthew Foster (Fairfax, Virginia); Robert Barlow Alwood (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for estimating the position of an object, such as a person, animal, or machine. The system includes first and second inertial measurement units, a first and second originator antennas, and a first and second transponder antennas. The system uses data from the inertial measurement units to estimate a position of the object. The system also calculates a range measurement between the first originator antenna and first transponder antenna. The system calculates a first CPD measurement between the second transponder antenna and the first originator antenna, and a second CPD measurement between the second originator antenna and the first transponder antenna. The range measurement and at least one CPD measurement are used to update a Kalman filter for estimating the position of the object. The system determines also updates the Kalman filter when one of the inertial measurement units is in a zero-velocity condition. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/107287 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/20 (20130101) G01C 21/165 (20130101) G01C 21/206 (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 13/84 (20130101) G01S 19/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091594 | Furstenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Furstenberg (Burke, Virginia); Chris Kendziora (Burke, Virginia); Nabil D. Bassim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Robert Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Viet K. Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Furstenberg (Burke, Virginia); Chris Kendziora (Burke, Virginia); Nabil D. Bassim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Robert Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Viet K. Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-destructive method for chemical imaging with ˜1 nm to 10 μm spatial resolution (depending on the type of heat source) without sample preparation and in a non-contact manner. In one embodiment, a sample undergoes photo-thermal heating using an IR laser and the resulting increase in thermal emissions is measured with either an IR detector or a laser probe having a visible laser reflected from the sample. In another embodiment, the infrared laser is replaced with a focused electron or ion source while the thermal emission is collected in the same manner as with the infrared heating. The achievable spatial resolution of this embodiment is in the 1-50 nm range. |
| FILED | Sunday, November 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684535 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/02 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 5/60 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) G01N 21/45 (20130101) G01N 21/171 (20130101) G01N 21/3563 (20130101) G01N 2021/393 (20130101) G01N 2021/1714 (20130101) G01N 2021/1725 (20130101) G01N 2021/1731 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/008 (20130101) G02B 21/0028 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091637 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bing Yu (Cary, North Carolina); Nirmala Ramanujam (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Yu (Cary, North Carolina); Nirmala Ramanujam (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Smart fiber optic sensors, systems, and methods for performing quantitative optical spectroscopy are disclosed. In one embodiment, smart fiber optic sensor can include a sensing channel, a calibration channel, and a pressure sensing channel. External force or pressure can be calculated at pressure sensing channel for monitoring and controlling pressure at a sensor-specimen interface thereby ensuring more accurate specimen spectral data is collected. Contact pressure can be adjusted to remain within a specified range. A calibration light of the calibration channel and an illumination light of the sensing channel can be generated simultaneously from a shared light source. Pressure sensing channel can transmit light from a second light source and collect pressure spectral data. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/513458 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/4331 (20130101) A61B 5/4552 (20130101) A61B 5/6885 (20130101) A61B 2560/0228 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/28 (20130101) G01J 3/42 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/0079 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/274 (20130101) G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 2201/08 (20130101) G01N 2201/0627 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091652 | Nallon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C. Nallon (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic diode operated in photovoltaic mode is used as a sensor for nitroaromatic electron accepting compounds. While illuminated by a light source with a wavelength within the organic materials absorption the device produces a small photovoltaic response due to inefficient separation of charges. Upon exposure to an electron accepting compound, the device produces an increase in photovoltaic activity due to more efficient charge separation, producing a larger measurable open circuit voltage. Upon removal of the compound the measured voltage decreases and returns to near its baseline value. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/526703 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/61 (20130101) G01N 21/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/305 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/0038 (20130101) H01L 51/42 (20130101) H01L 51/424 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091657 | Kessler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seth S. Kessler (Newton, Massachusetts); Ajay Raghavan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brian L. Wardle (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Metis Design Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Masschusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth S. Kessler (Newton, Massachusetts); Ajay Raghavan (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brian L. Wardle (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Various applications for structured CNT-engineered materials are disclosed herein. In one application, systems are disclosed, wherein a structured CNT-engineered material forms at least part of an object capable of providing its own structural feedback. In another application, systems are disclosed, wherein a structured CNT-engineered material forms at least part of an object capable of generating heat. In yet another application, systems are disclosed, wherein a structured CNT-engineered material forms at least part of an object capable of functioning as an antenna, for example, for receiving, transmitting, absorbing and/or dissipating a signal. In still another application, systems are disclosed, wherein a structured CNT-engineered material forms at least part of an object capable of serving as a conduit for thermal or electrical energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014603 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 25/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091750 | Ruffa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony A Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island); John F Griffin (Lebanon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony A Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island); John F Griffin (Lebanon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for deflecting acoustic waves for an object in a liquid environment includes a power source located in the object. A heating grid and a cooling grid are positioned about the object in the liquid environment such that the heating grid is located between the object and the cooling grid. A heat pump is joined the power source, the heating grid and the cooling grid. The heat pump is capable of removing heat from said cooling grid and adding heat to said heating grid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/621872 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 7/537 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091806 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Kannan Raj (San Diego, California); James R. Adleman (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Kannan Raj (San Diego, California); James R. Adleman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit includes a holographic recording material substantially filling a cavity in a semiconductor layer. During operation of the integrated circuit, a holographic pattern in the holographic recording is reconstructed and used to diffract an optical signal propagating in a plane of an optical waveguide, which is defined in the semiconductor layer out of the plane through the cavity. In this way, the holographic recording material may be used to couple the optical signal to an optical fiber or another integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/440839 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/4204 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091840 | Vizgaitis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay N. Vizgaitis (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous zoom lens arrangement can image MWIR and LWIR spectral bands to a common image plane. Such an exemplary optical system comprises eight infrared imaging lenses that all transmit over the wavelengths 3.5-11.0 microns and form a collocated image plane for the MWIR and LWIR spectral bands. The lens has six stationary lenses, and two lenses that move in an axial fashion. A cold stop inside the dewar can act as the aperture stop of the system and control the stray light from reaching the FPA. The pupil is reimaged from the cold stop to near the first lens of the system to minimize the size of the lens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/190156 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 9/64 (20130101) G02B 13/14 (20130101) G02B 13/146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09091913 | Katz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Bal Makund Dhar (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Bal Makund Dhar (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a spatially patterned structure includes forming a layer of a material on at least a portion of a substructure of the spatially patterned structure, forming a barrier layer of a fluorinated material on the layer of material to provide an intermediate structure, and exposing the intermediate structure to at least one of a second material or radiation to cause at least one of a chemical change or a structural change to at least a portion of the intermediate structure. The barrier layer substantially protects the layer of the material from chemical and structural changes during the exposing. Substructures are produced according to this method. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864407 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0023 (20130101) H01L 51/102 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24479 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092317 | Jacobson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dov Jacobson (Berkeley Lake, Georgia); Jesse Jacobson (Atlanta, Georgia); Tatiana Krivosheev (Suwanee, Georgia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dov Jacobson (Berkeley Lake, Georgia); Jesse Jacobson (Atlanta, Georgia); Tatiana Krivosheev (Suwanee, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a novel affordance to algebra. It combines the immediacy of a manipulative with the power of a computer algebra system. Operations are executed in-place on a mutable expression, by direct manipulation of its terms by the user. Terms, whether simple or complex, can be selected by the user and dragged from one location in the expression to another. The equivalence of the expression is maintained by changes to the moving term and other terms in the expression. A highly interactive interface illuminates to the user the range of potential actions. The beneficiaries of this technology are students, who have a new avenue for exploratory learning and technologists, who have a new tool for symbolic reasoning. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/912560 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/0225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092339 | Giacomoni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | F5 Networks, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Giacomoni (Longmont, Colorado); Manish Vachharajani (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A systems and methods are disclosed that provide an efficient parallel pipeline for data processing using a multi-core processor. Embodiments allocate a shared memory portion of the memory that is accessible from more than one context of execution and/or process a frame in a plurality of processing stages processed by a context of execution. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of processing stages may be bound to a processing core of the multi-core processor. In other embodiments include one or more processing stages with a point-to-point communication mechanism that operates in shared memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266606 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/128 (20130101) G06F 12/0846 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092371 | Utter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander C. Utter (Los Angeles, California); Eugene Grayver (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segunda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander C. Utter (Los Angeles, California); Eugene Grayver (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal parameter estimator includes curve fitting of multiple ideal spectral shapes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875010 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 23/16 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/141 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0006 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092672 | Felch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cognitive Electronics, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cognitive Electronics, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew C. Felch (Hanover, New Hampshire); Richard H. Granger, Jr. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a computer and/or processor architecture optimized for power-efficient computation of a class of sensory recognition (e.g. vision) algorithms on a single computer chip derived from research into how humans process sensory information, such as vision. The processor for efficiently recognizing sensory information with recognizable features defines a feature recognition engine that resolves features from the sensory information and provides a feature information input. A plurality of processing nodes, arranged in a hierarchy of layers, receives the input and, in parallel, recognizes multiple components of the features. Recognized features are transferred between the layers so as to build likely recognition candidates and remove unlikely recognition candidates. A memory in each of the nodes refreshes and retains predetermined features related to likely recognition candidates as the features are transferred between the layers. A thresholding process determines when at least one of the recognition candidates sufficiently matches predetermined criteria. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/084580 |
| 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 9/00624 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092714 | Mead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northup Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Mead (Long Beach, California); Jorge A. Millan (Lawndale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart energized tape configured to avoid problems with foreign object damage (FOD) includes: one or more of microdots and radio frequency identification (RFID) nanochips, the one or more of microdots and nanochips configured to facilitate one or more of FOD tracking, cost control, location tracking, and asset tracking. A smart, predominantly red energized tape configured to avoid problems with FOD includes: one or more of microdots and RFID nanochips, the one or more of microdots and nanochips configured to facilitate one or more of FOD tracking, cost control, location tracking, and asset tracking, wherein the smart energized tape is one or more of fluorescent and translucent, wherein the smart energized tape is one or more of internally lit, electrically lit, and chemically detectable. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/278663 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 19/022 (20130101) G06K 19/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 19/0614 (20130101) G06K 19/06084 (20130101) G06K 19/07749 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092953 | Mortimer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce J. P. Mortimer (Casselberry, Florida); Scott J. Stickler (Casselberry, Florida); Gregory R. Mort (Casselberry, Florida); Gary A. Zets (Casselberry, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce J. P. Mortimer (Casselberry, Florida); Scott J. Stickler (Casselberry, Florida); Gregory R. Mort (Casselberry, Florida); Gary A. Zets (Casselberry, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods to provide a remote haptic and vibratory feedback stimulus to the body of a participant that may be remote from an actuator for the generation of vortex rings. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/749466 |
| ART UNIT | 2682 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093135 | Khailany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brucek Kurdo Khailany (San Francisco, California); James David Balfour (Mountain View, California); Ronny Meir Krashinsky (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing a storage array. In use, a storage array is implemented utilizing static random-access memory (SRAM). Additionally, the storage array is utilized in a multithreaded architecture. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678477 |
| ART UNIT | 2138 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 7/18 (20130101) G11C 8/16 (20130101) G11C 11/412 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093193 | Amb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chad Martin Amb (Midland, Michigan); Pierre Marc Beaujuge (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); John R. Reynolds (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad Martin Amb (Midland, Michigan); Pierre Marc Beaujuge (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); John R. Reynolds (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of forming a film of an insoluble conjugated polymer (CP) by deposition of an ionic CP from aqueous solution and converting the ionic CP to the insoluble CP. The ionic CP can be the salt of a carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, phosphonic acid, boronic acid, amine, imine, phosphine, thioether, or complexed bidentate or polydentate ligand. The insoluble CP film can be used with an aqueous electrolyte solution for use as: an electrochromic film; charge injection layer for a solar cell, LED, and FET; conventional paints; supercapacitor; battery; electronic paper; anti-static coating; transparent conductor; sensors; anti-microbial coating; adhesive; RFID; or memory system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/196412 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/022 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09093248 | Putterman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seth J. Putterman (Malibu, California); Jonathan Hird (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Carlos Camara (Venice, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth J. Putterman (Malibu, California); Jonathan Hird (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Carlos Camara (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray source for generating x-rays with at least one narrow energy band includes an enclosing vessel, a first contact arranged with a first contact surface in the enclosing vessel, a second contact arranged with a second contact surface in the enclosing vessel, and an actuator assembly operatively connected to at least one of the first and second contacts. The actuator assembly is structured to cause the first contact surface and the second contact surface to repeatedly come into contact, and separate after making contact, while in operation. The first contact surface is a surface of a first triboelectric material and the second contact surface is a surface of a second triboelectric material, the surface of the first triboelectric material having a negative triboelectric potential relative to the surface of the second triboelectric material. The second contact includes a material that includes an atomic element in its composition that has an excited quantum energy state that can be excited by electrons traveling from the first contact surface to the second contact surface such that the atomic element emits x-rays having an energy within the at least one narrow energy band upon transition from the excited state into a lower energy state. The enclosing vessel is structured to provide control of an atmospheric environment to which the first and second contact surfaces are exposed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/003227 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 35/02 (20130101) H01J 35/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09093394 | Margomenos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Margomenos (Pasadena, California); Keisuke Shinohara (Thousand Oaks, California); Dean C. Regan (Simi Valley, California); Miroslav Micovic (Thousand Oaks, California); Colleen M. Butler (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device comprises one or more transistors and two or more layers of dielectric material encapsulating a front side of said one or more transistors. The gate of each of said one or more transistors is located within a cavity, or air-box, in at least one of the dielectric layers, so that the gate terminal is physically separated from said dielectric material. Such an arrangement may reduce parasitic capacitance. In another arrangement, a semiconductor device comprises one or more gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors and one or more dielectric layers encapsulating a front side of said one or more transistors, wherein the gate terminal of each of said one or more transistors is located within a cavity in at least one of the one or more dielectric layers, separated from said dielectric material. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/107943 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/56 (20130101) H01L 23/3192 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 29/66431 (20130101) |
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| US 09093507 | Cohen 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) | Guy M. Cohen (Mohegan Lake, New York); Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures including parallel graphene nanoribbons or carbon nanotubes oriented along crystallographic directions are provided from a template of silicon carbide (SiC) fins or nanowires. The SiC fins or nanowires are first provided and then graphene nanoribbons or carbon nanotubes are formed on the exposed surfaces of the fin or the nanowires by annealing. In embodiments in which closed carbon nanotubes are formed, the nanowires are suspended prior to annealing. The location, orientation and chirality of the graphene nanoribbons and the carbon nanotubes that are provided are determined by the corresponding silicon carbide fins and nanowires from which they are formed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/064791 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28008 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/785 (20130101) H01L 29/1025 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/66439 (20130101) H01L 29/66742 (20130101) H01L 29/66787 (20130101) H01L 51/0045 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) |
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| US 09093657 | Coe-Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seth A. Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Polina O. Anikeeva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth A. Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Polina O. Anikeeva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A white light emitting semiconductor nanocrystal includes a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162840 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/00 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) H01L 51/5012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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09093717 — Methods of making and using oxide ceramic solids and products and devices related thereto
| US 09093717 | Sakamoto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Sakamoto (East Lansing, Michigan); Ezhiyl Rangasamy (East Lansing, Michigan); Hyunjoong Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Yunsung Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Ryan Patrick Maloney (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Sakamoto (East Lansing, Michigan); Ezhiyl Rangasamy (East Lansing, Michigan); Hyunjoong Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Yunsung Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Ryan Patrick Maloney (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments relate to a method comprising combining a chelating agent, one or more non-aqueous organic solvents and one or more metallic compounds to produce an oxide ceramic solid in a non-aqueous solution based reaction, wherein the oxide ceramic solid contains metal-oxygen-metal bonds. The oxide ceramic solid can comprise, for example, a gel or a powder. Various devices, including electrolyte interfaces and energy storage devices, are also provided. In one embodiment, the oxide ceramic solid is a cubic garnet having a nominal formula of Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO). |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476843 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 25/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/486 (20130101) C04B 35/624 (20130101) C04B 35/645 (20130101) C04B 35/6261 (20130101) C04B 35/6263 (20130101) C04B 35/6268 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/441 (20130101) C04B 2235/764 (20130101) C04B 2235/3203 (20130101) C04B 2235/3217 (20130101) C04B 2235/3227 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 8/10 (20130101) H01M 8/1246 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Y02E 60/523 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09093721 | Rolison et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Jeffrey W Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Christopher N. Chervin (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) | Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Jeffrey W Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Christopher N. Chervin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a metal-air battery having a cathode, an anode, and an electrolyte. The cathode has a cathode current collector and a composite of a porous carbon structure and a pseudocapacitive coating. The coating does not completely fill or obstruct a majority of the pores, and the pores can be exposed to a gas. The electrolyte is in contact with the anode and permeates the composite without completely filling or obstructing a majority of the pores. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245792 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09093818 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Forrest Sedgwick (Berkeley, California); Roger Chen (Berkeley, California); Thai-Truong Du Tran (Berkeley, California); Kar Wei Ng (Berkeley, California); Wai Son Ko (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Forrest Sedgwick (Berkeley, California); Roger Chen (Berkeley, California); Thai-Truong Du Tran (Berkeley, California); Kar Wei Ng (Berkeley, California); Wai Son Ko (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Monolithically integrated optical resonators are disclosed. An optical resonator may be a nanopillar optical resonator that is formed directly on a substrate and promotes a helically-propagating cavity mode. The helically-propagating cavity mode may result in significant reflection or, total internal reflection at an interface of the nanopillar optical resonator and the substrate even if refractive indices of the nanopillar optical resonator and the substrate are the same or similar. As a result, strong optical feedback, and thus strong resonance, may be provided in the nanopillar optical resonator. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184019 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/24 (20130101) H01L 33/26 (20130101) H01L 33/30 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0066 (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 5/1042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/1075 (20130101) H01S 5/3013 (20130101) |
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| US 09093821 | Mawst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke J. Mawst (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Dan Botez (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas L. Earles (Verona, Wisconsin); Jeremy D. Kirch (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Christopher A. Sigler (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor lasers comprise a substrate; an active layer configured to generate transverse magnetic (TM) polarized light under an electrical bias; an upper cladding layer; a lower cladding layer; and a distributed feedback (DFB) grating defined by the interface of a layer of metal and a layer of semiconductor under the layer of metal, the interface periodically corrugated in the longitudinal direction of the laser with a periodicity of ΛDFB=mλ/(2neff), wherein m>1. The DFB grating is configured such that loss of one or more antisymmetric longitudinal modes of the laser structure via absorption to the DFB grating is sufficiently maximized so as to produce lasing of a symmetric longitudinal mode of the laser with laser emission characterized by a single-lobe beam along each direction defined by the grating diffraction orders corresponding to emission away from the plane of the grating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103223 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/187 (20130101) H01S 5/3401 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/34306 (20130101) |
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| US 09094081 | Steinbrecher |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division, Newport (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald H Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A receiving system is provided in which an analog electromagnetic signal is received from a signal source. A digital observable signal generator and digital to analog convertor (DAC) produce an analog observable signal while a digital dither signal generator and DAC produce an analog dither signal. The electromagnetic signal, the observable signal and the dither signal continue to a power divider via an analog signal combiner. The divider provides identical signal paths wherein each signal path includes a signal frequency bandwidth of interest. The signal paths are amplified onto an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC is operable for a Nyquist frequency bandwidth, wherein the dither signal includes a pseudo-random electromagnetic signal with electromagnetic energy that falls outside the signal frequency bandwidth of interest but falls within the Nyquist frequency bandwidth. A processor processes signals from the signal paths to produce a digital image of the analog electromagnetic signal. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/340637 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09094082 | Holz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Holz (San Diego, California); Aaron Burmeister (San Diego, California); Abraham Hart (San Diego, California); Hoa G. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Narek Pezeshkian (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Holz (San Diego, California); Aaron Burmeister (San Diego, California); Abraham Hart (San Diego, California); Hoa G. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Narek Pezeshkian (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method involves using a first lift mechanism coupled to a remotely-operated ground vehicle to engage a first communication relay and position it at a first angle above a ground surface. A second lift mechanism coupled to the remotely-operated ground vehicle is then used to engage a second communication relay. With a single motion by the remotely-operated ground vehicle, the second communication relay is positioned at a second angle above the ground surface and the first communication relay at a third angle above the ground surface. The third angle is greater than both the first angle and the second angle. The second angle is greater than or equal to the first angle. The first communication relay may then be deployed by the remotely-operated ground vehicle at a first location and the second communication relay may be deployed at a second location. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/470850 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 15/0052 (20130101) Vehicles Adapted for Load Transportation or to Transport, to Carry, or to Comprise Special Loads or Objects B60P 1/483 (20130101) Transmission H04B 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09094856 | Tian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Fusion Technology, Inc. (Germantown, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Tian (Germantown, Maryland); Genshe Chen (Germantown, Maryland); Dan Shen (Germantown, Maryland); Khanh D. Pham (Kirtland AFB, New Mexico); Erik Blasch (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Routing methods are provided for IP-based Iridium like LEO polar satellite constellation network for finding a Manhattan path between a source node and a destination node. The routing methods can include identification of congested inter satellite links (ISLs). By selecting and using uncongested alternative paths, an original routing process can be converted into sub-routing processes each in a small scale of a Manhattan path region. Quality of Service (QoS) requirements such as delays and jitters can be incorporated into the routing methods, which leads to efficient routing and enhanced QoS-performance over the satellite constellation network. The disclosed routing methods can be suitable for real-time routing/rerouting applications under dynamic network conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/188697 |
| ART UNIT | 2469 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/18513 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 28/0289 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09095043 | Boulais 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) | Kevin A. Boulais (La Plata, Maryland); Walter D. Sessions (King George, Virginia); Francisco Santiago (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Pearl Rayms-Keller (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Lucas R. Hale (King George, Virginia); Craig Andrew Calcagno (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A cloak is provided for concealing an object to an electromagnetic field. A first vane encloses the object and a second vane encloses the first vane. The distance between the first and second vanes varies relative to the object, so as to conceal the object to the electromagnetic field. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/778323 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/75 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/44 (20130101) H01Q 15/02 (20130101) H01Q 15/04 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09095054 | Bourne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Leonard Schaper (, None) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack Bourne (Morrisville, Pennsylvania); Jared Hornberger (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alex Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Ty McNutt (Farmington, Arkansas); Brad Reese (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Marcelo Schupbach (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert Shaw (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Eric Cole (Rogers, Arkansas); Leonard Schaper (Naples, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A four quadrant power module with lower substrate parallel power paths and upper substrate equidistant clock tree timing utilizing parallel leg construction in a captive fastener power module housing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/054089 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/11 (20130101) H05K 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | System, assembly and method are provided to facilitate reconstruction of cardiac information representing a complex rhythm disorder associated with a patient's heart to indicate a source of the heart rhythm disorder. The complex rhythm disorder can be treated by application of energy to modify the source of the rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/231600 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0456 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/0472 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7221 (20130101) |
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| US 09089331 | Rollins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew M. Rollins (Highland Heights, Ohio); Christine P. Fleming (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Rollins (Highland Heights, Ohio); Christine P. Fleming (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with characterizing Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA) lesions using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are described. One example method includes acquiring an OCT signal from a Region Of Interest (ROI) in an ablated material. The example method may also include determining whether a lesion was formed by the ablation by analyzing optical properties of the ROI as recorded in the OCT signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/844944 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/6852 (20130101) A61B 18/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2017/00243 (20130101) A61B 2018/00702 (20130101) A61B 2019/5234 (20130101) |
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| US 09089417 | Boyce |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven T. Boyce (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven T. Boyce (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, and method of making the device, capable of therapeutic treatment and/or for in vitro testing of human skin. The device may be used on skin wounds for burned, injured, or diseased skin, and provides structures and functions as in normal uninjured skin, such as barrier function, which is a definitive property of normal skin. The device contains cultured dermal and epidermal cells on a biocompatible, biodegradable reticulated matrix. All or part of the cells may be autologous, from the recipient of the cultured skin device, which advantageously eliminates concerns of tissue compatibility. The cells may also be modified genetically to provide one or more factors to facilitate healing of the engrafted skin replacement, such as an angiogenic factor to stimulate growth of blood vessels. The inventive device is easy to handle and manipulate for surgical transplant, can be made into large sheets to minimize the number of grafts required to cover a large surface area to be treated, and can be produced within the time frame to treat a burned individual requiring a skin graft. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/299480 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 27/60 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 27/3886 (20130101) A61L 27/3895 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0698 (20130101) C12N 2502/094 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101) |
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| US 09089498 | Ortac et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Inanc Ortac (La Jolla, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Jian Yang (Kingston, Canada); William Trogler (Del Mar, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inanc Ortac (La Jolla, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Jian Yang (Kingston, Canada); William Trogler (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, structures, devices and systems are disclosed for fabricating and implementing nanoparticles with hollow core and sealable holes. In one aspect, a nanoparticle device can includes a shell structure including at least two layers including an internal layer and an external layer, the internal layer structured to enclose a hollow interior region and include one or more holes penetrating the internal layer, the external layer is of a porous material and formed around the internal layer and sealing the one or more holes, and a substance contained within the hollow interior region, the substance incapable of passing through the external layer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/111713 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/22 (20130101) B01J 20/28021 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 67/202 (20130101) B29C 67/205 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0019 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2989 (20150115) |
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| US 09089512 | Mooney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Xuanhe Zhao (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Xuanhe Zhao (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a composition whose porosity, pore size, pore connectivity, swelling agent concentration, and/or specific volume undergoes a change from a first value to a second value in response to an electromagnetic signal, the composition having a matrix material in which is distributed a magnetic material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/516973 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0009 (20130101) A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/5094 (20130101) A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 41/0028 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48784 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/446 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) |
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| US 09089513 | Moe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory R. Moe (Alameda, California); Charles Paul Plested (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Moe (Alameda, California); Charles Paul Plested (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides compositions methods and composition relating to the diagnosis and/or treatment of cancers having a cell surface de-N-acetylated sialic acid antigen, e.g., an at least partially de-N-acetylated ganglioside and/or a de-N-acetylated sialic acid-modified cell surface protein. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404994 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/095 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 2039/6012 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1217 (20130101) C07K 16/3084 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0063 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09089520 | Brenner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Malcolm K. Brenner (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malcolm K. Brenner (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for cell therapy by modifying transfused cells to express an inducible caspase 9 protein, so that the cells may be selectively killed if the patient experiences dangerous side effects. Provided also within relates in part to methods for preventing or treating Graft versus Host Disease by modifying T cells before administration to a patient, so that they may be selectively killed if GvHD develops in the patient. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/112739 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/545 (20130101) A61K 39/001 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 2501/48 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09089531 | Kaufman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Kaufman (Los Angeles, California); Jide Tian (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Kaufman (Los Angeles, California); Jide Tian (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments methods are provided for the therapeutic or prophylactic amelioration of one or more symptoms or disorders associated with metabolic syndrome. In various embodiments the methods involve administering to a subject in need thereof, a GABA receptor agonist, in an amount sufficient to ameliorate said one or more symptoms. In certain embodiments methods are provided for the prophylaxis or treatment of type I diabetes and related pathologies that involve the use of GABA or GABA agonists in combination with certain other compounds (e.g., one more antigens (e.g., GAD) that have a therapeutic effect in type I diabetes and/or an anti-CD3 antibody, an anti-CD20 antibody, exendin-4, and/or or a pro-insulin therapeutic). |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876147 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/197 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/197 (20130101) A61K 31/4465 (20130101) A61K 31/4465 (20130101) A61K 38/2013 (20130101) A61K 39/0008 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09089545 | Dunman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul M. Dunman (Pittsford, New York); Patrick D. Olson (St. Louis, Missouri); Wayne Childers (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska); Temple University Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dunman (Pittsford, New York); Patrick D. Olson (St. Louis, Missouri); Wayne Childers (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Small molecule inhibitors of bacterial ribonuclease (e.g., RnpA) and methods for their synthesis and use are described herein. The methods of using the compounds include treating and preventing microbial infections and inhibiting bacterial ribonuclease. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/981011 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/341 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/402 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/337 (20130101) C07D 307/56 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09089547 | Lephard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin Douglas Lephard (Montgomery, Texas); Trent D. Lund (Wheaton, Illinois); Robert J. Handa (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Douglas Lephard (Montgomery, Texas); Trent D. Lund (Wheaton, Illinois); Robert J. Handa (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4′hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in vivo. Equol can bind circulating free DHT and sequester it from the androgen receptor, thus altering growth and physiological hormone responses that are regulated by androgens. These data suggest a novel model to explain equol's biological properties. The significance of equol's ability to specifically bind and sequester DHT from the androgen receptor have important ramifications in health and disease and may indicate a broad and important usage for equol in the treatment and prevention of androgen-mediated pathologies. Thus, equol can specifically bind DHT and prevent DHT's biological actions in physiological and pathophysiological processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/903748 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/353 (20130101) |
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| US 09089556 | Clarke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Clarke (Palo Alto, California); Max S. Wicha (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Muhammad Al-Hajj (Eagleville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating cancer via administering to a patient having a solid tumor a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody against Delta-like ligand 4(Dll4) or other Notch pathway components. The solid tumor may comprise solid tumor stem cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795381 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0271 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/5152 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 14/70585 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0695 (20130101) C12N 2501/42 (20130101) C12N 2503/00 (20130101) C12N 2503/02 (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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/57492 (20130101) |
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| US 09089572 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven J. Brown (San Diego, California); Tsui-Fen Chou (Pasadena, California); Raymond Deshaies (Claremont, California); Amanda C. Jones (Pasadena, California); Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, California); Brian M. Stoltz (San Marino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Brown (San Diego, California); Tsui-Fen Chou (Pasadena, California); Raymond Deshaies (Claremont, California); Amanda C. Jones (Pasadena, California); Hugh Rosen (La Jolla, California); Brian M. Stoltz (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention relates to compounds that inhibit the activity of p97, such as by binding covalently to a cysteine residue in the active site. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the treatment of disease, such as cancer, comprising administering a compound of the invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321463 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09089573 | Messina |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Louis M. Messina (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis M. Messina (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to therapeutic applications for compositions that reduce the level of oxidative stress on cells in vivo or in vitro. The invention describes methods for improving the therapeutic properties of stem cells. The invention also provides combination therapies that are useful to balance the oxidative microenvironment of cells in vivo or in vitro. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/386462 |
| 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 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 35/13 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2799/022 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 13/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09089589 | Mohapatra et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyam S. Mohapatra (Lutz, Florida); Jia-Wang Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | MicroRNAs are shown to be up- and/or down-regulated in inflammation and immune cells using a mouse model of asthma and regulatory T cells as source of RNA, respectively. Modulating the expression of these microRNAs can be effective in redirecting inflammation and immunity and hence, can be beneficial as biomarkers or as therapeutic agents against diverse human immunologic and inflammatory diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/772035 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2525/107 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09089690 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard Williamson (Saugus, California); Mark Humayan (La Canada, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard Williamson (Saugus, California); Mark Humayan (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an implantable electrode array having electrodes with variable pitch and variable size. Electrode arrays of the prior art provide electrodes with a common spacing and size. However, this is not how the human body is arranged. As an example, the retina has closely spaced retinal receptors near the fovea. Those receptors are spaced farther apart, farther away from the fovea. Further, the amount of electrical current required to stimulate the perception of light increases with distance from the fovea. Hence, larger electrodes are required to transfer the necessary current farther away from the fovea. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/485016 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 2562/046 (20130101) A61B 2562/0209 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09089692 | Risi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Risi (Newtown, Australia); Colin Irwin (Paris, France); Jay T Rubinstein (Seattle, Washington); Felipe Santos (Boston, Massachusetts); James O Phillips (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | COCHLEAR LIMITED (, Australia); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON CENTER FOR COMMERCIALIZATION (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Risi (Newtown, Australia); Colin Irwin (Paris, France); Jay T Rubinstein (Seattle, Washington); Felipe Santos (Boston, Massachusetts); James O Phillips (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A vestibular stimulation array is disclosed having one or more separate electrode arrays each operatively adapted for implantation in a semicircular canal of the vestibular system, wherein each separate electrode array is dimensioned and constructed so that so that residual vestibular function is preserved. In particular, the electrode arrays are dimensioned such that the membranous labyrinth is not substantially compressed. Furthermore, the electrode array has a stop portion to limit insertion of the electrode array into the semi-circular canal and is stiff enough to avoid damage to the anatomical structures. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/375141 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/361 (20130101) A61N 1/0541 (20130101) A61N 1/0551 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36032 (20130101) |
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| US 09089708 | Grill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Warren M. Grill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Amorn Wongsarnpigoon (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDI Medical, LLC (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren M. Grill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Amorn Wongsarnpigoon (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for stimulation of neurological tissue apply a stimulation waveform that is derived by a developed genetic algorithm (GA), which may be coupled to a computational model of extracellular stimulation of a mammalian myelinated axon. The waveform is optimized for energy efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/118081 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0529 (20130101) A61N 1/3606 (20130101) A61N 1/36146 (20130101) A61N 1/36175 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090589 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Frank L. Meyskens (Irvine, California); Sun Yang (Foothill Ranch, California); Haitao Ji (Salt Lake City, Utah); Fengtian Xue (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Thomas L. Poulos (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for melanoma treatment and prevention with selective nitric oxide synthase inhibitor compounds and related pharmaceutical compositions, alone or in conjunction with one or more other melanoma therapies. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170778 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090627 | Du Bois et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin Du Bois (Menlo Park, California); Abigail Sloan Devlin (San Francisco, California); Matthew M. Logan (Brooklyn, Michigan); Frederic Menard (Menlo Park, California); Tatsuya Toma (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin Du Bois (Menlo Park, California); Abigail Sloan Devlin (San Francisco, California); Matthew M. Logan (Brooklyn, Michigan); Frederic Menard (Menlo Park, California); Tatsuya Toma (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds relating to batrachotoxin are provided, in particular analogs that modulate the activity of sodium channels. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, including vehicles that modulate transdermal permeation of the compound. The subject compounds are useful in treatments, including treatments to reduce neuronal activity or to bring about muscular relaxation. The compounds also find use in the treatment of subjects suffering from a voltage-gated sodium channel-enhanced ailment or from pain. Further methods are provided for the preparation of the batrachotoxin-related compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/106115 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 498/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090640 | Bierbach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ulrich Bierbach (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Song Ding (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Bierbach (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Song Ding (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Acridine containing cisplatin compounds have been disclosed that show greater efficacy against cancer than other cisplatin compounds. Methods of delivery of those more effective cisplatin compounds to the nucleus in cancer cells is disclosed using one or more amino acids, one or more sugars, one or more polymeric ethers, C1-6alkylene-phenyl-NH—C(O)—R15, folic acid, αvβ3 integrin RGD binding peptide, tamoxifen, endoxifen, epidermal growth factor receptor, antibody conjugates, kinase inhibitors, diazoles, triazoles, oxazoles, erlotinib, and/or mixtures thereof; wherein R15 is a peptide. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/241900 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 219/10 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090646 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger A. Jones (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Barbara L. Gaffney (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides new biotinylated compounds and methods for their use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096845 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/10 (20130101) C07H 19/207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090662 | 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); John Lukesh (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Dithioamine reducing agents useful for the reduction of disulfide bonds. The reducing agents of this invention are useful, for example, to reduce disulfide bonds, particularly in proteins, or to prevent the formation of disulfide bonds, particularly in proteins and other biological molecules. Reducing agents of this invention are useful and suitable for application in a variety of biological applications, particularly as research and synthetic reagents. The invention provides S-acylated dithioamines which can be selectively activated reducing agents by removal of the S-acyl groups enzymatically or chemically. The invention further provides dithiane precursors of thioamino reducing agents. The invention provides dithioamine reducing agents, S-acylated dithioamines and dithianes which are immobilized on surfaces, including among others, glass, quartz, microparticles, nanoparticles and resins. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/768937 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 323/25 (20130101) C07C 327/06 (20130101) C07C 329/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 339/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 1/1133 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/96 (20130101) |
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| US 09090663 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Yao Zhou (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Yao Zhou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for capturing and/or isolating target microparticles. In one aspect, a method for capturing target microparticles is disclosed. The method includes: forming a fluid including the target microparticles, non-target microparticles, and magnetic beads, the magnetic beads having a stronger affinity with the target microparticles than with the non-target microparticles; flowing the fluid through a multidirectional microchannel; and applying a magnetic field to the fluid while the fluid is flowing through at least a portion of the microchannel to effect capture of at least a portion of the target microparticles onto the magnetic beads. Such a method can further includes passing the fluid having exited from the microchannel through a separator while subjecting the fluid to a second magnetic field so as to isolate the target microparticles. In addition, devices and systems are disclosed for capturing and/or isolating target microparticles based on magnetic manipulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/764898 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/0009 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 35/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/0098 (20130101) |
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| US 09090664 | Castillo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PharmaIn Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PharmaIN Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerardo M. Castillo (Bothell, Washington); Elijah M. Bolotin (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes compositions of peptide analogs that are active in blood or cleavable in blood to release an active peptide. The peptide analogs have a general formula: A-(Cm)x-Peptide (SEQ ID NO: 76), wherein A is hydrophobic moiety or a metal binding moiety, e.g., a chemical group or moiety containing 1) an alkyl group having 6 to 36 carbon units, 2) a nitrilotriacetic acid group, 3) an imidodiacetic acid group, or 4) a moiety of formula (ZyHisw)p (SEQ ID NO: 50), wherein Z is any amino acid residue other than histidine, His is histidine, y is an integer from 0-6; w is an integer from 1-6; and p is an integer from 1-6; wherein if A has alkyl group with 6 to 36 carbon units x is greater than 0; and Cm is a cleavable moiety consisting of glycine or alanine or lysine or arginine or N-Arginine or N-lysine, wherein x is an integer between 0-6 and N may be any amino acid or none. The peptide analogs are complexed with polymeric carrier to provide enhanced half-life. |
| FILED | Friday, July 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/952411 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48038 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090673 | Diamond |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Don J. Diamond (Glendora, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don J. Diamond (Glendora, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly effective vaccine compositions are constructed according to the methods of this invention. The methods are amenable to use with any peptidic antigen sequence and involve covalent attachment of an immunostimulatory nucleotide sequence to an antigenic peptide sequence. Preferred antigenic peptides are fusion peptides made up of one or more CTL epitope peptides in sequence fused to a T helper peptide. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008958 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 2039/605 (20130101) A61K 2039/6025 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) |
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| US 09090699 | Lindsey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Suzanne Lindsey (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | J. Suzanne Lindsey (Jackson, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Suzanne Lindsey (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the present invention provide novel Mig-7 encoding nucleic acids and Mig-7 polypeptides, recombinant DNA expression systems and host cells containing same, as well as methods of inhibiting expression of the subject nucleic acid molecules, inhibiting production of the encoded proteins or polypeptides, inhibiting metastasis of a carcinoma cell in a subject (including in humans), inhibiting migration/invasion of and mimicking of normal cells by carcinoma cells in a subject, detecting the presence of a cancer cell (e.g., a migrating/invading cancer cell or carcinoma cell mimic, and tumor neovascularization) in a sample of a subject's tissue or body fluids, and inhibiting the migration/invasion of or endothelial cell mimicking by a placental cell into the blood stream or vessels of a female mammal. Particular aspects relate to novel anti-Mig-7 antibodies, diagnostic and/or prognostic methods, and therapeutic methods comprising use of the inventive nucleic acids, polypeptides and antibodies or derivatives thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299160 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 33/57492 (20130101) |
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| US 09090701 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark E. Anderson (Iowa City, Iowa); Peter J. Mohler (Iowa City, Iowa); Douglas R. Spitz, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Jeffrey Robert Erickson (Utrecht, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Anderson (Iowa City, Iowa); Peter J. Mohler (Iowa City, Iowa); Douglas R. Spitz, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Jeffrey Robert Erickson (Utrecht, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has been found to be directly oxidized, and direct oxidation of CaMKII was observed to result in calcium independent activation of CaMKII. Antibodies that bind specifically to oxidized forms of CaMKII (oxCaMKII) were generated and were utilized to detect oxCaMKII in blood from: (1) mice with cancer; (2) mice with a knock out of the gene encoding methionine sulfoxide reductase; (3) mice injected with angiotensin II; (4) mice injected with bacterial endotoxin; (5) mice fed a pro-oxidant (ketogenic) diet; and (6) mice with cancer that had been treated with experimental therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/605341 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/44 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 2800/26 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09090704 | Rosa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott and White Healthcare (Temple, Texas); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Scott and White Healthcare (Temple, Texas); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Rosa (Holland, Texas); Gavin W. Roddy (Temple, Texas); Darwin J. Prockop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods, compositions, and devices for treating an ocular disease, disorder or condition in a mammal. The invention includes polypeptides that possess anti-inflammatory, anti-apoptotic, immune modulatory and anti-tumorigenic properties, and their application in the treatment of eye disease, particularly diseases of the retina. In particular aspects, the invention includes administration of a therapeutic polypeptide such as a stanniocalcin family member protein for the treatment of an eye disease. Also included are fusion proteins and cells stimulated or modified to express the therapeutic polypeptides as set forth herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/284911 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/22 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090863 | Breuer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Breuer (Bethany, Connecticut); Edward L. Snyder (Wallingford, Connecticut); Keru O. Shafi (Anaheim Hills, California); Martin A. Smith (Northport, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALL CORPORATION (Port Washington, New York); YALE UNIVERSITY (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Breuer (Bethany, Connecticut); Edward L. Snyder (Wallingford, Connecticut); Keru O. Shafi (Anaheim Hills, California); Martin A. Smith (Northport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems are provided for convenient and sterile isolation, collection, and seeding of cells onto a scaffold or tissue graft. The systems may be closed. Methods for use of the disclosed systems for isolation, collection and seeding of cells and generation of tissue engineered vascular grafts are also provided. The systems may be supplied in kits for efficient and expeditious use. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/781367 |
| 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 | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 25/14 (20130101) C12M 29/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09090873 | Whitehead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Whitehead (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Joseph E. Blaney (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Ching-Juh Lai (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to a dengue virus or chimeric dengue virus that contains a mutation in the 3′untranslated region (3′-UTR) comprising a Δ30 mutation that removes the TL-2 homologous structure in each of the dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4, and nucleotides additional to the Δ30 mutation deleted from the 3′-UTR that removes sequence in the 5′direction as far as the 5′boundary of the TL-3 homologous structure in each of the dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3, and 4, or a replacement of the 3′-UTR of a dengue virus of a first serotype with the 3′-UTR of a dengue virus of a second serotype, optionally containing the Δ30 mutation and nucleotides additional to the Δ30 mutation deleted from the 3′-UTR; and immunogenic compositions, methods of inducing an immune response, and methods of producing a dengue virus or chimeric dengue virus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/692557 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/1825 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 7/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/24122 (20130101) C12N 2770/24162 (20130101) |
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| US 09090875 | Turtle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cameron J. Turtle (Seattle, Washington); Stanley R. Riddell (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron J. Turtle (Seattle, Washington); Stanley R. Riddell (Sammamish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides, among other things, methods for the identification and isolation of viable putative long-lived antigen-specific memory CD8+ T cell subsets (CMhi and EMhi) with high surface expression of CD161 and/or IL-18Rα and the capacity to rapidly efflux the fluorescent dye Rh123. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/865221 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/57 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 2333/54 (20130101) G01N 2333/70557 (20130101) |
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| US 09090885 | Boedicker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Q. Boedicker (Pasadena, California); Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Hyun Jung Kim (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Q. Boedicker (Pasadena, California); Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Hyun Jung Kim (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides devices and methods that enable co-incubation of microorganisms. Also provided are methods of making such devices for co-incubation of microorganisms, and various applications of such devices. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/670725 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 1/14 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 1/38 (20130101) C12N 11/04 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 39/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/54313 (20130101) |
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| US 09090894 | Baltimore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Mark Boldin (Pasadena, California); Konstantin Taganov (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasedena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Mark Boldin (Pasadena, California); Konstantin Taganov (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to the finding that microRNA-146 plays a role in modulating the development and function of the immune system. Immune cell development and function can be modulated by delivery of microRNA-146 (miR-146) or antisense miR-146 to target immune cells or precursor cells. For example, in some embodiments, activity and/or proliferation of certain immune cells is regulated by administering miR-146 oligonucleotides or anti-miR-146 oligonucleotides. In other embodiments, pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in immune cells is regulated by administering a miR-146 oligonucleotide or anti-miR-146. In further embodiments, methods of regulating macrophage activity using antisense miR-146 are provided. Additional methods and compositions for regulating immune system function and development using miR-146 are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337525 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09090899 | Rubin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Dorothee Pflueger (Zurich, Switzerland); David S. Rickman (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Dorothee Pflueger (Zurich, Switzerland); David S. Rickman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An in depth analysis of prostate cancer prostatectomy samples which over-express the ERG oncogene led to the discovery of a novel gene translocation in prostate cancer, between the NDRG1 gene (N-myc downstream regulated gene 1) on chromosome 8 and the ERG oncogene on chromosome 21, leading to the expression of a chimeric NDRG1-ERG protein. Methods and compositions useful for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer characterized by NDRG1-ERG fusion are described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/254071 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/82 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) |
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| US 09090928 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hee-Sung Park (Daejeon, South Korea); Dieter Soll (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hee-Sung Park (Daejeon, South Korea); Dieter Soll (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding mutant elongation factor proteins (EF-Sep), phosphoseryl-tRNA synthetase (SepRS), and phosphoseryl-tRNA (tRNASep) and methods of use in site specific incorporation of phosphoserine into a protein or polypeptide are described. Typically, SepRS preferentially aminoacylates tRNASep with O-phosphoserine and the tRNASep recognizes at least one codon such as a stop codon. Due to the negative charge of the phosphoserine, Sept-tRNASep does not bind elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu). However, mutant EF-Sep proteins are disclosed that bind Sep-tRNASep and protect Sep-tRNASep from deacylation. In a preferred embodiment the nucleic acids are on vectors and are expressed in cells such as bacterial cells, archeaebacterial cells, and eukaryotic cells. Proteins or polypeptides containing phosphoserine produced by the methods described herein can be used for a variety of applications such as research, antibody production, protein array manufacture and development of cell-based screens for new drug discovery. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877628 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) 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) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09090933 | Backman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hariharan Subramanian (Chicago, Illinois); Dhwanil Damania (Evanston, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Dhananjay Kunte (Vernon Hills, Illinois); Mart Angelo De la Cruz (Niles, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Northshore University Healthsystem (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hariharan Subramanian (Chicago, Illinois); Dhwanil Damania (Evanston, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Dhananjay Kunte (Vernon Hills, Illinois); Mart Angelo De la Cruz (Niles, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to detection of cancer, or assessment of risk of development thereof. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods detection of field carcinogenesis by identification of ultrastructural and molecular markers in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202919 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57411 (20130101) G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 33/57484 (20130101) |
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| US 09090941 | Barany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Yu-Wei Cheng (Forest Hills, New York); Philip Paty (New York, New York); Daniel Notterman (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Yu-Wei Cheng (Forest Hills, New York); Philip Paty (New York, New York); Daniel Notterman (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of evaluating the cancer state of a subject using lecithin:retinol acyl transferase (LRAT) gene promoter methylation status. Methods of analyzing and quantifying LRAT gene promoter methylation level are also disclosed. The present invention also relates to methods of determining the prognosis for s subject having cancer by assessing LRAT mRNA expression and LRAT protein expression. Methods of cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/520386 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/154 (20130101) |
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| US 09091597 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pramod Kulkarni (Mason, Ohio); Philip Efthimion (Pluckemin, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Particles of a flow of aerosol are collected and analyzed by passing them through a housing having an inlet area, an outlet area, and a collection and analysis area. A collection electrode has a tip disposed in the flow path in the collection and analysis area. Particles are collected on the tip of the collection electrode. A microwave pulse is applied to the collection and analysis area such that a plasma is created. Atomic emissions produced during at least part of the microwave step are collected for analysis of the ablated particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804512 |
| 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 3/443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/0656 (20130101) G01N 21/67 (20130101) G01N 21/718 (20130101) |
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| US 09091637 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bing Yu (Cary, North Carolina); Nirmala Ramanujam (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Yu (Cary, North Carolina); Nirmala Ramanujam (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Smart fiber optic sensors, systems, and methods for performing quantitative optical spectroscopy are disclosed. In one embodiment, smart fiber optic sensor can include a sensing channel, a calibration channel, and a pressure sensing channel. External force or pressure can be calculated at pressure sensing channel for monitoring and controlling pressure at a sensor-specimen interface thereby ensuring more accurate specimen spectral data is collected. Contact pressure can be adjusted to remain within a specified range. A calibration light of the calibration channel and an illumination light of the sensing channel can be generated simultaneously from a shared light source. Pressure sensing channel can transmit light from a second light source and collect pressure spectral data. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/513458 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/4331 (20130101) A61B 5/4552 (20130101) A61B 5/6885 (20130101) A61B 2560/0228 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/28 (20130101) G01J 3/42 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 9/0079 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/274 (20130101) G01N 21/645 (20130101) G01N 2201/08 (20130101) G01N 2201/0627 (20130101) |
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| US 09091701 | Everson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Thomas Everson (Englewood, Colorado); Steve Mark Helmke (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A Disease Severity Index (DSI) is provided for assessment of chronic liver disease in a patient using non-invasive liver function test results. A DSI was derived from non-invasive liver function test results based on hepatic blood flow. The DSI is used in methods for prediction of clinical outcomes, prediction of response to antiviral treatment, and assessment of progression of chronic liver diseases. Non-invasive methods to diagnose three distinct categories of patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) are provided. The methods can be used to diagnose PSC patients as Slow Progressors, Moderate Progressors and Rapid Progressors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/078058 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/575 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/085 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3431 (20130101) |
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| US 09091862 | Mertz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jerome Charles Mertz (Newton, Massachusetts); Kengyeh Ken Chu (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Ashwin Parthasarathy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome Charles Mertz (Newton, Massachusetts); Kengyeh Ken Chu (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Ashwin Parthasarathy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A partitioned aperture wavefront imaging system includes an imaging system comprising a partitioned aperture lens array positioned at the aperture plane or Fourier plane between the entrance plane and camera plane of an imaging system. The partitioned aperture lens array can include 2 or more off-axis lenses symmetrically distributed about an optical axis, and adapted to produce simultaneously at the camera plane at least two images of an object, or intermediate image of an object, presented at the entrance plane. Preferably, the partitioned aperture lens array includes from 3 to 5 off-axis lenses and produces 3 to 5 images at the camera plane from which phase and amplitude information about the light field can be determined. The partitioned aperture wavefront imaging system provides enough information about the light field presented at the entrance plane to enable reconstruction of the light field at other planes relative to the entrance plane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/237958 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 9/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/361 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09092850 | Murphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert F. Murphy (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Arvind Rao (Houston, Texas); Estelle Glory-Afshar (Atlanta, Georgia); Justin Y. Newberg (Houston, Texas); Santosh Bhavani (Houston, Texas); Aparna Kumar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Murphy (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Arvind Rao (Houston, Texas); Estelle Glory-Afshar (Atlanta, Georgia); Justin Y. Newberg (Houston, Texas); Santosh Bhavani (Houston, Texas); Aparna Kumar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method performed by one or more processing devices includes retrieving data for a protein in a tissue type in a first state and for the protein in the tissue type in a second state; determining, based on the retrieved data, first features of the protein in the tissue type in the first state; determining, based on the retrieved, second features of the protein in the tissue type in the second state; and identifying, based on the first features and the second features, that a location of the protein in the tissue type in the first state differs from a location of the protein in the tissue type in the second state. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/980512 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57484 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09092996 | Meglan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SIMQUEST LLC (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIMQUEST LLC (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight A. Meglan (Westwood, Massachusetts); Daniel R. King (Brighton, Massachusetts); Albert Dvornik (Somerville, Massachusetts); Julien Lenoir (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsurgery simulator simulates various microsurgical procedures (e.g., nerve reapproximation, ear drain deployment) that utilize a surgical microscope. A surrogate surgical microscope includes a mobile device and an eye piece. A physical surrogate surgical interface represents an interface between a user and a simulated surgical scenario. Sensors sense the user's manipulation of the surrogate surgical interface. A surgical simulation generator generates a real time 3D surgical simulation based on the sensed manipulation. The generator renders the real time surgical simulation into a real time computer graphics generated video representation that is displayed on a screen of the mobile device. A processor of the mobile device is configured to perform at least a portion of a computational analysis that is used to generate the real time computer graphics generated video representation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/782403 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09094913 | Ghovanloo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maysam Ghovanloo (Atlanta, Georgia); Mehdi Kiani (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain implementations may include systems, methods, and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting data and power across inductive links using pulse delay modulation (PDM). According to an example implementation, a method is provided that includes generating a power carrier signal; generating a data waveform from a series of binary bits, the data waveform including a series of pulses in synchronization with the power carrier signal; transmitting, from one or more transmitting (Tx) coils of an inductive link, the power carrier signal and the data waveform; receiving, by one or more receiving (Rx) coils of the inductive link, an interference signal, the interference signal based at least in part on a superposition of the transmitted power carrier signal and the transmitted data waveform; determining zero crossings of the received interference signal; determining delays associated with the zero crossings; and determining the data packet based at least in part on the delays. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/082523 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/0209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | K.Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Shuli Yan (Detroit, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K.Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Shuli Yan (Detroit, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a heterogeneous catalyst comprises calcium hydroxide and lanthanum hydroxide, wherein the catalyst has a specific surface area of more than about 10 m2/g. In another aspect, a heterogeneous catalyst comprises a calcium compound and a lanthanum compound, wherein the catalyst has a specific surface area of more than about 10 m2/g, and a total basicity of about 13.6 mmol/g. In further another aspect, a heterogeneous catalyst comprises calcium oxide and lanthanum oxide, wherein the catalyst has a specific surface area of more than about 10 m2/g. In still another aspect, a process for preparing a catalyst comprises introducing a base precipitant, a neutral precipitant, and an acid precipitant to a solution comprising a first metal ion and a second metal ion to form a precipitate. The process further comprises calcining the precipitate to provide the catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127614 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/945 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 35/1014 (20130101) B01J 37/031 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/003 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09090243 | Shallvari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Iva Shallvari (Troy, Michigan); Sashidhar Velnati (Oxford, Michigan); Kenneth P. DeGroot (Macomb Township, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iva Shallvari (Troy, Michigan); Sashidhar Velnati (Oxford, Michigan); Kenneth P. DeGroot (Macomb Township, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for heating a catalytic converter's catalyst to an efficient operating temperature in a hybrid electric vehicle when the vehicle is in a charge limited mode such as e.g., the charge depleting mode or when the vehicle's high voltage battery is otherwise charge limited. The method and apparatus determine whether a high voltage battery of the vehicle is incapable of accepting a first amount of charge associated with a first procedure to warm-up the catalyst. If it is determined that the high voltage battery is incapable of accepting the first amount of charge, a second procedure with an acceptable amount of charge is performed to warm-up the catalyst. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/523964 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 6/20 (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 10/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 10/08 (20130101) B60W 20/1082 (20130101) B60W 2510/244 (20130101) B60W 2710/0627 (20130101) B60W 2710/0694 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 41/024 (20130101) F02D 2041/026 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/26 (20130101) Y02T 10/54 (20130101) Y02T 10/6269 (20130101) Y02T 10/6286 (20130101) |
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| US 09091156 | Schaef et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Herbert T. Schaef (Richland, Washington); B. Peter McGrail (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert T. Schaef (Richland, Washington); B. Peter McGrail (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Downhole fluid injection systems are provided that can include a first well extending into a geological formation, and a fluid injector assembly located within the well. The fluid injector assembly can be configured to inject a liquid CO2/H2O-emulsion into the surrounding geological formation. CO2 sequestration methods are provided that can include exposing a geological formation to a liquid CO2/H2O-emulsion to sequester at least a portion of the CO2 from the emulsion within the formation. Hydrocarbon material recovery methods are provided that can include exposing a liquid CO2/H2O-emulsion to a geological formation having the hydrocarbon material therein. The methods can include recovering at least a portion of the hydrocarbon material from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/410696 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 21/00 (20130101) E21B 41/0064 (20130101) E21B 43/114 (20130101) E21B 43/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 2043/0115 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09091163 | Davis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lloyd L. Davis (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd L. Davis (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Insensitive explosive compositions were prepared by reacting di-isocyanate and/or poly-isocyanate monomers with an explosive diamine monomer. Prior to a final cure, the compositions are extrudable. The di-isocyanate monomers tend to produce tough, rubbery materials while polyfunctional monomers (i.e. having more than two isocyanate groups) tend to form rigid products. The extrudable form of the composition may be used in a variety of applications including rock fracturing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011196 |
| ART UNIT | 1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 45/105 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/69 (20130101) C08G 18/73 (20130101) C08G 18/755 (20130101) C08G 18/3246 (20130101) C08G 18/5069 (20130101) C08G 18/6688 (20130101) C08G 18/7671 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/263 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09091251 | Ullakko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kari Ullakko (Savolinna, Florida); Peter Mullner (Boise, Idaho); Greg Hampikian (Boise, Idaho); Aaron Smith (Meridian, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kari Ullakko (Savolinna, Florida); Peter Mullner (Boise, Idaho); Greg Hampikian (Boise, Idaho); Aaron Smith (Meridian, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuation apparatus includes at least one magnetic shape memory (MSM) element containing a material configured to expand and/or contract in response to exposure to a magnetic field. Among other things, the MSM element may be configured to pump fluid through a micropump by expanding and/or contracting in response to the magnetic field. The magnetic field may rotate about an axis of rotation and exhibit a distribution having a component substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation. Further, the magnetic field distribution may include at least two components substantially orthogonal to one another lying in one or more planes perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The at least one MSM element may contain nickel, manganese, and gallium. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) may be enhanced by contacting a PCR reagent and DNA material with the MSM element. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/550386 |
| 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 | Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 17/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/75 (20130101) |
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| US 09091466 | Farmer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar-powered adsorption-desorption refrigeration and air conditioning system that uses nanostructural materials such as aerogels, zeolites, and sol gels as the adsorptive media. Refrigerant molecules are adsorbed on the high surface area of the nanostructural material while the material is at a relatively low temperature, perhaps at night. During daylight hours, when the nanostructural materials is heated by the sun, the refrigerant are thermally desorbed from the surface of the aerogel, thereby creating a pressurized gas phase in the vessel that contains the aerogel. This solar-driven pressurization forces the heated gaseous refrigerant through a condenser, followed by an expansion valve. In the condenser, heat is removed from the refrigerant, first by circulating air or water. Eventually, the cooled gaseous refrigerant expands isenthalpically through a throttle valve into an evaporator, in a fashion similar to that in more conventional vapor recompression systems. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/075170 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 27/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/20 (20130101) Y02B 10/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09091517 | Perry, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Leroy Perry, III (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A munition according to a preferred embodiment can include a detonator system having a detonator that is selectively coupled to a microwave source that functions to selectively prime, activate, initiate, and/or sensitize an insensitive explosive material for detonation. The preferred detonator can include an explosive cavity having a barrier within which an insensitive explosive material is disposed and a waveguide coupled to the explosive cavity. The preferred system can further include a microwave source coupled to the waveguide such that microwaves enter the explosive cavity and impinge on the insensitive explosive material to sensitize the explosive material for detonation. In use the preferred embodiments permit the deployment and use of munitions that are maintained in an insensitive state until the actual time of use, thereby substantially preventing unauthorized or unintended detonation thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/722612 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Detonating or Priming Devices; Fuses; Chemical Lighters; Pyrophoric Compositions C06C 7/00 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 3/10 (20130101) F42B 3/113 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42C 19/08 (20130101) F42C 19/0803 (20130101) F42C 19/0807 (20130101) F42C 19/0823 (20130101) F42C 19/0838 (20130101) Blasting F42D 1/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09091913 | Katz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Bal Makund Dhar (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Bal Makund Dhar (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a spatially patterned structure includes forming a layer of a material on at least a portion of a substructure of the spatially patterned structure, forming a barrier layer of a fluorinated material on the layer of material to provide an intermediate structure, and exposing the intermediate structure to at least one of a second material or radiation to cause at least one of a chemical change or a structural change to at least a portion of the intermediate structure. The barrier layer substantially protects the layer of the material from chemical and structural changes during the exposing. Substructures are produced according to this method. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864407 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0023 (20130101) H01L 51/102 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24479 (20150115) |
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| US 09092265 | Greene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel H. Greene (Sunnyvale, California); Lara S. Crawford (Los Altos, California); Maurice K. Chu (Burlingame, California); John Hanley (Emerald Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for provisioning physical resources shared by a plurality of jobs. During operation, the system establishes resource-usage models for the jobs, ranks the jobs based on quality of service (QoS) requirements associated with the jobs, and provisions the jobs for a predetermined time interval in such a way that any unused reservations associated with a first subset of jobs having higher QoS rankings are distributed to other remaining jobs with preference given to a second subset of jobs having a highest QoS ranking among the other remaining jobs. Provisioning the jobs involves making reservations for the jobs based on the resource-usage model and corresponding QoS requirements associated with the jobs. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/692912 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/505 (20130101) G06F 9/4881 (20130101) G06F 9/5005 (20130101) G06F 9/5038 (20130101) G06F 9/5061 (20130101) G06F 9/5083 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/142 (20130101) |
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| US 09092275 | Heidelberger 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) | Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Esslingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a method for a store operation with a conditional push of a tag value to a queue is provided. The method includes configuring a queue that is accessible by an application, setting a value at an address in a memory device including a memory and a controller, receiving a request for an operation using the value at the address and performing the operation. The method also includes the controller writing a result of the operation to the address, thus changing the value at the address, the controller determining if the result of the operation meets a condition and the controller pushing a tag value to the queue based on the condition being met, where the tag value in the queue indicates to the application that the condition is met. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/682121 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/145 (20130101) G06F 12/1027 (20130101) G06F 2212/681 (20130101) |
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| US 09092467 | Stolte 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) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for displaying data in split dimension levels are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes: at a computer, obtaining a dimensional hierarchy associated with a dataset, wherein the dimensional hierarchy includes at least one dimension and a sub-dimension of the at least one dimension; and populating information representing data included in the dataset into a visual table having a first axis and a second axis, wherein the first axis corresponds to the at least one dimension and the second axis corresponds to the sub-dimension of the at least one dimension. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/753452 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30292 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30554 (20130101) G06F 17/30572 (20130101) G06F 17/30592 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092631 | Muller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington); Bradley Robert Key (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Muller (Richland, Washington); Casey J. Perkins (West Richland, Washington); Mary J. Lancaster (Richland, Washington); Douglas G. MacDonald (West Richland, Washington); Samuel L. Clements (Richland, Washington); William J. Hutton (Kennewick, Washington); Scott W. Patrick (Kennewick, Washington); Bradley Robert Key (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Computer-implemented security evaluation methods, security evaluation systems, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented security evaluation method includes accessing information regarding a physical architecture and a cyber architecture of a facility, building a model of the facility comprising a plurality of physical areas of the physical architecture, a plurality of cyber areas of the cyber architecture, and a plurality of pathways between the physical areas and the cyber areas, identifying a target within the facility, executing the model a plurality of times to simulate a plurality of attacks against the target by an adversary traversing at least one of the areas in the physical domain and at least one of the areas in the cyber domain, and using results of the executing, providing information regarding a security risk of the facility with respect to the target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/055776 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/577 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1433 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092692 | Paiton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dylan M. Paiton (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Garrett T. Kenyon (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Steven P. Brumby (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Peter F. Schultz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John S. George (White Rock, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach to detecting objects in an image dataset may combine texture/color detection, shape/contour detection, and/or motion detection using sparse, generative, hierarchical models with lateral and top-down connections. A first independent representation of objects in an image dataset may be produced using a color/texture detection algorithm. A second independent representation of objects in the image dataset may be produced using a shape/contour detection algorithm. A third independent representation of objects in the image dataset may be produced using a motion detection algorithm. The first, second, and third independent representations may then be combined into a single coherent output using a combinatorial algorithm. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/026812 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — 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 9/629 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/4619 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/20 (20130101) G06T 7/40 (20130101) G06T 7/0051 (20130101) G06T 7/0079 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092901 | Wald et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ingo Wald (Salt Lake City, Utah); Santiago Ize (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo Wald (Salt Lake City, Utah); Santiago Ize (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Parallel population of a grid with a plurality of objects using a plurality of processors. One example embodiment is a method for parallel population of a grid with a plurality of objects using a plurality of processors. The method includes a first act of dividing a grid into n distinct grid portions, where n is the number of processors available for populating the grid. The method also includes acts of dividing a plurality of objects into n distinct sets of objects, assigning a distinct set of objects to each processor such that each processor determines by which distinct grid portion(s) each object in its distinct set of objects is at least partially bounded, and assigning a distinct grid portion to each processor such that each processor populates its distinct grid portion with any objects that were previously determined to be at least partially bounded by its distinct grid portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/515808 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 15/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093186 | Livesay |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Jason Livesay (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are adaptors and other devices for radiation detectors that can be used to make accurate spectral measurements of both small and large bulk sources of radioactivity, such as building structures, soils, vessels, large equipment, and liquid bodies. Some exemplary devices comprise an adaptor for a radiation detector, wherein the adaptor can be configured to collimate radiation passing through the adapter from an external radiation source to the radiation detector and the adaptor can be configured to enclose a radiation source within the adapter to allow the radiation detector to measure radiation emitted from the enclosed radiation source. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/135954 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/16 (20130101) G01T 1/167 (20130101) G01T 7/00 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093249 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyrum Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jovana Helms (Dublin, California); Jason W. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kurt W. Larson (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Brandon R. Rohrer (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for conducting electron or scanning probe microscopy are provided herein. In a general embodiment, the systems and methods for conducting electron or scanning probe microscopy with an undersampled data set include: driving an electron beam or probe to scan across a sample and visit a subset of pixel locations of the sample that are randomly or pseudo-randomly designated; determining actual pixel locations on the sample that are visited by the electron beam or probe; and processing data collected by detectors from the visits of the electron beam or probe at the actual pixel locations and recovering a reconstructed image of the sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/482754 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/28 (20130101) H01J 37/222 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 2237/226 (20130101) H01J 2237/2809 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093355 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Caofeng Pan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Caofeng Pan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure sensor element includes a substrate, a first type of semiconductor material layer and an array of elongated light-emitting piezoelectric nanostructures extending upwardly from the first type of semiconductor material layer. A p-n junction is formed between each nanostructure and the first type semiconductor layer. An insulative resilient medium layer is infused around each of the elongated light-emitting piezoelectric nanostructures. A transparent planar electrode, disposed on the resilient medium layer, is electrically coupled to the top of each nanostructure. A voltage source is coupled to the first type of semiconductor material layer and the transparent planar electrode and applies a biasing voltage across each of the nanostructures. Each nanostructure emits light in an intensity that is proportional to an amount of compressive strain applied thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748737 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/005 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/77 (20130101) H01L 27/153 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/84 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 33/0008 (20130101) H01L 33/18 (20130101) H01L 41/1132 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093586 | Lentine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony L. Lentine (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony L. Lentine (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic power generation system that includes a solar panel that is free of bypass diodes is described herein. The solar panel includes a plurality of photovoltaic sub-modules, wherein at least two of photovoltaic sub-modules in the plurality of photovoltaic sub-modules are electrically connected in parallel. A photovoltaic sub-module includes a plurality of groups of electrically connected photovoltaic cells, wherein at least two of the groups are electrically connected in series. A photovoltaic group includes a plurality of strings of photovoltaic cells, wherein a string of photovoltaic cells comprises a plurality of photovoltaic cells electrically connected in series. The strings of photovoltaic cells are electrically connected in parallel, and the photovoltaic cells are microsystem-enabled photovoltaic cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/543297 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09093661 | Simpson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin Jay Simpson (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin film electronic devices (or stacks integrated with a substrate) that include a permeation barrier formed of a thin layer of metal that provides a light transmitting and electrically conductive layer, wherein the electrical conductive layer is formed on a surface of the substrate or device layer such as a transparent conducting material layer with pin holes or defects caused by manufacturing and the thin layer of metal is deposited on the conductive layer and formed from a self-healing metal that forms self-terminating oxides. A permeation plug or block is formed in or adjacent to the thin film of metal at or proximate to the pin holes to block further permeation of contaminants through the pin holes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/077544 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/048 (20130101) H01L 31/1884 (20130101) H01L 31/02167 (20130101) H01L 31/022466 (20130101) H01L 51/524 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5237 (20130101) Electric Heating; Electric Lighting Not Otherwise Provided for H05B 33/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/265 (20150115) Y10T 428/24331 (20150115) |
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| US 09093681 | Kandaswamy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duraiswamy Kandaswamy (Huntington Beach, California); Anand S. Chellappa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mack Knobbe (Long Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Energy Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duraiswamy Kandaswamy (Huntington Beach, California); Anand S. Chellappa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mack Knobbe (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing hydrogen using fuel cell off gases, the method feeding hydrocarbon fuel to a sulfur adsorbent to produce a desulfurized fuel and a spent sulfur adsorbent; feeding said desulfurized fuel and water to an adsorption enhanced reformer that comprises of a plurality of reforming chambers or compartments; reforming said desulfurized fuel in the presence of a one or more of a reforming catalyst and one or more of a CO2 adsorbent to produce hydrogen and a spent CO2 adsorbent; feeding said hydrogen to the anode side of the fuel cell; regenerating said spent CO2 adsorbents using the fuel cell cathode off-gases, producing a flow of hydrogen by cycling between said plurality of reforming chambers or compartments in a predetermined timing sequence; and, replacing the spent sulfur adsorbent with a fresh sulfur adsorbent at a predetermined time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/324828 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/06 (20130101) B01J 8/008 (20130101) B01J 8/067 (20130101) B01J 8/0207 (20130101) B01J 8/0285 (20130101) B01J 8/0496 (20130101) B01J 2208/0053 (20130101) B01J 2208/0084 (20130101) B01J 2208/00884 (20130101) B01J 2219/2428 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/38 (20130101) C01B 3/56 (20130101) C01B 2203/066 (20130101) C01B 2203/107 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0425 (20130101) C01B 2203/0475 (20130101) C01B 2203/0822 (20130101) C01B 2203/0827 (20130101) C01B 2203/1047 (20130101) C01B 2203/1082 (20130101) C01B 2203/1258 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0612 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093685 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kwan-Soo Lee (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Tommy Q. T. Rockward (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Seung Kim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kwan-Soo Lee (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Tommy Q. T. Rockward (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of making a membrane electrode assembly comprising: providing a membrane comprising a perfluorinated sulfonic acid; providing a first transfer substrate; applying to a surface of the first transfer substrate a first ink, said first ink comprising an ionomer and a catalyst; applying to the first ink a suitable non-aqueous swelling agent; forming an assembly comprising: the membrane; and the first transfer substrate, wherein the surface of the first transfer substrate comprising the first ink and the non-aqueous swelling agent is disposed upon one surface of the membrane; and heating the assembly at a temperature of 150° C. or less and at a pressure of from about 250 kPa to about 3000 kPa or less for a time suitable to allow substantially complete transfer of the first ink and the second ink to the membrane; and cooling the assembly to room temperature and removing the first transfer substrate and the second transfer substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321466 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8814 (20130101) H01M 4/8828 (20130101) H01M 4/8842 (20130101) H01M 4/8882 (20130101) H01M 4/8896 (20130101) H01M 8/1004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1023 (20130101) H01M 8/1039 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/522 (20130101) |
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| US 09093707 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Se-Hee Lee (Lakewood, Colorado); C. Edwin Tracy (Golden, Colorado); John Roland Pitts (Lakewood, Colorado); Ping Liu (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Hee Lee (Lakewood, Colorado); C. Edwin Tracy (Golden, Colorado); John Roland Pitts (Lakewood, Colorado); Ping Liu (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium metal thin-film battery composite structure is provided that includes a combination of a thin, stable, solid electrolyte layer [18] such as Lipon, designed in use to be in contact with a lithium metal anode layer; and a rapid-deposit solid electrolyte layer [16] such as LiAlF4 in contact with the thin, stable, solid electrolyte layer [18]. Batteries made up of or containing these structures are more efficient to produce than other lithium metal batteries that use only a single solid electrolyte. They are also more resistant to stress and strain than batteries made using layers of only the stable, solid electrolyte materials. Furthermore, lithium anode batteries as disclosed herein are useful as rechargeable batteries. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/816730 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/661 (20130101) H01M 6/20 (20130101) H01M 6/24 (20130101) H01M 6/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 6/185 (20130101) H01M 6/187 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0436 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) H01M 10/0585 (20130101) H01M 2300/0068 (20130101) H01M 2300/0094 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093715 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shouheng Sun (East Greenwich, Rhode Island); Sen Zhang (Providence, Rhode Island); Huiyuan Zhu (Providence, Rhode Island); Shaojun Guo (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A new structure-control strategy to optimize nanoparticle catalysis is provided. The presence of Au in FePtAu facilitates FePt structure transformation from chemically disordered face centered cubic (fcc) structure to chemically ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) structure, and further promotes formic acid oxidation reaction (FAOR). The fct-FePtAu nanoparticles show high CO poisoning resistance, achieve mass activity as high as about 2810 mA/mg Pt, and retain greater than 90% activity after a 13 hour stability test. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/793432 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/921 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/928 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09093722 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Wei Weng (Argonne, Illinois); Lu Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Wei Weng (Argonne, Illinois); Lu Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An ionic liquid that is a salt has a Formula: Such ionic liquids may be used in electrolytes and in electrochemical cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/895395 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/60 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) C07F 7/0854 (20130101) C07F 9/5407 (20130101) C07F 9/5414 (20130101) C07F 9/65515 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/399 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2300/0045 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09094385 | Akyol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bora A. Akyol (Richland, Washington); Jereme Nathan Haack (West Richland, Washington); Philip Allen Craig, Jr. (West Richland, Washington); Cody William Tews (Richland, Washington); Anand V. Kulkarni (Richland, Washington); Brandon J. Carpenter (Kennewick, Washington); Wendy M. Maiden (Pasco, Washington); Selim Ciraci (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bora A. Akyol (Richland, Washington); Jereme Nathan Haack (West Richland, Washington); Philip Allen Craig, Jr. (West Richland, Washington); Cody William Tews (Richland, Washington); Anand V. Kulkarni (Richland, Washington); Brandon J. Carpenter (Kennewick, Washington); Wendy M. Maiden (Pasco, Washington); Selim Ciraci (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for monitoring and using data in an electric power grid. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a sensor for measuring an electrical characteristic of a power line, electrical generator, or electrical device; a network interface; a processor; and one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions. In this embodiment, the computer-executable instructions include instructions for implementing an authorization and authentication module for validating a software agent received at the network interface; instructions for implementing one or more agent execution environments for executing agent code that is included with the software agent and that causes data from the sensor to be collected; and instructions for implementing an agent packaging and instantiation module for storing the collected data in a data container of the software agent and for transmitting the software agent, along with the stored data, to a next destination. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/204606 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 19/2513 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/123 (20130101) H04L 63/126 (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 40/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09095078 | Chainer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to facilitate active control of thermal and fluid dynamic performance of a coolant-cooled cold plate. The method includes: monitoring a variable associated with at least one of the coolant-cooled cold plate or one or more electronic components being cooled by the cold plate; and dynamically varying, based on the monitored variable, a physical configuration of the cold plate. By dynamically varying the physical configuration, the thermal and fluid dynamic performance of the cold plate are adjusted to, for example, optimally cool the one or more electronic components, and at the same time, reduce cooling power consumption used in cooling the electronic component(s). The physical configuration can be adjusted by providing one or more adjustable plates within the coolant-cooled cold plate, the positioning of which may be adjusted based on the monitored variable. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/587131 |
| ART UNIT | 2126 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20772 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 7/20836 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | System, assembly and method are provided to facilitate reconstruction of cardiac information representing a complex rhythm disorder associated with a patient's heart to indicate a source of the heart rhythm disorder. The complex rhythm disorder can be treated by application of energy to modify the source of the rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/231600 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0456 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/0472 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7221 (20130101) |
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| US 09089353 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tyler Wortman (Grand Island, Nebraska); Kyle Strabala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ryan McCormick (Arlington, Virginia); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tyler Wortman (Grand Island, Nebraska); Kyle Strabala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ryan McCormick (Arlington, Virginia); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various modular medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546831 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 19/5202 (20130101) A61B 19/5212 (20130101) A61B 2019/2215 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40418 (20130101) |
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| US 09089354 | Simaan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nabil Simaan (Baltimore, Maryland); Russell H. Taylor (Severna Park, Maryland); Paul Flint (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory Chirikjian (Towson, Maryland); David Stein (Succasunna, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured are systems, devices and apparatuses for use in minimally invasive surgical, diagnostic or therapeutic methods and/or techniques, in particular methods and/or techniques for a mammalian throat. In particular embodiments, a dexterity apparatus including one or more dexterity devices is featured, where each of the dexterity devices comprises surgical tools and each is configured and arranged with end-tip dexterity for enhanced manipulation. A portion of the dexterity devices is snake like, which is re-configurable (i.e., can be bent) so as to in effect maneuver the surgical tool and put the tool in a desired position with respect to the surgical site. Another portion of the dexterity device includes the surgical tool thereby providing the capability of performing surgical actions such as sewing, gripping, soft tissue manipulation, cutting and suction of saliva, blood and other materials from the surgical site. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/740825 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/24 (20130101) A61B 17/3421 (20130101) A61B 19/22 (20130101) A61B 19/26 (20130101) A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 19/5212 (20130101) A61B 2017/003 (20130101) A61B 2017/3445 (20130101) A61B 2019/2211 (20130101) A61B 2019/2223 (20130101) A61B 2019/2234 (20130101) A61B 2019/2238 (20130101) A61B 2019/2242 (20130101) |
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| US 09089512 | Mooney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Xuanhe Zhao (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mooney (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Xuanhe Zhao (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a composition whose porosity, pore size, pore connectivity, swelling agent concentration, and/or specific volume undergoes a change from a first value to a second value in response to an electromagnetic signal, the composition having a matrix material in which is distributed a magnetic material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/516973 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0009 (20130101) A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 9/5094 (20130101) A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 41/0028 (20130101) A61K 47/36 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48784 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/446 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) |
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| US 09090542 | Popik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir V. Popik (Watkinsville, Georgia); Selvanathan Arumugam (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir V. Popik (Watkinsville, Georgia); Selvanathan Arumugam (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for labeling a substrate using a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction are disclosed. The hetero-Diels-Alder reaction includes the reaction of an o-quinone methide (e.g., an o-naphthoquinone methide) with a polarized olefin to form a hetero-Diels-Alder adduct. The o-quinone methide or the polarized olefin can be attached to a surface of a substrate, and the other of the o-quinone methide or the polarized olefin can include a detectable label. The o-quinone methide can conveniently be generated by irradiation of a precursor compound, preferably in an aqueous solution, suspension, or dispersion. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101473 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/123 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 39/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 45/52 (20130101) C07C 45/52 (20130101) C07C 49/796 (20130101) C07C 49/796 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/92 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09090663 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Yao Zhou (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Yao Zhou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for capturing and/or isolating target microparticles. In one aspect, a method for capturing target microparticles is disclosed. The method includes: forming a fluid including the target microparticles, non-target microparticles, and magnetic beads, the magnetic beads having a stronger affinity with the target microparticles than with the non-target microparticles; flowing the fluid through a multidirectional microchannel; and applying a magnetic field to the fluid while the fluid is flowing through at least a portion of the microchannel to effect capture of at least a portion of the target microparticles onto the magnetic beads. Such a method can further includes passing the fluid having exited from the microchannel through a separator while subjecting the fluid to a second magnetic field so as to isolate the target microparticles. In addition, devices and systems are disclosed for capturing and/or isolating target microparticles based on magnetic manipulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/764898 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/0009 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 35/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/0098 (20130101) |
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| US 09090808 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OMAX Corporation (Kent, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H.-T. Liu (Bellevue, Washington); Kevin A. Hay (Des Moines, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Abrasive materials for use in abrasive jet systems and associated materials, apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed. An abrasive material configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes abrasive particles individually including an abrasive core and a fluid-repelling coating. The individual abrasive cores can be monolithic and have outer surfaces. The individual fluid-repelling coatings can include an amide wax and/or other suitable materials and can extend around at least about 95% of the outer surfaces of the corresponding abrasive cores. An average sieve diameter of the abrasive particles can be from about 5 microns to about 35 microns. A method for making abrasive materials in accordance with a particular embodiment includes introducing abrasive cores into a mixer, introducing particles of a non-liquid fluid-repelling material into the mixer, introducing an anti-clumping material into the mixer, and mixing the abrasive cores, the fluid-repelling material, and the anti-clumping material. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/209949 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrasive or Related Blasting With Particulate Material B24C 1/045 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 3/1436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09090833 | Flytzani-Stephanopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Branko Zugic (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brian Ricks (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Branko Zugic (Somerville, Massachusetts); Brian Ricks (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a C1-5 hydrocarbon from a solution containing a C2-6 carboxylic acid or a C2-6 carboxylate which is derived from biomass by contacting the solution with a solid catalyst to decarboxylate the C2-6 carboxylic acid or the C2-6 carboxylate, thereby forming a C1-5 hydrocarbon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/202239 |
| ART UNIT | 3649 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/2078 (20130101) C07C 2521/00 (20130101) C07C 2521/16 (20130101) C07C 2521/18 (20130101) C07C 2523/02 (20130101) C07C 2523/14 (20130101) C07C 2523/36 (20130101) C07C 2523/42 (20130101) C07C 2523/44 (20130101) C07C 2523/46 (20130101) C07C 2523/50 (20130101) C07C 2523/52 (20130101) C07C 2523/70 (20130101) C07C 2523/72 (20130101) C07C 2527/04 (20130101) C07C 2529/00 (20130101) C07C 2529/04 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 3/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 3/50 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas G. Mason (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. Mason (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing particles includes providing a relief template having a surface relief pattern adapted to impart structure to a plurality of particles while they are under production; depositing a radiation-sensitive material on the relief template; exposing portions of the radiation-sensitive material on the relief template using a beam of spatially patterned radiation; removing portions of the radiation-sensitive material after the exposing to reveal at least portions of surfaces of the plurality of particles; and separating at least a portion of the plurality of particles from the relief template. At least a portion of a structure of each of the plurality of particles is defined by a combination of the surface relief pattern and the spatially patterned radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575920 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 5/48 (20130101) C25D 15/02 (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 7/09 (20130101) G03F 7/11 (20130101) G03F 7/16 (20130101) G03F 7/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09090865 | Di Carlo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Soojung Hur (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Soojung Hur (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle analysis system includes an inlet; an inertial focusing microchannel disposed in a substrate and having a downstream expanding region at a distal end, where the inlet is connected to a proximal end of the microchannel; a plurality of outlets connected to the microchannel at the downstream expanding region; a plurality of fluidic resistors, where each fluidic resistor is connected to a respective outlet; and a particle analyzer configured to measure a size and a position of particles in the microchannel. A particle sorting system includes an inlet; an inertial focusing microchannel disposed in a substrate and having a downstream expanding region at a distal end, where the inlet is connected to a proximal end of the microchannel; a plurality of outlets connected to the microchannel at the downstream expanding region; and a plurality of fluidic resistors, where each fluidic resistor is connected to a respective outlet. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/284781 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/10 (20130101) G01N 2015/105 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) G01N 2015/1081 (20130101) G01N 2015/1087 (20130101) |
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| US 09090921 | Strobel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Montana); Angela R. Tomsheck (Oilmont, Montana) |
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| ABSTRACT | A method for producing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of 1,8-cineole, and 1-methyl-1,4-cyclohexadiene is also described. The method includes culturing a microorganism on or within a culturing media in a container under conditions sufficient for producing the at least one compound. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796469 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/065 (20130101) C12P 17/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/645 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09090928 | Park et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hee-Sung Park (Daejeon, South Korea); Dieter Soll (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hee-Sung Park (Daejeon, South Korea); Dieter Soll (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding mutant elongation factor proteins (EF-Sep), phosphoseryl-tRNA synthetase (SepRS), and phosphoseryl-tRNA (tRNASep) and methods of use in site specific incorporation of phosphoserine into a protein or polypeptide are described. Typically, SepRS preferentially aminoacylates tRNASep with O-phosphoserine and the tRNASep recognizes at least one codon such as a stop codon. Due to the negative charge of the phosphoserine, Sept-tRNASep does not bind elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu). However, mutant EF-Sep proteins are disclosed that bind Sep-tRNASep and protect Sep-tRNASep from deacylation. In a preferred embodiment the nucleic acids are on vectors and are expressed in cells such as bacterial cells, archeaebacterial cells, and eukaryotic cells. Proteins or polypeptides containing phosphoserine produced by the methods described herein can be used for a variety of applications such as research, antibody production, protein array manufacture and development of cell-based screens for new drug discovery. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877628 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) 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) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09090933 | Backman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hariharan Subramanian (Chicago, Illinois); Dhwanil Damania (Evanston, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Dhananjay Kunte (Vernon Hills, Illinois); Mart Angelo De la Cruz (Niles, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Northshore University Healthsystem (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hariharan Subramanian (Chicago, Illinois); Dhwanil Damania (Evanston, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Dhananjay Kunte (Vernon Hills, Illinois); Mart Angelo De la Cruz (Niles, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to detection of cancer, or assessment of risk of development thereof. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods detection of field carcinogenesis by identification of ultrastructural and molecular markers in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202919 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) G01N 21/64 (20130101) G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57411 (20130101) G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 33/57484 (20130101) |
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| US 09090971 | Weimer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan W. Weimer (Niwot, Colorado); Xinhua Liang (Rolla, Missouri); Jianhua Li (Superior, Colorado); John L. Falconer (Boulder, Colorado); Miao Yu (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan W. Weimer (Niwot, Colorado); Xinhua Liang (Rolla, Missouri); Jianhua Li (Superior, Colorado); John L. Falconer (Boulder, Colorado); Miao Yu (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultra-thin porous films are deposited on a substrate in a process that includes laying down an organic polymer, inorganic material or inorganic-organic material via an atomic layer deposition or molecular layer deposition technique, and then treating the resulting film to introduce pores. The films are characterized in having extremely small thicknesses of pores that are typically well less than 50 nm in size. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/319122 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/0002 (20130101) B01D 67/0072 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 71/022 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 71/025 (20130101) B01D 2325/04 (20130101) B01D 2325/10 (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 16/30 (20130101) C23C 16/403 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 16/442 (20130101) C23C 16/4417 (20130101) C23C 16/45525 (20130101) C23C 16/45555 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/1016 (20130101) |
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| US 09090976 | Bocarsly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Bocarsly (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Prasad Lakkaraju (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Amanda Morris (Morrisville, Pennsylvania); Raymond Dominey (Henrico, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); University of Richmond (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Bocarsly (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Prasad Lakkaraju (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Amanda Morris (Morrisville, Pennsylvania); Raymond Dominey (Henrico, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide using advanced aromatic amine heterocyclic catalysts are disclosed. A method for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide may include, but is not limited to, steps (A) to (C). Step (A) may introduce water to a first compartment of an electrochemical cell. The first compartment may include an anode. Step (B) may introduce carbon dioxide to a second compartment of the electrochemical cell. The second compartment may include a solution of an electrolyte, a catalyst, and a cathode. The catalyst may include at least two aromatic amine heterocycles that are at least one of (a) fused or (b) configured to become electronically conjugated upon one electron reduction. Step (C) may apply an electrical potential between the anode and the cathode in the electrochemical cell sufficient for the cathode to reduce the carbon dioxide to a product mixture. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/340733 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 3/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09092737 | Hartmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mitra J. Hartmann (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph H. Solomon (Park Ridge, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitra J. Hartmann (Evanston, Illinois); Joseph H. Solomon (Park Ridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided using signals from a set of tactile sensors mounted on a surface to determine a surface topography. An example method includes receiving a set of moment and force input data from one or more identified topographies. The example method includes using a neural network to receive input from a training data set based on the first set of moment and force input data from the one or more identified topographies. Network weights to be used by the neural network to produce the training data set are modified via an evolutionary algorithm that tests vectors of candidate network weights. The example method includes receiving a moment and force input from a test object surface and reconstructing the surface topology based on the neural network outputs. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/663196 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 5/28 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09092850 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Murphy (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Arvind Rao (Houston, Texas); Estelle Glory-Afshar (Atlanta, Georgia); Justin Y. Newberg (Houston, Texas); Santosh Bhavani (Houston, Texas); Aparna Kumar (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method performed by one or more processing devices includes retrieving data for a protein in a tissue type in a first state and for the protein in the tissue type in a second state; determining, based on the retrieved data, first features of the protein in the tissue type in the first state; determining, based on the retrieved, second features of the protein in the tissue type in the second state; and identifying, based on the first features and the second features, that a location of the protein in the tissue type in the first state differs from a location of the protein in the tissue type in the second state. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/980512 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57484 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/18 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09093056 | Pardo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Pardo (Evanston, Illinois); Zafar Rafii (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Pardo (Evanston, Illinois); Zafar Rafii (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes determining a first spectrogram of the audio signal, defining a similarity matrix of the audio signal based on the first spectrogram and a transposed version of the first spectrogram, identifying two or more similar frames in the similarity matrix that are more similar to a designated frame than to one or more other frames in the similarity matrix, creating a repeating spectrogram model based on the two or more similar frames that are identified in the similarity matrix, and deriving a mask based on the repeating spectrogram model and the first spectrogram of the audio signal. The mask is representative of similarities between the repeating spectrogram model and the first spectrogram of the audio signal. The method also includes extracting a repeating structure from the audio signal by applying the mask to the audio signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/612413 |
| ART UNIT | 2688 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrophonic Musical Instruments G10H 1/0008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10H 2210/051 (20130101) G10H 2210/066 (20130101) G10H 2250/135 (20130101) G10H 2250/235 (20130101) G10H 2250/641 (20130101) Stereophonic Systems H04S 3/008 (20130101) H04S 7/30 (20130101) H04S 7/40 (20130101) H04S 2400/15 (20130101) H04S 2420/07 (20130101) |
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| US 09093079 | Kleffner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew D. Kleffner (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Douglas L. Jones (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Kleffner (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Douglas L. Jones (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A maximum-kurtosis, distortionless response (MKDR) technique and an extension, the maximum-kurtosis, Wiener estimate (MKWE) technique, are provided. In one form, blind estimates of the speech source's channel response are made from the microphone data and MVDR is applied. The source direction is estimated by finding weights that maximize output kurtosis, or the fourth central statistical moment, in the frequency domain. The MKWE approach approximates the Wiener filter by using MKDR-output noise power estimates to compute a Wiener post-filter. These approaches can be extended to block-adaptive versions if the speech source is not quickly moving in space. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/963877 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 21/0216 (20130101) G10L 21/0272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10L 2021/02166 (20130101) |
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| US 09093214 | Gurocak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hakan Gurocak (Vancouver, Washington); Doruk Senkal (Pullman, Washington); Berk Gonenc (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hakan Gurocak (Vancouver, Washington); Doruk Senkal (Pullman, Washington); Berk Gonenc (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of magnetorheological systems, devices, and associated methods of control are described below are described herein. In one embodiment, a magnetorheological device includes an magnetorheological fluid, a shaft proximate and mechanically coupled to the magnetorheological fluid, and a magnetic field generator configured to generate a magnetic flux through the magnetorheological fluid along a magnetic flux path. The magnetorheological device also includes a sensor positioned in the magnetic flux path and configured to measure a current value of magnetic inductance of the magnetic flux flowing through the magnetorheological fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/114879 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 9/53 (20130101) F16F 9/535 (20130101) F16F 13/305 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 38/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/206 (20150401) |
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| US 09093355 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Caofeng Pan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Caofeng Pan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure sensor element includes a substrate, a first type of semiconductor material layer and an array of elongated light-emitting piezoelectric nanostructures extending upwardly from the first type of semiconductor material layer. A p-n junction is formed between each nanostructure and the first type semiconductor layer. An insulative resilient medium layer is infused around each of the elongated light-emitting piezoelectric nanostructures. A transparent planar electrode, disposed on the resilient medium layer, is electrically coupled to the top of each nanostructure. A voltage source is coupled to the first type of semiconductor material layer and the transparent planar electrode and applies a biasing voltage across each of the nanostructures. Each nanostructure emits light in an intensity that is proportional to an amount of compressive strain applied thereto. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748737 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/005 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/77 (20130101) H01L 27/153 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/84 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 33/0008 (20130101) H01L 33/18 (20130101) H01L 41/1132 (20130101) |
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| US 09093657 | Coe-Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seth A. Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Polina O. Anikeeva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth A. Coe-Sullivan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jonathan Steckel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Polina O. Anikeeva (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jonathan E. Halpert (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A white light emitting semiconductor nanocrystal includes a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162840 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/00 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) H01L 51/5012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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09093717 — Methods of making and using oxide ceramic solids and products and devices related thereto
| US 09093717 | Sakamoto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey Sakamoto (East Lansing, Michigan); Ezhiyl Rangasamy (East Lansing, Michigan); Hyunjoong Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Yunsung Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Ryan Patrick Maloney (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Sakamoto (East Lansing, Michigan); Ezhiyl Rangasamy (East Lansing, Michigan); Hyunjoong Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Yunsung Kim (East Lansing, Michigan); Ryan Patrick Maloney (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments relate to a method comprising combining a chelating agent, one or more non-aqueous organic solvents and one or more metallic compounds to produce an oxide ceramic solid in a non-aqueous solution based reaction, wherein the oxide ceramic solid contains metal-oxygen-metal bonds. The oxide ceramic solid can comprise, for example, a gel or a powder. Various devices, including electrolyte interfaces and energy storage devices, are also provided. In one embodiment, the oxide ceramic solid is a cubic garnet having a nominal formula of Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO). |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/476843 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 25/006 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/486 (20130101) C04B 35/624 (20130101) C04B 35/645 (20130101) C04B 35/6261 (20130101) C04B 35/6263 (20130101) C04B 35/6268 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/441 (20130101) C04B 2235/764 (20130101) C04B 2235/3203 (20130101) C04B 2235/3217 (20130101) C04B 2235/3227 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 8/10 (20130101) H01M 8/1246 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Y02E 60/523 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09093741 | Weller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas McCrea Weller (Lutz, Florida); Ibrahim Turki Nassar (Tampa, Florida); Jeffrey Frolik (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas McCrea Weller (Lutz, Florida); Ibrahim Turki Nassar (Tampa, Florida); Jeffrey Frolik (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a repeater for wireless sensing includes a base substrate, a front substrate, a rear substrate, a receive antenna formed on the front substrate, a transmit antenna formed on the rear substrate, and a frequency multiplier formed on the base substrate between the antennas. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222139 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/18 (20130101) H01Q 9/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09094913 | Ghovanloo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maysam Ghovanloo (Atlanta, Georgia); Mehdi Kiani (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain implementations may include systems, methods, and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting data and power across inductive links using pulse delay modulation (PDM). According to an example implementation, a method is provided that includes generating a power carrier signal; generating a data waveform from a series of binary bits, the data waveform including a series of pulses in synchronization with the power carrier signal; transmitting, from one or more transmitting (Tx) coils of an inductive link, the power carrier signal and the data waveform; receiving, by one or more receiving (Rx) coils of the inductive link, an interference signal, the interference signal based at least in part on a superposition of the transmitted power carrier signal and the transmitted data waveform; determining zero crossings of the received interference signal; determining delays associated with the zero crossings; and determining the data packet based at least in part on the delays. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/082523 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/0209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09089353 | Farritor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tyler Wortman (Grand Island, Nebraska); Kyle Strabala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ryan McCormick (Arlington, Virginia); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Tyler Wortman (Grand Island, Nebraska); Kyle Strabala (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ryan McCormick (Arlington, Virginia); Amy Lehman (York, Nebraska); Dmitry Oleynikov (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various modular medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546831 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 19/5202 (20130101) A61B 19/5212 (20130101) A61B 2019/2215 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/40418 (20130101) |
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| US 09090315 | Stone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William C. Stone (Del Valle, Texas); Bartholomew P. Hogan (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Piedra Sombra Corporation, Inc. (, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Stone (Del Valle, Texas); Bartholomew P. Hogan (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical power transfer system comprising a fiber spooler, a fiber optic rotary joint mechanically connected to the fiber spooler, and an electrical power extraction subsystem connected to the fiber optic rotary joint with an optical waveguide. Optical energy is generated at and transferred from a base station through fiber wrapped around the spooler, through the rotary joint, and ultimately to the power extraction system at a remote mobility platform for conversion to another form of energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/303449 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 35/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Street Cleaning; Cleaning of Permanent Ways; Cleaning Beaches; Dispersing Fog in General E01H 5/10 (20130101) Producing, Working or Handling Ice F25C 5/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09090935 | Ray |
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| APPLICANT(S) | F. Andrew Ray (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KROMATID, INC. (Fort Collins, Colorado); COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Andrew Ray (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the characterization of chromosomal inversions using anti-parallel probes is described. Reporter species are attached to oligonucleotide strands designed such that they may hybridize to portions of only one of a pair of single-stranded sister chromatids which may be prepared by the CO-FISH procedure. If an inversion has occurred, these marker probes will be detected on the second sister chromatid at the same location as the inversion on the first chromatid. Further, one or more reporter species are replaced with anti-parallel probes that hybridize at known locations along the second sister chromatid such that the position and size of the inversion may be identified/estimated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/270575 |
| 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 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) |
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| US 09090950 | Hales et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen J Hales (Newport News, Virginia); Harold Dale Claytor (Newport News, Virginia); Joel A. Alexa (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J Hales (Newport News, Virginia); Harold Dale Claytor (Newport News, Virginia); Joel A. Alexa (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a process for suppressing abnormal grain growth in friction stir welded aluminum alloys by inserting an intermediate annealing treatment (“IAT”) after the welding step on the article. The IAT may be followed by a solution heat treatment (SHT) on the article under effectively high solution heat treatment conditions. In at least some embodiments, a deformation step is conducted on the article under effective spin-forming deformation conditions or under effective superplastic deformation conditions. The invention further provides a welded article having suppressed abnormal grain growth, prepared by the process above. Preferably the article is characterized with greater than about 90% reduction in area fraction abnormal grain growth in any friction-stir-welded nugget. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/272027 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 9/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Alloys C22C 21/10 (20130101) C22C 21/12 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09091490 | Weinstein |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leonard M. Weinstein (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard M. Weinstein (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An open loop heat pipe radiator comprises a radiator tube and a free-piston. The radiator tube has a first end, a second end, and a tube wall, and the tube wall has an inner surface and an outer surface. The free-piston is enclosed within the radiator tube and is capable of movement within the radiator tube between the first and second ends. The free-piston defines a first space between the free-piston, the first end, and the tube wall, and further defines a second space between the free-piston, the second end, and the tube wall. A gaseous-state working fluid, which was evaporated to remove waste heat, alternately enters the first and second spaces, and the free-piston wipes condensed working fluid from the inner surface of the tube wall as the free-piston alternately moves between the first and second ends. The condensed working fluid is then pumped back to the heat source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466569 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 15/06 (20130101) F28D 15/025 (20130101) F28D 15/0266 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09093242 | Manohara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harish Manohara (Arcadia, California); Risaku Toda (Glendale, California); Linda Y. Del Castillo (Arcadia, California); Rakesh Murthy (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention proficiently produce carbon nanotube-based vacuum electronic devices. In one embodiment a method of fabricating a carbon nanotube-based vacuum electronic device includes: growing carbon nanotubes onto a substrate to form a cathode; assembling a stack that includes the cathode, an anode, and a first layer that includes an alignment slot; disposing a microsphere partially into the alignment slot during the assembling of the stack such that the microsphere protrudes from the alignment slot and can thereby separate the first layer from an adjacent layer; and encasing the stack in a vacuum sealed container. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/086825 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 9/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/939 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09089547 | Lephard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edwin Douglas Lephard (Montgomery, Texas); Trent D. Lund (Wheaton, Illinois); Robert J. Handa (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Douglas Lephard (Montgomery, Texas); Trent D. Lund (Wheaton, Illinois); Robert J. Handa (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4′hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in vivo. Equol can bind circulating free DHT and sequester it from the androgen receptor, thus altering growth and physiological hormone responses that are regulated by androgens. These data suggest a novel model to explain equol's biological properties. The significance of equol's ability to specifically bind and sequester DHT from the androgen receptor have important ramifications in health and disease and may indicate a broad and important usage for equol in the treatment and prevention of androgen-mediated pathologies. Thus, equol can specifically bind DHT and prevent DHT's biological actions in physiological and pathophysiological processes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/903748 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/353 (20130101) |
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| US 09090915 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gaosheng Wang (TianJin, China PRC); Xuejun Pan (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Jun Yong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland L. Gleisner (Jefferson, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gaosheng Wang (TianJin, China PRC); Xuejun Pan (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Jun Yong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland L. Gleisner (Jefferson, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method using sulfite pretreatment to overcome recalcitrance of lignocellulose (SPORL). More specifically, it relates to a sulfite-based chemical process for pretreating biomass in solutions to reduce access barriers of enzymes to the lignocellulose, resulting in efficient conversion through enzymatic saccharification. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425773 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds of Unknown Constitution C07G 1/00 (20130101) Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 8/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 97/02 (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 1/023 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 1/02 (20130101) Production of Cellulose by Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing Materials; Regeneration of Pulping Liquors; Apparatus Therefor D21C 5/022 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09089862 | Cotler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elliot M. Cotler (Brooklyn, New York); Ronald Molz (Mt. Kisco, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OERLIKON METCO (US) INC. (Westbury, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliot M. Cotler (Brooklyn, New York); Ronald Molz (Mt. Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus (1) for injecting a liquid in an area of a thermal spray gun (100). The apparatus (1) includes an injector cleaning device (10) having an inlet connectable (19) to at least one feedstock supply line (18), an inlet connectable (17) to at least one gas supply line (16), and an inlet connectable (21) to at least one liquid medium supply line (20). An injector (30) orifice is coupled to the injector cleaning device (10) and is adapted to at least one of inject a liquid jet into a hot stream created in the area of the thermal spray gun (100) and receive feedstock, gas and liquid passing into the inlets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/994442 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 7/04 (20130101) B05B 7/203 (20130101) B05B 7/205 (20130101) B05B 7/226 (20130101) B05B 7/0815 (20130101) B05B 15/00 (20130101) B05B 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B05B 15/003 (20130101) B05B 15/025 (20130101) B05B 15/0208 (20130101) B05B 15/0258 (20130101) B05B 15/0266 (20130101) Apparatus for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05C 11/00 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 9/00 (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 4/105 (20130101) C23C 4/127 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/67051 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/34 (20130101) H05H 1/42 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09094872 | Agrawal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Ting He (Piermont, New York); Ramya Raghavendra (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Ting He (Piermont, New York); Ramya Raghavendra (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to exemplary embodiments, a method for resource management of network systems includes sampling channel states of a first set of channels from at least one base station associated with a radio network controller providing an application and estimating channel states of a second set of channels from the at least one base station, wherein the estimated channel states are based on previously sampled channel states and currently sampled channel states. The method further includes adapting at least one runtime parameter of the application based on the sampled channel states of the first set of channels and the estimated channel states of the second set of channels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/357204 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 28/06 (20130101) H04W 28/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 28/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09090272 | Rhea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ANSALDO STS USA, INC. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ansaldo STS USA, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Stover Rhea (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania); Chinnarao Mokkapati (Export, Pennsylvania); Robert D. Pascoe (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian Michael Nypaver (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling braking of a train that includes obtaining in an on-board computer of the train a brake propagation delay time (Td), a brake build-up time (T) and a maximum brake rate (αmax) for the train, and controlling braking of the train in the on-board computer by generating one or more braking signals for the train using Td, T and αmax. Also, a methods of determining for a train a profile velocity to a target position of a selected target, selecting a most restrictive target from among a plurality of targets for a train, and determining a plurality of braking parameters for a train having a train consist, wherein the parameters include a brake propagation delay time (Td), a brake build-up time (T) and a maximum brake rate (αmax). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177588 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 13/665 (20130101) B60T 17/228 (20130101) Guiding Railway Traffic; Ensuring the Safety of Railway Traffic B61L 3/008 (20130101) B61L 27/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09090343 | Scott |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark W. Scott (Bethany, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Scott (Bethany, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor blade for a rotary wing aircraft includes a component bay located substantially enclosed in the rotor blade and one or more components positioned in the component bay. An airflow is located at the component bay and an airflow outlet is located at the component bay radially outboard of the airflow inlet. The airflow inlet and airflow outlet allow a continuous airflow through the component bay via centrifugal forces of rotation of the rotor blade, the continuous airflow cooling the one or more components disposed at the component bay. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/272781 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64C 2027/7205 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/34 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09090320 | Rufo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Boston Engineering Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Engineering Corporation (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Rufo (Abington, Massachusetts); David Shane (Waltham, Massachusetts); Michael Conry (Medford, Massachusetts); Will Ober (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater vehicle includes a fore-body and a flexible aft. The flexible aft includes a flexible body. The flexible body includes a spring body including a spring element extending along a main axis, and a cavity. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792689 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 7/085 (20130101) Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 1/36 (20130101) B63H 11/00 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/025 (20130101) F16F 3/00 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 70/56 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09092996 | Meglan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SIMQUEST LLC (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIMQUEST LLC (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight A. Meglan (Westwood, Massachusetts); Daniel R. King (Brighton, Massachusetts); Albert Dvornik (Somerville, Massachusetts); Julien Lenoir (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsurgery simulator simulates various microsurgical procedures (e.g., nerve reapproximation, ear drain deployment) that utilize a surgical microscope. A surrogate surgical microscope includes a mobile device and an eye piece. A physical surrogate surgical interface represents an interface between a user and a simulated surgical scenario. Sensors sense the user's manipulation of the surrogate surgical interface. A surgical simulation generator generates a real time 3D surgical simulation based on the sensed manipulation. The generator renders the real time surgical simulation into a real time computer graphics generated video representation that is displayed on a screen of the mobile device. A processor of the mobile device is configured to perform at least a portion of a computational analysis that is used to generate the real time computer graphics generated video representation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/782403 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09089269 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | System, assembly and method are provided to facilitate reconstruction of cardiac information representing a complex rhythm disorder associated with a patient's heart to indicate a source of the heart rhythm disorder. The complex rhythm disorder can be treated by application of energy to modify the source of the rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/231600 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0456 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/0472 (20130101) A61B 5/726 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7221 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09091780 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Terry Davis (Satellite Beach, Florida); Paul Armin Nyffenegger (Rockledge, Florida); Kyle Burton Johnston (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quantum Technology Sciences, Inc. (QTSI) (Cocoa Beach, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Terry Davis (Satellite Beach, Florida); Paul Armin Nyffenegger (Rockledge, Florida); Kyle Burton Johnston (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making classifications. One method acquires groups of data, derives features of potential interest in a first data group, and analyzes features using a classification tree and a statistically based classification process to draw a classification conclusion on identity with an associated level of confidence. Features associated with a signal of potential interest may be derived with at least a second group of data. A statistical algorithm may perform linear discrimination analysis, or a quadratic discrimination analysis or a logistic regression classification analysis. A related method includes acquiring signal data with a sensor device comprising piezo-electric material and detecting a signal by performing detections on signal data from the sensor device. Determinations are provided when detections surpass defined thresholds of confidence. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/496335 |
| ART UNIT | 2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, July 28, 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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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)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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