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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 11, 2015
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| US 09101175 | Redpath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Redpath (Beaconsfield, Canada); Marie-Pierre Gendron (Mercier, Canada); Stéphane Lebel (St. Redempteur, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Revision Military S.a.r.l. (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Redpath (Beaconsfield, Canada); Marie-Pierre Gendron (Mercier, Canada); Stéphane Lebel (St. Redempteur, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated helmet systems provide convenient and modular use of electronic devices with a protective helmet. In addition to ease of use, weight savings and space savings also may be realized in certain embodiments. A flexible printed circuit board is used as a power bus to deliver electrical power from a battery pack to various electronic devices. Examples of devices used with protective helmets include: night vision goggles; helmet-mounted display units; ear phones; communication headsets; camera systems; biometric sensors; microprocessors; identify friend or foe devices (IFFs); and GPS devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536528 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Hats; Head Coverings A42B 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49002 (20150115) |
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| US 09101301 | Papadimitrakopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a device comprising a biosensor having disposed upon it a coating; the coating comprising a polymer matrix; where the polymer matrix is operative to facilitate the inwards and outwards diffusion of analytes and byproducts to and from the sensing element of the biosensor; and a sacrificial moiety; the sacrificial moiety being dispersed in the polymer matrix, where the sacrificial moiety erodes with time and increases the porosity of the polymer matrix thus offsetting decreases in analyte permeability as a result of biofouling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586436 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/1459 (20130101) A61B 5/1495 (20130101) A61B 5/14503 (20130101) A61B 5/14865 (20130101) A61B 2562/18 (20130101) A61B 2562/247 (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 1/001 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09101655 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912499 |
| 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 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09101666 | Langer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); David A. Putnam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mansoor M. Amiji (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Daniel Griffith Anderson (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(β-amino esters) prepared from the conjugate addition of bis(secondary amines) or primary amines to a bis(acrylate ester) are described. Methods of preparing these polymers from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These tertiary amine-containing polymers are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the poly(amine) nature of these polymers, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Nanoparticles containing polymer/polynucleotide complexes have been prepared. The inventive polymers may also be used to encapsulate other agents to be delivered. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029552 |
| 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 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/482 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/02 (20130101) C08G 73/06 (20130101) C08G 73/0273 (20130101) C08G 73/0611 (20130101) C08G 73/0616 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) |
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| US 09101769 | Edgerton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Reggie Edgerton (Los Angeles, California); Roland R. Roy (Playa Vista, California); Yury Gerasimenko (Los Angeles, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California); Susan J. Harkema (Louisville, Kentucky); Jonathan Hodes (Louisville, Kentucky); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mandheerej S. Nandra (Pasadena, California); Claudia A. Angeli (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas Anthony Desautels (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Reggie Edgerton (Los Angeles, California); Roland R. Roy (Playa Vista, California); Yury Gerasimenko (Los Angeles, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California); Susan J. Harkema (Louisville, Kentucky); Jonathan Hodes (Louisville, Kentucky); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mandheerej S. Nandra (Pasadena, California); Claudia A. Angeli (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas Anthony Desautels (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of enabling locomotor control, postural control, voluntary control of body movements (e.g., in non-weight bearing conditions), and/or autonomic functions in a human subject having spinal cord injury, brain injury, or neurological neuromotor disease. In certain embodiments, the methods involve stimulating the spinal cord of the subject using an epidurally placed electrode array, subjecting the subject to physical training thereby generating proprioceptive and/or supraspinal signals, and optionally administering pharmacological agents to the subject. The combination of stimulation, physical training, and optional pharmacological agents modulate in real time electrophysiological properties of spinal circuits in the subject so they are activated by supraspinal information and/or proprioceptive information derived from the region of the subject where locomotor activity is to be facilitated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/978035 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/0237 (20130101) A61H 1/0274 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/0553 (20130101) A61N 1/0556 (20130101) A61N 1/36003 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36153 (20130101) Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/00181 (20130101) A63B 22/0235 (20130101) A63B 69/0064 (20130101) A63B 2213/004 (20130101) A63B 2220/805 (20130101) A63B 2230/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09101898 | Zubrin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert M. Zubrin (Indian Hills, Colorado); David Kenneth Strott (Lakewood, Colorado); Anthony Curtis Muscatello (Westminster, Colorado); Nicholas F. Jameson (Morrison, Colorado); Emily Bostwick-White (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Zubrin (Indian Hills, Colorado); David Kenneth Strott (Lakewood, Colorado); Anthony Curtis Muscatello (Westminster, Colorado); Nicholas F. Jameson (Morrison, Colorado); Emily Bostwick-White (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for generating gas from nitrous oxide are provided as well as downstream uses for the product gas. Reactor devices of the invention are compact and incorporate a novel heat-exchange/regenerative cooling system to optimize N2O decomposition and reactor durability. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537439 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 7/00 (20130101) B01J 8/0285 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/46 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/0203 (20130101) C01B 21/02 (20130101) Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 47/04 (20130101) Means for Generating Smoke or Mist; Gas-attack Compositions; Generation of Gas for Blasting or Propulsion C06D 5/04 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 20/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09102087 | Wiest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron Wiest (Norco, California); Craig Andrew MacDougall (Norco, California); Robert Dale Conner (Oak Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Wiest (Norco, California); Craig Andrew MacDougall (Norco, California); Robert Dale Conner (Oak Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel cellular solids and foams from amorphous materials with a glass transition temperature (Tg) and methods of forming such materials are provided. In particular, foams are formed by expanding or compressing hollow spheres made of a high strength amorphous material, which is defined as a material having high strength characteristics, but also possessing a glass transition within a confined space. Using such a method, it has been unexpectedly found that it is possible to make cellular structures, including both open and closed cell foams, with customizable properties from materials that have been inaccessible with conventional methods. Moreover, based on calculations high specific strengths and stiffnesses are expected. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/428740 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 44/445 (20130101) B29C 44/3403 (20130101) B29C 44/3461 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 67/222 (20130101) B29C 70/66 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 11/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09102104 | Misciagna |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Thomas Misciagna (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Thomas Misciagna (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical charge is placed on a tool used to cure a composite resin part layup. The charged tool produces an electrostatic force that attracts entrapped gases in the resin to the surface of the tool, thereby reducing porosities in the cured part. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/488768 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 35/02 (20130101) B29C 37/0064 (20130101) B29C 70/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 70/44 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) |
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| US 09102204 | Hooke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ryan Hooke (Sparta, New Jersey); John Labar (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Hooke (Sparta, New Jersey); John Labar (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A mortar mount adapter is configured to fit in a towing hitch system mounted on a land vehicle. The towing hitch system absorbs and disperses recoil force from the mortar. The adapter is disposed in one of a trailer hitch receiver, a gooseneck hitch socket, and a fifth wheel hitch. The adapter includes a socket for the ball of a mortar tube and a shank extending from the socket wherein the socket and the shank are symmetrical about the central longitudinal axis of the adapter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948520 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Connections B60D 1/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102400 | Cherepinsky |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for adjusting tactile cues includes a controller having an axis and a cross-axis; an axis tactile cue generated in response to the position of the controller along the axis; a position scaling unit scaling a cross-axis controller position to generate a scaled cross-axis controller position; a force scaling unit scaling a cross-axis controller force to generate a scaled cross-axis controller force; a combiner combining the scaled cross-axis controller position and the scaled cross-axis controller force to generate an adjustment factor; and an adjuster adjusting the axis tactile cue in response to the adjustment factor to generate an adjusted axis tactile cue. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278387 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/04 (20130101) B64C 13/46 (20130101) B64C 13/503 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102516 | Tabib-Azar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Massood Tabib-Azar (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoelectromechanical logic devices can include a plurality of flexible bridges having control and logic electrodes. Voltages applied to control electrodes can be used to control flexing of the bridges. The logic electrodes can provide logical functions of the applied voltages. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/137613 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00142 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Switches; Relays; Selectors; Emergency Protective Devices H01H 1/20 (20130101) H01H 1/0094 (20130101) H01H 59/0009 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09102520 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Si-Ping Han (Yorba Linda, California); Hareem Maune (Pasadena, California); Robert D. Barish (Pasadena, California); William A. Goddard, III (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Si-Ping Han (Yorba Linda, California); Hareem Maune (Pasadena, California); Robert D. Barish (Pasadena, California); William A. Goddard, III (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to nanotube composite structures and related methods and systems. In particular, structures, methods and systems are provided herein to allow for precise, tunable separation between nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540027 |
| 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 | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09102521 | Lieber et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ying Fang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fernando Patolsky (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ying Fang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fernando Patolsky (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nanoscale wire devices and methods for use in determining nucleic acids or other analytes suspected to be present in a sample. For example, a nanoscale wire device can be used to detect single base mismatches within a nucleic acid (e.g., by determining association and/or dissociation rates). In one aspect, dynamical information such as a binding constant, an association rate, and/or a dissociation rate, can be determined between an analyte and a binding partner immobilized relative to a nanoscale wire. In some cases, the nanoscale wire includes a first portion comprising a metal-semiconductor compound, and a second portion that does not include a metal-semiconductor compound. The binding partner, in some embodiments, is immobilized relative to at least the second portion of the nanoscale wire, and the size of the second portion of the nanoscale wire may be minimized and/or controlled in some instances. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/308207 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (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 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2563/155 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4145 (20130101) G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0049 (20130101) H01L 51/0093 (20130101) |
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| US 09102527 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Shengdong Li (Irvine, California); Lifeng Zheng (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Shengdong Li (Irvine, California); Lifeng Zheng (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for the manipulation of a polarizable object with a pair of elongated nanoelectrodes using dielectrophoresis. The nanoelectrodes can be carbon nanotubes and are coupled with one or more time-varying voltage sources to create an electric field gradient in a gap between the nanotubes. The gradient induces the movement of a polarizable object in proximity with the field. The nanotube pair can be used to trap a single polarizable object in the gap. A method of fabricating a nanoelectrode dielectrophoretic system is also provided. Applications extend to self-fabricating nanoelectronics, nanomachines, nanochemistry and nanobiochemistry. A nanoelectrode dielectrophoretic system having an extended nanoelectrode for use in applications including the self-fabrication of a nanowire, as well as methods for fabricating the same, are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/973388 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/026 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102576 | Spowart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan E. Spowart (Dayton, Ohio); Christopher A. Crouse (Valparaiso, Florida); Christian J. Pierce (Alamogordo, New Mexico); Breanna K. Hardenstein (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive nanocomposites, foams, and structures comprising functionalized metal nanoparticles that are incorporated into a fluorinated polymer matrix using an in-situ polymerization process and methods of making and using the same. The reactive nanocomposites, foams, and structures according to the present invention demonstrate enhanced mechanical properties due to the direct chemical integration of the nano-metal fuel particles into the fluoropolymer matrix. In addition, the reactive nanocomposites, foams, and structures may be processed using conventional polymer processing and may be used to fabricate materials such as reactive liners, casings, and other components and inserts. The intense heat produced during reaction may further be used in a variety of applications such as disinfection, decontamination, and/or destruction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795800 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/00 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/16 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 43/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C06B 45/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 2/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09102712 | Totsingan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Filbert Totsingan (Brooklyn, New York); Neville Robert Kallenbach (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Filbert Totsingan (Brooklyn, New York); Neville Robert Kallenbach (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel peptide compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following formula (I) wherein L1, L2, L3, Z, R1, R2, R4 and R5 are as described herein. The compounds demonstrate antimicrobial activity and may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions and used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans where microbial invasion is involved. The present peptides are particularly valuable as their effect is rapid, broad in spectrum and mostly indifferent to resistance provided by standard antibiotics. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/818876 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102807 | Palmese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); 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); Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giuseppe R. Palmese (Hainesport, New Jersey); John J. LaScala (Bear, Delaware); James M. Sands (Kingsville, Maryland); Xing Geng (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Grafted triglycerides comprising an acrylated triglyceride grafted with a fatty acid residue containing 4 to 28 carbon atoms. Also described are methods for making a grafted triglyceride and for curing a material selected from vinyl esters and unsaturated polyesters and mixtures thereof and optionally a reactive diluent. The method includes the steps of mixing a grafted triglyceride of the present invention with a material selected from vinyl esters, unsaturated polyesters and mixtures thereof to form a mixture, and curing the mixture to form a cured resin system. A cured resin system comprising a cured product obtained by the foregoing method and composites containing the cured product and a filler or reinforcing material are also disclosed. This method also includes use of the grafted triglycerides to make toughened resin and composite systems with reduced hazardous air pollutants without significantly reducing the glass transition temperature and significantly increasing the viscosity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320698 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/44 (20130101) C08F 120/40 (20130101) C08F 222/40 (20130101) C08F 269/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/101 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 31/02 (20130101) C08L 67/06 (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 3/04 (20130101) C11C 3/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09103022 | Wei et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronghua Wei (San Antonio, Texas); Marta Jakab (Boerne, Texas); Craig Engel (Boerne, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronghua Wei (San Antonio, Texas); Marta Jakab (Boerne, Texas); Craig Engel (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to an amorphous aluminum alloy coating. The aluminum alloy coating may specifically include one of cerium, cobalt and/or molybdenum as alloying elements and be applied by a physical vapor deposition process to a desired thickness. The coating may supply improved corrosion resistance to a given environmental condition. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865160 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 45/08 (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 14/14 (20130101) C23C 14/35 (20130101) C23C 14/3414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12 (20150115) |
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| US 09103040 | Bierwagen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon P. Bierwagen (Fargo, North Dakota); Michael E. Nanna (Moorhead, Minnesota); Dante Battocchi (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating a metal to improve the metal's corrosion resistance. The method includes applying, to the surface of the metal, a coating which comprises magnesium powder and a binder. The present invention also relates to a coating composition that includes magnesium powder and a silane modified epoxy isocyanate hybrid polymer or prepolymer. The inventors have found that corrosion resistance (as determined by Prohesion™ exposure in accordance with ASTM D5894-96, which is hereby incorporated by reference) in excess of 3,000 hours on 2024 T-3 aluminum alloy can be achieved with the methods and coating compositions of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/030479 |
| ART UNIT | 1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/185 (20130101) B05D 3/102 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (20130101) B05D 7/16 (20130101) B05D 7/54 (20130101) B05D 2202/25 (20130101) B05D 2601/20 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/58 (20130101) C08G 18/289 (20130101) C08G 18/289 (20130101) C08G 18/307 (20130101) C08G 18/792 (20130101) C08G 18/2865 (20130101) C08G 2150/90 (20130101) C08G 2270/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/08 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/00 (20130101) C08L 2666/54 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/10 (20130101) C09D 163/00 (20130101) C09D 175/02 (20130101) C09D 175/04 (20130101) C09D 175/04 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 11/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for sealing a gap between a stator vane platform including a seal slot, and a rotatable stator vane including a shaft connected to a vane end. The apparatus includes a substantially flat, semi-annular seal body, a first tab and a second tab. The seal body extends circumferentially between a first body end and a second body end, and radially between a radial inner body side and a radial outer body side. The inner body side wraps partially around the shaft, and the outer body side mates with the seal slot. The first tab extends axially from the first body end, and the second tab extends axially from the second body end. The first tab and the second tab engage the vane end and cause the seal body to move within the seal slot during rotation of the stator vane. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/531033 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/003 (20130101) F01D 17/162 (20130101) |
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| US 09103331 | Puleo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Michael Puleo (Glenville, New York); Christopher Fred Keimel (Clifton Park, New York); Xiaohui Chen (Niskayuna, New York); Ralf Lenigk (Niskayuna, New York); Craig Patrick Galligan (Cropseyville, New York); Todd Frederick Miller (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Michael Puleo (Glenville, New York); Christopher Fred Keimel (Clifton Park, New York); Xiaohui Chen (Niskayuna, New York); Ralf Lenigk (Niskayuna, New York); Craig Patrick Galligan (Cropseyville, New York); Todd Frederick Miller (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroosmotic pump comprises a plurality of membranes comprising one or more positive electroosmotic membranes and one or more negative electroosmotic membranes, a plurality of electrodes comprising cathodes and anodes, and a power source. Each of the positive electroosmotic membranes and negative electroosmotic membranes are disposed alternatively and wherein at least one of the cathodes is disposed on one side of one of the membranes and at least one of the anodes is disposed on other side of the membrane. At least one of the cathodes or anodes is disposed between a positive electroosmotic membrane and negative electroosmotic membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326653 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F04B 19/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09103502 | Beebe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Jay Warrick (Madison, Wisconsin); Erwin Barthler (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Jay Warrick (Madison, Wisconsin); Erwin Barthler (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method of laminar flow patterning of at least one sample fluid in a main channel in a microfluidic device are provided. A first input channel is provided in the microfluidic device. The first input channel has an output end communicating with the first end of the main channel and an input end communicating with a first input port. A buffer fluid is deposited in the main channel and the first input channel and a first sample fluid is deposited in the first input port. A first pressure is generated in response to the depositing of the first sample fluid in the first input port so as to cause laminar flow of the first sample fluid in the main channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/450759 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0605 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2400/084 (20130101) Pipe-line Systems; Pipe-lines F17D 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/85938 (20150401) |
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| US 09103673 | Swanson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul David Swanson (Santee, California); Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California); Charles H. Tally (San Diego, California); Andrew Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul David Swanson (Santee, California); Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California); Charles H. Tally (San Diego, California); Andrew Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-domain inertial sensor comprising: a support structure having an electrode plane parallel to an x-y plane of an x-y-z mutually orthogonal coordinate system, wherein the support structure's largest dimension lies within the x-y plane; a proof mass having a first surface parallel to the x-y plane; wherein the proof mass is springedly coupled to the support structure such that the first surface is separated from the electrode plane by a gap; a driver configured to drive the proof mass to oscillate with respect to the support structure in approximately only the x-direction such that, while oscillating, the gap does not vary significantly; and a first, time-domain, proximity switch disposed to switch from an open state to a closed state each time the proof mass is in a first reference position with respect to the support structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847539 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/097 (20130101) G01P 15/125 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Nelson (Harrison City, Pennsylvania); Charles W. Gardner, Jr. (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemImage Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Treado (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Matthew Nelson (Harrison City, Pennsylvania); Charles W. Gardner, Jr. (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting explosives and explosive residues. A region of interest is surveyed using a video capture device to thereby identify a target area wherein the target area comprises an unknown material. The target area is interrogated using SWIR spectroscopic methods to form a SWIR hyperspectral image of the target area. The SWIR hyperspectral image is analyzed to thereby identify the unknown material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924831 |
| 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 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 3/027 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/0278 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/359 (20130101) G01N 33/0057 (20130101) |
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| US 09103864 | Ali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohamod Ali (Irmo, South Carolina); Rashed H. Bhuiyan (West Columbia, South Carolina); Rogor Dougal (Columbia, South Carolina); Md Nazmul Alam (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamod Ali (Irmo, South Carolina); Rashed H. Bhuiyan (West Columbia, South Carolina); Rogor Dougal (Columbia, South Carolina); Md Nazmul Alam (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a cable fault detection device is described. The device includes a conformal monopole structure and a ground plane structure. The ground plane structure is configured to be generally parallel to the cable longitudinal axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/177331 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/024 (20130101) G01R 31/1272 (20130101) |
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| US 09103972 | Budd 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) | Russell A. Budd (North Salem, New York); Fuad E. Doany (Katonah, New York); Christopher V. Jahnes (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey); Benjamin G. Lee (New York, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention are directed to a method for forming an optical waveguide structure. Initially, a base film stack is received with an optical waveguide feature covered by a lower dielectric layer. An etch stop feature is then formed on the lower dielectric layer, and an upper dielectric layer is formed over the etch stop feature. Subsequently, a trench is patterned in the upper dielectric layer and the etch stop feature at least in part by utilizing the etch stop feature as an etch stop. Lastly, a waveguide coupler feature is formed in the trench, at least a portion of the waveguide coupler feature having a refractive index higher than the lower dielectric layer and the upper dielectric layer. The waveguide coupler feature is positioned over at least a portion of the optical waveguide feature but is separated from the optical waveguide feature by a portion of the lower dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019518 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/136 (20130101) |
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| US 09104003 | Stone |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In one instance, an optical interconnection is embedded in a structure. The optical interconnection embedded in the structure enables interfacing electrical subsystems and sharing electrical signals across the structure by converting electrical signals into optical and vice a versa by means of the optical data pipe technology. The system of these teachings enables methods for decreasing the weight and size of the system, for decreasing sensitivity to electromagnetic interference and for obtaining data from the interior of a system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/591352 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/43 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09104474 | Kaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Kaul (Portland, Oregon); Mark A. Anders (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon); Ram K. Krishnamurthy (Hillsboro, Oregon); William C. Hasenplaugh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Randy L. Allmon (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Enoch (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention may provide methods and circuits for energy efficient floating point multiply and/or add operations. A variable precision floating point circuit may determine the certainty of the result of a multiply-add floating point calculation in parallel with the floating-point calculation. The variable precision floating point circuit may use the certainty of the inputs in combination with information from the computation, such as, binary digits that cancel, normalization shifts, and rounding, to perform a calculation of the certainty of the result. A floating point multiplication circuit may determine whether a lowest portion of a multiplication result could affect the final result and may induce a replay of the multiplication operation when it is determined that the result could affect the final result. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730390 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/483 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 7/5443 (20130101) G06F 2207/382 (20130101) |
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| US 09104506 | Bouillet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Bouillet (Hawthorne, New York); Mark D. Feblowitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hanhua Feng (Hawthorne, New York); Anand Ranganathan (Hawthorne, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Hawthorne, New York); Octavian Udrea (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bouillet (Hawthorne, New York); Mark D. Feblowitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hanhua Feng (Hawthorne, New York); Anand Ranganathan (Hawthorne, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Hawthorne, New York); Octavian Udrea (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer program product for assembling and deploying multi-platform flow based applications. An information processing flow that produces a result is assembled, the information processing flow includes components connected by data links, a component includes software code that describes at least one of an input constraint or an output constraint of the component, and at least two of the components are deployable on different computing platforms. The information processing flow is partitioned into sub-flows, such that for each sub-flow every component in the sub-flow is deployable on the same computing platform. The sub-flows are deployed on their respective computing platforms. |
| FILED | Friday, November 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626745 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09104562 | Dorfner 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) | John Dorfner (Rhinebeck, New York); Casandra H. Qiu (Hopewell Junction, New York); Aruna V. Ramanan (Poughkeepsie, New York); Alison B. White (Kingston, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to providing communication over cross-coupled links between independently managed compute and storage networks. An aspect includes coupling an independently managed local subsystem with an independently managed remote subsystem over cross-coupled links, whereby each subsystem includes compute entities and storage entities. Unique identifiers are assigned to all the compute entities and the storage entities in the local network and the remote network. A determination is then made as to whether each entity is in the local subsystem or the remote subsystem. Accordingly, a global broadcast tree is built to bridge the compute entities in the local subsystem to the storage entities in both the local and remote subsystem. Responsive to an error in a layer of the local subsystem external to a cross-coupled link, the cross-coupled link in the local subsystem is disabled. Accordingly, the remote subsystem may detect that the link has failed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/857313 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/0727 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09105102 | Walther et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph R. Walther (Arlington, Virginia); James E. Painter (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Walther (Arlington, Virginia); James E. Painter (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | According to exemplary inventive practice, a region containing an object of interest, such as a jet particle of a shaped charge, is extracted from a raw radiographic image. This regional image is filtered, and its pixel intensity range is rescaled to increase contrast. The filtered, re-contrasted image is converted to a binary image by setting a threshold pixel intensity, and assigning a binary pixel intensity of either 1 or 0 to each pixel, depending on its scaled pixel intensity versus the threshold pixel intensity. The binary image is inverted and filtered. Contiguities of binary-one pixels to binary-zero pixels in the inverted, filtered binary image provide the basis for delineating the outline of the object. The object's outline is superimposed on the object's portrayal in the original regional image, to assess the degree of match. Various threshold pixel intensities can be applied in plural iterations until a sufficient match is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/043078 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — 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 9/4609 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/204 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09105402 | Sassin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Megan B. Sassin (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey W. Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Debra R. Rolison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Megan B. Sassin (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey W. Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Debra R. Rolison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of storing charge comprising the steps of providing a capacitor comprising an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte comprises a nonaqueous liquid of sufficient dielectric constant to dissociate salts soluble in the nonaqueous liquid, a composite comprising a prefabricated porous carbon electrode structure or a carbon foam substrate that is a prefabricated paper structure and a coating deposited by infiltrating the structure with iron oxide via self-limiting electroless deposition on the surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/572365 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 9/048 (20130101) H01G 9/145 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 4/1393 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09105403 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Chun-Chih Tung (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. Allen (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Chun-Chih Tung (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. Allen (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing carbon macro-molecular structures includes dissolving a graphitic material in a solvent to provide a suspension of carbon-based macro-molecular structures in the solvent, and obtaining a plurality of the carbon macro-molecular structures from the suspension. The plurality of carbon macro-molecular structures obtained from the suspension each consists essentially of carbon. A material according to some embodiments of the current invention is produced according to the method of producing carbon macro-molecular structures. An electrical, electronic or electro-optic device includes material produced according to the methods of the current invention. A composite material according to some embodiments of the current invention has carbon macro-molecular structures produced according to methods of producing carbon macro-molecular structures according to some embodiments of the current invention. A hydrogen storage device according to some embodiments of the current invention has carbon macro-molecular structures produced according to methods of producing carbon macro-molecular structures according to some embodiments of the current invention. An electrode according to some embodiments of the current invention has carbon macro-molecular structures produced according to methods of producing carbon macro-molecular structures according to some embodiments of the current invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/747087 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0003 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/96 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09105499 | Kub et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael A. Mastro (Fairfax, Virginia); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer K. Hite (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael A. Mastro (Fairfax, Virginia); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer K. Hite (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device with complementary non-inverted N-channel and inverted P-channel field effect transistors comprising a layer grown epitaxially on a substrate, a barrier layer, a two-dimensional electron gas in the first III-Nitride epitaxial layer, a second III-Nitride material layer, and a two-dimensional hole gas in the second III-Nitride epitaxial layer. A device with complementary inverted N-channel and non-inverted P-channel field effect transistors comprising a nitrogen-polar III-Nitride layer grown epitaxially, a barrier material layer, a two-dimensional hole gas, and a two-dimensional electron gas in the second III-Nitride epitaxial layer. A method of making complementary inverted P-channel and non-inverted N-channel III-Nitride field effect transistors. A method of making a complementary non-inverted P-channel field effect transistor and inverted N-channel III-Nitride field effect transistor on a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/666494 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/8228 (20130101) H01L 21/8238 (20130101) H01L 21/8252 (20130101) H01L 27/092 (20130101) H01L 27/0921 (20130101) H01L 27/0922 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7782 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) H01L 29/7784 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/7831 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) |
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| US 09105555 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/220923 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02546 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/293 (20130101) H01L 24/29 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/80 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 27/1285 (20130101) H01L 27/1292 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101) H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/151 (20130101) H01L 29/158 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/1602 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/7781 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 2221/68368 (20130101) H01L 2224/291 (20130101) H01L 2224/291 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/8385 (20130101) H01L 2224/80894 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/0101 (20130101) H01L 2924/0102 (20130101) H01L 2924/0103 (20130101) H01L 2924/0132 (20130101) H01L 2924/0132 (20130101) H01L 2924/01002 (20130101) H01L 2924/01003 (20130101) H01L 2924/01005 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01011 (20130101) H01L 2924/01013 (20130101) H01L 2924/01015 (20130101) H01L 2924/01019 (20130101) H01L 2924/01023 (20130101) H01L 2924/01024 (20130101) H01L 2924/01029 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01033 (20130101) H01L 2924/01049 (20130101) H01L 2924/01051 (20130101) H01L 2924/01067 (20130101) H01L 2924/01072 (20130101) H01L 2924/01074 (20130101) H01L 2924/01079 (20130101) H01L 2924/01079 (20130101) H01L 2924/01082 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/3025 (20130101) H01L 2924/3512 (20130101) H01L 2924/07802 (20130101) H01L 2924/10329 (20130101) H01L 2924/10336 (20130101) H01L 2924/10349 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0277 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09105604 | Hacker |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan B. Hacker (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascode gain stage apparatus includes a common-emitter connected transistor having a first base metal contact, first emitter metal contact, a first collector metal contact and a u-shaped first collector interface metal; and a common-base connected transistor having a second emitter metal contact, a second base metal contact, and a second collector metal contact, the second emitter metal contact in communication with the first collector metal contact through a transistor interconnect metallic strap, the second emitter metal contact disposed between the first collector metal contact and the second base metal contact. With this configuration, the first collector metal contact and second emitter metal contact are connected by the transistor interconnect metallic strap without high-aspect ratio traces to reduce crossover coupling. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/148429 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 24/41 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/1022 (20130101) H01L 29/737 (20130101) |
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| US 09105783 | Okorogu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert O. Okorogu (Canyon Country, California); Dean C. Marvin (Torrance, California); Simon H. Liu (Redondo Beach, California); Alonzo Prater (Gardena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert O. Okorogu (Canyon Country, California); Dean C. Marvin (Torrance, California); Simon H. Liu (Redondo Beach, California); Alonzo Prater (Gardena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar concentrator receives sunlight for generating solar power with the concentrator including holographic optical element (HOE) separators for separating sunlight into separated bands, including HOE concentrators for concentrating the separated bands into concentrated bands, including HOE reflectors for reflecting the concentrated bands as reflected bands onto a multiple junction photovoltaic solar cell for generating the solar power with reduced aberrations of the bands for improved conversion of the solar light into the generator solar power, all of which can be constructed in an integrated structure using spacers, waveguides, and a substrate, where the HOEs use chirp Bragg gratings for reducing optical aberrations of the separated, concentrated, and reflected optical bands, with the option of multiple HOE separators for receiving sunlight from various angles of incidence. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321777 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0522 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09105792 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rakesh Jain (Columbia, South Carolina); Wenhong Sun (Columbia, South Carolina); Jinwei Yang (Columbia, South Carolina); Maxim S. Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Alexander Dobrinsky (Providence, Rhode Island); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a device using a layer with a patterned surface for improving the growth of semiconductor layers, such as group III nitride-based semiconductor layers with a high concentration of aluminum, is provided. The patterned surface can include a substantially flat top surface and a plurality of stress reducing regions, such as openings. The substantially flat top surface can have a root mean square roughness less than approximately 0.5 nanometers, and the stress reducing regions can have a characteristic size between approximately 0.1 microns and approximately five microns and a depth of at least 0.2 microns. A layer of group-III nitride material can be grown on the first layer and have a thickness at least twice the characteristic size of the stress reducing regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/647902 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0243 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0265 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02639 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) H01L 33/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09105832 | Buhrman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Buhrman (Ithaca, New York); Luqiao Liu (Ithaca, New York); Daniel C. Ralph (Ithaca, New York); Chi-Feng Pai (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Buhrman (Ithaca, New York); Luqiao Liu (Ithaca, New York); Daniel C. Ralph (Ithaca, New York); Chi-Feng Pai (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ST-MRAM structure, a method for fabricating the ST-MRAM structure and a method for operating an ST-MRAM device that results from the ST-MRAM structure each utilize a spin Hall effect base layer that contacts a magnetic free layer and effects a magnetic moment switching within the magnetic free layer as a result of a lateral switching current within the spin Hall effect base layer. This resulting ST-MRAM device uses an independent sense current and sense voltage through a magnetoresistive stack that includes a pinned layer, a non-magnetic spacer layer and the magnetic free layer which contacts the spin Hall effect base layer. Desirable non-magnetic conductor materials for the spin Hall effect base layer include certain types of tantalum materials and tungsten materials that have a spin diffusion length no greater than about five times the thickness of the spin Hall effect base layer and a spin Hall angle at least about 0.05. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/239524 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/18 (20130101) G11C 16/30 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/3254 (20130101) H01F 10/3286 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/12 (20130101) H01L 43/14 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Carroll (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Carroll (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides composite organics and optoelectronic devices, including photovoltaic devices, comprising the same. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a photovoltaic cell comprising a radiation transmissive first electrode, a photosensitive layer electrically connected to the first electrode, the photosensitive layer comprising a plurality of composite organic layers, wherein each of the plurality of composite organic layers comprises a polymeric phase and a nanoparticle phase, the nanoparticle phase comprising at least one exaggerated nanocrystalline grain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/376598 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0003 (20130101) H01L 51/0007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0026 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/4246 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) H01L 51/4273 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09105952 | Hoover et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Hoover (Femandina Beach, Florida); Shawn David Rogers (Johns Creek, Georgia); John L. Beafore (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide-configuration adapter is provided. The waveguide-configuration adapter includes a horizontal waveguide and a vertical waveguide. The horizontal waveguide includes a first-interface port spanning a first X-Y plane and a first-coupling port spanning a Y-Z plane with a first-coupling-port width parallel to the y axis. The vertical waveguide includes a second-interface port spanning a second X-Y plane and a second-coupling port spanning a third X-Y plane with a second-coupling-port width parallel to the x axis. When an E-field is input at the first/second coupling port in the plane of the first/second coupling port, respectively, and oriented perpendicular to the first/second coupling-port width, respectively, the E-field is output from the second/first coupling port, respectively, in the plane of second/first coupling port, respectively, and oriented perpendicular to the second/first coupling-port width, respectively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653552 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 5/024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 5/082 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/24 (20130101) H01Q 5/47 (20150115) H01Q 19/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09106048 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit includes an optical source that provides an optical signal to an optical waveguide. In particular, the optical source may be implemented by fusion-bonding a III-V semiconductor to a semiconductor layer in the integrated circuit. In conjunction with surrounding mirrors (at least one of which is other than a distributed Bragg reflector), this structure may provide a cavity with suitable optical gain at a wavelength in the optical signal along a vertical direction that is perpendicular to a plane of the semiconductor layer. For example, the optical source may include a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). Moreover, the optical waveguide, defined in the semiconductor layer, may be separated from the optical source by a horizontal gap in the plane of the semiconductor layer. During operation of the optical source, the optical signal may be optically coupled across the gap from the optical source to the optical waveguide. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/764223 |
| 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 5/021 (20130101) H01S 5/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/0218 (20130101) H01S 5/0612 (20130101) H01S 5/1032 (20130101) H01S 5/2045 (20130101) H01S 5/06804 (20130101) H01S 5/18308 (20130101) H01S 5/18341 (20130101) H01S 5/18358 (20130101) |
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| US 09106052 | Eden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Champaign, Illinois); John Darby Hewitt (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser pumping method pumps a primary amount of energy into the near red satellite band of a metal vapor and noble gas mixture laser medium and a lesser amount of energy is pumped into a highly excited level to stimulate laser output. The medium is can be a Rb vapor and Xe gas mixture. The lesser amount of energy is pumped into the laser medium to populate an excited level that lies above the upper laser level and transfers atomic or molecular population to the upper laser level by a nonradiative process. In preferred embodiments, the intermediate level is within a few kT of the upper laser level and the primary amount of energy is a large majority of the total energy. A laser device includes metal vapor and noble gas mixture laser medium to populate an intermediate level near an upper laser level, and pumping a lesser amount of energy into a highly excited level to stimulate laser output. The medium can be an Rb vapor and Xe gas mixture in preferred embodiments. A primary energy pump pumps population in a near red satellite band. A second energy pump having substantially less energy than the primary energy pump pumps population to a highly excited level. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/149407 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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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) | Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor surface emitting laser (SEL) includes an active zone comprising quantum well structures separated by spacer layers. The quantum well structures are configured to provide optical gain for the SEL at a lasing wavelength, λlase. Each quantum well structure and an adjacent spacer layer are configured to form an optical pair of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The active zone including a plurality of the DBR optical pairs is configured to provide optical feedback for the SEL at λlase. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/652136 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/041 (20130101) H01S 5/1228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/18358 (20130101) H01S 5/18361 (20130101) H01S 5/18383 (20130101) H01S 5/34333 (20130101) |
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| US 09106055 | Rudolph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wolfgang G. Rudolph (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Amarin Ratanavis (Bangkok, Thailand); Vasudevan Nampoothiri (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kristan L. Corwin (Manhattan, Kansas); Andrew M. Jones (Lafayette, Colorado); Brian R. Washburn (Manhattan, Kansas); Rajesh Kadel (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Zavada (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Zavada (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang G. Rudolph (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Amarin Ratanavis (Bangkok, Thailand); Vasudevan Nampoothiri (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kristan L. Corwin (Manhattan, Kansas); Andrew M. Jones (Lafayette, Colorado); Brian R. Washburn (Manhattan, Kansas); Rajesh Kadel (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Zavada (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods using an optically pumped gas filled hollow fiber laser can be implemented in a variety of applications. In various embodiments, operation of an optically pumped gas filled hollow fiber laser is based on population inversion in the gas. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/574550 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0943 (20130101) H01S 3/2232 (20130101) H01S 3/06741 (20130101) H01S 3/094003 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Summerland Key, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Summerland Key, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | According to various embodiments, the present teachings include an array of nanowire devices. The array of nanowire devices comprises a readout integrated circuit (ROIC). An LED array is disposed on the ROIC. The LED array comprises a plurality of LED core-shell structures, with each LED core-shell structure comprising a layered shell enveloping a nanowire core, wherein the layered shell comprises a multi-quantum-well (MQW) active region. The LED array further comprises a p-side electrode enveloping the layered core-shell structure and electrically connecting the ROIC, wherein each p-side electrode has an average thickness ranging from about 100 nm to about 500 nm. A dielectric layer is disposed on the plurality of LED core-shell structures, with each nanowire core disposed through the dielectric to connect with an n-side semiconductor that is situated on the dielectric. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103587 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/34 (20130101) H01S 5/4025 (20130101) H01S 5/34333 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/951 (20130101) |
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| US 09106160 | Loverich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KCF TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KCF TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob J. Loverich (State College, Pennsylvania); Richard T. Geiger (Eugene, Oregon); Stephen J. Wenner (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy harvesting device utilizing a monolithic, mesoscale, single-degree-of-freedom inertial based resonator in which the support structure, beam-spring, and proof mass are a single component without joints, bonds, or fasteners. Frequency tuning features include holes in the proof mass in which mass can be added to change the devices resonance frequency as well as levers which add curvature to the beam-spring system and adjust system stiffness. Robustness is increase by designing the resonator to exhibit nonlinear behavior such that its power density is maximized for low vibration amplitudes and minimized for high amplitudes. The device structural resonance modes are designed to be much higher than the resonators proof mass-spring resonance frequency. Electromechanical transducers are used to convert the resonators mechanical energy to electrical energy. Electrical circuitry is included to extract and condition the electrical charge. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731739 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 11/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09106394 | Kennedy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shawn P. Kennedy (Saunderstown, Rhode Island); Donald Hummels (Glenburn, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as presented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P. Kennedy (Saunderstown, Rhode Island); Donald Hummels (Glenburn, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A soft impact location system and method which detects and processes wide-band acoustic signatures for testing long-range munitions. The system incorporates a real-time digital signal-processing algorithm that detects the impact signature, processes it, and calculates the time-of-arrival (TOA). The system comprises a polyphase filter bank, boxcar filter, a detection analyzer for detecting an impact, and time-tagging software for calculating the time of impact. The system splits the received hydrophone signal into evenly spaced energy bands, processes each band individually, and then recombines the data to provide a precise time of detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713837 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09106715 | Novak |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Justin R. Novak (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin R. Novak (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for rapid dissemination of image products. In the system, a data consumer display device sends a geospatial request for a map image of a specific area of interest to a rapid image distribution system (RIDS), which forwards the request to a sensor ground station. The sensor ground station processes data received from a sensor platform and sends the processed data to a georectification processor. The georectification processor creates georectified data and sends the georectified data to the RIDS, which further processes the data, exposing it to data consumers using network optimized data services (e.g., KML/KMZ, TMS, GeoRSS, image chipper) based on geographic coordinates provided in the query that is a smaller subset of the sensor data. The RIDS sends the image product to the data consumer display device for display. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840890 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 65/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/84 (20130101) H04L 2209/805 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09107081 | Pezeshkian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Narek Pezeshkian (Glendale, California); Kevin Holz (San Diego, California); Aaron Bruce Burmeister (San Diego, California); Abraham B. Hart (San Diego, California); Hoa G. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Leif E. Roth (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Narek Pezeshkian (Glendale, California); Kevin Holz (San Diego, California); Aaron Bruce Burmeister (San Diego, California); Abraham B. Hart (San Diego, California); Hoa G. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Leif E. Roth (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of maintaining an ad hoc communications network between a base and a mobile platform as the mobile platform moves over a surface comprising the following steps: providing a radio relay device; physically coupling a deployer to the mobile platform, wherein the deployer is configured to releasably stow the radio relay device; sending video data from the mobile platform to the base; monitoring the strength of a network signal received over time at the mobile platform and issuing a weak-link warning when the highest signal strength received at the mobile platform drops below a threshold value; calculating video throughput data metrics based on video data received at the base over time, and issuing an imminent link-failure alert when the metrics reach a predefined condition; and deploying the relay device from the deployer to the surface after the weak-link warning and the imminent link-failure alert are issued. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/919785 |
| ART UNIT | 2415 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09107291 | Cheng 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) | Joy Cheng (San Jose, California); Gregory S. Doerk (Mountain View, California); Charles T. Rettner (San Jose, California); Daniel P. Sanders (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical pattern layer including an orientation control material and a prepattern material is formed over a substrate. The chemical pattern layer includes alignment-conferring features and additional masking features. A self-assembling material is applied and self-aligned over the chemical pattern layer. The polymeric block components align to the alignment-conferring features, while the alignment is not altered by the additional masking features. A first polymeric block component is removed selective to a second polymeric block component by an etch to form second polymeric block component portions having a pattern. A composite pattern of the pattern of an etch-resistant material within the chemical pattern layer and the pattern of the second polymeric block component portions can be transferred into underlying material layers employing at least another etch. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683447 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 2203/0548 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09107293 | Fitz-Patrick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bruce C. Fitz-Patrick (Tucson, Arizona); Gary A. Clayton (Vail, Arizona); Byron E. Short, Jr. (Fairview, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce C. Fitz-Patrick (Tucson, Arizona); Gary A. Clayton (Vail, Arizona); Byron E. Short, Jr. (Fairview, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Various apparatuses, methods, and systems are provided for cooling electronic components. For example, an apparatus includes an electronics enclosure having multiple ribs configured to separate electronic components. The apparatus also includes at least one fluid transport structure encased within the electronics enclosure. Each fluid transport structure includes multiple pipes and multiple flow channels. The flow channels are located within the ribs of the electronics enclosure, and the pipes are configured to transport cooling fluid to and from the flow channels. The fluid transport structure(s) and the electronics enclosure are formed from different materials. The at least one fluid transport structure can be resistant to corrosion caused by the cooling fluid, and the electronics enclosure can be susceptible to corrosion caused by the cooling fluid. As an example, the at least one fluid transport structure could consist essentially of nickel, and the electronics enclosure could consist essentially of aluminum. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469798 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 19/04 (20130101) B22D 19/0072 (20130101) B22D 25/02 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 7/20645 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09107302 | Cagle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Cagle (Sahuarita, Arizona); Jeremy B. Baldwin (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A dummy structure for a printed wiring board (PWB) includes a unit shape defined on the PWB, the unit shape configured to, based on a visual inspection thereof, provide an indication of one of: etching of a PWB circuit element within a desired tolerance range, over etching of the PWB circuit element, or under etching of the PWB circuit element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/765268 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0269 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 3/06 (20130101) H05K 2201/09781 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09101436 | Chow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laurence C. Chow (Potomac, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA FOUNDATION (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence C. Chow (Potomac, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are endodontic filling materials and methods. A method for filling a dental root canal may include providing a hydrosetting filling material and inserting the hydrosetting filling material into the dental root canal, the material setting in the root canal to form a biocompatible filling. The hydrosetting filling material comprises a hydrogel former and a filler. The hydrogel former is at least one of a reactive organic hydrogel formers, an inorganic hydrogel formers, and a non-reactive organic hydrogel formers, and the filler is at least one of a self-hardening and a non-hardening filler. Plural filling material precursor compositions that collectively contain hydrogel formers and fillers may be provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550543 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/0038 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09101559 | Aifantis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Iannis Aifantis (Brooklyn, New York); Silvia Buonamici (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iannis Aifantis (Brooklyn, New York); Silvia Buonamici (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of preventing central nervous system leukemia, treating T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and treating immune system disorders associated with CCR7-CCL19 mediated signaling. Suitable therapeutic agents for inhibiting CCR7-CCL19 signaling and methods of identifying additional therapeutic agents useful in the methods of the present invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776920 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/02 (20130101) A61K 38/50 (20130101) A61K 38/50 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5041 (20130101) G01N 33/57426 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09101568 | Pichichero et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rochester General Hospital Research Institute (Rochester, New York); Michael Pichichero (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester General Hospital Research Institute (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Pichichero (Rochester, New York); M. Nadeem Khan (Rochester, New York); Ravinder Kaur (Pittsford, New York); Sharad Sharma (Rochester, New York); Janet Casey (Pittsford, New York); Lea Michel (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to vaccination for AOM and children prone to AOM. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/316935 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6854 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09101573 | Bassaganya-Riera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Josep Bassaganya-Riera (Blacksburg, Virginia); Pinyi Lu (Blacksburg, Virginia); Raquel Hontecillas (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES, INC. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josep Bassaganya-Riera (Blacksburg, Virginia); Pinyi Lu (Blacksburg, Virginia); Raquel Hontecillas (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of medical treatments for diseases and disorders. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of the lanthionine synthetase component C-like (LANCL) proteins as therapeutic targets for novel classes of anti-inflammatory, immune regulatory and antidiabetic drugs. This includes but it is not limited to abscisic acid (ABA), ABA analogs, benzimidazophenyls, repurposed drugs or drug combinations, including thiazolidinediones (TZDs); naturally occurring compounds such as conjugated diene fatty acids, conjugated triene fatty acids, isoprenoids, and natural and synthetic agonists of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors that activate this receptor through an alternative mechanism of action involving LANCL2 or other membrane proteins to treat or prevent the common inflammatory pathogenesis underlying type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, cancer, some inflammatory infectious diseases such as influenza and autoimmune diseases including but not limited to inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis), rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes and other chronic inflammatory conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/100795 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/57 (20130101) A61K 31/65 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/431 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/545 (20130101) A61K 31/655 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4985 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 31/7048 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/16 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) Y10T 436/145555 (20150115) Y10T 436/147777 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09101575 | Hla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy Hla (Avon, Connecticut); Teresa Sanchez (West Hartford, Connecticut); Kevin Patrick Claffey (Burlington, Connecticut); Ji-Hye Paik (New Britain, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Hla (Avon, Connecticut); Teresa Sanchez (West Hartford, Connecticut); Kevin Patrick Claffey (Burlington, Connecticut); Ji-Hye Paik (New Britain, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Agonists of vascular endothelial sphingosine-1-phosphate receptors are described. Compounds such as FTY720 can be phosphorylated by sphingosine kinase-2 into the phosphorylated forms which serve as sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonists. The vascular endothelial sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonists are employed in methods of treating a mammal for vascular permeability disorders and unwanted vascular endothelial cell apoptosis, and for the growth of new blood vessels. The sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor agonists can be used for the manufacture of a medicament for treating vascular permeability disorders and unwanted vascular endothelial cell apoptosis, and for the growth of new blood vessels. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894783 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09101576 | Soliven |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Betty C. Soliven (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Betty C. Soliven (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of inflammatory diseases of the peripheral nervous system. More particularly, it concerns methods for treating inflammatory diseases of the peripheral nervous system by modulating sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor activity. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of treating a subject with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) or other autoimmune neuropathies comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of FTY720. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567590 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/133 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/133 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/661 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09101578 | Galarza et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jose M. Galarza (Scarsdale, New York); Demetrius Matassov (Richmond Hill, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TechnoVax, Inc. (Tarrytown, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose M. Galarza (Scarsdale, New York); Demetrius Matassov (Richmond Hill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyvalent influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) comprising influenza antigenic polypeptides are described. Also described are compositions comprising these polyvalent VLPs as well as methods of making and using these VLPs. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796987 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16123 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16222 (20130101) C12N 2760/16223 (20130101) C12N 2760/16234 (20130101) |
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| US 09101582 | Ades et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Government of 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) |
| 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) | Edwin W. Ades (Atlanta, Georgia); Gowrisankar Rajam (Tucker, Georgia); Sandra Steiner (Atlanta, Georgia); George M. Carlone (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Nikkol Melnick (Braselton, Georgia); Jacquelyn S. Sampson (College Park, Georgia); Joseph E. Martinez (McDonough, Georgia); Julie M. Skinner (Schwenksville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for enhancing opsonophagocytosis of a pathogen of interest are disclosed. The disclosed methods include administering to a subject an isolated P4 peptide, which includes the amino acid sequence set forth as SEQ ID NO: 1 and optionally an isolated opsonic antibody or a fragment thereof that specifically binds to an antigen present on the surface of the pathogen of interest. In some examples isolated complement protein or a fragment thereof (for example, a C3a, C3b, iC3b, C3d, C4b, or C5a fragment of a complement protein) is also administered. Compositions containing isolated P4 peptide and one or more isolated opsonic antibodies or a fragment thereof that specifically binds to an antigen present on the surface of a pathogen of interest are also disclosed. In some examples, the compositions also include isolated complement protein or fragment thereof, such as one or more of C3a, C3b, iC3b, C3d, C4b, or C5a. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/851508 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/164 (20130101) A61K 38/1725 (20130101) A61K 38/1725 (20130101) A61K 39/40 (20130101) A61K 39/40 (20130101) A61K 39/42 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09101590 | Snyder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael P. Snyder (Fairfield, Connecticut); Joyce J. Lu (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Snyder (Fairfield, Connecticut); Joyce J. Lu (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for culturing stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells. Specifically, the invention relates to a culture medium that supports proliferation of substantially undifferentiated stem cells, while maintaining potency of the cells. An an embodiment, the culture medium is defined and supports proliferation of substantially undifferentiated embryonic stem cells in essentially serum free and feeder cell free conditions. Compositions for making the medium and methods using the culture medium are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989363 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/40 (20130101) A61K 38/191 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1825 (20130101) |
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| US 09101600 | Littman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan Littman (New York, New York); Jun R. Huh (New York, New York); Wenwei Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Ruili Huang (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York); The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Littman (New York, New York); Jun R. Huh (New York, New York); Wenwei Huang (Rockville, Maryland); Ruili Huang (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocyclic compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, are disclosed as RORγt modulators that have a formula represented by the following: and wherein n1, n2, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as described herein. These compounds may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, cancer, and graft-versus-host disease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/634102 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/41 (20130101) |
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| US 09101601 | Neckers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard M. Neckers (Bethesda, Maryland); Carole A.C. Sourbier (Rockville, Maryland); W. Marston Linehan (North Bethesda, Maryland); Jane B. Neckers (Bethesda, Maryland); Min-Jung Lee (North Potomac, Maryland); Bradley T. Scroggins (Rockville, Maryland); John A. Beutler (Union Bridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of treating an animal for insulin resistance and associated diseases or conditions, activating the transcriptional activity of heat shock factor 1 (HSF1), or inducing the expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) in an animal in need thereof, wherein the methods involve administering an effective amount of one or more compounds of formula (I) or an epimer thereof, wherein Ar, and R1-R6 are described herein. Examples of diseases or conditions associated with insulin resistance include diabetes, obesity, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovary disease, arteriosclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, reproductive abnormality in a female, and growth abnormality. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/370140 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/382 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/94 (20130101) |
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| US 09101603 | Clapper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Margie L. Clapper (Harleysville, Pennsylvania); Ekaterina G. Shatalova (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sibele Meireles (Minas Gerais, Brazil) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margie L. Clapper (Harleysville, Pennsylvania); Ekaterina G. Shatalova (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sibele Meireles (Minas Gerais, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for inhibiting the motility or proliferation of premalignant and malignant cells are provided. Methods for treating a malignancy of the head and neck and for treating a malignancy of the lung are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990650 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2799/027 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/14001 (20130101) |
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| US 09101628 | Einav et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shirit Einav (Stanford, California); Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Wenjin Yang (Foster City, California); Hadas Dvory-Sobol (Mountain View, California); Ingrid C. Choong (Palo Alto, California); Robert McDowell (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shirit Einav (Stanford, California); Jeffrey S. Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Wenjin Yang (Foster City, California); Hadas Dvory-Sobol (Mountain View, California); Ingrid C. Choong (Palo Alto, California); Robert McDowell (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating a host infected with a virus from the Flaviviridae family of viruses, methods of inhibiting HCV replication in a host, methods of inhibiting the binding of NS4B polypeptide to the 3′UTR of HCV negative strand RNA in a host, methods of treating liver fibrosis in a host, and the like. In an embodiment, the compounds can include clemizole or a clemizole analog, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, an isomer, a tautomer, or a prodrug thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383030 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/497 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/708 (20130101) A61K 31/708 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/24222 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/186 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09101635 | Basu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arnab Basu (Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts); Debra M. Mills (Ayer, Massachusetts); Norton P. Peet (North Andover, Massachusetts); John D. Williams (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICROBIOTIX, INC. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnab Basu (Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts); Debra M. Mills (Ayer, Massachusetts); Norton P. Peet (North Andover, Massachusetts); John D. Williams (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic compounds showing the ability to inhibit viral glycoprotein (GP)-mediated entry of a filovirus into a host cell are disclosed. The disclosed filovirus entry inhibitor compounds are useful for treating, preventing, or reducing the spread of infections by filovirus including the type species Marburg virus (MARV) and Ebola virus (EBOV). Preferred inhibitors of the invention provide therapeutic agents for combating the Ivory Coast, Sudan, Zaire, Bundibugyo, and Reston Ebola virus strains. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/383345 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 215/40 (20130101) C07D 243/12 (20130101) C07D 249/10 (20130101) C07D 307/71 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 491/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09101644 | Mucke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lennart Mucke (San Francisco, California); Moustapha Cisse (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lennart Mucke (San Francisco, California); Moustapha Cisse (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method of increasing the level and/or function of an Eph receptor B2 in a neuronal cell; and methods of treating an amyloid-beta-induced neurodegenerative disease in an individual. The present disclosure further provides methods of identifying an agent that increases the level and/or function of an Eph receptor B2 in a neuronal cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/881625 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2799/027 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) G01N 2333/4709 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09101653 | Kawaoka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Gabriele Neumann (Madison, Wisconsin); Makoto Ozawa (Kagoshima, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Gabriele Neumann (Madison, Wisconsin); Makoto Ozawa (Kagoshima, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a recombinant biologically contained influenza virus that is a PB2 knockout virus, e.g., one that is useful to generate a multivalent vaccine, and methods of making and using that virus. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594611 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16143 (20130101) C12N 2760/16171 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09101655 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912499 |
| 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 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09101658 | Contag et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher H. Contag (Stanford, California); Stephen Thorne (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher H. Contag (Stanford, California); Stephen Thorne (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for the treatment of cancer. An immune effector cell population is pre-infected with an oncolytic virus. The combined therapeutic is safe and highly effective, producing an enhanced anti-tumor effect compared to either therapy alone. The methods of the invention thus provide for a synergistic effect based on the combined biotherapeutics. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/470558 |
| 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 35/13 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0646 (20130101) C12N 2710/24132 (20130101) |
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| US 09101671 | Ruoslahti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (LaJolla, California); Dmitri Simberg (LaJolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erkki Ruoslahti (LaJolla, California); Dmitri Simberg (LaJolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to clot binding compounds. For example, disclosed are conjugates comprising a surface molecule and a plurality of clot binding compounds. The clot binding compounds can selectively bind to clotted plasma protein. The conjugate can, for example, cause clotting and amplify the accumulation of the conjugate in tumors. In one example, the conjugate can comprise a sufficient number and composition of clot binding compounds such that the conjugate causes clotting and amplifies the accumulation of the conjugate in tumors. The disclosed targeting is useful for treatment of cancer and other diseases and disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/967509 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48884 (20130101) A61K 49/1863 (20130101) A61K 49/1866 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2984 (20150115) |
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| US 09101690 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Palo Alto, California); Edward S. Boyden (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Palo Alto, California); Edward S. Boyden (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for light-activated cation channel proteins and their uses within cell membranes and subcellular regions. The invention provides for proteins, nucleic acids, vectors and methods for genetically targeted expression of light-activated cation channels to specific cells or defined cell populations. In particular the invention provides millisecond-timescale temporal control of cation channels using moderate light intensities in cells, cell lines, transgenic animals, and humans. The invention provides for optically generating electrical spikes in nerve cells and other excitable cells useful for driving neuronal networks, drug screening, and therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/555981 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) A01K 2227/40 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2227/703 (20130101) A01K 2227/706 (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 2/18 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/4172 (20130101) A61K 35/30 (20130101) A61K 35/30 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (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 27/3604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/0622 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/15043 (20130101) C12N 2740/15071 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 530/82 (20130101) |
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| US 09101764 | Nuccitelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NanoBlate Corp. (Burlingame, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NanoBlate Corp. (Burlingame, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Lee Nuccitelli (Millbrae, California); Pamela Nuccitelli (Millbrae, California); Joanne Lum (San Francisco, California); Kaying Lui (Millbrae, California); Brian Athos (San Francisco, California); Mark Kreis (San Francisco, California); Zachary Mallon (San Francisco, California); Jon Berridge (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanosecond pulsed electric field (nsPEF) treatments of a tumor are used to cause the tumor to express calreticulin and stimulate an immune response against the tumor and other tumors in a subject. An immune response biomarker can be measured, and further nsPEF treatments can be performed if needed to stimulate or further stimulate the immune response. Cancers that have metastasized may be treated. The treatment can be combined with CD47-blocking antibodies, doxorubicin, CTLA-4-blocking antibodies, and/or PD-1-blocking antibodies. Electrical characteristics of nsPEF treatments can be based on the size, type, and/or strength of tumors and/or a quantity of tumors in the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/287957 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/1477 (20130101) A61B 2018/0016 (20130101) A61B 2018/00613 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) A61N 1/32 (20130101) A61N 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/40 (20130101) A61N 1/327 (20130101) A61N 1/0412 (20130101) A61N 1/0424 (20130101) A61N 1/37229 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 35/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 13/00 (20130101) C12N 15/87 (20130101) |
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| US 09101769 | Edgerton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Reggie Edgerton (Los Angeles, California); Roland R. Roy (Playa Vista, California); Yury Gerasimenko (Los Angeles, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California); Susan J. Harkema (Louisville, Kentucky); Jonathan Hodes (Louisville, Kentucky); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mandheerej S. Nandra (Pasadena, California); Claudia A. Angeli (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas Anthony Desautels (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Reggie Edgerton (Los Angeles, California); Roland R. Roy (Playa Vista, California); Yury Gerasimenko (Los Angeles, California); Joel W. Burdick (Pasadena, California); Susan J. Harkema (Louisville, Kentucky); Jonathan Hodes (Louisville, Kentucky); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Mandheerej S. Nandra (Pasadena, California); Claudia A. Angeli (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas Anthony Desautels (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of enabling locomotor control, postural control, voluntary control of body movements (e.g., in non-weight bearing conditions), and/or autonomic functions in a human subject having spinal cord injury, brain injury, or neurological neuromotor disease. In certain embodiments, the methods involve stimulating the spinal cord of the subject using an epidurally placed electrode array, subjecting the subject to physical training thereby generating proprioceptive and/or supraspinal signals, and optionally administering pharmacological agents to the subject. The combination of stimulation, physical training, and optional pharmacological agents modulate in real time electrophysiological properties of spinal circuits in the subject so they are activated by supraspinal information and/or proprioceptive information derived from the region of the subject where locomotor activity is to be facilitated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/978035 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/0237 (20130101) A61H 1/0274 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/0553 (20130101) A61N 1/0556 (20130101) A61N 1/36003 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36153 (20130101) Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/00181 (20130101) A63B 22/0235 (20130101) A63B 69/0064 (20130101) A63B 2213/004 (20130101) A63B 2220/805 (20130101) A63B 2230/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09102105 | Ellis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward J. Ellis (Lynnfield, Massachusetts); Jeanne Y. Ellis (Lynnfield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VISTA SCIENTIFIC LLC (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Ellis (Lynnfield, Massachusetts); Jeanne Y. Ellis (Lynnfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming an ocular drug delivery device includes the steps of: (1) forming a drug core containing an active agent, wherein the drug core has a barrier disposed all surfaces thereof except for a drug release surface which is left free of the barrier; (2) forming a drug release membrane over the drug release surface; and (3) forming the remaining portion of the device body by an overcast (overmold) process. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/614883 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 70/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/753 (20130101) |
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| US 09102526 | Salemme et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | F. Raymond Salemme (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Mark A. Rould (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMIPLEX LLC (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Raymond Salemme (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Mark A. Rould (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Engineered proteins are used in the assembly of two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructure assemblies, based on systematic design and production of protein node structures that can be interconnected, for example, with streptavidin or streptavidin-incorporating struts to produce structures with defined dimensions and geometry. Nanostructure assemblies having utility as functional devices or as resists for the patterning of substrates have architectures including polygons, polyhedra, two-dimensional lattices, and three-dimensional lattices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892911 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102651 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Che-Hong Chen (Fremont, California); Xiaohu Ouyang (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees-Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Che-Hong Chen (Fremont, California); Xiaohu Ouyang (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that function as modulators of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) activity; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The present invention provides therapeutic methods involving administering a subject compound, or a subject pharmaceutical composition. The present invention further provides assays for identifying agonists of ALDH2. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/214937 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 317/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09102661 | Hergenrother et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); Quinn Patrick Peterson (Savoy, Illinois); Danny Chung Hsu (Urbana, Illinois); Diana C. West (Champaign, Illinois); Timothy M. Fan (Mahomet, Illinois); Chris J. Novotny (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are disclosed in embodiments relating to induction of cell death such as in cancer cells. Compounds and related methods for synthesis and use thereof, including the use of compounds in therapy for the treatment of cancer and selective induction of apoptosis in cells are disclosed. Compounds are disclosed that have lower neurotoxicity effects than other compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/321514 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/60 (20130101) C07D 211/62 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 295/15 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09102682 | Tavares et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | G1 Therapeutics, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis X. Tavares (Durham, North Carolina); Jay C. Strum (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of formulae I, II or III, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are useful as CDK inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/452296 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102697 | Myers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Nicholas E. Hill (Alexandria, Virginia); Jakub Svenda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert T. Yu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Smaltz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas Magauer (Steyr, Austria) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Nicholas E. Hill (Alexandria, Virginia); Jakub Svenda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert T. Yu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Smaltz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas Magauer (Steyr, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to trioxacarcin compounds of the formula: (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable forms thereof; wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are as defined herein. The present invention also provides processes for preparing such compounds and intermediates thereto; pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; and methods of use and treatment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/636263 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/24 (20130101) C07H 15/26 (20130101) C07H 17/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102707 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Candace Y. W. Lee (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada); John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Candace Y. W. Lee (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Canada); John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to natriuretic polypeptides and the use of natriuretic polypeptides to treat cardiovascular and/or renal conditions. For example, chimeric polypeptides having at least one amino acid segment (e.g., N-terminus tail, ring structure, C-terminus tail, or a combination thereof) of a natriuretic peptide (e.g., ANP, BNP, CNP, URO, or DNP) and an amino acid segment of an angiotensin polypeptide (e.g., Ang-(1-7)) are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/003481 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/58 (20130101) |
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| US 09102719 | Combs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry P. Combs (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); James A. Swenberg (Pittsboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of polynucleotides and polypeptides involved in insulin and adiponectin signaling and regulation of glucose production. The invention further relates to the use of the identified polynucleotides and polypeptides, and inhibitors of the polynucleotides and polypeptides, in the regulation of glucose production and the monitoring and treatment of metabolic disorders such as diabetes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019925 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/575 (20130101) C07K 14/4713 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/66 (20130101) |
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| US 09102730 | Zurawski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Jacques F. Banchereau (Montclair, New Jersey); Eynav Klechevsky (Haifa, Israel); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Anne-Laure Flamar (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for increasing the effectiveness of antigen presentation using a DCIR-specific antibody or fragment thereof to which an antigen is attached that forms an antibody-antigen complex, wherein the antigen is processed and presented by a dendritic cell that has been contacted with the antibody-antigen complex. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/872793 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 47/48746 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0639 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09102734 | Zurawski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Jacques F. Banchereau (Montclair, New Jersey); Anne-Laure Flamar (New York, New York); Peter Klucar (Dallas, Texas); Keiko Akagawa (Tokyo, Japan); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); SangKon Oh (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Jacques F. Banchereau (Montclair, New Jersey); Anne-Laure Flamar (New York, New York); Peter Klucar (Dallas, Texas); Keiko Akagawa (Tokyo, Japan); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); SangKon Oh (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for the expression, secretion and use of novel compositions for use as, e.g., vaccines and antigen delivery vectors, to delivery antigens to antigen presenting cells. In one embodiment, the vector is an anti-CD40 antibody, or fragments thereof, and one or more antigenic peptides linked to the anti-CD40 antibody or fragments thereof, including humanized antibodies. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/717778 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/6056 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2878 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/91 (20130101) |
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| US 09102742 | Semenova 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, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vera A. Semenova (Lilburn, Georgia); Conrad P. Quinn (Lilburn, Georgia); Jan Pohl (Tucker, Georgia); Pavel Svoboda (Atlanta, Georgia); Shannon Dalton (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Jarad M. Schiffer (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Regions of B. anthracis protective antigen are provided representing sequences recognized by antibodies in subjects that have vaccine induced lethal toxin neutralizing anti-PA IgG responses. The recognition of these PA regions enhances the utility of anti-PA IgG reactivity as an immune correlate of protection against anthrax in a subject and increases predictive probability of survival. Also provided are vaccines that include at least one of these PA regions that when administered to a subject improve the predictive value of vaccine induced anti-PA IgG and TNA responses as immune correlates of protection against inhalation anthrax. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/010668 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) |
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| US 09102747 | Spudich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lee Spudich (Houston, Texas); Elena G. Govorunova (Houston, Texas); Oleg A. Sineshchekov (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are used to identify and characterize new channelrhodopsins derived from algae and several of which are red-shifted. The rhodopsin domain of these red-shifted channelrhodopsins can be cloned and expressed in mammalian systems and used in optogenetic applications and as therapeutic agents. Also provided are methods and compositions for use in red-shifting the absorbance maxima of channelrhodopsins in order to improve their utility for use in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, October 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/053129 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102763 | MacKay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Andrew MacKay (Pasadena, California); Wan Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Andrew MacKay (Pasadena, California); Wan Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are bioresponsive protein polymers for therapeutic applications, including delivery to physiologically demanding environments, such as the eye surface. Bioresponsive protein polymers can be fused with biopharmaceuticals using genetic engineering techniques for enhanced therapeutic activity. In certain embodiments, the unique temperature-sensitive phase separation properties of bioresponsive protein polymers, allows generation of therapeutics resistant to ocular clearance. Such fusion proteins containing bioresponsive protein polymers and biopharmaceuticals allow retention of drugs in the eye for much longer periods of time. Improved biostability and bioavailability improves drug efficacy, while reducing cost and eliminating the need for repeated drug Application. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559053 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 47/48292 (20130101) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/78 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/475 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09102911 | Ririe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BioFire Diagnostics, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioFire Diagnostics, LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk M. Ririe (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gary Clark Kessler (Bountiful, Utah); Dave E. Jones (Clearfield, Utah); Mark Aaron Poritz (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, containers, and methods are provided for performing biological analysis in a closed environment. Illustrative biological analyses include high density nucleic acid amplification and detection and immuno-PCR. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751560 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502738 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/16 (20130101) B01L 2300/044 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 33/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102913 | Roach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marsha Lynn Roach (Bradford, Connecticut); Richard Harold Malavarca (Long Valley, New Jersey); Yunfang Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Lola Cynthia McAdams Reid (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); PhoenixSongs Biologicals (Branford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marsha Lynn Roach (Bradford, Connecticut); Richard Harold Malavarca (Long Valley, New Jersey); Yunfang Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Lola Cynthia McAdams Reid (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides biomatrix scaffolds for industrial scale dispersal. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/807260 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3604 (20130101) A61L 27/3683 (20130101) A61L 27/3691 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0671 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09102916 | Kaplan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Jeffrey K. Marchant (Littleton, Massachusetts); Noorjahan Panjwani (Medford, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Fiorenzo Omenetto (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Jeffrey K. Marchant (Littleton, Massachusetts); Noorjahan Panjwani (Medford, Massachusetts); Brian Lawrence (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a lamellae tissue layer, comprising a grooved silk fibroin substrate comprising tissue-specific cells. The silk fibroin substrates provides an excellent means of controlling and culturing cell and extracellular matrix development. A multitude of lamellae tissue layers can be used to create a tissue-engineered organ, such as a tissue-engineered cornea. The tissue-engineered organ is non-immunogenic and biocompatible. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/528634 |
| 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 | 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 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 27/3839 (20130101) A61L 27/3891 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 5/0621 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2533/50 (20130101) |
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09102919 — WNT pathway stimulation in reprogramming somatic cells with nuclear reprogramming factors
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brett Chevalier (Malden, Massachusetts); Alexander Marson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard A. Young (Weston, Massachusetts); Ruth Foreman (Somerville, Massachusetts); Rudolf Jaenisch (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Chevalier (Malden, Massachusetts); Alexander Marson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard A. Young (Weston, Massachusetts); Ruth Foreman (Somerville, Massachusetts); Rudolf Jaenisch (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods of use in reprogramming somatic cells. Compositions and methods of the invention are of use, e.g., for generating or modulating (e.g., enhancing) generation of induced pluripotent stem cells by reprogramming somatic cells. The reprogrammed somatic cells are useful for a number of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a pluripotent state and/or enhances the speed and/or efficiency of reprogramming. Certain of the compositions and methods relate to modulating the Wnt pathway. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/675681 |
| 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 38/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/602 (20130101) C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/604 (20130101) C12N 2502/45 (20130101) C12N 2502/99 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09102932 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lital Alfonta (Omer, Israel); Johnathan R. Chittuluru (San Diego, California); Alexander Deiters (Saleigh, North Carolina); Dan Groff (San Diego, California); Daniel Summerer (Mannheim, Germany); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Jiangyun Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Ning Wu (Boston, Massachusetts); Jianming Xie (Mountain View, California); Huaqiang Zeng (San Diego, California); Mohammad Seyedsayamdost (Newton, Massachusetts); James Turner (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lital Alfonta (Omer, Israel); Johnathan R. Chittuluru (San Diego, California); Alexander Deiters (Saleigh, North Carolina); Dan Groff (San Diego, California); Daniel Summerer (Mannheim, Germany); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Jiangyun Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Ning Wu (Boston, Massachusetts); Jianming Xie (Mountain View, California); Huaqiang Zeng (San Diego, California); Mohammad Seyedsayamdost (Newton, Massachusetts); James Turner (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that can incorporate unnatural amino acid into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli, or in a eukaryotic host such as a yeast cell. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal synthetases, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing unnatural amino acids, and translation systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/492296 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1058 (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) C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09102939 | Fire et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON (Washington, District of Columbia); THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Fire (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen Kostas (Towson, Maryland); Mary Montgomery (St. Paul, Minnesota); Lisa Timmons (Lawrence, Kansas); SiQun Xu (Ballwin, Missouri); Hiroaki Tabara (Mishima, Japan); Samuel E. Driver (Providence, Rhode Island); Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided of introducing an RNA into a living cell to inhibit gene expression of a target gene in that cell. The process may be practiced ex vivo or in vivo. The RNA has a region with double-stranded structure. Inhibition is sequence-specific in that the nucleotide sequences of the duplex region of the RNA and of a portion of the target gene are identical. The present invention is distinguished from prior art interference in gene expression by antisense or triple-strand methods. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/647177 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/05 (20130101) A01K 2227/703 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/50 (20130101) C12N 2310/53 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) |
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| US 09102967 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi Chen (Woodland, California); Vireak Thon (San Francisco, California); Kam Lau (Queensland, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods for preparing glycolipid products. Novel sialyltransferases are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/739705 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/24 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1081 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 19/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09102983 | Winkler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cheryl Winkler (Gaithersburg, Maryland); George Nelson (Thurmont, Maryland); Jeffrey B. Kopp (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael W. Smith (Jefferson, Maryland); Randall Johnson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheryl Winkler (Gaithersburg, Maryland); George Nelson (Thurmont, Maryland); Jeffrey B. Kopp (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael W. Smith (Jefferson, Maryland); Randall Johnson (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining the genetic predisposition of a human subject to developing renal disease, such as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) or end-stage kidney disease are provided herein. These methods include methods for detecting renal disease, or determining the risk of developing renal disease in a human subject, such as a subject of African ancestry. The methods utilize the detection of one or more haplotype blocks comprising at least two tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a non-coding region of a MYH9 gene or detecting the presence of at least one tag SNP in a non-coding region of a MYH9 gene. An array for detecting a genetic predisposition to renal disease using probes complementary to the tag SNPs in the non-coding region of the MYH9 gene are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/864218 |
| 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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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| US 09102984 | Abbud-Antaki |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rula Abbud-Antaki (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rula Abbud-Antaki (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for identification of genes related to cancer cell growth. In particular, the present invention provides functional genomic profiling of primary patient cells for identification of targeted and efficacious patient and cell-specific treatment modalities by employing a cancer biochip system (CBCS) which demonstrates improved plating efficiency, improved transfection efficiency and improved silencing efficiency. The present invention also provides a method of classifying a cancer patient based on response of cancer cells of the patient to a plurality of active agents for prediction of efficacious treatment of the cancer patient. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441855 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09103046 | Furman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin R. Furman (San Antonio, Texas); Stephen T. Wellinghoff (San Antonio, Texas); Charles K. Baker (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Furman (San Antonio, Texas); Stephen T. Wellinghoff (San Antonio, Texas); Charles K. Baker (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to composite films containing nanostructures within a polymer or monomeric matrix which composite may be formed on a metallic substrate and subsequently removed to provide bulk material. The nanostructures and polymer or monomer matrix may be assembled electrophoretically by initially providing a mixture of the nanostructures and polymer or monomer matrix material within generally anhydrous environments such as polar aprotic solvents followed by deposition of the composite film material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831739 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/448 (20130101) C09D 7/1266 (20130101) C09D 7/1275 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 1/04 (20130101) C25D 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25D 7/0621 (20130101) |
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| US 09103788 | Wilkes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Vivione Biosciences, LLC (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia); VIVIONE BIOSCIENCES, LLC (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon G. Wilkes (Little Rock, Arkansas); Dan Buzatu (Benton, Arkansas); Randal Tucker (Hensley, Arkansas); Thaddeus John Moskal, Jr. (Jonesboro, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting one or more target bacteria in a test sample are provided. It is shown herein that photosensitizers combined with intense light exposure reduce fluorescing background due to non-bacterial particles. This permits detection of subsequently labeled target bacterial cells (e.g., using a fluorescently labeled antibody) against a largely black background. In particular examples, the methods include incubating the test sample in a growth medium that permits growth of bacteria present in the sample, contacting the sample with a photo-sensitizer; exposing the sample to light under conditions sufficient for the photo-sensitizer to photobleach contaminating non-bacterial particulates present in the sample. The bacteria can then be substantially separated from the sample, thereby generating an isolated bacterial sample. The method can also include contacting the isolated bacterial sample with a binding agent specific for the one or more target bacteria, and detecting the one or more target bacteria. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/691511 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/6439 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) |
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| US 09103826 | Kochel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tadeusz Kochel (Frederick, Maryland); Josefina Nores Garcia (Silver Spring, Maryland); Allan Brasier (Galveston, Texas); Adrian Recinos (Galveston, Texas); John E. Wiktorowicz (League City, Texas); Heidi Spratt (Galveston, Texas); Hyunsu Ju (League City, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadeusz Kochel (Frederick, Maryland); Josefina Nores Garcia (Silver Spring, Maryland); Allan Brasier (Galveston, Texas); Adrian Recinos (Galveston, Texas); John E. Wiktorowicz (League City, Texas); Heidi Spratt (Galveston, Texas); Hyunsu Ju (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for detecting, analyzing, and identifying biomolecules used to identifying patient with dengue-like symptom who are at risk of DHF. The inventive method comprises detecting in a sample from a subject dengue infected patient one or more biomarkers selected from the group consisting of IL-10, fibrinogen, C4A, immunoglobulin, tropomyosin, and three isoforms of albumin, and which are used in a predictive MARS model to detect patients with risk of developing DHF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/490360 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6869 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/55 (20130101) G01N 2333/185 (20130101) G01N 2333/4716 (20130101) G01N 2333/5428 (20130101) |
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| US 09103834 | Hood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington); Biaoyang Lin (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying drug side effects by detecting perturbations in organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. The invention further relates to methods for identifying drug-specific organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/100301 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6842 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09104030 | Kieu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts); THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khanh Kieu (Tucson, Arizona); Nasser Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona); Xiaoling Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian W. Freudiger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dan Fu (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An illumination system is disclosed for providing dual-excitation wavelength illumination for non-linear optical microscopy and micro-spectroscopy. The illumination system includes a laser system, an optical splitting means, a frequency shifting system, and a picosecond amplifier system. The laser system includes a laser for providing a first train of pulses at a center optical frequency ω1. The optical splitting means divides the first train of pulses at the center optical frequency ω1 into two trains of pulses. The frequency shifting system shifts the optical frequency of one of the two trains of pulses to provide a frequency shifted train of pulses. The picosecond amplifier system amplifies the frequency shifted train of pulses to provide an amplified frequency-shifted train of pulses having a pulse duration of at least 0.5 picoseconds. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/297082 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — 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 3/44 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/37 (20130101) G02F 2001/354 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0057 (20130101) H01S 3/0092 (20130101) H01S 3/1118 (20130101) H01S 3/1608 (20130101) H01S 3/1618 (20130101) H01S 3/2391 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) H01S 3/06791 (20130101) H01S 3/10023 (20130101) |
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| US 09105480 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Arnold (Middleton, Wisconsin); Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathaniel S. Safron (Madison, Wisconsin); Myungwoong Kim (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonathan Woosun Choi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating patterned substrates, including patterned graphene substrates, using etch masks formed from self-assembled block copolymer films are provided. Some embodiments of the methods are based on block copolymer (BCP) lithography in combination with graphoepitaxy. Some embodiments of the methods are based on BCP lithography techniques that utilize hybrid organic/inorganic etch masks derived from BCP templates. Also provided are field effect transistors incorporating graphene nanoribbon arrays as the conducting channel and methods for fabricating such transistors. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/829078 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/3086 (20130101) H01L 21/31058 (20130101) H01L 21/31116 (20130101) H01L 21/31138 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald Chance (Naples, Florida); William J. Koros (Atlanta, Georgia); Benjamin McCool (Bonita Springs, Florida); James Noel (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Algenol Biotech LLC (Fort Myers, Florida); Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Chance (Naples, Florida); William J. Koros (Atlanta, Georgia); Benjamin McCool (Bonita Springs, Florida); James Noel (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides systems and methods for the delivery of carbon to photoautotrophs. The invention utilizes low energy regeneration of adsorbent for CO2 capture and provides for effective CO2 loading into liquids useful for photoautotroph growth and/or production of photosynthetic products, such as biofuels, via photoautotrophic culture media. The inventive system comprises a fluid/membrane/fluid contactor that provides selective transfer of molecular CO2 via a dense (non-porous) membrane from a carbonate-based CO2 snipping solution to a culture medium where the CO2 is consumed by a photoautotroph for the production of biofuels, biofuel precursors or other commercial products. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417172 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09101144 | Doktycz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchel John Doktycz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Dale A. Pelletier (Knoxville, Tennessee); Christopher Warren Schadt (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gerald A. Tuskan (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David Weston (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the Pseudomonas fluorescens strain GM30 deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-13340, compositions containing the GM30 strain, and methods of using the GM30 strain to enhance plant growth and/or enhance plant resistance to pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/747995 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 63/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of brain data representing a time series of neurophysiologic activity acquired by spatially distributed sensors arranged to detect neural signaling of a brain (such as by the use of magnetoencephalography) is obtained. The set of brain data is processed to obtain a dynamic brain model based on a set of statistically-independent temporal measures, such as partial cross correlations, among groupings of different time series within the set of brain data. The dynamic brain model represents interactions between neural populations of the brain occurring close in time, such as with zero lag, for example. The dynamic brain model can be analyzed to obtain the neurophysiologic assessment of the brain. Data processing techniques may be used to assess structural or neurochemical brain pathologies. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825509 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0476 (20130101) A61B 5/0482 (20130101) A61B 5/04008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) |
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| US 09101877 | Sobolevskiy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anatoly Sobolevskiy (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoly Sobolevskiy (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust gas treatment process, apparatus, and system for reducing the concentration of NOx, CO and hydrocarbons in a gas stream, such as an exhaust stream (29), via selective catalytic reduction with ammonia is provided. The process, apparatus and system include a catalytic bed (32) having a reducing only catalyst portion (34) and a downstream reducing-plus-oxidizing portion (36). Each portion (34, 36) includes an amount of tungsten. The reducing-plus-oxidizing catalyst portion (36) advantageously includes a greater amount of tungsten than the reducing catalyst portion (36) to markedly limit ammonia salt formation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453013 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/8628 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/9418 (20130101) B01D 53/9472 (20130101) B01D 2251/2062 (20130101) B01D 2255/30 (20130101) B01D 2255/1021 (20130101) B01D 2255/1023 (20130101) B01D 2255/9032 (20130101) B01D 2255/20707 (20130101) B01D 2255/20723 (20130101) B01D 2255/20776 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/22 (20130101) B01J 23/28 (20130101) B01J 23/30 (20130101) B01J 23/6527 (20130101) B01J 35/0006 (20130101) Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 2300/165 (20130101) C10J 2300/1653 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/28 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/722 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/16 (20130101) Y02E 20/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09102130 | Brockwell |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Ian Brockwell (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
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| ABSTRACT | Structural members having enhanced load bearing capacity per unit mass include a skeleton structure formed from strips of material. Notches may be placed on the strips and a weave of tensile material placed in the notches and woven around the skeleton structure. At least one pair of structural members can be jointed together to provide very strong joints due to a weave patterns of tensile material, such as Kevlar, that distributes stress throughout the structure, preventing stress from concentrating in one area. Methods of manufacturing such structural members include molding material into skeletons of desired cross section using a matrix of molding segments. Total catastrophic failures in composite materials are substantially avoided and the strength to weight ratio of structures can be increased. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/093430 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 70/28 (20130101) B29C 70/86 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2105/08 (20130101) B29K 2715/003 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 37/24 (20130101) Woven Fabrics; Methods of Weaving; Looms D03D 3/00 (20130101) Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 3/02 (20130101) Structural Elements; Building Materials E04C 3/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4998 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 428/23 (20150115) |
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| US 09102528 | Wallace et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Energy, Limited (Loughborough, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Energy Limited (Loughborough, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Wallace (Davis, California); John M. Melack (Winters, California); Michael Lefenfeld (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, devices, and methods combine thermally stable reactant materials and aqueous solutions to generate hydrogen and a non-toxic liquid by-product. The reactant materials can sodium silicide or sodium silica gel. The hydrogen generation devices are used in fuels cells and other industrial applications. One system combines cooling, pumping, water storage, and other devices to sense and control reactions between reactant materials and aqueous solutions to generate hydrogen. Springs and other pressurization mechanisms pressurize and deliver an aqueous solution to the reaction. A check valve and other pressure regulation mechanisms regulate the pressure of the aqueous solution delivered to the reactant fuel material in the reactor based upon characteristics of the pressurization mechanisms and can regulate the pressure of the delivered aqueous solution as a steady decay associated with the pressurization force. The pressure regulation mechanism can also prevent hydrogen gas from deflecting the pressure regulation mechanism. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/761452 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 7/02 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 3/065 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/362 (20130101) |
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| US 09102691 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hong-Cai Zhou (College Station, Texas); Dawei Feng (College Station, Texas); Kecheng Wang (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to monocrystalline single crystals of metal-organic framework materials comprising at least one aluminum metal ion, processes for preparing the same, methods for employing the same, and the use thereof. The invention also relates to monocrystalline aluminum metal-organic frameworks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/555535 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 20/28057 (20130101) B01J 20/28069 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0015 (20130101) C01B 3/508 (20130101) C01B 21/0455 (20130101) C01B 31/20 (20130101) C01B 2210/0015 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 7/13 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102801 | Dirk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kirsten Nicole Cicotte (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David A. Benko (Munroe Falls, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kirsten Nicole Cicotte (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David A. Benko (Munroe Falls, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method including reducing a particle size of lignin particles to an average particle size less than 40 nanometers; after reducing the particle size, combining the lignin particles with a polymeric material; and forming a structure of the combination. A method including exposing lignin to a diazonium precursor including a functional group; modifying the lignin by introducing the functional group to the lignin; and combining the modified lignin with a polymeric material to form a composite. An apparatus including a composite of a polymer and lignin wherein the lignin has an average particle size less than 100 micrometers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/597928 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 6/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/315 (20130101) |
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| US 09102929 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (El Sauzal, Spain); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl6, and the corresponding BGL6 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding BGL6, recombinant BGL6 proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/158666 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment, e.g Preservation, of Flour or Dough, e.g by Addition of Materials; Baking; Bakery Products; Preservation Thereof A21D 8/042 (20130101) Detergent Compositions; Use of Single Substances as Detergents; Soap or Soap-making; Resin Soaps; Recovery of Glycerol C11D 3/38645 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/244 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09102932 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lital Alfonta (Omer, Israel); Johnathan R. Chittuluru (San Diego, California); Alexander Deiters (Saleigh, North Carolina); Dan Groff (San Diego, California); Daniel Summerer (Mannheim, Germany); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Jiangyun Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Ning Wu (Boston, Massachusetts); Jianming Xie (Mountain View, California); Huaqiang Zeng (San Diego, California); Mohammad Seyedsayamdost (Newton, Massachusetts); James Turner (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lital Alfonta (Omer, Israel); Johnathan R. Chittuluru (San Diego, California); Alexander Deiters (Saleigh, North Carolina); Dan Groff (San Diego, California); Daniel Summerer (Mannheim, Germany); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Jiangyun Wang (Beijing, China PRC); Ning Wu (Boston, Massachusetts); Jianming Xie (Mountain View, California); Huaqiang Zeng (San Diego, California); Mohammad Seyedsayamdost (Newton, Massachusetts); James Turner (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that can incorporate unnatural amino acid into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli, or in a eukaryotic host such as a yeast cell. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal synthetases, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing unnatural amino acids, and translation systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/492296 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1058 (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) C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09102964 | Campbell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Campbell (East Lansing, Michigan); Farzaneh Teymouri (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE MICHIGAN BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Campbell (East Lansing, Michigan); Farzaneh Teymouri (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to a process for treating biomass. The biomass is treated with a biomass swelling agent within the vessel to swell or rupture at least a portion of the biomass. A portion of the swelling agent is removed from a first end of the vessel following the treatment. Then steam is introduced into a second end of the vessel different from the first end to further remove swelling agent from the vessel in such a manner that the swelling agent exits the vessel at a relatively low water content. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/458568 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2201/00 (20130101) Production of Cellulose by Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing Materials; Regeneration of Pulping Liquors; Apparatus Therefor D21C 1/02 (20130101) D21C 1/06 (20130101) D21C 5/005 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/343 (20130101) |
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| US 09103282 | Charron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Charron (West Palm Beach, Florida); Daniel Pierce (Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Charron (West Palm Beach, Florida); Daniel Pierce (Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A shaft cover support for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The shaft cover support not only provides enhanced support to a shaft cover of the gas turbine engine, but also includes a cooling fluid chamber for passing fluids from a rotor air cooling supply conduit to an inner ring cooling manifold. Furthermore, the shaft cover support may include a cooling shield supply extending from the cooling fluid chamber between the radially outward inlet and the radially inward outlet on the radially extending region and in fluid communication with the cooling fluid chamber for providing cooling fluids to a transition section. The shaft cover support may also provide additional stiffness and reduce interference of the flow from the compressor. In addition, the shaft cover support accommodates a transition section extending between compressor and turbine sections of the gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/277630 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/08 (20130101) F01D 25/08 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/20 (20130101) F02C 7/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09103719 | Ho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clifford Kuofei Ho (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Siri Sahib Singh Khalsa (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford Kuofei Ho (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Siri Sahib Singh Khalsa (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are technologies pertaining to computing the solar irradiance distribution on a surface of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity. At least one camera captures images of the Sun and the entity of interest, wherein the images have pluralities of pixels having respective pluralities of intensity values. Based upon the intensity values of the pixels in the respective images, the solar irradiance distribution on the surface of the entity or glint/glare corresponding to the entity is computed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/106686 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/1626 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2001/4266 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09103769 | Duden |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Duden (Bielefeld, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Duden (Bielefeld, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for generating an image of a specimen with a microscope (e.g., TEM) are disclosed. In one aspect, the microscope may generally include a beam generator, a stage, a detector, and an image generator. A plurality of crystal parameters, which describe a plurality of properties of a crystal sample, are received. In a display associated with the microscope, an interactive control sphere based at least in part on the received crystal parameters and that is rotatable by a user to different sphere orientations is presented. The sphere includes a plurality of stage coordinates that correspond to a plurality of positions of the stage and a plurality of crystallographic pole coordinates that correspond to a plurality of polar orientations of the crystal sample. Movement of the sphere causes movement of the stage, wherein the stage coordinates move in conjunction with the crystallographic coordinates represented by pole positions so as to show a relationship between stage positions and the pole positions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/968024 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/203 (20130101) G01N 23/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/20 (20130101) H01J 2237/20285 (20130101) |
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| US 09103865 | Agamy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamed Agamy (Niskayuna, New York); Ahmed Elasser (Niskayuna, New York); Anthony William Galbraith (Salem, Virginia); Maja Harfman Todorovic (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining a ground fault or insulation degradation condition within energy conversion systems are described. A method for determining a ground fault within an energy conversion system may include, in part, a comparison of baseline waveform of differential current to a waveform of differential current during operation for a plurality of DC current carrying conductors in an energy conversion system. A method for determining insulation degradation within an energy conversion system may include, in part, a comparison of baseline frequency spectra of differential current to a frequency spectra of differential current transient at start-up for a plurality of DC current carrying conductors in an energy conversion system. In one embodiment, the energy conversion system may be a photovoltaic system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/726730 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 31/1272 (20130101) Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 3/33 (20130101) H02H 3/46 (20130101) H02H 7/20 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 50/00 (20130101) H02S 50/10 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09103904 | Liao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaolin Liao (Willowbrook, Illinois); Nachappa Gopalsami (Naperville, Illinois); Sasan Bakhtiari (Darien, Illinois); Apostolos C. Raptis (Downers Grove, Illinois); Thomas Elmer (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixerless high frequency interferometric Doppler radar system and methods has been invented, numerically validated and experimentally tested. A continuous wave source, phase modulator (e.g., a continuously oscillating reference mirror) and intensity detector are utilized. The intensity detector measures the intensity of the combined reflected Doppler signal and the modulated reference beam. Rigorous mathematics formulas have been developed to extract bot amplitude and phase from the measured intensity signal. Software in Matlab has been developed and used to extract such amplitude and phase information from the experimental data. Both amplitude and phase are calculated and the Doppler frequency signature of the object is determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/873898 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| 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 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09103921 | Torres et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricardo D. Torres (Aiken, South Carolina); Lindsay T. Sexton (Aiken, South Carolina); Roderick E. Fuentes (Aiken, South Carolina); José Cortes-Concepción (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic crystal scintillators and their methods of manufacture are provided. Exemplary methods of manufacture include using a highly-ordered porous anodic alumina membrane as a pattern transfer mask for either the etching of underlying material or for the deposition of additional material onto the surface of a scintillator. Exemplary detectors utilizing such photonic crystal scintillators are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/035150 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/202 (20130101) G01T 1/2002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09103944 | Vu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cristian Pantea (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (San Ramon, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cristian Pantea (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for investigating structure near a borehole are described herein. The method includes generating an acoustic beam by an acoustic source; directing at one or more azimuthal angles the acoustic beam towards a selected location in a vicinity of a borehole; receiving at one or more receivers an acoustic signal, the acoustic signal originating from a reflection or a refraction of the acoustic wave by a material at the selected location; and analyzing the received acoustic signal to characterize features of the material around the borehole. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/836611 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0688 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 47/0005 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/42 (20130101) G01V 1/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09104086 | Davids et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Davids (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Peter Thomas Rakich (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical beam-steering apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes one or more optical waveguides and at least one row of metallic nanoantenna elements overlying and electromagnetically coupled to a respective waveguide. In each such row, individual nanoantenna elements are spaced apart along an optical propagation axis of the waveguide so that there is an optical propagation phase delay between successive pairs of nanoantenna elements along the row. The apparatus also includes a respective single electric heating element in thermal contact with each of the waveguides. Each heating element is arranged to heat, substantially uniformly, at least that portion of its waveguide that directly underlies the corresponding row of nanoantenna elements. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/188269 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1809 (20130101) G02B 6/1226 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0147 (20130101) G02F 1/2955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/291 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/932 (20130101) |
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| US 09104183 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Corporation (Iselin, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Corporation (Iselin, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xianjun S. Zheng (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Zhen Song (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Yanzi Chen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Shaopeng Zhang (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Yan Lu (West Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for collaborative energy management and control in a building, including an energy management controller, one or more occupant HMIs that supports two-way communication between building occupants and a facility manager, and between building occupants and the energy management controller, and a facility manager HMI that supports two-way communication between the facility manager and the building occupants, and between the facility manager and the energy management controller, in which the occupant HMI allows building occupants to provide temperature preferences to the facility manager and the energy management controller, and the facility manager HMI allows the facility manager to configure an energy policy for the building as a set of rules and to view occupants' aggregated temperature preferences, and the energy management controller determines an optimum temperature range that resolves conflicting occupant temperature preferences and occupant temperature preferences that conflict with the facility manager's energy policy for the building. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651510 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/2818 (20130101) H04L 12/2821 (20130101) H04L 12/2825 (20130101) H04L 41/0833 (20130101) H04L 2012/285 (20130101) |
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| US 09104512 | Blocksome 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) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Amith R. Mamidala (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Fencing data transfers in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer, the PAMI including data communications endpoints, each endpoint comprising a specification of data communications parameters for a thread of execution on a compute node, including specifications of a client, a context, and a task, the compute nodes coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through data communications resources including a deterministic data communications network, including initiating execution through the PAMI of an ordered sequence of active SEND instructions for SEND data transfers between two endpoints, effecting deterministic SEND data transfers; and executing through the PAMI, with no FENCE accounting for SEND data transfers, an active FENCE instruction, the FENCE instruction completing execution only after completion of all SEND instructions initiated prior to execution of the FENCE instruction for SEND data transfers between the two endpoints. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/677993 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 15/16 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09105087 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Wang (Cypress, California); James M. Hall (Livermore, California); James F. McCarrick (Dublin, California); Vincent Tang (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The inversion algorithm based on the maximum entropy method (MEM) removes unwanted effects in high energy imaging resulting from an uncollimated source interacting with a finitely thick scintillator. The algorithm takes as input the image from the thick scintillator (TS) and the radiography setup geometry. The algorithm then outputs a restored image which appears as if taken with an infinitesimally thin scintillator (ITS). Inversion is accomplished by numerically generating a probabilistic model relating the ITS image to the TS image and then inverting this model on the TS image through MEM. This reconstruction technique can reduce the exposure time or the required source intensity without undesirable object blurring on the image by allowing the use of both thicker scintillators with higher efficiencies and closer source-to-detector distances to maximize incident radiation flux. The technique is applicable in radiographic applications including fast neutron, high-energy gamma and x-ray radiography using thick scintillators. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/945351 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2006 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10116 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30164 (20130101) |
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| US 09105379 | Elam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Illinois); Anil U. Mane (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and article of manufacture of intermixed tunable resistance composite materials containing at least one of W:Al2O3, Mo:Al2O3 or M:Al2O3 where M is a conducting compound containing either W or Mo. A conducting material and an insulating material are deposited by such methods as ALD or CVD to construct composites with intermixed materials which do not have structure or properties like their bulk counterparts. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804660 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/30 (20130101) C23C 16/45529 (20130101) C23C 16/45531 (20130101) Resistors H01C 17/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01C 17/08 (20130101) H01C 17/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09105396 | Takayasu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Makoto Takayasu (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Makoto Takayasu (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for winding a coil magnet with the stacked tape cables, and a coil so wound. The winding process is controlled and various shape coils can be wound by twisting about the longitudinal axis of the cable and bending following the easy bend direction during winding, so that sharp local bending can be obtained by adjusting the twist pitch. Stack-tape cable is twisted while being wound, instead of being twisted in a straight configuration and then wound. In certain embodiments, the straight length should be half of the cable twist-pitch or a multiple of it. |
| FILED | Monday, October 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/047115 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 6/06 (20130101) H01F 41/048 (20130101) H01F 41/0629 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09105448 | Elmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livewrmore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Alan T. Teruya (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for analyzing an electron beam including a circular electron beam diagnostic sensor adapted to receive the electron beam, the circular electron beam diagnostic sensor having a central axis; an annular sensor structure operatively connected to the circular electron beam diagnostic sensor, wherein the sensor structure receives the electron beam; a system for sweeping the electron beam radially outward from the central axis of the circular electron beam diagnostic sensor to the annular sensor structure wherein the electron beam is intercepted by the annular sensor structure; and a device for measuring the electron beam that is intercepted by the annular sensor structure. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/305905 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2914 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/315 (20130101) H01J 2237/28 (20130101) H01J 2237/24405 (20130101) H01J 2237/24542 (20130101) H01J 2237/30472 (20130101) |
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| US 09105555 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Dahl-Young Khang (Seoul, South Korea); Yugang Sun (Naperville, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides stretchable, and optionally printable, semiconductors and electronic circuits capable of providing good performance when stretched, compressed, flexed or otherwise deformed. Stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention preferred for some applications are flexible, in addition to being stretchable, and thus are capable of significant elongation, flexing, bending or other deformation along one or more axes. Further, stretchable semiconductors and electronic circuits of the present invention may be adapted to a wide range of device configurations to provide fully flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/220923 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 2201/0185 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 21/02546 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) H01L 23/293 (20130101) H01L 24/29 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/80 (20130101) H01L 27/1266 (20130101) H01L 27/1285 (20130101) H01L 27/1292 (20130101) H01L 29/06 (20130101) H01L 29/16 (20130101) H01L 29/068 (20130101) H01L 29/151 (20130101) H01L 29/158 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/1602 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/7781 (20130101) H01L 29/78603 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 2221/68368 (20130101) H01L 2224/291 (20130101) H01L 2224/291 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/2919 (20130101) H01L 2224/8385 (20130101) H01L 2224/80894 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/0101 (20130101) H01L 2924/0102 (20130101) H01L 2924/0103 (20130101) H01L 2924/0132 (20130101) H01L 2924/0132 (20130101) H01L 2924/01002 (20130101) H01L 2924/01003 (20130101) H01L 2924/01005 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01011 (20130101) H01L 2924/01013 (20130101) H01L 2924/01015 (20130101) H01L 2924/01019 (20130101) H01L 2924/01023 (20130101) H01L 2924/01024 (20130101) H01L 2924/01029 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01032 (20130101) H01L 2924/01033 (20130101) H01L 2924/01049 (20130101) H01L 2924/01051 (20130101) H01L 2924/01067 (20130101) H01L 2924/01072 (20130101) H01L 2924/01074 (20130101) H01L 2924/01079 (20130101) H01L 2924/01079 (20130101) H01L 2924/01082 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/3025 (20130101) H01L 2924/3512 (20130101) H01L 2924/07802 (20130101) H01L 2924/10329 (20130101) H01L 2924/10336 (20130101) H01L 2924/10349 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/13063 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) H01L 2924/13091 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0277 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09105782 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Angus A. Rockett (Urbana, Illinois); Ralph Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Jongseung Yoon (Urbana, Illinois); Alfred Baca (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are solar cells, photovoltaics and related methods for making solar cells, wherein the solar cell is made of ultrathin solar grade or low quality silicon. In an aspect, the invention is a method of making a solar cell by providing a solar cell substrate having a receiving surface and assembling a printable semiconductor element on the receiving surface of the substrate via contact printing. The semiconductor element has a thickness that is less than or equal to 100 μm and, for example, is made from low grade Si. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/173525 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/048 (20130101) H01L 31/0508 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 31/035281 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09105791 | Dyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); The Research Foundation of the City University of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Conrad Dyer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Eric A. Shaner (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); John L. Reno (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory Aizin (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable plasmonic crystal comprises several periods in a two-dimensional electron or hole gas plasmonic medium that is both extremely subwavelength (˜λ/100) and tunable through the application of voltages to metal electrodes. Tuning of the plasmonic crystal band edges can be realized in materials such as semiconductors and graphene to actively control the plasmonic crystal dispersion in the terahertz and infrared spectral regions. The tunable plasmonic crystal provides a useful degree of freedom for applications in slow light devices, voltage-tunable waveguides, filters, ultra-sensitive direct and heterodyne THz detectors, and THz oscillators. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/028137 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09105793 | Bouchiat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vincent Bouchiat (Kensington, California); Caglar Girit (Saint Cloud, France); Brian Kessler (Oakland, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Bouchiat (Kensington, California); Caglar Girit (Saint Cloud, France); Brian Kessler (Oakland, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a graphene device includes a layered structure, first and second electrodes, and a dopant island. The layered structure includes a conductive layer, an insulating layer, and a graphene layer. The electrodes are coupled to the graphene layer. The dopant island is coupled to an exposed surface of the graphene layer between the electrodes. An embodiment of a method of using a graphene device includes providing the graphene device. A voltage is applied to the conductive layer of the graphene device. Another embodiment of a method of using a graphene device includes providing the graphene device without the dopant island. A dopant island is placed on an exposed surface of the graphene layer between the electrodes. A voltage is applied to the conductive layer of the graphene device. A response of the dopant island to the voltage is observed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916353 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 39/121 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/146 (20130101) |
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| US 09105797 | Curtis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Calvin J. Curtis (Lakewood, Colorado); Peter A. Hersh (Denver, Colorado); Alexander Miedaner (Boulder, Colorado); Susan Habas (Boulder, Colorado); Maikel van Hest (Lakewood, Colorado); David S. Ginley (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin J. Curtis (Lakewood, Colorado); Peter A. Hersh (Denver, Colorado); Alexander Miedaner (Boulder, Colorado); Susan Habas (Boulder, Colorado); Maikel van Hest (Lakewood, Colorado); David S. Ginley (Evergreen, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An ink includes a solution of selenium in ethylene diamine solvent and a solution of at least one metal salt selected from the group consisting of an indium salt or a gallium salt in at least one solvent including an organic amide. The organic amide can include dimethylformamide. The organic amide can include N-methylpyrrolidone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602454 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0322 (20130101) H01L 31/02167 (20130101) H01L 31/03923 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/541 (20130101) |
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| US 09105880 | Goettler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Goettler (Medina, Ohio); Zhien Liu (Canton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LG Fuel Cell Systems Inc. (North Canton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Goettler (Medina, Ohio); Zhien Liu (Canton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a fuel cell system having a plurality of adjacent electrochemical cells formed of an anode layer, a cathode layer spaced apart from the anode layer, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer. The fuel cell system also includes at least one interconnect, the interconnect being structured to conduct free electrons between adjacent electrochemical cells. Each interconnect includes a primary conductor embedded within the electrolyte layer and structured to conduct the free electrons. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/161389 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/20 (20130101) H01M 8/24 (20130101) H01M 8/0202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0215 (20130101) H01M 8/2425 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) H01M 2300/0074 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09105934 | Tong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | YuYe Tong (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bingchen Du (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuYe Tong (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bingchen Du (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A superior, industrially scalable one-pot ethylene glycol-based wet chemistry method to prepare platinum-adlayered ruthenium nanoparticles has been developed that offers an exquisite control of the platinum packing density of the adlayers and effectively prevents sintering of the nanoparticles during the deposition process. The wet chemistry based method for the controlled deposition of submonolayer platinum is advantageous in terms of processing and maximizing the use of platinum and can, in principle, be scaled up straightforwardly to an industrial level. The reactivity of the Pt(31)-Ru sample was about 150% higher than that of the industrial benchmark PtRu (1:1) alloy sample but with 3.5 times less platinum loading. Using the Pt(31)-Ru nanoparticles would lower the electrode material cost compared to using the industrial benchmark alloy nanoparticles for direct methanol fuel cell applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081809 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/92 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/8657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1011 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/523 (20130101) |
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| US 09106656 | Gara 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) | Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); David L. Satterfield (Yorktown Heights, New York); Robert E. Walkup (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for measuring a performance of a program running on a processing unit of a processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises informing a logic unit of each instruction in the program that is executed by the processing unit, assigning a weight to each instruction, assigning the instructions to a plurality of groups, and analyzing the plurality of groups to measure one or more metrics. In one embodiment, each instruction includes an operating code portion, and the assigning includes assigning the instructions to the groups based on the operating code portions of the instructions. In an embodiment, each type of instruction is assigned to a respective one of the plurality of groups. These groups may be combined into a plurality of sets of the groups. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/063610 |
| ART UNIT | 2864 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30145 (20130101) G06F 11/348 (20130101) G06F 2201/88 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09107327 | Chainer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Hien P. Dang (Nanuet, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York); Arun Sharma (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Hien P. Dang (Nanuet, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York); Arun Sharma (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method aspect for removing heat from a data center may use liquid coolant cooled without vapor compression refrigeration on a liquid cooled information technology equipment rack. The method may also include regulating liquid coolant flow to the data center through a range of liquid coolant flow values with a controller-apparatus based upon information technology equipment temperature threshold of the data center. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551929 |
| ART UNIT | 2127 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/206 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20836 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Riyi Shi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Richard B. Borgens (Delphi, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912499 |
| 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 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/74 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/77 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/765 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09101666 | Langer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); David A. Putnam (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mansoor M. Amiji (Attleboro, Massachusetts); Daniel Griffith Anderson (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Poly(β-amino esters) prepared from the conjugate addition of bis(secondary amines) or primary amines to a bis(acrylate ester) are described. Methods of preparing these polymers from commercially available starting materials are also provided. These tertiary amine-containing polymers are preferably biodegradable and biocompatible and may be used in a variety of drug delivery systems. Given the poly(amine) nature of these polymers, they are particularly suited for the delivery of polynucleotides. Nanoparticles containing polymer/polynucleotide complexes have been prepared. The inventive polymers may also be used to encapsulate other agents to be delivered. They are particularly useful in delivering labile agents given their ability to buffer the pH of their surroundings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029552 |
| 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 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/482 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/02 (20130101) C08G 73/06 (20130101) C08G 73/0273 (20130101) C08G 73/0611 (20130101) C08G 73/0616 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) |
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| US 09101700 | Bagwell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger B Bagwell (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Brian M Park (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Gabriela Hernandez Meza (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Josue R Crespo (Aguada, Puerto Rico); Paul L Frankhouser (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for the effective clearing of artificial tubes, especially in-situ clearing of artificial tubes in a living being is covered in this disclosure. An elongated clearing member includes either a fixed or an adjustable element that selectively defines the portion of the elongated clearing member that is insertable within the artificial tube. The proximal end of the clearing member is releasably secured to the driving mechanism and the driving mechanisms may comprise a wide variety of repetitive motion drivers such as voice coil motors, piezoelectric actuators, pneumatic actuators, DC motors, etc. These devices/methods may comprise a free-standing console for hands-free operation or may comprise hand-held versions. The distal working end of the clearing member may comprise tips of differing functions, including an irrigation/aspiration feature. |
| FILED | Monday, February 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/182088 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/018 (20130101) A61B 19/34 (20130101) A61B 2019/343 (20130101) Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 15/00 (20130101) A61J 15/0026 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 1/0078 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 25/00 (20130101) A61M 2025/0019 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 9/027 (20130101) B08B 9/0436 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/789 (20150401) Y10T 137/6055 (20150401) |
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| US 09102520 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Si-Ping Han (Yorba Linda, California); Hareem Maune (Pasadena, California); Robert D. Barish (Pasadena, California); William A. Goddard, III (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Si-Ping Han (Yorba Linda, California); Hareem Maune (Pasadena, California); Robert D. Barish (Pasadena, California); William A. Goddard, III (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to nanotube composite structures and related methods and systems. In particular, structures, methods and systems are provided herein to allow for precise, tunable separation between nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540027 |
| 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 | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09102683 | Louie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Janis Louie (Salt Lake City, Utah); Puneet Kumar (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janis Louie (Salt Lake City, Utah); Puneet Kumar (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods for synthesizing heterocyclic, 8-membered ring structures. The methods may allow for preparation of highly substituted 8-membered rings. Also disclosed are heterocyclic, 8-membered ring compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/598130 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 225/04 (20130101) C07D 313/06 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 487/10 (20130101) C07D 491/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 491/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09102697 | Myers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Nicholas E. Hill (Alexandria, Virginia); Jakub Svenda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert T. Yu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Smaltz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas Magauer (Steyr, Austria) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Nicholas E. Hill (Alexandria, Virginia); Jakub Svenda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert T. Yu (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Smaltz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas Magauer (Steyr, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to trioxacarcin compounds of the formula: (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable forms thereof; wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 are as defined herein. The present invention also provides processes for preparing such compounds and intermediates thereto; pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; and methods of use and treatment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/636263 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/24 (20130101) C07H 15/26 (20130101) C07H 17/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102703 | Brummond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kay M. Brummond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kay M. Brummond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay M. Brummond (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Laura S. Kocsis (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Erica Benedetti (Villejuif, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the synthesis and use of functionalized, substituted naphthalenes are described. The functionalized, substituted naphthalenes display useful properties including liquid crystals and fluorescence properties, such as solvatochromatic fluorescence, with high quantum yields, Stoke's shift, and show emission maxima that are significantly red-shifted. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833381 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 47/55 (20130101) C07C 49/792 (20130101) C07C 49/813 (20130101) C07C 69/76 (20130101) C07C 69/78 (20130101) C07C 69/757 (20130101) C07C 221/00 (20130101) C07C 225/22 (20130101) C07C 305/00 (20130101) C07C 317/14 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 2103/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/06 (20130101) C07D 209/62 (20130101) C07D 211/14 (20130101) C07D 249/06 (20130101) C07D 295/112 (20130101) C07D 307/73 (20130101) C07D 307/87 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/4015 (20130101) C07F 9/4018 (20130101) C07F 9/4056 (20130101) C07F 9/4075 (20130101) C07F 9/5022 (20130101) C07F 15/006 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/13 (20130101) C07K 2/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09103336 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jianke Kang (Arlington, Virginia); Gregory W. Auner (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianke Kang (Arlington, Virginia); Gregory W. Auner (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A micropump device including a first wafer and a second wafer attached to the first wafer. The first and second wafers are configured to define a chamber therebetween having a predetermined volume. A third wafer is attached to the second wafer to define an inlet section and an outlet section in fluid communication with the chamber. At least one of the second and third wafers are formed to define a moveable diaphragm configured to change the predetermined volume of the chamber for pumping a fluid between the inlet section and the outlet section. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/906405 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/14224 (20130101) A61M 2205/0244 (20130101) A61M 2205/0294 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 43/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F04B 43/046 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49229 (20150115) Y10T 29/49236 (20150115) Y10T 137/2191 (20150401) Y10T 137/2213 (20150401) Y10T 137/2218 (20150401) |
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| US 09103727 | Fan 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) | Xudong Fan (Saline, Michigan); Karthik Reddy (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yunbo Guo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-referencing composite Fabry-Pérot cavity sensor, including methods of use and manufacture. The cavity sensor comprises a substrate defining a first cavity portion juxtaposed to a second cavity portion. The first and second cavity portions are provided having a predetermined depth offset. A polymer or other dielectric material is disposed within the first and second cavity portions. An interference spectrum resulting from a light source of a known wavelength is reflected through the sensor and produces a first refractive index from the first cavity portion offset by a second refractive index from the second cavity portion. The difference in refractive indices can be used to determine various physical parameters. An optical sensor according to the present technology may be used with vapor sensing, pressure sensing, protein detection, photo-acoustic imaging, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/729983 |
| 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 3/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) G01N 21/274 (20130101) G01N 30/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09104104 | Wright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orthogonal, Inc. (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthogonal, Inc. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Warren Wright (Fairport, New York); Diane Carol Freeman (Pittsford, New York); Frank Xavier Byrne (Webster, New York); John Andrew DeFranco (Rochester, New York); Sandra Rubsam (Webster, New York); Terrence Robert O'Toole (Webster, New York); Douglas Robert Robello (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorinated photopolymer is formed on a device substrate and exposed to patterned radiation. The photopolymer has a total fluorine content in a weight range of 15 to 60% and comprises at least three distinct repeating units, including a first repeating unit having a fluorine-containing group, a second repeating unit having an acid- or alcohol-forming precursor group, and a third repeating unit different from the first and second repeating units. The pattern-exposed photopolymer layer is contacted with a developing solution comprising at least a first fluorinated solvent that dissolves the unexposed photopolymer thereby forming a developed structure having a first pattern of photopolymer covering the substrate and a complementary second pattern of uncovered substrate. The developing solution is selected to provide a maximum photopolymer contrast in a range of 1.9 to 5.0. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/260705 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/40 (20130101) G03F 7/422 (20130101) |
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| US 09104285 | Colgate et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Edward Colgate (Evanston, Illinois); Michael A. Peshkin (Evanston, Illinois); John Glassmire (Seattle, Washington); Laura Winfield Alexander (Sunbury, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A haptic device provides an indirect haptic device, having a substrate having a touch surface, a position sensor and a friction modulator associated with the substrate, a control device connected to the position sensor and the friction modulator, wherein a coefficient of friction on the touch surface is modulated in response to a sensed position of relative to the touch surface and/or a derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/456700 |
| ART UNIT | 2696 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) G06F 3/041 (20130101) G06F 3/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0362 (20130101) G06F 3/0414 (20130101) G06F 3/0421 (20130101) G06F 2203/04104 (20130101) |
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| US 09104492 | Gember et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron Robert Gember (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Daniel Grandl (Madison, Wisconsin); Theophilus Aderemi Benson (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Ashok Anand (Madison, Wisconsin); Srinivasa Aditya Akella (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Robert Gember (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Daniel Grandl (Madison, Wisconsin); Theophilus Aderemi Benson (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Ashok Anand (Madison, Wisconsin); Srinivasa Aditya Akella (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual network virtual machine may be implemented on a cloud computing facility to control communication among virtual machines executing applications and virtual machines executing middlebox functions. This virtual network virtual machine may provide for automatic scaling of middleboxes according to a heuristic algorithm that monitors the effectiveness of each middlebox on the network performance as application virtual machines are scaled. The virtual machine virtual network may also locate virtual machines in actual hardware to further optimize performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602791 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5072 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/45558 (20130101) G06F 2009/45595 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/4633 (20130101) |
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| US 09105403 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Chun-Chih Tung (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. Allen (Santa Monica, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Yang (Los Angeles, California); Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); Chun-Chih Tung (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. Allen (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing carbon macro-molecular structures includes dissolving a graphitic material in a solvent to provide a suspension of carbon-based macro-molecular structures in the solvent, and obtaining a plurality of the carbon macro-molecular structures from the suspension. The plurality of carbon macro-molecular structures obtained from the suspension each consists essentially of carbon. A material according to some embodiments of the current invention is produced according to the method of producing carbon macro-molecular structures. An electrical, electronic or electro-optic device includes material produced according to the methods of the current invention. A composite material according to some embodiments of the current invention has carbon macro-molecular structures produced according to methods of producing carbon macro-molecular structures according to some embodiments of the current invention. A hydrogen storage device according to some embodiments of the current invention has carbon macro-molecular structures produced according to methods of producing carbon macro-molecular structures according to some embodiments of the current invention. An electrode according to some embodiments of the current invention has carbon macro-molecular structures produced according to methods of producing carbon macro-molecular structures according to some embodiments of the current invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/747087 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/058 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/36 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0003 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/96 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09105782 | Rogers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Angus A. Rockett (Urbana, Illinois); Ralph Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Jongseung Yoon (Urbana, Illinois); Alfred Baca (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are solar cells, photovoltaics and related methods for making solar cells, wherein the solar cell is made of ultrathin solar grade or low quality silicon. In an aspect, the invention is a method of making a solar cell by providing a solar cell substrate having a receiving surface and assembling a printable semiconductor element on the receiving surface of the substrate via contact printing. The semiconductor element has a thickness that is less than or equal to 100 μm and, for example, is made from low grade Si. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/173525 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/048 (20130101) H01L 31/0508 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 31/035281 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09106055 | Rudolph et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wolfgang G. Rudolph (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Amarin Ratanavis (Bangkok, Thailand); Vasudevan Nampoothiri (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kristan L. Corwin (Manhattan, Kansas); Andrew M. Jones (Lafayette, Colorado); Brian R. Washburn (Manhattan, Kansas); Rajesh Kadel (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Zavada (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Zavada (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang G. Rudolph (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Amarin Ratanavis (Bangkok, Thailand); Vasudevan Nampoothiri (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kristan L. Corwin (Manhattan, Kansas); Andrew M. Jones (Lafayette, Colorado); Brian R. Washburn (Manhattan, Kansas); Rajesh Kadel (Manhattan, Kansas); John M. Zavada (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods using an optically pumped gas filled hollow fiber laser can be implemented in a variety of applications. In various embodiments, operation of an optically pumped gas filled hollow fiber laser is based on population inversion in the gas. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/574550 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0943 (20130101) H01S 3/2232 (20130101) H01S 3/06741 (20130101) H01S 3/094003 (20130101) |
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| US 09106056 | Hersee |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Summerland Key, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Summerland Key, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | According to various embodiments, the present teachings include an array of nanowire devices. The array of nanowire devices comprises a readout integrated circuit (ROIC). An LED array is disposed on the ROIC. The LED array comprises a plurality of LED core-shell structures, with each LED core-shell structure comprising a layered shell enveloping a nanowire core, wherein the layered shell comprises a multi-quantum-well (MQW) active region. The LED array further comprises a p-side electrode enveloping the layered core-shell structure and electrically connecting the ROIC, wherein each p-side electrode has an average thickness ranging from about 100 nm to about 500 nm. A dielectric layer is disposed on the plurality of LED core-shell structures, with each nanowire core disposed through the dielectric to connect with an n-side semiconductor that is situated on the dielectric. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103587 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/34 (20130101) H01S 5/4025 (20130101) H01S 5/34333 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/951 (20130101) |
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| US 09106360 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yuhua Chen (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuhua Chen (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) multi-mode switching system and method and method provides concurrent switching in various switching modes including, but not limited to, an electronic packet switching (EPS) mode, optical circuit switching (OCS) mode, and optical burst switching (OBS) mode. Edge routers in the WDM multi-mode switching systems may provide a traffic management module that processes incoming data and routes the data for transmission in an electronic packet switching (EPS), optical burst switching (OBS), or optical circuit switching (OCS) modes via a WDM link. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/434597 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04J 14/0212 (20130101) H04J 14/0257 (20130101) H04J 14/0267 (20130101) H04J 14/0268 (20130101) H04J 14/0283 (20130101) H04J 14/0284 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/62 (20130101) |
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| US 09107312 | Crain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); Vorbeck Materials Corporation (Jessup, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VORBECK MATERIALS CORPORATION (Jessup, Maryland); THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Crain (Washington, District of Columbia); John S. Lettow (Washington, District of Columbia); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey); Sibel Korkut (Princeton, New Jersey); Katherine S. Chiang (Princeton, New Jersey); Chuan-Hua Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert K. Prud'Homme (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Printed electronic device comprising a substrate onto at least one surface of which has been applied a layer of an electrically conductive ink comprising functionalized graphene sheets and at least one binder. A method of preparing printed electronic devices is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/189501 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/02 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/46 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 7/125 (20130101) C09D 7/1291 (20130101) C09D 11/52 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/095 (20130101) H05K 3/0091 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Hofmann (Altadena, California); John Paul C. Borgonia (Pasadena, California); Robert P. Dillon (Costa Mesa, California); Eric J. Suh (Pasadena, California); Jerry L. Mulder (La Crescenta, California); Paul B. Gardner (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for fabricating multi-functional articles comprised of additively formed gradient materials are provided. The fabrication of multi-functional articles using the additive deposition of gradient alloys represents a paradigm shift from the traditional way that metal alloys and metal/metal alloy parts are fabricated. Since a gradient alloy that transitions from one metal to a different metal cannot be fabricated through any conventional metallurgy techniques, the technique presents many applications. Moreover, the embodiments described identify a broad range of properties and applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/664285 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/18 (20130101) B05D 1/36 (20130101) B05D 7/00 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 7/04 (20130101) B22F 7/04 (20130101) B22F 2207/01 (20130101) B22F 2207/01 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/10 (20130101) B23K 26/345 (20130101) B23K 31/02 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 15/01 (20130101) B32B 15/011 (20130101) B32B 15/013 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/01 (20130101) C04B 35/64 (20130101) C04B 2235/75 (20130101) Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/00 (20130101) C21D 2201/03 (20130101) C21D 2251/02 (20130101) Alloys C22C 38/08 (20130101) C22C 38/14 (20130101) C22C 38/40 (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 4/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09102331 | Bluethmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America As Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Bluethmann (Houston, Texas); Thomas M. Waligora (Houston, Texas); Nathan Fraser-Chanpong (Houston, Texas); Ryan Reed (Houston, Texas); Akinjide Akinniyi Akinyode (Houston, Texas); Ivan Spain (Pearland, Texas); Andrew D. Dawson (League City, Texas); Joshua M. Figuered (Houston, Texas); Eduardo Herrera (Houston, Texas); Mason M. Markee (Houston, Texas); Robert L. Vitale (Macomb Township, Michigan); Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Michigan); Lucien Q. Junkin (Houston, Texas); Ross Briant Winn (Houston, Texas); James Jonathan Rogers (League City, Texas); Raymond Guo (Seabrook, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-functional electric module (eModule) is provided for a vehicle having a chassis, a master controller, and a drive wheel having a propulsion-braking module. The eModule includes a steering control assembly, mounting bracket, propulsion control assembly, brake controller, housing, and control arm. The steering control assembly includes a steering motor controlled by steering controllers in response to control signals from the master controller. A mounting feature of the bracket connects to the chassis. The propulsion control assembly and brake controller are in communication with the propulsion-braking module. The control arm connects to the lower portion and contains elements of a suspension system, with the control arm being connectable to the drive wheel via a wheel input/output block. The controllers are responsive to the master controller to control a respective steering, propulsion, and braking function. The steering motor may have a dual-wound stator with windings controlled via the respective steering controllers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/032470 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 7/0007 (20130101) B60K 2007/0038 (20130101) Vehicle Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof; Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof, in General; Arrangement of Braking Elements on Vehicles in General; Portable Devices for Preventing Unwanted Movement of Vehicles; Vehicle Modifications to Facilitate Cooling of Brakes B60T 13/74 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/08 (20130101) B60W 10/20 (20130101) B60W 10/192 (20130101) B60W 30/18009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 5/0418 (20130101) |
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| US 09103422 | Wingett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul T. Wingett (Mesa, Arizona); Casey Hanlon (Queen Creek, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuator includes a ball nut, a ball screw, and a ball screw stop. The ball nut is adapted to receive an input torque and in response rotates and supplies a drive force. The ball screw extends through the ball nut and has a first end and a second end. The ball screw receives the drive force from the ball nut and in response selectively translates between a retract position and a extend position. The ball screw stop is mounted on the ball screw proximate the first end to translate therewith. The ball screw stop engages the ball nut when the ball screw is in the extend position, translates, with compliance, a predetermined distance toward the first end upon engaging the ball nut, and prevents further rotation of the ball screw upon translating the predetermined distance. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911568 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 25/2015 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 25/2204 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/18688 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bryan Cox (Marion, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Louisiana Tech University Research Foundation, a division of Louisiana Tech University Foundation, Inc. (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Cox (Marion, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic position sensor having at least one magnetic field sensor including a solidified layer of GMR nanowire carrier fluid formed on a substrate material. The solidified layer of carrier fluid has (i) discrete GMR nanowires each having a diameter of less than about 0.5 um and a length less than about 250 um; and (ii) a concentration of GMR nanowires in the dried layer between about 0.001 and about 10 percent by weight of the solution. The position sensor further includes a detection circuit capable of detecting a change in resistance of the magnetic field sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/801100 |
| ART UNIT | 2867 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/145 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/09 (20130101) |
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| US 09104271 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Adams (Charlottesville, Virginia); Aaron Olowin (Charlottesville, Virginia); Blake Hannaford (Seattle, Washington) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Adams (Charlottesville, Virginia); Aaron Olowin (Charlottesville, Virginia); Blake Hannaford (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to: tracking movement of a gloved hand of a human; interpreting a gloved finger movement of the human; and/or in response to interpreting the gloved finger movement, providing feedback to the human. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/484554 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) G06F 3/017 (20130101) G06F 3/0426 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/04886 (20130101) |
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| US 09105548 | Cunningham et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Cunningham (Pasadena, California); Bruce R. Hancock (Altadena, California); Chao Sun (San Marino, California); Todd J. Jones (Altadena, California); Matthew R. Dickie (Altadena, California); Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, California); Michael E. Hoenk (Valencia, California); Christopher J. Wrigley (La Crescenta, California); Kenneth W. Newton (Castaic, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Cunningham (Pasadena, California); Bruce R. Hancock (Altadena, California); Chao Sun (San Marino, California); Todd J. Jones (Altadena, California); Matthew R. Dickie (Altadena, California); Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, California); Michael E. Hoenk (Valencia, California); Christopher J. Wrigley (La Crescenta, California); Kenneth W. Newton (Castaic, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for imaging or detecting electromagnetic radiation is provided. A device structure includes a first chip interconnected with a second chip. The first chip includes a detector array, wherein the detector array comprises a plurality of light sensors and one or more transistors. The second chip includes a Read Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) that reads out, via the transistors, a signal produced by the light sensors. A number of interconnects between the ROIC and the detector array can be less than one per light sensor or pixel. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/531204 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1469 (20130101) H01L 27/14634 (20130101) H01L 27/14643 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14689 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/374 (20130101) H04N 5/3742 (20130101) |
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| US 09106205 | Gallagher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Gallagher (Altamonte Springs, Florida); Donald C. Malocha (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Gallagher (Altamonte Springs, Florida); Donald C. Malocha (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless surface acoustic wave sensor includes a piezoelectric substrate, a surface acoustic wave device formed on the substrate, and an antenna formed on the substrate. In some embodiments, the antenna is formed on the surface of the substrate using one or more of photolithography, thin film processing, thick film processing, plating, and printing. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/374446 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/642 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) H04R 31/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
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| US 09107312 | Crain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); Vorbeck Materials Corporation (Jessup, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VORBECK MATERIALS CORPORATION (Jessup, Maryland); THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Crain (Washington, District of Columbia); John S. Lettow (Washington, District of Columbia); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey); Sibel Korkut (Princeton, New Jersey); Katherine S. Chiang (Princeton, New Jersey); Chuan-Hua Chen (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert K. Prud'Homme (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Printed electronic device comprising a substrate onto at least one surface of which has been applied a layer of an electrically conductive ink comprising functionalized graphene sheets and at least one binder. A method of preparing printed electronic devices is further disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/189501 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/02 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/46 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 7/125 (20130101) C09D 7/1291 (20130101) C09D 11/52 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/092 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/095 (20130101) H05K 3/0091 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Chemveda Life Sciences Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamlesh R. Chauhan (Laurel, Maryland); Bheema R. Paraselli (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for repelling blood-sucking and biting insects, ticks and mites involving treating an object or area with a blood-sucking and biting insects, ticks and mites repelling effective amount of camphor lactams, verbenone lactams, dolicholactams, dolicholactone, and their precursors, and mixtures thereof, and optionally a carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/826431 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 35/06 (20130101) A01N 35/06 (20130101) A01N 35/06 (20130101) A01N 35/06 (20130101) A01N 35/06 (20130101) A01N 35/06 (20130101) A01N 35/08 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/16 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/42 (20130101) A01N 43/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 43/46 (20130101) A01N 43/46 (20130101) A01N 43/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09101142 | Chauhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kamlesh R. Chauhan (Laurel, Maryland); Ulrich R. Bernier (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Unique volatile pyrethroids and a method for repelling and/or killing insects involving treating an object or area with an insect repelling effective amount or insect killing effective amount of at least one unique volatile pyrethroid and optionally a carrier. Also a method for repelling and/or killing insects involving treating an object or area with an insect repelling effective amount or insect killing effective amount of at least one compound selected from bioresmethrin, D-allethrin, ethofenprox, prallethrin, transfluthrin, permethrin, and mixtures thereof, and optionally a carrier; wherein the object or area is clothing or items attached to clothing. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/444150 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 53/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 13/04 (20130101) C07C 53/134 (20130101) C07C 69/743 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gordon W. Selling (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon W. Selling (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Cross-linked zein articles are prepared by a melt process where zein is mixed with polyethylene maleic anhdyride. The melt processing can be conducted as a batch process (e.g., as in a torque rheometer) or as a continuous process (e.g., as in reactive extrusion using a screw extruder). This process provides a zein article that has reduced solubility in acetic acid (a solvent that normally dissolves unaltered zein) and/or increased tensile strength. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/609336 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/107 (20130101) C07K 14/425 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 8/46 (20130101) C08F 22/04 (20130101) C08F 222/08 (20130101) Derivatives of Natural Macromolecular Compounds C08H 1/02 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09102931 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zonglin L. Liu (Peoria, Illinois); Jaewoong Moon (Andover, Massachusetts); Patricia J. Slininger (Metamora, Illinois); Menggen Ma (Wenjiang, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zonglin L. Liu (Peoria, Illinois); Jaewoong Moon (Andover, Massachusetts); Patricia J. Slininger (Metamora, Illinois); Menggen Ma (Wenjiang, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method to incorporate xylose transport related genes into a yeast strain for lignocelluloses to ethanol production. More specifically, the invention relates to novel Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains NRRL Y-50463 and yeast strains having novel xylose transporter genes, the genes deposited as GenBank JF343555, GenBank JF343556, GenBank JF343557, GenBank JF343558, and GenBank JF343559. The yeast strains having said genes are deposited as Y-50465, Y-50466, Y-50746, Y-50747, Y-50748, and Y-50749. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/563868 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/90 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/79 (20130101) |
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| US 09102985 | Khatib |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hasan Khatib (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Single nucleotide polymorphic sites of the bovine MAP1B, PPP1R11, and DDX4 genes are associated with improved bull fertility as measured by e.g. sire conception rates. Nucleic acid molecules, arrays, kits, methods of genotyping and marker-assisted bovine breeding methods based on these SNPs are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/798181 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/02 (20130101) A01K 67/027 (20130101) A01K 2227/101 (20130101) A01K 2267/02 (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 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US PP25797 | Pounders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, A Government Agency (Washington, District of Columbia); Capstone Plants Inc. (Grand Saline, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CAPSTONE PLANTS, INC (Grand Saline, Texas); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecil T Pounders (Poplarville, Mississippi); James B Berry (Mineola, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cultivar of Azalea named ‘AZ 35’ that is characterized by its compact, rounded plant habit with a top to bottom leaf canopy, its two distinct blooming periods from late March to early April and from late July into September in Texas and Mississippi, its spider form petals, that are pink in color and elongated in the spring and less elongated and tinted lavender in the fall, its narrow, sandpaper-textured foliage that is light green in color and blushed purple in the winter, its high level of resistance to spider mites, aphids, lace bugs, its high tolerance to heat stress, its stem and flower buds that are resistant to cold damage down to 14° F., its ease and speed of propagation by cuttings, and its very vigorous growth rate. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/998939 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/239 |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09101436 | Chow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laurence C. Chow (Potomac, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA FOUNDATION (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence C. Chow (Potomac, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are endodontic filling materials and methods. A method for filling a dental root canal may include providing a hydrosetting filling material and inserting the hydrosetting filling material into the dental root canal, the material setting in the root canal to form a biocompatible filling. The hydrosetting filling material comprises a hydrogel former and a filler. The hydrogel former is at least one of a reactive organic hydrogel formers, an inorganic hydrogel formers, and a non-reactive organic hydrogel formers, and the filler is at least one of a self-hardening and a non-hardening filler. Plural filling material precursor compositions that collectively contain hydrogel formers and fillers may be provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550543 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 5/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 6/0038 (20130101) |
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| US 09101928 | Mehta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tammy Burd Mehta (San Jose, California); Anne R. Kopf-Sill (Portola Valley, California); J. Wallace Parce (Palo Alto, California); Andrea W. Chow (Los Altos, California); Luc J. Bousse (Los Altos, California); Michael R. Knapp (Palo Alto, California); Theo T. Nikiforov (San Jose, California); Steve Gallagher (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tammy Burd Mehta (San Jose, California); Anne R. Kopf-Sill (Portola Valley, California); J. Wallace Parce (Palo Alto, California); Andrea W. Chow (Los Altos, California); Luc J. Bousse (Los Altos, California); Michael R. Knapp (Palo Alto, California); Theo T. Nikiforov (San Jose, California); Steve Gallagher (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of transportable particle sets is used in a microfluidic device for performing chemical reactions in the microfluidic device. The microfluidic device comprises a main channel and intersecting side channels, the main channel and side channels forming a plurality of intersections. The array of particle sets is disposed in the main channel, and the side channels are coupled to reagents. As the particle sets are transported through the intersections of the main channel and the side channels, reagents are flowed through the side channels into contact with each array member (or selected array members), thereby providing a plurality of chemical reactions in the microfluidic system. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/015242 |
| 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 | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/00317 (20130101) B01J 2219/00459 (20130101) B01J 2219/00468 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0409 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/02 (20130101) C07H 21/04 (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 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 2525/186 (20130101) C12Q 2527/125 (20130101) C12Q 2535/101 (20130101) C12Q 2563/173 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44756 (20130101) G01N 35/0098 (20130101) G01N 2035/00574 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09101939 | Gaitan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Gaitan (North Potomac, Maryland); John T. Elliott (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jennifer Hong Gordon (Baltimore, Maryland); Darwin R. Reyes-Hernandez (Clarksburg, Maryland); Petra S. Dittrich (Zurich, Switzerland); Conni Hanke (Zurich, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various aspects are described for selectivity capturing cells or bioparticles on designated surfaces in dielectrophoretic systems and processes. A particular adhesive composition is described for enhancing cell retention. In addition, certain permeable polyester membranes used in the systems and processes are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/623925 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David L. Craft (Ft. Thomas, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cognis IP Management GmbH (Duesseldorf, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Craft (Ft. Thomas, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically modified strains of C. tropicalis, which will not revert to wild-type activity at the POX 4 and/or POX 5 locus, are disclosed. The strains are β-oxidation blocked and have been transformed through homologous recombination with a construct which deletes a portion of the POX 4 and/or POX 5 gene. The modified strains may be used to increase yields of dicarboxylic acids produced in host cells of the strains. Methods for blocking the β-oxidation pathway in a C. tropicalis host cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244677 |
| 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 | Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/44 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09102984 | Abbud-Antaki |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rula Abbud-Antaki (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rula Abbud-Antaki (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for identification of genes related to cancer cell growth. In particular, the present invention provides functional genomic profiling of primary patient cells for identification of targeted and efficacious patient and cell-specific treatment modalities by employing a cancer biochip system (CBCS) which demonstrates improved plating efficiency, improved transfection efficiency and improved silencing efficiency. The present invention also provides a method of classifying a cancer patient based on response of cancer cells of the patient to a plurality of active agents for prediction of efficacious treatment of the cancer patient. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441855 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09104104 | Wright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orthogonal, Inc. (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthogonal, Inc. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Warren Wright (Fairport, New York); Diane Carol Freeman (Pittsford, New York); Frank Xavier Byrne (Webster, New York); John Andrew DeFranco (Rochester, New York); Sandra Rubsam (Webster, New York); Terrence Robert O'Toole (Webster, New York); Douglas Robert Robello (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorinated photopolymer is formed on a device substrate and exposed to patterned radiation. The photopolymer has a total fluorine content in a weight range of 15 to 60% and comprises at least three distinct repeating units, including a first repeating unit having a fluorine-containing group, a second repeating unit having an acid- or alcohol-forming precursor group, and a third repeating unit different from the first and second repeating units. The pattern-exposed photopolymer layer is contacted with a developing solution comprising at least a first fluorinated solvent that dissolves the unexposed photopolymer thereby forming a developed structure having a first pattern of photopolymer covering the substrate and a complementary second pattern of uncovered substrate. The developing solution is selected to provide a maximum photopolymer contrast in a range of 1.9 to 5.0. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/260705 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/20 (20130101) G03F 7/038 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/40 (20130101) G03F 7/422 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09106160 | Loverich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KCF TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KCF TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob J. Loverich (State College, Pennsylvania); Richard T. Geiger (Eugene, Oregon); Stephen J. Wenner (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy harvesting device utilizing a monolithic, mesoscale, single-degree-of-freedom inertial based resonator in which the support structure, beam-spring, and proof mass are a single component without joints, bonds, or fasteners. Frequency tuning features include holes in the proof mass in which mass can be added to change the devices resonance frequency as well as levers which add curvature to the beam-spring system and adjust system stiffness. Robustness is increase by designing the resonator to exhibit nonlinear behavior such that its power density is maximized for low vibration amplitudes and minimized for high amplitudes. The device structural resonance modes are designed to be much higher than the resonators proof mass-spring resonance frequency. Electromechanical transducers are used to convert the resonators mechanical energy to electrical energy. Electrical circuitry is included to extract and condition the electrical charge. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731739 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 11/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09101276 | Georgopoulos |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Apostolos Georgopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A set of brain data representing a time series of neurophysiologic activity acquired by spatially distributed sensors arranged to detect neural signaling of a brain (such as by the use of magnetoencephalography) is obtained. The set of brain data is processed to obtain a dynamic brain model based on a set of statistically-independent temporal measures, such as partial cross correlations, among groupings of different time series within the set of brain data. The dynamic brain model represents interactions between neural populations of the brain occurring close in time, such as with zero lag, for example. The dynamic brain model can be analyzed to obtain the neurophysiologic assessment of the brain. Data processing techniques may be used to assess structural or neurochemical brain pathologies. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825509 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0476 (20130101) A61B 5/0482 (20130101) A61B 5/04008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09101520 | Goldish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affair (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Goldish (Plymouth, Minnesota); Andrew Hansen (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Eric A. Nickel (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel approach to improving the use of wheelchairs by offering the ability for the wheelchair to transition between accommodation for a seated position, and accommodation for a standing position, more particularly, wherein the inventive mobile manual standing wheelchair allows for a standing position during the course of mobile use, and which also permits the user to traverse narrow entrances and doorframes, and also allows the user to have improved access in front for elevated surfaces such as countertops and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/552235 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/08 (20130101) A61G 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61G 5/14 (20130101) A61G 5/026 (20130101) A61G 2005/128 (20130101) A61G 2005/1051 (20130101) A61G 2200/56 (20130101) Rider Propulsion of Wheeled Vehicles or Sledges; Powered Propulsion of Sledges or Cycles; Transmissions Specially Adapted for Such Vehicles B62M 1/14 (20130101) B62M 1/36 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09104474 | Kaul et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himanshu Kaul (Portland, Oregon); Mark A. Anders (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sanu K. Mathew (Hillsboro, Oregon); Ram K. Krishnamurthy (Hillsboro, Oregon); William C. Hasenplaugh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Randy L. Allmon (North Grafton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Enoch (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention may provide methods and circuits for energy efficient floating point multiply and/or add operations. A variable precision floating point circuit may determine the certainty of the result of a multiply-add floating point calculation in parallel with the floating-point calculation. The variable precision floating point circuit may use the certainty of the inputs in combination with information from the computation, such as, binary digits that cancel, normalization shifts, and rounding, to perform a calculation of the certainty of the result. A floating point multiplication circuit may determine whether a lowest portion of a multiplication result could affect the final result and may induce a replay of the multiplication operation when it is determined that the result could affect the final result. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/730390 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/483 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 7/5443 (20130101) G06F 2207/382 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09104506 | Bouillet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Bouillet (Hawthorne, New York); Mark D. Feblowitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hanhua Feng (Hawthorne, New York); Anand Ranganathan (Hawthorne, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Hawthorne, New York); Octavian Udrea (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bouillet (Hawthorne, New York); Mark D. Feblowitz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hanhua Feng (Hawthorne, New York); Anand Ranganathan (Hawthorne, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Hawthorne, New York); Octavian Udrea (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer program product for assembling and deploying multi-platform flow based applications. An information processing flow that produces a result is assembled, the information processing flow includes components connected by data links, a component includes software code that describes at least one of an input constraint or an output constraint of the component, and at least two of the components are deployable on different computing platforms. The information processing flow is partitioned into sub-flows, such that for each sub-flow every component in the sub-flow is deployable on the same computing platform. The sub-flows are deployed on their respective computing platforms. |
| FILED | Friday, November 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/626745 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09106814 | Lochner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dept. of Justice (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Blair Lochner (Occoquan, Virginia); Patrick Andrew Buxton (Spotsylvania, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for rotating a sensing device about a pan axis and a tilt axis may include an enclosure, first and second rotatable dials configured to allow a user to adjust an angular pan orientation and an angular tilt orientation, respectively, of the sensing device. The apparatus may include outer and inner concentric shafts attached to the first dial and the second dial, respectively. The apparatus may also include a frame assembly attached to the outer shaft such that the frame assembly rotates about the pan axis as the first dial is rotated. The frame assembly may include a base configured to rotate about the tilt axis and that supports the sensing device. The frame assembly may also include a pin and gear assembly operatively coupling the base to the inner shaft such that rotation of the second dial rotates the base about the tilt axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676621 |
| ART UNIT | 2662 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 11/10 (20130101) F16M 11/18 (20130101) F16M 11/2014 (20130101) F16M 13/02 (20130101) F16M 13/027 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/2251 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09102397 | Wood |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor Howard Wood (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil, a fan assembly and an unducted contra-rotating fan engine include fabricating at least one airfoil including a suction and a pressure side coupled together at a leading and a trailing edge and extending therebetween. The airfoil includes a plurality of chord sections having a chord length. The airfoil including a tip profile defining a reducing slope extending from the leading edge at the tip portion along at least a portion of the chord length. The tip profile is configured to reduce the high unsteady pressure near the tip portion of the airfoil. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/330766 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 11/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 2027/005 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 1/26 (20130101) F01D 5/141 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/722 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/66 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49336 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09102626 | Hecht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona); Omar Khdour (Phoenix, Arizona); Sandipan Roy Chowdhury (Tempe, Arizona); Poulami Talukder (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona); Omar Khdour (Phoenix, Arizona); Sandipan Roy Chowdhury (Tempe, Arizona); Poulami Talukder (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for identifying therapeutic agents that are multifunctional radical quenchers. It also provides compounds of formula (I), (II), or (II-A): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of using these compounds in a variety of applications, such as treatment or suppression of diseases associated with decreased mitochondrial function resulting in diminished ATP production and/or oxidative stress and/or lipid peroxidation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/009437 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/94 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 279/20 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5079 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09105016 | Briggman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chandra A. Briggman (Springfield, Virginia); Jane Elizabeth Quenk (Washington, District of Columbia); Timothy M. Moran (National Harbor, Maryland); Thomas J. Foti (Annandale, Virginia); Robert E. Dixon, Jr. (Haymarket, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandra A. Briggman (Springfield, Virginia); Jane Elizabeth Quenk (Washington, District of Columbia); Timothy M. Moran (National Harbor, Maryland); Thomas J. Foti (Annandale, Virginia); Robert E. Dixon, Jr. (Haymarket, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium are. In one embodiment, a method is provided for receiving tracking data regarding a delivery item, determining, based on the tracking data, whether supplemental content is associated with the delivery item, and automatically scheduling delivery of the supplemental content when supplemental content is associated with the delivery item. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619074 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/083 (20130101) G06Q 10/0833 (20130101) G06Q 10/1093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 51/14 (20130101) H04L 51/22 (20130101) H04L 51/34 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09101572 | Pushko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Pushko (Frederick, Maryland); Irina Tretyakova (Frederick, Maryland); Igor Lukashevich (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEDIGEN, INC. (Frederick, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Pushko (Frederick, Maryland); Irina Tretyakova (Frederick, Maryland); Igor Lukashevich (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are i-DNA™ vectors and vaccines and methods for using the same. The i-DNA™ generates live attenuated vaccines in eukaryotic cells in vitro or in vivo for pathogenic RNA viruses, particularly chikungunya virus (CHIKV). When iDNA is injected into the vaccine recipient, RNA of live attenuated virus is generated by in vivo transcription in the recipient's tissues. This initiates production of progeny attenuated viruses in the tissues of the vaccine recipient, as well as elicitation of an effective immune response protecting against wild-type, non-attenuated virus. |
| FILED | Monday, January 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/519948 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/36122 (20130101) C12N 2770/36134 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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