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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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| US 09144365 | Constance et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Constance (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Todd Fricke (New Albany, Indiana); Michael A. Kurk (Georgetown, Indiana); Samuel N. Logan (Greenville, Indiana); Scott Moyers (New Albany, Indiana); Tony Shulthise (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TECHSHOT, INC. (Greenville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Constance (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Todd Fricke (New Albany, Indiana); Michael A. Kurk (Georgetown, Indiana); Samuel N. Logan (Greenville, Indiana); Scott Moyers (New Albany, Indiana); Tony Shulthise (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for feeding washing racks to an entrance of a washer, comprising: a directionally alternating transfer conveyor positioned at, and able to communicate said washing racks with, said entrance of said washer; said conveyor having a first receiving mode, a second receiving mode, and a discharge mode; and a pre-wash enclosure substantially surrounding said conveyor and including a first and second door, said first and said second door each actuable between an open position and a closed position; and a pre-wash selective water flow interior of said pre-wash enclosure and directed generally toward said conveyor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/443494 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Domestic Washing or Cleaning; Suction Cleaners in General A47L 15/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 37/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09144861 | Sokol et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Sokol (Dublin, Ohio); Jeff L. Dulaney (Delaware, Ohio); Nickolas K. McCoy (Lewis Center, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LSP Technologies, Inc. (Dublin, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Sokol (Dublin, Ohio); Jeff L. Dulaney (Delaware, Ohio); Nickolas K. McCoy (Lewis Center, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for laser peening hidden surfaces. In one embodiment, a laser processing pen is provided, the laser processing pen comprising: an elongated member, comprising: a laser pulse entry portion; a laser pulse exit portion, wherein the laser pulse exit portion includes at least one optical lens; and at least one tape guide capable of channeling at least a non-adhesive tape overlay in proximity of the laser pulse exit portion. |
| FILED | Sunday, June 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/487212 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 26/009 (20130101) B23K 26/18 (20130101) B23K 26/0069 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23K 26/0648 (20130101) B23K 26/0884 (20130101) |
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| US 09144905 | Sinapov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jivko Sinapov (Ames, Iowa); Heiko Hoffmann (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is system for identifying functional elements of objects for robotic manipulation. The system causes a robot to manipulate an object, the robot having an audio sensor and touch sensors. A three-dimensional (3D) location of each audio event that produces a response during manipulation of the object is recorded. Additionally, a 3D location of each tactile event that produces a response during manipulation of the object is recorded. A 3D location of each audio and tactile event in 3D space is then determined. A 3D audio point cloud and a 3D tactile point cloud are generated. Then, the 3D audio point cloud and the 3D tactile point cloud are registered with a 3D model point cloud of the object. Finally, an annotated 3D model point cloud of the object is generated, which encodes the location of a functional element of the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/160417 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/1671 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/016 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09144944 | White |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Owen White (Orillia Ontario, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Groen Brothers Aviation, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Owen White (Orillia Ontario, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are disclosed for manufacture of a composite rotor blade spar having non-uniform wall thickness. Tooling for manufacturing include a first mold defining a first mold surface and a second mold comprising a rigid layer and a heated layer secured to the rigid layer and defining a second mold surface. A plurality of heating elements embedded in the second mold are activated according to a plurality of different temperature progressions effective to cure portions of the uncured composite blade spar positioned between the first and second mold surfaces coextensive with each heating element of the plurality of heating elements. In some embodiments, the second mold defines a root portion and first and second branch portions. A shear web is placed between the first and second branch portions and is bonded to a blade spar skin surrounding the second mold during curing of the blade spar skin. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/317749 |
| 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 33/02 (20130101) B29C 35/0288 (20130101) B29C 70/345 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 70/462 (20130101) B29C 2035/0211 (20130101) Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/473 (20130101) B64C 2027/4736 (20130101) |
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| US 09145159 | O'Toole et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aaron O'Toole (Indian Head, Maryland); William E Transue (Indian Head, Maryland); James F Murphy (Fort Washington, Maryland); Bonnie J Richardson (Bryans Road, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron O'Toole (Indian Head, Maryland); William E Transue (Indian Head, Maryland); James F Murphy (Fort Washington, Maryland); Bonnie J Richardson (Bryans Road, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A tool sled having a body with a concave top surface and a convex bottom surface is provided and includes a flat plate and a handle. The bottom surface is symmetric about a transverse axis and passes through the body in a direction perpendicular to a direction of movement of the sled. A flat plate in contact with the top surface along two contact lines runs across the concave surface where each contact line is parallel to the transverse axis. A handle attached to the body extends upwardly from the top surface and outwardly from the body along a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction of movement of the sled. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/121428 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g Hand Carts or Perambulators; Sledges B62B 15/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145211 | Sadeck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A parachute canopy system includes a canopy having a skirt and a suspension line system, where each suspension line of the suspension line system is attached to the skirt. A pair of first line members is attached to the canopy, the pair of first line members extending in a substantially radial direction away from the skirt towards a center of the canopy. A first end of each line member in the pair of first line members is connected together to the suspension line at the skirt. A first end of the second line member is connected to adjacent second ends of adjacent pairs of first line members that extend towards the center of the canopy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/623862 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 17/14 (20130101) B64D 17/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145213 | Myer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph D. Myer (Avon, Indiana); Steven W. Tomlinson (Brownsburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine is disclosed which is capable of being reconfigured for one operating mode to another. A display is provided that permits a pilot or other operator to select between engine modes. One aspect is the ability to provide variable cooling that can be controlled by various devices. The variable cooling features can be used with devices such as cooled turbine components like vanes and/or blades. Devices can be used to reconfigure the performance and/or operability of a gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/132891 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 27/10 (20130101) B64D 31/00 (20130101) B64D 31/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 6/20 (20130101) F02C 7/12 (20130101) F02C 9/00 (20130101) F02C 9/26 (20130101) F02C 9/48 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/323 (20130101) F05D 2270/07 (20130101) F05D 2270/20 (20130101) F05D 2270/051 (20130101) |
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| US 09145398 | Trent et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John O. Trent (Louisville, Kentucky); Jason B. Meier (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments of this invention include methods for treating disease and methods for administering a compound of Formula (I). In some aspects of the invention, diseases can be treated by administration of compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I). Pharmaceutical compositions of some embodiments of the present invention comprise a compound of Formula (I). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/289712 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/41 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/132 (20130101) A61K 31/335 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/472 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 31/4015 (20130101) A61K 31/4045 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/4965 (20130101) A61K 31/4985 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 217/24 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145424 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Yinan Zhang (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. The invention also provides methods of preparing the provided compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103728 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/20 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145555 | Smolke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christina D. Smolke (Stanford, California); Chase L. Beisel (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina D. Smolke (Stanford, California); Chase L. Beisel (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to nucleic acids that encode an miRNA and a sensor domain that can respond to a ligand. In some embodiments, the sensor domain is an RNA aptamer that modulates processing of the miRNA by an RNA processing enzyme, for example, Drosha. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753778 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09145575 | Liu 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) | Gang L. Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jonathan A. Ellman (Guilford, Connecticut); Luke P. Lee (Orinda, California); Fanqing Frank Chen (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to the in vitro detection of proteases using a single peptide-conjugate nanocrescent surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) probes with at least nanomolar sensitivity. The probe enables detection of proteolytic activity in extremely small volume and at low concentration. In certain embodiments the probes comprise an indicator for the detection of an active protease, where the indicator comprises a nanocrescent attached to a peptide, where said peptide comprises a recognition site for the protease and a Raman tag attached to the peptide. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752069 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 2333/974 (20130101) G01N 2333/96433 (20130101) G01N 2333/96466 (20130101) |
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| US 09145702 | Sanderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry M. Sanderson (Tucson, Arizona); Frederick B. Koehler (Tucson, Arizona); Thomas P. McCreery (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a structure configured to undergo oscillatory movement. The system also includes a friction damping clamp coupled to the structure. The friction damping clamp includes a housing having a groove. The friction damping clamp also includes a roller positioned at least partially within the groove, where the groove has first and second ramps. The roller is configured to move up each ramp of the groove so that more compression is applied on the structure and to move down each ramp of the groove so that less compression is applied on the structure. The roller may be configured to apply more compression on the structure to increase friction between portions of the structure, to apply less compression on the structure to decrease friction between the portions of the structure, and to apply substantially no compression on the structure when the roller is located at a center of the groove. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760665 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Construction of Bridges, or Viaducts; Assembly of Bridges E01D 19/00 (20130101) E01D 19/043 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/985 (20130101) Buildings or Like Structures for Particular Purposes; Swimming or Splash Baths or Pools; Masts; Fencing; Tents or Canopies, in General E04H 9/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E04H 9/027 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 7/00 (20130101) F16F 7/1022 (20130101) |
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| US 09145779 | Joe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher R. Joe (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Karen A. Thole (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Joe (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Karen A. Thole (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An example turbine component cooling arrangement includes a film plate having a plurality of film channels extending from film channel entrances on a first side of the film plate to corresponding film channel exits on an opposing second side of the film plate. The arrangement also includes an impingement plate establishing a plurality of impingement channels. The impingement plate is spaced a distance from the film plate. The plurality of impingement channels are configured to direct a fluid across the distance to contact the film plate between adjacent ones of the film channel entrances. In one example, the distance from the film plate to the impingement plate is between two and four times more than diameter of one of the impingement channels. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402590 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/10 (20130101) F01D 25/246 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/11 (20130101) F05D 2260/201 (20130101) F05D 2260/202 (20130101) F05D 2260/607 (20130101) |
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| US 09145938 | Wood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Century, Inc. (Traverse City, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GUNITE CORPORATION (Evansville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Wood (Houghton, Michigan); Neil Anderson (Calumet, Michigan); Andrew Halonen (Calumet, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal matrix composite (MMC), such as a brake drum, includes a preform having ceramic particles and ceramic fibers and defining a plurality of voids. The metal matrix composite also includes a support element, such as a metal, disposed within the voids of the preform. The MMC has a wear surface defined by both the preform and the support element. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/925588 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping Clay or Other Ceramic Compositions; Shaping Slag; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g Plaster B28B 11/245 (20130101) B28B 21/48 (20130101) Preparation or Pretreatment of the Material to be Shaped; Making Granules or Preforms; Recovery of Plastics or Other Constituents of Waste Material Containing Plastics B29B 7/485 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0004 (20130101) B29C 47/0021 (20130101) B29C 47/38 (20130101) B29C 47/42 (20130101) B29C 47/0059 (20130101) B29C 47/0064 (20130101) B29C 47/402 (20130101) B29C 47/408 (20130101) B29C 47/881 (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 2105/06 (20130101) B29K 2909/02 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/565 (20130101) C04B 35/632 (20130101) C04B 35/638 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 35/6263 (20130101) C04B 35/6269 (20130101) C04B 35/6316 (20130101) C04B 35/6365 (20130101) C04B 35/62204 (20130101) C04B 35/62635 (20130101) C04B 35/62655 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/3418 (20130101) C04B 2235/3826 (20130101) C04B 2235/5228 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (20130101) C04B 2235/5268 (20130101) C04B 2235/5296 (20130101) C04B 2235/5436 (20130101) C04B 2235/6021 (20130101) C04B 2235/6562 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 65/125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1314 (20150115) Y10T 428/31678 (20150401) |
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| US 09146059 | Hoang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Triem T. Hoang (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Triem T. Hoang (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A capillary flow valve for use in a two phase heat transfer system such as a loop heat pipe, including an inlet port for receiving working fluid in a vapor-phase, an outlet port for outputting working fluid in a vapor-phase, and a porous wick material extending across the interior of the valve. Heating the wick evaporates liquid-phase working fluid from the wick and allows the vapor-phase working fluid to pass through the wick to the outlet port. Removing the heat allows liquid to condense in the wick, preventing flow of the vapor-phase working fluid through the wick to the outlet port. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570823 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 15/06 (20130101) F28D 15/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09146104 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virgina Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Smith (Reston, Virginia); Shashank Priya (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Components of an unmanned undersea vehicle are inspired by jellyfish that uses its flexible body and tilt sensing to achieve efficient swimming and turning. A tilt sensor, based on a statocyst, has a metal ball in a chamber lined with resistors. The tilt is sensed in accordance with which resistors the ball contacts. A composition of polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel with ferritin particles dispersed therein mimics the qualities of a jellyfish's mesoglea. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731378 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 9/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 2009/068 (20130101) G01C 2009/107 (20130101) |
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| US 09146113 | Funk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRX Systems, Inc. (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin E. Funk (Hanover, Maryland); Jared Napora (Severn, Maryland); Kamiar Kordari (McLean, Virginia); Ruchika Verma (Bethesda, Maryland); Amrit Bandyopadhyay (Washington, District of Columbia); Carole Teolis (Glenn Dale, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for recognizing features for location correction in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping operations, thus facilitating longer duration navigation, is provided. The system may detect features from magnetic, inertial, GPS, light sensors, and/or other sensors that can be associated with a location and recognized when revisited. Feature detection may be implemented on a generally portable tracking system, which may facilitate the use of higher sample rate data for more precise localization of features, improved tracking when network communications are unavailable, and improved ability of the tracking system to act as a smart standalone positioning system to provide rich input to higher level navigation algorithms/systems. The system may detect a transition from structured (such as indoors, in caves, etc.) to unstructured (such as outdoor) environments and from pedestrian motion to travel in a vehicle. The system may include an integrated self-tracking unit that can localize and self-correct such localizations. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/262618 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gang He (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang He (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A display system for a vehicle includes a sensor system configured to collect first terrain data; a database configured to store second terrain data; a processing unit coupled to the sensor system and database, the processing unit configured to receive the first and second terrain data, to integrate the first and second terrain data into a common three-dimensional view that comprises symbology representing both the first and second terrain data, and to supply display commands associated with the first and second terrain data; and a display device coupled the processing unit and configured to receive the display commands and operable to render the common three-dimensional view to thereby allow simultaneous viewing of the first and second terrain data. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240486 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 23/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 17/05 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/0021 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146173 | Knott et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Knott (Hollywood, Maryland); Brandon Hall (Hollywood, Maryland); Zachary Cass (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Knott (Hollywood, Maryland); Brandon Hall (Hollywood, Maryland); Zachary Cass (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The reusable energy absorbing lab seat 10 includes a seat bucket for holding an anthropomorphic test device, a seat support structure, an energy absorbing system, a false floor structure, and a fail-safe system. The seat support structure is for securing the seat bucket to a sled that corresponds to a horizontal accelerator. The energy absorbing system is for absorbing energy imposed by the horizontal accelerator on the seat bucket and the anthropomorphic test device. The false floor structure is for simulating a real floor of a vehicle or aircraft. The fail-safe system is for reducing damage to the reusable energy absorbing seat, the anthropomorphic test device, and lab facilities in case the energy absorbing system fails. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/178556 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146241 | Lavinder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Lavinder (Round Rock, Texas); Yariv Wine (Austin, Texas); Danny Boutz (Austin, Texas); Edward Marcotte (Austin, Texas); George Georgiou (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for identification of candidate antigen-specific variable regions as well as generation of antibodies or antigen-binding fragments that could have desired antigen specificity are provided. For example, in certain aspects, methods for determining amino acid sequences of serum antibody CDR3 and abundancy levels are described. In some aspects, methods for determining nucleic acid sequences of antibody variable region sequences and the frequency thereof in biological samples are provided. Furthermore, the invention provides methods for identification and generation of antibodies or antigen-binding fragments that comprise highly-represented CDR domains. |
| FILED | Friday, November 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684395 |
| 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 | Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/6848 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6857 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146309 | Shaw |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Justin Shaw (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved approach to direction finding using a super delta monopulse beamformer is disclosed. A super delta channel signal that includes direction finding information from two circular delta channels is formed and output by the super delta monopulse beamformer. This super delta channel signal uses only two channels, but is able to realize the accuracy of conventional three channel systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779471 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Analogue Computers G06G 7/12 (20130101) G06G 7/14 (20130101) Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/26 (20130101) H01Q 3/40 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146317 | Pandharkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rohit Pandharkar (Pune, India); Andreas Velten (Madison, Wisconsin); Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohit Pandharkar (Pune, India); Andreas Velten (Madison, Wisconsin); Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, a time of flight camera (ToF camera) can estimate the location, motion and size of a hidden moving object, even though (a) the hidden object cannot be seen directly (or through mirrors) from the vantage point of the ToF camera (including the camera's illumination source and sensor), and (b) the object is in a visually cluttered environment. The hidden object is a NLOS (non-line-of-sight) object. The time of flight camera comprises a streak camera and a laser. In these exemplary implementations, the motion and absolute locations of NLOS moving objects in cluttered environments can be estimated through tertiary reflections of pulsed illumination, using relative time differences of arrival at an array of receivers. Also, the size of NLOS moving objects can be estimated by backprojecting extremas of NLOS moving object time responses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479185 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| 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 17/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 17/89 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146345 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina); Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina); Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Dong (Clemson, South Carolina); Kunimasa Saitoh (Sapporo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic bandgap fibers are described that can be solid across the core and clad and have a large core diameter with little loss in the fundamental mode. In addition, the mode loss of the higher order modes can be much greater than that of the fundamental mode, providing high power fibers with high effective mode area. Excellent single mode output can be obtained from the fibers in length scale close to what is required for fiber laser and amplifiers. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/744968 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 37/0279 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/0238 (20130101) G02B 6/02309 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146377 | Helvajian |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photostructurable ceramic is processed using photostructuring process steps for embedding devices within a photostructurable ceramic volume, the devices including chemical, mechanical, electronic, electromagnetic, optical, and acoustic devices, all made in part by creating device material within the ceramic or by disposing a device material through surface ports of the ceramic volume, with the devices being interconnected using internal connections and surface interfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686986 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/12035 (20130101) G02B 2006/12171 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146441 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (Rome, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos M. Smith (Rome, New York); Michael L Fanto (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus providing an integrated waveguide device that creates entanglement between a symmetrical sequence of periodically spaced (in time) photons in a single input and output mode. The invention comprises a polarization maintaining integrated waveguide chip containing a number of delay lines, integrated multimode interferometers with the potential for rapid switching, a polarization controller and off chip computer logic and timing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/022272 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/212 (20130101) G02F 2201/20 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/70 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0852 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/933 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146448 | Franzini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Franzini (Hollis, New Hampshire); Matthew Robichaud (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Franzini (Hollis, New Hampshire); Matthew Robichaud (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Exceptionally crisp infrared images are provided by a binocular infrared imaging system for close in focusing that simultaneously directs the center lines of the optical channels to a close in point while at the same time providing auto focusing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948526 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0068 (20130101) A61B 5/489 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 7/06 (20130101) G02B 23/12 (20130101) G02B 23/18 (20130101) Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 15/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03B 17/48 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14625 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) H04N 5/2251 (20130101) H04N 13/0239 (20130101) H04N 13/0402 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146540 | Youngner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); Son T. Lu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); Son T. Lu (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating vapor cells comprises forming a plurality of vapor cell dies in a first wafer having an interior surface region and a perimeter, and forming a plurality of interconnected vent channels in the first wafer. The vent channels provide at least one pathway for gas from each vapor cell die to travel outside of the perimeter of the first wafer. The method further comprises anodically bonding a second wafer to one side of the first wafer, and anodically bonding a third wafer to an opposing side of the first wafer. The vent channels allow gas toward the interior surface region of the first wafer to be in substantially continuous pressure-equilibrium with gas outside of the perimeter of the first wafer during the anodic bonding of the second and third wafers to the first wafer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570363 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Time-interval Measuring G04F 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24149 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146771 | He 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) | Jun He (Beijing, China PRC); Tsai-Yang Jea (Poughkeepsie, New York); Gary J. Mincher (Poughkeepsie, New York); Hanhong Xue (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for responding to a timeout of a message in a parallel computer are provided. The parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes operatively coupled for data communications over one or more data communications networks. Each compute node includes one or more tasks. Embodiments include a first task of a first node sending a message to a second task on a second node. Embodiments also include the first task sending to the second node a command via a parallel operating environment (POE) in response to a timeout of the message. The command instructs the second node to perform a timeout motivated operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795451 |
| ART UNIT | 2199 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/54 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147104 | Adiga 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) | Umesh Adiga (Centerville, Ohio); Thomas J. Lamkin (Fairfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of classifying, with a computer processor, at least one feature of cells from a low contrast, digital image. The method includes generating a contrast-enhanced image by applying a high-pass filter to the low contrast, digital image. The contrast-enhanced image is smoothed with a first low pass filter. A background image, generated from the low contrast, digital image, is subtracted from the smoothed, contrast-enhanced image to form an analysis image. The at least one feature is identified in analysis image. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/069434 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/0014 (20130101) G06K 9/00147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/004 (20130101) G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0091 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/10064 (20130101) G06T 2207/20141 (20130101) G06T 2207/20152 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) G06T 2207/30242 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147255 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Shinko Y. Cheng (Cupertino, California); Yang Chen (Westlake Village, California); Alexander L. Honda (Sunnyvale, California); Kyungnam Kim (Oak Park, California); Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Changsoo S. Jeong (Rancho Palos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for rapid object detection combining structural information with bio-inspired attentional mechanisms. The system oversegments an input image into a set of superpixels, where each superpixel comprises a plurality of pixels. For each superpixel, a bounding box defining a region of the input image representing a detection hypothesis is determined. An average residual saliency (ARS) is calculated for the plurality of pixels belonging to each superpixel. Each detection hypothesis that is out of a range of a predetermined threshold value for object size is eliminated. Next, each remaining detection hypothesis having an ARS below a predetermined threshold value is eliminated. Then, color contrast is calculated for the region defined by the bounding box for each remaining detection hypothesis. Each detection hypothesis having a color contrast below a predetermined threshold is eliminated. Finally, the remaining detection hypotheses are output to a classifier for object recognition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/967227 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147401 | Shriberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth Shriberg (Berkeley, California); Luciana Ferrer (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Andreas Stolcke (Berkeley, California); Martin Graciarena (Belmont, California); Nicolas Scheffer (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Shriberg (Berkeley, California); Luciana Ferrer (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Andreas Stolcke (Berkeley, California); Martin Graciarena (Belmont, California); Nicolas Scheffer (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for speaker-calibrated speaker detection. One embodiment of a method for generating a speaker model for use in detecting a speaker of interest includes identifying one or more speech features that best distinguish the speaker of interest from a plurality of impostor speakers and then incorporating the speech features in the speaker model. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/332815 |
| ART UNIT | 2658 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 17/02 (20130101) G10L 17/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10L 17/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147447 | Dally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California); Brucek Kurdo Khailany (San Francisco, California); Thomas Hastings Greer, III (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for transmitting signals. The system comprises a first processing unit, a memory subsystem, and a package. The first processing unit is configured to include a first ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) interface circuit. The memory subsystem is configured to include a second GRS interface circuit. The package is configured to include one or more electrical traces that couple the first GRS interface to the second GRS interface, where the first GRS interface circuit and the second GRS interface circuit are each configured to transmit a pulse along one trace of the one or more electrical traces by discharging a capacitor between the one trace and a ground network. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/844570 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/1057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 7/1069 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147607 | Bayraktaroglu |
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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) | Burhan Bayraktaroglu (Yellow Springs, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for fabricating an ultra short gate length thin film transistor. A plurality of layers is deposited on a substrate including a refractory metal and a first and second photosensitive material. The second material is sensitive to longer wavelength optical radiation than the first material and the first material is not soluble in chemicals used to develop or strip the second material. A source contact pattern is defined in the second material to mask the first photosensitive material. The first material is processed to produce an undercut of the first material with respect to the second material. A metal layer is deposited at a normal incidence on the second material and an exposed portion of the refractory metal. The second material is removed. Exposed portions of the refractory metal corresponding to the undercut of the first material are removed to form a gap in the refractory metal. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/250032 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/76895 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66765 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147825 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevado, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang J. Kim (Henderson, Nevada); Seong Jun Kim (Reno, Nevada); Johnson Wong (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of fabricating a multiple degree of freedom actuator with inter-digitated electrodes including molding an electroactive polymer membrane so that a plurality of projections are formed around a cross section of an outer surface of the polymer membrane; depositing a metal electrode layer onto the outer surface of the molded membrane; and removing the plurality of projections on the outer surface on the molded membrane, thereby forming a multiple degree of freedom actuator with a plurality of inter-digitated electrodes. Also provided are actuators as well as devices (such as catheters) including such actuators formed by the disclosed methods of fabricating an actuator with multiple DOF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787587 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 25/0158 (20130101) A61M 2025/0058 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/29 (20130101) H01L 41/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147851 | Bartsch 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) | Carrie M. Bartsch (Beavercreek, Ohio); Jack P. Lombardi, III (Manlius, New York); Roberto S. Aga, Jr. (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable capacitor includes a first metal layer. The variable capacitor further includes a deoxyribonucleic acid-based (DNA-based) biopolymer layer including an organic component and a surfactant. The DNA-based biopolymer layer is adjacent the first metal layer. The variable capacitor further includes a conjugated polymer layer adjacent the DNA-based biopolymer layer and a second metal layer adjacent the conjugated polymer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/303627 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0038 (20130101) H01L 51/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0595 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147852 | Qian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Jihua Yang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Jihua Yang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell includes a low work function cathode, an active layer of an organic-inorganic nanoparticle composite, a ZnO nanoparticle layer situated between and physically contacting the cathode and active layers; and a transparent high work function anode that is a bilayer electrode. The inclusion of the ZnO nanoparticle layer results in a solar cell displaying a conversion efficiency increase and reduces the device degradation rate. Embodiments of the invention are directed to novel ZnO nanoparticles that are advantageous for use as the ZnO nanoparticle layers of the novel solar cells and a method to prepare the ZnO nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/254929 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/426 (20130101) H01L 51/4233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4273 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147911 | O'Sullivan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul B. O'Sullivan (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. O'Sullivan (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for extending the shelf life capacity of a coin cell, the system utilizing a coin cell; a voltage step up converter/regulator, configured to step up the voltage of output from the coin cell and the storage capacitor; and a storage capacitor receiving output from the voltage step up converter/regulator. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/377914 |
| ART UNIT | 2859 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/0065 (20130101) |
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| US 09147924 | Anthony et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore K. Anthony (Randallstown, Maryland); Amir I. Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore K. Anthony (Randallstown, Maryland); Amir I. Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments relate to a waveguide/coplanar waveguide (CPW) transition assembly adapted to transition RF signals from a waveguide to a coplanar waveguide (CPW), the waveguide/CPW transition assembly having at least some peripheral walls and including a central waveguide transition septum having the CPW disposed therein. The waveguide/coplanar waveguide (CPW) transition assembly includes an electronic component coupled to the CPW, and control circuitry operationally coupled with the electronic component. Portions of the control circuitry at least partially extend from outside of the at least some peripheral walls to within the at least some peripheral walls. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/224579 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 5/107 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09147992 | Peng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raydiance, Inc. (Petaluma, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coherent, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang Peng (Hercules, California); Kyungbum Kim (Santa Rosa, California); Michael M. Mielke (Santa Rosa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of high efficiency amplification of pulsed laser output for high energy ultra-short pulse laser systems are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for amplifying pulsed laser output for high energy ultra-short pulse laser systems include receiving pulsed laser output and amplifying the pulsed laser output by propagating the pulsed laser output through a non-silica based gain medium that has been doped with a concentration of rare earth ions, wherein the concentration of the rare earth ions within the gain medium is approximately greater than one percent by weight. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/673939 |
| 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 3/042 (20130101) H01S 3/175 (20130101) H01S 3/1608 (20130101) H01S 3/06712 (20130101) H01S 3/06716 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/06741 (20130101) H01S 3/06745 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) H01S 3/094007 (20130101) |
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| US 09148173 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/853857 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 13/27 (20130101) H03M 13/151 (20130101) H03M 13/1515 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0057 (20130101) |
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| US 09148221 | Duarte et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George M. Duarte (Saunderstown, Rhode Island); Javier A. Rinaldi (Middletown, Rhode Island); Jonathan S. Preston (Ashaway, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Duarte (Saunderstown, Rhode Island); Javier A. Rinaldi (Middletown, Rhode Island); Jonathan S. Preston (Ashaway, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for optical communication through a structure includes a light pipe extending from one side of the structure to another. A sensor in communication with one side of the structure is capable of producing a sensor signal responsive to an environmental condition. Transmitter electronics are joined to the sensor for producing an electrical signal. A light source is joined to the transmitter electronics and to the light pipe to provide an optical signal. An optical detector receives the optical signal from the light pipe on the other side of the structure. Receiver electronics are joined to the optical detector and provide an output signal. |
| FILED | Monday, November 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/088941 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/2504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09148291 | Lucani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Lucani (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Minji Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fang Zhao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiaomeng Shi (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Marie-Joseph Montpetit (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for utilizing network coding for multi-resolution multicast is presented. A network source partitions source content into a base layer and one or more refinement layers. The network source receives a respective one or more push-back messages from one or more network destination receivers, the push-back messages identifying the one or more refinement layers suited for each one of the one or more network destination receivers. The network source computes a network code involving the base layer and the one or more refinement layers for at least one of the one or more network destination receivers, and transmits the network code to the one or more network destination receivers in accordance with the push-back messages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/893411 |
| ART UNIT | 2424 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/1859 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/234327 (20130101) H04N 21/234363 (20130101) |
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| US 09148649 | Raskar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andreas Velten (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Raskar (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andreas Velten (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary implementations of this invention, a 3D range camera “looks around a corner” to image a hidden object, using light that has bounced (reflected) off of a diffuse reflector. The camera can recover the 3D structure of the hidden object. |
| FILED | Sunday, October 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646703 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/484 (20130101) G01S 7/487 (20130101) G01S 7/4808 (20130101) G01S 17/89 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 13/0253 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rachel E. Learned (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rachel E. Learned (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving in black space is described. The asymmetric interference channel is an appropriate model for many realistic scenarios, especially those arising more frequently as dynamic spectrum access (DSA) becomes more prevalent. As DSA nodes evolve to become more cognitive (e.g. self aware, environment aware, and adaptive), the prevailing white space seeking and gray space adapting policies leave a significant portion of the spectrum, namely, the black space, untapped. Described herein is a throughput versus SINR result and a corresponding technique for jointly choosing a transmission rate and multiuser detection algorithm that allows computationally constrained cognitive DSA nodes high rate operation in spectrum black space. Also described is an information theoretic motivated policy for seemingly insignificant waveform design choices that greatly enhance the throughput of a secondary sender-receiver pair while fulfilling a given complexity requirement within the secondary node's receiver. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/998566 |
| ART UNIT | 2469 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) H04W 24/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09148885 | Jakllari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gentian Jakllari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Subramanian Ramanathan (Westford, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); Daniel Alan Coffin (Sudbury, Massachusetts); William Nii Tetteh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Robert Burgess (Burlington, Massachusetts); Ryan Edward Irwin (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gentian Jakllari (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Subramanian Ramanathan (Westford, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); Daniel Alan Coffin (Sudbury, Massachusetts); William Nii Tetteh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John Robert Burgess (Burlington, Massachusetts); Ryan Edward Irwin (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods of operating a wireless network including allocating and assigning frequency channels using a dynamic and distributed process. For example, a network node in an ad hoc wireless network will assign frequency channels to one or more of its transceivers based on at least one of a list of allowed frequency channels and a neighbor-frequency channel list. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404895 |
| ART UNIT | 2479 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 72/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 72/0406 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EVERNU TECHNOLOGY LLC (Warminster, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ever Nu Technology, LLC (Warminster, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manhua Lin (Warminster, Pennsylvania); Xiang Wang (Nanchang, China PRC); Younghoon Yeom (Woodbridge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst, its method of preparation and its use for producing aliphatic ketones by subjecting alkanes C3 to C9 to a gas phase catalytic oxidation in the presence of air or oxygen, and, optionally, steam and/or one or more diluting gases. The catalyst comprises a catalytically active mixed metal oxide phase and a suitable support material onto and/or into which the active catalytic phase is dispersed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/602552 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/08 (20130101) B01J 23/002 (20130101) B01J 23/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/30 (20130101) B01J 23/92 (20130101) B01J 35/1004 (20130101) B01J 35/1014 (20130101) B01J 35/1023 (20130101) B01J 37/04 (20130101) B01J 37/08 (20130101) B01J 37/0036 (20130101) B01J 37/0201 (20130101) B01J 38/02 (20130101) B01J 38/12 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/12 (20130101) B01J 2523/15 (20130101) B01J 2523/15 (20130101) B01J 2523/27 (20130101) B01J 2523/68 (20130101) B01J 2523/68 (20130101) B01J 2523/3718 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/50 (20130101) C07C 45/33 (20130101) C07C 45/33 (20130101) C07C 45/34 (20130101) C07C 47/02 (20130101) C07C 49/10 (20130101) C07C 49/205 (20130101) C07C 49/403 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09144799 | Rose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Christopher G. Bailey (Pleasanton, California); Kevin Dean Ness (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California); Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Christopher G. Bailey (Pleasanton, California); Kevin Dean Ness (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable modular microfluidic system for preparation of a biological sample including a series of reconfigurable modules for automated sample preparation adapted to selectively include a) a microfluidic acoustic focusing filter module, b) a dielectrophoresis bacteria filter module, c) a dielectrophoresis virus filter module, d) an isotachophoresis nucleic acid filter module, e) a lyses module, and f) an isotachophoresis-based nucleic acid filter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943677 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/04 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2400/0436 (20130101) B01L 2400/0439 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2035/00326 (20130101) |
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| US 09145304 | Hobbs 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) | David T. Hobbs (North Augusta, South Carolina); Kathryn M. L. Taylor-Pashow (Aiken, South Carolina); Mark C. Elvington (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods directed to the synthesis and peroxide-modification of nanosized monosodium titanate are described. Methods include combination of reactants at a low concentration to a solution including a nonionic surfactant. The nanosized monosodium titanate can exhibit high selectivity for sorbing various metallic ions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/020504 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/005 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09145477 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lingbo Zhu (Midland, Michigan); Stéphane Costeux (Midland, Michigan); Kshitish A. Patankar (Midland, Michigan); Jonathan D. Moore (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Prepare a thermoplastic polymer foam having a porosity of 70% or more and at least one of: (i) an average cell size of 200 nanometers or less; and (ii) a nucleation density of at least 1×1015 effective nucleation sites per cubic centimeter of foamable polymer composition not including blowing agent using a foamable polymer composition containing a thermoplastic polymer selected from styrenic polymer and (meth)acrylic polymers, a blowing agent comprising at least 20 mole-percent carbon dioxide based on moles of blowing agent and an additive having a Total Hansen Solubility Parameter that differs from that of carbon dioxide by less than 2 and that is present at a concentration of 0.01 to 1.5 weight parts per hundred weight parts thermoplastic polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/421851 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 9/0023 (20130101) C08J 2203/00 (20130101) C08J 2205/042 (20130101) C08J 2325/12 (20130101) C08J 2333/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09145529 | Retsina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | API Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | API Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodora Retsina (Atlanta, Georgia); Vesa Pylkkanen (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides processes to convert biomass into energy-dense biomass for combustion, alone or in combination with another solid fuel. Some embodiments provide processes for producing energy-dense biomass from cellulosic biomass, comprising extracting the feedstock with steam and/or hot water to produce an extract liquor containing hemicellulosic oligomers, dissolved lignin, and cellulose-rich solids; separating the extract liquor, to produce dewatered cellulose-rich solids; hydrolyzing the dewatered cellulose-rich solids, thereby removing a portion of the cellulose, to produce intermediate solids (with higher energy density) and a hydrolysate; drying the intermediate solids to produce energy-dense biomass; and optionally recovering fermentable sugars from the hydrolysate. The energy-dense biomass may be pelletized into biomass pellets, which may have a similar energy density as torrefied pellets from wood. The hemicellulosic oligomers may be further hydrolyzed to produce additional fermentable sugars. The fermentable sugars may be fermented to ethanol or another product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/173332 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 5/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Saccharides Obtained From Natural Sources or by Hydrolysis of Naturally Occurring Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides or Polysaccharides C13K 13/007 (20130101) Cremation Furnaces; Consuming Waste Products by Combustion F23G 7/10 (20130101) F23G 7/105 (20130101) F23G 2900/50206 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/15 (20130101) Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09145542 | Liao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Liao (Los Angeles, California); Shota Atsumi (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Liao (Los Angeles, California); Shota Atsumi (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides recombinant microorganisms capable of producing isobutyraldehyde using CO2 as a carbon source. The invention further provides methods of preparing and using such microorganisms to produce isobutyraldehyde. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164635 |
| 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 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/1022 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/22 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09145551 | Fox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Taichi Takasuka (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher M. Bianchetti (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A multifunctional polypeptide capable of hydrolyzing cellulosic materials, xylan, and mannan is disclosed. The polypeptide includes the catalytic core (cc) of Clostridium thermocellum Cthe_0797 (CelE), the cellulose-specific carbohydrate-binding module CBM3 of the cellulosome anchoring protein cohesion region (CipA) of Clostridium thermocellum (CBM3a), and a linker region interposed between the catalytic core and the cellulose-specific carbohydrate binding module. Methods of using the multifunctional polypeptide are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/030290 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145553 | Hurt, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Ashley Hurt, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Dwayne A. Elias (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The current disclosure provides methods and kits for isolating nucleic acid from an environmental sample. The current methods and compositions further provide methods for isolating nucleic acids by reducing adsorption of nucleic acids by charged ions and particles within an environmental sample. The methods of the current disclosure provide methods for isolating nucleic acids by releasing adsorbed nucleic acids from charged particles during the nucleic acid isolation process. The current disclosure facilitates the isolation of nucleic acids of sufficient quality and quantity to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to utilize or analyze the isolated nucleic acids for a wide variety of applications including, sequencing or species population analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918201 |
| 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 3/527 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145567 | Wohlbach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana J. Wohlbach (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Audrey P. Gasch (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated gene sequences involved in xylose fermentation and related recombinant yeast which are useful in methods of enhanced biofuel production, particularly ethanol production. Methods of bioengineering recombinant yeast useful for biofuel production are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/307128 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/39 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 9/1205 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/10 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 101/01113 (20130101) C12Y 101/01307 (20130101) C12Y 207/01017 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09145575 | Liu 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) | Gang L. Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jonathan A. Ellman (Guilford, Connecticut); Luke P. Lee (Orinda, California); Fanqing Frank Chen (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to the in vitro detection of proteases using a single peptide-conjugate nanocrescent surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) probes with at least nanomolar sensitivity. The probe enables detection of proteolytic activity in extremely small volume and at low concentration. In certain embodiments the probes comprise an indicator for the detection of an active protease, where the indicator comprises a nanocrescent attached to a peptide, where said peptide comprises a recognition site for the protease and a Raman tag attached to the peptide. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752069 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 2333/974 (20130101) G01N 2333/96433 (20130101) G01N 2333/96466 (20130101) |
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| US 09145778 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Won-Wook Kim (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Kevin Weston McMahan (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Won-Wook Kim (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Kevin Weston McMahan (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a combustor for use with a gas turbine engine. The combustor may include a head end with a non-circular configuration, a number of fuel nozzles positioned about the head end, and a transition piece extending downstream of the head end. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/437954 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 9/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/14 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 5/08 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/46 (20130101) F23R 2900/00014 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09145785 | Bidkar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rahul Anil Bidkar (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Wolfe (Niskayuna, New York); Biao Fang (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Anil Bidkar (Niskayuna, New York); Christopher Wolfe (Niskayuna, New York); Biao Fang (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides an aerodynamic seal assembly for use with a turbo-machine. The aerodynamic seal assembly may include a number of springs, a shoe connected to the springs, and a secondary seal positioned about the springs and the shoe. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/040474 |
| ART UNIT | 3675 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 11/025 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09145865 | Van Dam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremy Daniel Van Dam (West Coxsackie, New York); Norman Arnold Turnquist (Carlisle, New York); Tsarafidy Raminosoa (Niskayuna, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Cohoes, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Daniel Van Dam (West Coxsackie, New York); Norman Arnold Turnquist (Carlisle, New York); Tsarafidy Raminosoa (Niskayuna, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Cohoes, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric machine is presented. The electric machine includes a hollow rotor; and a stator disposed within the hollow rotor, the stator defining a flow channel. The hollow rotor includes a first end portion defining a fluid inlet, a second end portion defining a fluid outlet; the fluid inlet, the fluid outlet, and the flow channel of the stator being configured to allow passage of a fluid from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the flow channel; and wherein the hollow rotor is characterized by a largest cross-sectional area of hollow rotor, and wherein the flow channel is characterized by a smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel, wherein the smallest cross-sectional area of the flow channel is at least about 25% of the largest cross-sectional area of the hollow rotor. An electric fluid pump and a power generation system are also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/538197 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines or Engines for Liquids F03B 3/103 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F03B 13/02 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 13/0646 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 3/085 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/20 (20130101) H02K 5/12 (20130101) H02K 5/20 (20130101) H02K 5/132 (20130101) H02K 5/1285 (20130101) H02K 7/14 (20130101) H02K 7/088 (20130101) H02K 7/1823 (20130101) H02K 9/19 (20130101) H02K 16/00 (20130101) H02K 21/22 (20130101) H02K 2213/12 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/14 (20130101) Y02E 10/223 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146168 | Mee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David K. Mee (Knoxville, Tennessee); Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Zachary C. Nienstedt (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Alex W. Nienstedt (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Layton N. Howell, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a passive, in-situ pressure sensor. The sensor includes a sensing element having a ferromagnetic metal and a tension inducing mechanism coupled to the ferromagnetic metal. The tension inducing mechanism is operable to change a tensile stress upon the ferromagnetic metal based on a change in pressure in the sensing element. Changes in pressure are detected based on changes in the magnetic switching characteristics of the ferromagnetic metal when subjected to an alternating magnetic field caused by the change in the tensile stress. The sensing element is embeddable in a closed system for detecting pressure changes without the need for any penetrations of the system for power or data acquisition by detecting changes in the magnetic switching characteristics of the ferromagnetic metal caused by the tensile stress. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/835700 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/0042 (20130101) G01L 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 7/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146180 | Van Berkel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Van Berkel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Olga S. Ovchinnikova (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for laser ablation of an analyte from a specimen and capturing of the analyte in a dispensed solvent to form a testing solution. A solvent dispensing and extraction system can form a liquid microjunction with the specimen. The solvent dispensing and extraction system can include a surface sampling probe. The laser beam can be directed through the surface sampling probe. The surface sampling probe can also serve as an atomic force microscopy probe. The surface sampling probe can form a seal with the specimen. The testing solution including the analyte can then be analyzed using an analytical instrument or undergo further processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/267482 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 1/22 (20130101) G01N 2001/045 (20130101) Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 30/02 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/165 (20130101) H01J 49/0463 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146311 | Haugen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C Haugen (Livermore, California); Gregory E Dallum (Livermore, California); Patrick A Welsh (Manteca, California); Carlos E Romero (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A homodyne motion sensor or detector based on ultra-wideband radar utilizes the entire received waveform through implementation of a voltage boosting receiver. The receiver includes a receiver input and a receiver output. A first diode is connected to the receiver output. A first charge storage capacitor is connected from between the first diode and the receiver output to ground. A second charge storage capacitor is connected between the receiver input and the first diode. A second diode is connected from between the second charge storage capacitor and the first diode to ground. The dual diode receiver performs voltage boosting of a RF signal received at the receiver input, thereby enhancing receiver sensitivity. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/083159 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/285 (20130101) G01S 13/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146312 | Rush et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bobby G. Rush (Edgewood, New Mexico); Robert Riley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bobby G. Rush (Edgewood, New Mexico); Robert Riley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Pre-processing is applied to a raw VideoSAR (or similar near-video rate) product to transform the image frame sequence into a product that resembles more closely the type of product for which conventional video codecs are designed, while sufficiently maintaining utility and visual quality of the product delivered by the codec. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/115654 |
| ART UNIT | 2483 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/90 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146328 | Gomez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Gomez (Kansas City, Missouri); Paul Jeffrey DeRego (Kansas City, Missouri); Patrick Andrew Ferrell (Kansas City, Missouri); Robert Anthony Thom (Kansas City, Missouri); Joshua J. Trujillo (Kansas City, Missouri); Brian Herridge (Chaska, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for generating seismic waves includes a housing, a strike surface within the housing, and a hammer movably disposed within the housing. An actuator induces a striking motion in the hammer such that the hammer impacts the strike surface as part of the striking motion. The actuator is selectively adjustable to change characteristics of the striking motion and characteristics of seismic waves generated by the impact. The hammer may be modified to change the physical characteristics of the hammer, thereby changing characteristics of seismic waves generated by the hammer. The hammer may be disposed within a removable shock cavity, and the apparatus may include two hammers and two shock cavities positioned symmetrically about a center of the apparatus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/184539 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/09 (20130101) G01V 1/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01V 1/168 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147447 | Dally et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Los Altos Hills, California); Brucek Kurdo Khailany (San Francisco, California); Thomas Hastings Greer, III (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for transmitting signals. The system comprises a first processing unit, a memory subsystem, and a package. The first processing unit is configured to include a first ground-referenced single-ended signaling (GRS) interface circuit. The memory subsystem is configured to include a second GRS interface circuit. The package is configured to include one or more electrical traces that couple the first GRS interface to the second GRS interface, where the first GRS interface circuit and the second GRS interface circuit are each configured to transmit a pulse along one trace of the one or more electrical traces by discharging a capacitor between the one trace and a ground network. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/844570 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/1057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 7/1069 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147503 | Coleman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jody Rustyn Coleman (Aiken, South Carolina); Eduardo B. Farfan (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jody Rustyn Coleman (Aiken, South Carolina); Eduardo B. Farfan (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for the characterization of areas of radiation in contaminated rooms are provided. One such device is a collimator with a collimator shield for reducing noise when measuring radiation. A position determination system is provided that may be used for obtaining position and orientation information of the detector in the contaminated room. A radiation analysis method is included that is capable of determining the amount of radiation intensity present at known locations within the contaminated room. Also, a visual illustration system is provided that may project images onto the physical objects, which may be walls, of the contaminated room in order to identify the location of radioactive materials for decontamination. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/212483 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 7/00 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147505 | Ivanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a network comprises disposing a solution comprising particulate materials in a solvent onto a superhydrophobic surface comprising a plurality of superhydrophobic features and interfacial areas between the superhydrophobic features. The plurality of superhydrophobic features has a water contact angle of at least about 150°. The method of preparing the network also comprises removing the solvent from the solution of the particulate materials, and forming a network of the particulate materials in the interfacial areas, the particulate materials receding to the interfacial areas as the solvent is removed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/287461 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/00 (20130101) B05D 5/08 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/442 (20130101) H01L 51/5209 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147786 | Keenihan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Keenihan (Midland, Michigan); Joseph A. Langmaid (Caro, Michigan); Robert J. Cleereman (Midland, Michigan); Andrew T. Graham (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Keenihan (Midland, Michigan); Joseph A. Langmaid (Caro, Michigan); Robert J. Cleereman (Midland, Michigan); Andrew T. Graham (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is premised upon a connector device and method that can more easily electrically connect a plurality of PV arrays and/or locate these arrays upon a building or structure. It also can optionally provide some additional components (e.g. a bypass diode and/or an indicator means) and can enhance the serviceability of the array. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/989743 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/048 (20130101) H01L 31/0508 (20130101) H01L 31/02008 (20130101) Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 12/79 (20130101) H01R 13/055 (20130101) H01R 13/113 (20130101) H01R 13/639 (20130101) H01R 31/00 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/25 (20141201) H02S 40/34 (20141201) H02S 40/36 (20141201) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 10/12 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) Y10T 29/49355 (20150115) Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147793 | Gessert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy A. Gessert (Conifer, Colorado); Rommel Noufi (Golden, Colorado); Ramesh G. Dhere (Lakewood, Colorado); David S. Albin (Denver, Colorado); Teresa Barnes (Evergreen, Colorado); James Burst (Lakewood, Colorado); Joel N. Duenow (Golden, Colorado); Matthew Reese (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Gessert (Conifer, Colorado); Rommel Noufi (Golden, Colorado); Ramesh G. Dhere (Lakewood, Colorado); David S. Albin (Denver, Colorado); Teresa Barnes (Evergreen, Colorado); James Burst (Lakewood, Colorado); Joel N. Duenow (Golden, Colorado); Matthew Reese (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing polycrystalline CdTe materials and devices that incorporate the polycrystalline CdTe materials are provided. In particular, a method of producing polycrystalline p-doped CdTe thin films for use in CdTe solar cells in which the CdTe thin films possess enhanced acceptor densities and minority carrier lifetimes, resulting in enhanced efficiency of the solar cells containing the CdTe material are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/127261 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/073 (20130101) H01L 31/1828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1836 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147795 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Li (San Jose, California); Peter J. Cousins (Los Altos, California); David D. Smith (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming emitters for back-contact solar cells are described. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a first solid-state dopant source above a substrate. The first solid-state dopant source includes a plurality of regions separated by gaps. Regions of a second solid-state dopant source are formed above the substrate by printing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/555383 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0682 (20130101) H01L 31/1804 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147852 | Qian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Jihua Yang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Qian (Gainesville, Florida); Jihua Yang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jiangeng Xue (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell includes a low work function cathode, an active layer of an organic-inorganic nanoparticle composite, a ZnO nanoparticle layer situated between and physically contacting the cathode and active layers; and a transparent high work function anode that is a bilayer electrode. The inclusion of the ZnO nanoparticle layer results in a solar cell displaying a conversion efficiency increase and reduces the device degradation rate. Embodiments of the invention are directed to novel ZnO nanoparticles that are advantageous for use as the ZnO nanoparticle layers of the novel solar cells and a method to prepare the ZnO nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/254929 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/426 (20130101) H01L 51/4233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/4273 (20130101) H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147888 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhien Liu (Canton, Ohio); Richard Goettler (Medina, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LG Fuel Cell Systems Inc. (North Canton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhien Liu (Canton, Ohio); Richard Goettler (Medina, 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 | 13/161384 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0217 (20130101) H01M 8/0247 (20130101) H01M 8/0256 (20130101) H01M 8/2425 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147919 | Friesen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Derek Wolfe (Adrian, Michigan); Paul Bryan Johnson (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLUIDIC, INC. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Derek Wolfe (Adrian, Michigan); Paul Bryan Johnson (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing sulfate salts of heteroatomic compounds using dialkyl sulfates as a primary reactant are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making ionic liquids from the sulfate salts of the heteroatomic compound, and electrochemical cells comprising the ionic liquids. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526058 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0014 (20130101) H01M 2300/0045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147931 | Eubanks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Travis Wayne Eubanks (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hung Loui (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacob Jeremiah McDonald (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic conductor substrate produced for mounting to an antenna includes a sheet of dielectric lattice material having a length, a width and a thickness that is less than the length and less than the width. Within the sheet of dielectric lattice material is disposed an array of dielectric elements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/833515 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 9/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09148019 | Goldsmith |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Y. Goldsmith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Y. Goldsmith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A computing architecture that facilitates autonomously controlling operations of a microgrid is described herein. A microgrid network includes numerous computing devices that execute intelligent agents, each of which is assigned to a particular entity (load, source, storage device, or switch) in the microgrid. The intelligent agents can execute in accordance with predefined protocols to collectively perform computations that facilitate uninterrupted control of the microgrid. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/241054 |
| ART UNIT | 2126 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02J 3/382 (20130101) H02J 3/383 (20130101) H02J 3/386 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/563 (20130101) Y02E 10/763 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09148481 | Boyd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald M. Boyd (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey Farrow (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The various technologies presented herein relate to generating copies of an incoming signal, wherein each copy of the signal can undergo different processing to facilitate control of bandwidth demands during communication of one or more signals relating to the incoming signal. A signal sharing component can be utilized to share copies of the incoming signal between a plurality of circuits/components which can include a first A/D converter, a second A/D converter, and a comparator component. The first A/D converter can operate at a low sampling rate and accordingly generates, and continuously transmits, a signal having a low bandwidth requirement. The second A/D converter can operate at a high sampling rate and hence generates a signal having a high bandwidth requirement. Transmission of a signal from the second A/D converter can be controlled by a signaling event (e.g., a signal pulse) being determined to have occurred by the comparator component. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477446 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/1205 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/40 (20130101) H04L 67/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Marra (Winter Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A damping structure for a turbomachine rotor. The damping structure including an elongated snubber element including a first snubber end rigidly attached to a first blade and extending toward an adjacent second blade, and an opposite second snubber end positioned adjacent to a cooperating surface associated with the second blade. The snubber element has a centerline extending radially inwardly in a direction from the first blade toward the second blade along at least a portion of the snubber element between the first and second snubber ends. Rotational movement of the rotor effects relative movement between the second snubber end and the cooperating surface to position the second snubber end in frictional engagement with the cooperating surface with a predetermined damping force determined by a centrifugal force on the snubber element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/190529 |
| ART UNIT | 3993 — Central Reexamination Unit (Mechanical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/22 (20130101) F01D 5/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US RE45703 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OneD Material LLC (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OneD Material LLC (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yimin Zhu (Fremont, California); Jay L. Goldman (Mountain View, California); Baixin Qian (Cupertino, California); Ionel C. Stefan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to SiC nanostructures, including SiC nanopowder, SiC nanowires, and composites of SiC nanopowder and nanowires, which can be used as catalyst supports in membrane electrode assemblies and in fuel cells. The present invention also relates to composite catalyst supports comprising nanopowder and one or more inorganic nanowires for a membrane electrode assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/505182 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 27/22 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/52 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/92 (20130101) H01M 4/925 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/8605 (20130101) H01M 4/8663 (20130101) H01M 4/8807 (20130101) H01M 4/9075 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09144229 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Clyde Hill, Washington); Wen Zhou (Foster, California); Robert J. Etches (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenes encoding exogenous antibodies are stably integrated into donor cells and are present in the somatic tissue of chimeric birds. The transgenes encode exogenous antibodies and are preferably expressed in the oviduct for collection in the egg. Tissue specificity is provided by selecting the content of the transgene accordingly. Birds whose genome is comprised of transgene-derived exogenous antibody-encoding DNA express exogenous antibodies having desirable chemical properties with increased therapeutic utility compared to antibodies derived from bacterial expression systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224274 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 67/0278 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/30 (20130101) A01K 2267/01 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/02 (20130101) C07K 2317/11 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) |
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| US 09144382 | Nazarian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saman Nazarian (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher Miller (Baltimore, Maryland); Takeshi Sasaki (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saman Nazarian (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher Miller (Baltimore, Maryland); Takeshi Sasaki (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive method of producing a three-dimensional cardiac electrogram characteristic map for use in catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia includes receiving left ventricle three-dimensional image data of a patient's heart; segmenting a left ventricle image of the patient's heart based on the left ventricle three-dimensional image data into scar tissue, normal myocardium tissue and left ventricle cavity regions; determining scar tissue thickness and normal myocardium tissue thickness for a plurality of portions of the left ventricle image of the patient's heart; receiving predetermined data that associate a value of at least one electrogram characteristic to each scar tissue thickness and each normal myocardium tissue thickness for the plurality of portions of said left ventricle image of said patient's heart; and generating the three-dimensional cardiac electrogram characteristic map of the at least one electrogram characteristic corresponding to the left ventricle image of the patient's heart based on the predetermined data. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/009755 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) |
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| US 09144383 | Zharov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and methods for the non-invasive manipulation and detection of target objects such as cells, pathogens, microparticles, and nanoparticles in vivo using an external magnetic field are described. In one aspect, a device and method for capturing and detecting intrinsically magnetic target objects or target objects labeled with at least one magnetic particle within the area of interest using an in vivo flow cytometer are described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945576 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 5/412 (20130101) A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 18/1815 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/22 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/30 (20130101) B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 2201/06 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1425 (20130101) G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 2015/1477 (20130101) |
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| US 09144461 | Kruecker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jochen Kruecker (Washington, District of Columbia); Sandeep Dalal (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Sheng Xu (Rockville, Maryland); Bradford J. Wood (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jochen Kruecker (Washington, District of Columbia); Sandeep Dalal (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Sheng Xu (Rockville, Maryland); Bradford J. Wood (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A therapy planning and image guidance and navigation for an interventional procedure are combined in one system. The system includes: a radio frequency ablation therapy planning component (1) capable of creating an initial treatment plan, adjusting the treatment plan to take into account data received during a procedure and transferring a treatment plan to a navigation component, a navigation system component (2) to guide an ablation probe (6) and a feedback sub-system (3) for determining actual ablation probe positions/orientations and actual ablation size/shape via imaging (4) and/or tracking (5) systems, and enabling exchange of information between the planning component and the navigation component. By combining and integrating procedure planning and navigation, and by providing feedback from the navigation component back to the planning component about actual electrode position and orientation and ablation volume, complex procedures can be carried out more accurately, efficiently, and potentially with better clinical outcomes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131886 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 18/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 18/1206 (20130101) A61B 18/1477 (20130101) A61B 18/1815 (20130101) A61B 19/5244 (20130101) A61B 2018/1425 (20130101) A61B 2019/504 (20130101) A61B 2019/507 (20130101) A61B 2019/5251 (20130101) A61B 2019/5276 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09144565 | Miller 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) | Josef M. Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Glenn E. Green (Dexter, Michigan); Colleen G. LePrell (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating hearing loss includes the step administering a composition to the mammal, wherein the composition consists essentially of a biologically effective amount of vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, a vasodilator comprising magnesium, and, optionally, a withanolide, and/or resveratrol. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/839760 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/07 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/355 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/355 (20130101) A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 31/375 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09144573 | Schuster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor L. Schuster (New York, New York); Yuling Chi (Bronx, New York); Young-Tae Chang (Singapore, Singapore); Jaeki Min (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor L. Schuster (New York, New York); Yuling Chi (Bronx, New York); Young-Tae Chang (Singapore, Singapore); Jaeki Min (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to prostaglandin transport. More specifically, the invention is directed to compounds that inhibit prostaglandin transport and subsequent COX-2 induction, and methods relating thereto. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/555408 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/713 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 251/54 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) |
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| US 09144579 | Uhrich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathryn E. Uhrich (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Roselin Rosario-Melendez (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polymers and methods for the treatment of pain and inflammation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/970220 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/775 (20130101) A61K 47/482 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09144596 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Satya Narayan (Gainesville, Florida); Aruna S. Jaiswal (Gainesville, Florida); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satya Narayan (Gainesville, Florida); Aruna S. Jaiswal (Gainesville, Florida); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions and methods that are useful for the treatment of neoplasia by reducing base excision repair (BER). Such compositions are useful, for example, for enhancing the efficacy of known chemotherapeutics, such as DNA alkylating agents. In particular, the invention features agents that mimic the interaction of APC with pol-β. Such agents reduce the activity of long patch- and single nucleotide-base extension repair pathways. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/527164 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/122 (20130101) A61K 31/194 (20130101) A61K 31/4196 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09144598 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yadong Wang (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Martin Oudega (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yadong Wang (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Martin Oudega (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed herein for increasing survival of transplanted cells, either in vitro or in vivo. In additional embodiments, methods are disclosed for treating a subject with a spinal cord injury or a neurodegenerative disorder. The methods include administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of cells, such as bone marrow stromal cells, and a therapeutically effective amount of a reverse thermal gel composition. The reverse thermal gel compositing includes a triblock copolymer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having the structure B-A-B in which A is one of a polyurethane or poly(ester urethane) group that comprises one or more pendant active groups, blocked active groups or active agents and B is a hydrophilic block, wherein the composition is a gel at 25° C.-40° C. and a liquid solution at a lower temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/459178 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/185 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09144604 | Robbins 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); National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Robbins (New York, New York); Rachel Schneerson (Bethesda, Maryland); Joanna Kubler-Kielb (Bethesda, Maryland); Christopher P. Mocca (Columbia, Maryland); Evguenii Vinogradov (Ottawa, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are immunogenic conjugates and therapeutic compositions that include such immunogenic conjugates. Also disclosed are methods of treating and/or inhibiting an Shigella sonnei infection. The disclosed immunogenic conjugates have the general structure: Pr—Sr—O—N═C-Kdo-OS wherein Pr is a carrier protein, Sr is an optional spacer moiety, Kdo is an 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid or a derivative thereof, and OS is an oligosaccharide or polysaccharide obtained from S. sonnei. In specific examples, the immunogenic conjugates include the core oligosaccharide obtained from S. sonnei having the structure: wherein R is between 1 and 10 disaccharide repeat units. In specific examples, the disaccharide repeat unit included in the immunogenic conjugate has the structure: α-L-AltNAcA-3-β-FucNAc4N-4-. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270220 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0283 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/06 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) A61K 47/48261 (20130101) A61K 47/48284 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) A61K 2039/6068 (20130101) A61K 2039/6081 (20130101) |
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| US 09144605 | Ikegami et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tetsuro Ikegami (Galveston, Texas); Birte Kalveram (Galveston, Texas); Sabarish Indran (Galveston, Texas); Olga Lihoradova (Galveston, Texas); Alexander Freiberg (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and compositions comprising a Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) wherein a heterologous nucleic acid encoding a dsRNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) inhibitor is inserted into the NSs region of the virus. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/766941 |
| 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 2039/5254 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2760/12034 (20130101) C12N 2760/12234 (20130101) |
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| US 09144694 | Cain |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles A. Cain (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Cain (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical imaging and therapy device is provided that may include any of a number of features. The device may include a Histotripsy transducer, a generator and controller configured to deliver Histotripsy energy from the transducer to target tissue, and an imaging system. In some embodiments, a method of treating tissue with Histotripsy energy comprises positioning a focus of a histotripsy transducer on a target tissue, delivering histotripsy energy from the histotripsy transducer through a bone aberrator, forming a histotripsy bubble cloud on the focus, and preventing the formation of secondary histotripsy bubble clouds without implementing an aberration correction algorithm. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570708 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/0816 (20130101) A61B 2018/00642 (20130101) A61B 2018/00702 (20130101) A61B 2019/5276 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2007/0039 (20130101) |
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| US 09145304 | Hobbs 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) | David T. Hobbs (North Augusta, South Carolina); Kathryn M. L. Taylor-Pashow (Aiken, South Carolina); Mark C. Elvington (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods directed to the synthesis and peroxide-modification of nanosized monosodium titanate are described. Methods include combination of reactants at a low concentration to a solution including a nonionic surfactant. The nanosized monosodium titanate can exhibit high selectivity for sorbing various metallic ions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/020504 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/005 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09145376 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James K. Chen (Mountain View, California); Tarun M. Kapoor (New York, New York); Ari J. Firestone (San Mateo, California); Joshua S. Weinger (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James K. Chen (Mountain View, California); Tarun M. Kapoor (New York, New York); Ari J. Firestone (San Mateo, California); Joshua S. Weinger (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of formula (I) in which R3 is chosen from hydrogen, cyano, nitro, acetyl and C(═O)NH2, and Ar is optionally substituted monocyclic or bicyclic aryl or heteroaryl, are useful as antitumor agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/980527 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/517 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/91 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145422 | Castro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo C. Castro (Winchester, Massachusetts); Michael J. Grogan (Winchester, Massachusetts); Karen J. McGovern (Groton, Massachusetts); Martin R. Tremblay (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating various conditions using derivatives of cyclopamine having the following formula: |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/054350 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/17 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/58 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/664 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/4355 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/04 (20130101) C07D 491/10 (20130101) C07D 491/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 491/107 (20130101) Steroids C07J 69/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09145424 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Yinan Zhang (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating subjects with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. The invention also provides methods of preparing the provided compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103728 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 231/20 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145462 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bin Liu (Hercules, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Xiaodong Zhu (San Francisco, California); Scott Bidlingmaier (San Francisco, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Liu (Hercules, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Xiaodong Zhu (San Francisco, California); Scott Bidlingmaier (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally related to antibodies that bind specifically to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cells. In particular, the present disclosure provides compositions comprising human single chain or full-length antibodies that bind tumor cells. Additionally the present disclosure provides methods of using the anti-GBM antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/172759 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/2896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/3053 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0695 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 999/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09145551 | Fox et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian G. Fox (Madison, Wisconsin); Taichi Takasuka (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher M. Bianchetti (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A multifunctional polypeptide capable of hydrolyzing cellulosic materials, xylan, and mannan is disclosed. The polypeptide includes the catalytic core (cc) of Clostridium thermocellum Cthe_0797 (CelE), the cellulose-specific carbohydrate-binding module CBM3 of the cellulosome anchoring protein cohesion region (CipA) of Clostridium thermocellum (CBM3a), and a linker region interposed between the catalytic core and the cellulose-specific carbohydrate binding module. Methods of using the multifunctional polypeptide are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/030290 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/33 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145560 | Baltimore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Elizabeth J. Hong (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Carlos Lois-Caballe (South Pasadena, California); Shirley Pease (Monrovia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Elizabeth J. Hong (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Carlos Lois-Caballe (South Pasadena, California); Shirley Pease (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for producing transgenic animals, particularly transgenic rats, using retroviral constructs engineered to carry the transgene(s) of interest. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011762 |
| 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 2227/30 (20130101) A01K 2227/40 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/1132 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8509 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2800/60 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2830/48 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/20 (20130101) C12N 2840/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09145575 | Liu 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) | Gang L. Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Jonathan A. Ellman (Guilford, Connecticut); Luke P. Lee (Orinda, California); Fanqing Frank Chen (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to the in vitro detection of proteases using a single peptide-conjugate nanocrescent surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) probes with at least nanomolar sensitivity. The probe enables detection of proteolytic activity in extremely small volume and at low concentration. In certain embodiments the probes comprise an indicator for the detection of an active protease, where the indicator comprises a nanocrescent attached to a peptide, where said peptide comprises a recognition site for the protease and a Raman tag attached to the peptide. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/752069 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/587 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 2333/974 (20130101) G01N 2333/96433 (20130101) G01N 2333/96466 (20130101) |
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| US 09145577 | Jin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weijun Jin (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weijun Jin (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method and kit for the measurement of LPL. The method comprises several steps that effect a measurement of a level of LPL activity. The kit comprises several elements that effect the measurement of a level of LPL activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/206682 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — 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 9/18 (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 1/00 (20130101) C12Q 1/34 (20130101) C12Q 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/56 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/914 (20130101) G01N 2333/918 (20130101) |
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| US 09145582 | Mourelatos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zissimos Mourelatos (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Peter T. Nelson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zissimos Mourelatos (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Peter T. Nelson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are DNA microarray techniques that allow hybridization without RNA amplification, without using cDNA, and without labeling the nucleic acid prior to hybridization. Referred to as the Double-stranded Exonuclease Protection (DEP) assay, the technique permits the sample RNA to be used directly for hybridization, without manipulation in any way. Further provided is a microarray technique for high-throughput miRNA gene expression analyses, termed the RNA-primed, Array-based, Klenow Enzyme (RAKE) assay. The RAKE assay is a sensitive and specific technique for assessing single-stranded DNA and RNA targets, and offers specific advantages over Northern blots. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/232820 |
| 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 1/6809 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 2521/101 (20130101) C12Q 2521/101 (20130101) C12Q 2521/325 (20130101) C12Q 2521/325 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) C12Q 2525/207 (20130101) |
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| US 09146229 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miqin Zhang (Bothell, Washington); Mandana Veiseh (Emeryville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Guided cell patterning arrays for single cell patterning are disclosed. The arrays include a plurality of cell adhesion sites that are individually isolated on an inert surface. Each cell adhesion site has one or more cell adhesion peptides having affinity to a cell surface receptor. The inert surface is resistant to cell adhesion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/846681 |
| 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 | Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 20/02 (20130101) C40B 40/02 (20130101) C40B 60/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02164 (20130101) |
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| US 09146241 | Lavinder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Lavinder (Round Rock, Texas); Yariv Wine (Austin, Texas); Danny Boutz (Austin, Texas); Edward Marcotte (Austin, Texas); George Georgiou (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for identification of candidate antigen-specific variable regions as well as generation of antibodies or antigen-binding fragments that could have desired antigen specificity are provided. For example, in certain aspects, methods for determining amino acid sequences of serum antibody CDR3 and abundancy levels are described. In some aspects, methods for determining nucleic acid sequences of antibody variable region sequences and the frequency thereof in biological samples are provided. Furthermore, the invention provides methods for identification and generation of antibodies or antigen-binding fragments that comprise highly-represented CDR domains. |
| FILED | Friday, November 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684395 |
| 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 | Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 30/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/6848 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6857 (20130101) |
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| US 09147825 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevado, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang J. Kim (Henderson, Nevada); Seong Jun Kim (Reno, Nevada); Johnson Wong (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of fabricating a multiple degree of freedom actuator with inter-digitated electrodes including molding an electroactive polymer membrane so that a plurality of projections are formed around a cross section of an outer surface of the polymer membrane; depositing a metal electrode layer onto the outer surface of the molded membrane; and removing the plurality of projections on the outer surface on the molded membrane, thereby forming a multiple degree of freedom actuator with a plurality of inter-digitated electrodes. Also provided are actuators as well as devices (such as catheters) including such actuators formed by the disclosed methods of fabricating an actuator with multiple DOF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787587 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 25/0158 (20130101) A61M 2025/0058 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/29 (20130101) H01L 41/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
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| US 09148173 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/853857 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 13/27 (20130101) H03M 13/151 (20130101) H03M 13/1515 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0057 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and methods for the non-invasive manipulation and detection of target objects such as cells, pathogens, microparticles, and nanoparticles in vivo using an external magnetic field are described. In one aspect, a device and method for capturing and detecting intrinsically magnetic target objects or target objects labeled with at least one magnetic particle within the area of interest using an in vivo flow cytometer are described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945576 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 5/412 (20130101) A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) A61B 18/20 (20130101) A61B 18/1815 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/22 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/30 (20130101) B03C 1/288 (20130101) B03C 2201/06 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1425 (20130101) G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 2015/1477 (20130101) |
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| US 09144490 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Han-Chieh Chang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides chip packaging and processes for the assembly of retinal prosthesis devices. Advantageously, photo-patternable adhesive or epoxy such as photoresist is used as glue to attach a chip to the targeted thin-film (e.g., parylene) substrate so that the chip is used as an attachment to prevent delamination. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/830272 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/4846 (20130101) H01L 23/4985 (20130101) H01L 23/49894 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/026 (20130101) |
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| US 09144598 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yadong Wang (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Martin Oudega (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yadong Wang (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Martin Oudega (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed herein for increasing survival of transplanted cells, either in vitro or in vivo. In additional embodiments, methods are disclosed for treating a subject with a spinal cord injury or a neurodegenerative disorder. The methods include administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of cells, such as bone marrow stromal cells, and a therapeutically effective amount of a reverse thermal gel composition. The reverse thermal gel compositing includes a triblock copolymer, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having the structure B-A-B in which A is one of a polyurethane or poly(ester urethane) group that comprises one or more pendant active groups, blocked active groups or active agents and B is a hydrophilic block, wherein the composition is a gel at 25° C.-40° C. and a liquid solution at a lower temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/459178 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/185 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/185 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09144784 | Edmiston |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ABS MATERIALS, INC. (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ABS MATERIALS (Wooster, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Edmiston (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a swellable, sorbent material formed of a sol-gel composition having a porous matrix and a sorbent property modifier intermixed with at least a portion of the porous matrix. The sorbent property modifier modifies a sorbent property of the sorbent material when compared to the same sorbent property of the corresponding, unmodified sol-gel composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/156326 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/0225 (20130101) B01J 20/0229 (20130101) B01J 20/0244 (20130101) B01J 20/265 (20130101) B01J 20/2803 (20130101) B01J 20/3221 (20130101) B01J 20/3236 (20130101) B01J 20/28011 (20130101) B01J 20/28047 (20130101) Reclamation of Contaminated Soil B09C 1/08 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 1/288 (20130101) C02F 2101/301 (20130101) C02F 2101/308 (20130101) C02F 2103/30 (20130101) C02F 2103/343 (20130101) C02F 2305/08 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/18 (20130101) C08G 77/52 (20130101) C08G 77/70 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/06 (20130101) C08L 83/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09145472 | Shen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Youqing Shen (Laramie, Wyoming); Peisheng Xu (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyoming Research Products Center (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youqing Shen (Laramie, Wyoming); Peisheng Xu (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are charge reversible polymers, peptides and their resulting colloidal particles, comprising polymers and peptides having primary and secondary amines that are protected as easily hydrolysable amides. The amides are charge-reversible such that at neutral pH they are negatively charged but become positively charged at pH less than 6 and thus are relatively stable at neutral pH but quickly hydrolyze at pH below 6. Incorporating a drug in a micelle or a polymer comprised of the charge-reversible polymers or peptides provides a drug carrier for delivering the drug preferentially to the solid tumor or other targeted cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/033247 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/0291 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 31/785 (20130101) A61K 47/30 (20130101) A61K 47/482 (20130101) A61K 47/488 (20130101) A61K 47/48107 (20130101) A61K 47/48192 (20130101) A61K 47/48315 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 69/02 (20130101) C08G 73/00 (20130101) C08G 73/0206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09145549 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasdena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Matthew W. Peters (Pasadena, California); Peter Meinhold (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cytochrome P450 BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium was engineered using a combination of directed evolution and site-directed mutagenesis to hydroxylate linear alkanes regio- and enantioselectively using atmospheric dioxygen as an oxidant. Mutant 9-10A-A328V hydroxylates octane primarily at the 2-position to form S-2-octanol (40% ee). Another mutant, 1-12G, hydroxylates alkanes larger than hexane primarily at the 2-position, but forms R-2-alcohols (40-55% ee). These biocatalysts are highly active for alkane substrates and support thousands of product turnovers. These regio- and enantio-selectivities are retained in whole-cell biotransformations with E. coli, where the engineered P450s can be expressed at high levels and the expensive cofactor is supplied endogenously. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/293465 |
| 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 9/0071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/0077 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/14001 (20130101) |
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| US 09145618 | Sirman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Asli Sirman (Boston, Massachusetts); Ahmed Busnaina (Needham, Massachusetts); Cihan Yilmaz (Boston, Massachusetts); Jun Huang (Malden, Massachusetts); Sivasubramanian Somu (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Asli Sirman (Boston, Massachusetts); Ahmed Busnaina (Needham, Massachusetts); Cihan Yilmaz (Boston, Massachusetts); Jun Huang (Malden, Massachusetts); Sivasubramanian Somu (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for high rate assembly of nanoelements into two-dimensional void patterns on a non-conductive substrate surface utilizes an applied electric field to stabilize against forces resulting from pulling the substrate through the surface of a nanoelement suspension. The electric field contours emanating from a conductive layer in the substrate, covered by an insulating layer, are modified by a patterned photoresist layer, resulting in an increased driving force for nanoelements to migrate from a liquid suspension to voids on a patterned substrate having a non-conductive surface. The method can be used for the production of microscale and nanoscale circuits, sensors, and other electronic devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990388 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/04 (20130101) C25D 13/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0243 (20130101) H01L 21/0259 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0213 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146189 | Koerperick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ASL Analytical, Inc. (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASL Analytical, Inc. (Coralville, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin John Koerperick (North Liberty, Iowa); Jonathon Todd Olesberg (Iowa City, Iowa); Christine Esther Evans (North Liberty, Iowa); Mark Allen Arnold (Iowa City, Iowa); Gregory Allan Brower (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical apparatus with a single-use, disposable fluid flow cartridge and cell and associated optical interface is employed in determining characteristics of a fluid and/or suspended materials or cells contained therein which are introduced into the apparatus. The optical interface communicates electromagnetic radiation from an optical instrument through the fluid within the cell and to an appropriate sensor within the optical instrument. The interaction of the electromagnetic radiation with the fluid is measured by the signal generated by the sensor. Fluid present within the cell may be static or flowing, allowing both discrete sample measurements and monitoring of continuous processes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/631914 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| 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 1/3693 (20130101) A61M 1/3696 (20140204) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 21/03 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/05 (20130101) G01N 21/0332 (20130101) G01N 21/359 (20130101) G01N 2021/0321 (20130101) G01N 2021/0364 (20130101) G01N 2201/02 (20130101) G01N 2201/061 (20130101) |
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| US 09146209 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan T. Johnson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ye Lu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brett R. Goldsmith (San Diego, California); Nicholas John Kybert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Johnson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ye Lu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brett R. Goldsmith (San Diego, California); Nicholas John Kybert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a broad response single-stranded DNA-graphene chemical sensor device. The present invention also provides methods for improving the ability of graphene to work as a chemical sensor by using single-stranded DNA as a sensitizing agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/637665 |
| 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 | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/414 (20130101) G01N 27/3278 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5308 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146229 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miqin Zhang (Bothell, Washington); Mandana Veiseh (Emeryville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Guided cell patterning arrays for single cell patterning are disclosed. The arrays include a plurality of cell adhesion sites that are individually isolated on an inert surface. Each cell adhesion site has one or more cell adhesion peptides having affinity to a cell surface receptor. The inert surface is resistant to cell adhesion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/846681 |
| 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 | Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 20/02 (20130101) C40B 40/02 (20130101) C40B 60/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02164 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146550 | Maravelias et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christos T. Maravelias (Middleton, Wisconsin); Sara Zenner (Madison, Wisconsin); Arul Sundaramoorthy (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christos T. Maravelias (Middleton, Wisconsin); Sara Zenner (Madison, Wisconsin); Arul Sundaramoorthy (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A scheduling system for chemical processing provides an electronic computer that models the process as a set of tasks with known production ranges. A desired output from the process is back projected through the process to determine production quantities of each task of the process within the production ranges. These values are used to constrain a mixed integer programming evaluation of the schedule which may be used to control operation of the equipment. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/561891 |
| ART UNIT | 2126 — 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 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146710 | Deng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Deng (Miramar, Florida); S. Masoud Sadjadi (Miami, Florida); Steve Luis (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Peter Clarke (Miami, Florida); Chi Zhang (Sunnyvale, California); Evangelos Christidis (North Bay Village, Florida); Raju Rangaswami (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Deng (Miramar, Florida); S. Masoud Sadjadi (Miami, Florida); Steve Luis (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Peter Clarke (Miami, Florida); Chi Zhang (Sunnyvale, California); Evangelos Christidis (North Bay Village, Florida); Raju Rangaswami (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for automating at least a portion of a communication application development cycle using a communication virtual machine that automatically interfaces with an existing network system and provides an engine for executing designed application models over the existing network system. |
| FILED | Monday, November 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/070884 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/14 (20130101) H04L 67/141 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146737 | Ceze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis Ceze (Seattle, Washington); Brandon Lucia (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for detecting concurrency bugs are provided. In some embodiments, context-aware communication graphs that represent inter-thread communication are collected during test runs, and may be labeled according to whether the test run was correct or failed. Graph edges that are likely to be associated with failed behavior are determined, and probable reconstructions of failed behavior are constructed to assist in debugging. In some embodiments, software instrumentation is used to collect the communication graphs. In some embodiments, hardware configured to collect the communication graphs is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464673 |
| ART UNIT | 2198 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/314 (20130101) G06F 11/3688 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146746 | Ceze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Luis Henrique Ceze (Seattle, Washington); Thomas Bergan (Seattle, Washington); Joseph Devietti (Camarillo, California); Daniel Joseph Grossman (Seattle, Washington); Jacob Eric Nelson (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center of Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luis Henrique Ceze (Seattle, Washington); Thomas Bergan (Seattle, Washington); Joseph Devietti (Camarillo, California); Daniel Joseph Grossman (Seattle, Washington); Jacob Eric Nelson (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for providing deterministic execution of multithreaded applications are provided. In some embodiments, each thread is provided access to an isolated memory region, such as a private cache. In some embodiments, more than one private cache are synchronized via a modified MOESI coherence protocol. The modified coherence protocol may be configured to refrain from synchronizing the isolated memory regions until the end of an execution quantum. The execution quantum may end when all threads experience a quantum end event such as reaching a threshold instruction count, overflowing the isolated memory region, and/or attempting to access a lock released by a different thread in the same quantum. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/410212 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/522 (20130101) G06F 9/3851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146937 | Benjamin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew W. Benjamin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam C. Emerson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Honeyman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cohort FS, LLC (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew W. Benjamin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam C. Emerson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Honeyman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A client computing device having a processor and a memory receives, in response to a request, a replication layout from a replication controller. The client device initiates a data replication request at each of a plurality of data servers according to the replication layout. The client device receives, from each of the data servers, integrity information representing a state of a replication dataset at each of the servers. The client device transmits the integrity information to the replication controller. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/530718 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147825 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevado, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang J. Kim (Henderson, Nevada); Seong Jun Kim (Reno, Nevada); Johnson Wong (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of fabricating a multiple degree of freedom actuator with inter-digitated electrodes including molding an electroactive polymer membrane so that a plurality of projections are formed around a cross section of an outer surface of the polymer membrane; depositing a metal electrode layer onto the outer surface of the molded membrane; and removing the plurality of projections on the outer surface on the molded membrane, thereby forming a multiple degree of freedom actuator with a plurality of inter-digitated electrodes. Also provided are actuators as well as devices (such as catheters) including such actuators formed by the disclosed methods of fabricating an actuator with multiple DOF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787587 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 25/0158 (20130101) A61M 2025/0058 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/29 (20130101) H01L 41/047 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09148173 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/853857 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 13/27 (20130101) H03M 13/151 (20130101) H03M 13/1515 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0057 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09148201 | Kallal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward Kenneth Kallal (San Diego, California); Ryan Tseng (Coronado, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QUALCOMM Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Kenneth Kallal (San Diego, California); Ryan Tseng (Coronado, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for alignment and calibration of a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless power transmit coil is first aligned with a wireless power receive coil. An alignment signal is received indicated that the transmit coil and the receive coil are aligned is received by the wireless power transmitter. A signal indicative of a characteristic of an electrical signal received by the wireless power receiver is generated and communicated to the wireless power transmitter. A calibration feedback signal is generated to adjust a driving signal of the wireless power transmitter based on the received signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/370225 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 7/025 (20130101) H02J 17/00 (20130101) Transmission H04B 5/0037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 5/0043 (20130101) H04B 5/0075 (20130101) H04B 17/21 (20150115) H04B 17/24 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09148443 | Chizeck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington Through its Center for Commericalization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Jay Chizeck (Mercer Island, Washington); Tamara Bonaci (Redmond, Washington); Thomas Lendvay (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for securing remotely-operable devices are provided. A security device can receive a plurality of commands to control a remotely-operable device in a remote environment. At least one command in the plurality of commands can include command data that is related to the remotely-operable device. The security device can receive a plurality of responses to the plurality of commands. The security device can process the plurality of commands and the plurality of responses to determine a signature related to an operator that issued the plurality of commands for the remotely-operable device. The security device can determine an identity of the operator based on the signature. The security device can generate an identity report that includes the identity of the operator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/935436 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/00 (20130101) G06F 21/316 (20130101) G06F 21/552 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/06 (20130101) H04L 63/126 (20130101) H04L 63/1425 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Clyde Hill, Washington); Wen Zhou (Foster, California); Robert J. Etches (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenes encoding exogenous antibodies are stably integrated into donor cells and are present in the somatic tissue of chimeric birds. The transgenes encode exogenous antibodies and are preferably expressed in the oviduct for collection in the egg. Tissue specificity is provided by selecting the content of the transgene accordingly. Birds whose genome is comprised of transgene-derived exogenous antibody-encoding DNA express exogenous antibodies having desirable chemical properties with increased therapeutic utility compared to antibodies derived from bacterial expression systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224274 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 67/0278 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/30 (20130101) A01K 2267/01 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/02 (20130101) C07K 2317/11 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09144709 | Reich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a method and/or an apparatus using computer configured exercise equipment and an electric motor provided physical resistance in conjunction with a game system, such as a video game system, where the exercise system provides real physical resistance to a user interface. Results of user interaction with the user interface are integrated into a video game, such as running on a game console. The resistance system comprises: a subject interface, software control, a controller, an electric servo assist/resist motor, an actuator, and/or a subject sensor. The system provides actual physical interaction with a resistance device as input to the game console and game run thereon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/737724 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/0058 (20130101) A63B 21/151 (20130101) A63B 21/00178 (20130101) A63B 21/00181 (20130101) A63B 21/1469 (20130101) A63B 21/1484 (20130101) A63B 22/0605 (20130101) A63B 23/1209 (20130101) A63B 23/03525 (20130101) A63B 24/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A63B 2024/0093 (20130101) A63B 2024/0096 (20130101) A63B 2220/10 (20130101) A63B 2220/18 (20130101) A63B 2220/30 (20130101) A63B 2220/40 (20130101) A63B 2220/51 (20130101) A63B 2220/72 (20130101) A63B 2220/74 (20130101) A63B 2220/805 (20130101) A63B 2225/20 (20130101) A63B 2225/50 (20130101) A63B 2225/54 (20130101) A63B 2230/30 (20130101) A63B 2230/067 (20130101) Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09144784 | Edmiston |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ABS MATERIALS, INC. (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ABS MATERIALS (Wooster, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Edmiston (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a swellable, sorbent material formed of a sol-gel composition having a porous matrix and a sorbent property modifier intermixed with at least a portion of the porous matrix. The sorbent property modifier modifies a sorbent property of the sorbent material when compared to the same sorbent property of the corresponding, unmodified sol-gel composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/156326 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/308 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/103 (20130101) B01J 20/0225 (20130101) B01J 20/0229 (20130101) B01J 20/0244 (20130101) B01J 20/265 (20130101) B01J 20/2803 (20130101) B01J 20/3221 (20130101) B01J 20/3236 (20130101) B01J 20/28011 (20130101) B01J 20/28047 (20130101) Reclamation of Contaminated Soil B09C 1/08 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/285 (20130101) C02F 1/288 (20130101) C02F 2101/301 (20130101) C02F 2101/308 (20130101) C02F 2103/30 (20130101) C02F 2103/343 (20130101) C02F 2305/08 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/18 (20130101) C08G 77/52 (20130101) C08G 77/70 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 83/06 (20130101) C08L 83/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146937 | Benjamin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew W. Benjamin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam C. Emerson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Honeyman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cohort FS, LLC (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew W. Benjamin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam C. Emerson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Peter Honeyman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A client computing device having a processor and a memory receives, in response to a request, a replication layout from a replication controller. The client device initiates a data replication request at each of a plurality of data servers according to the replication layout. The client device receives, from each of the data servers, integrity information representing a state of a replication dataset at each of the servers. The client device transmits the integrity information to the replication controller. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/530718 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30212 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09144229 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhu (Clyde Hill, Washington); Wen Zhou (Foster, California); Robert J. Etches (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenes encoding exogenous antibodies are stably integrated into donor cells and are present in the somatic tissue of chimeric birds. The transgenes encode exogenous antibodies and are preferably expressed in the oviduct for collection in the egg. Tissue specificity is provided by selecting the content of the transgene accordingly. Birds whose genome is comprised of transgene-derived exogenous antibody-encoding DNA express exogenous antibodies having desirable chemical properties with increased therapeutic utility compared to antibodies derived from bacterial expression systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224274 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 67/0278 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/30 (20130101) A01K 2267/01 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/02 (20130101) C07K 2317/11 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/732 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8509 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09145455 | Stanker 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) | Larry H. Stanker (Livermore, California); Miles C. Scotcher (Castro Valley, California); Luisa W. Cheng (San Francisco, California); Robert M. Hnasko (Port Costa, California); Jeffery A. McGarvey (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High affinity antibodies for binding epitopes of BoNT/B and hybridomas that produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies may be used in a kit for detecting BoNT/B in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/518472 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/1282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09145456 | Bannantine |
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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) | John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybridoma cell lines which produce and secrete monoclonal antibodies which selectively bind to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis have been produced. Cells of M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis in biological samples may be detected and quantified by contacting the sample with the antibodies to form a M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis/antibody immunocomplex when M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis is present, which immunocomplex may then be detected. The monoclonal antibodies also may be incorporated into kits for the detection and quantification of M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/036102 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/12 (20130101) C07K 16/1289 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) G01N 33/536 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09144709 | Reich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alton Reich (Huntsville, Alabama); James Shaw (Sterling, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a method and/or an apparatus using computer configured exercise equipment and an electric motor provided physical resistance in conjunction with a game system, such as a video game system, where the exercise system provides real physical resistance to a user interface. Results of user interaction with the user interface are integrated into a video game, such as running on a game console. The resistance system comprises: a subject interface, software control, a controller, an electric servo assist/resist motor, an actuator, and/or a subject sensor. The system provides actual physical interaction with a resistance device as input to the game console and game run thereon. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/737724 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 21/0058 (20130101) A63B 21/151 (20130101) A63B 21/00178 (20130101) A63B 21/00181 (20130101) A63B 21/1469 (20130101) A63B 21/1484 (20130101) A63B 22/0605 (20130101) A63B 23/1209 (20130101) A63B 23/03525 (20130101) A63B 24/0087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A63B 2024/0093 (20130101) A63B 2024/0096 (20130101) A63B 2220/10 (20130101) A63B 2220/18 (20130101) A63B 2220/30 (20130101) A63B 2220/40 (20130101) A63B 2220/51 (20130101) A63B 2220/72 (20130101) A63B 2220/74 (20130101) A63B 2220/805 (20130101) A63B 2225/20 (20130101) A63B 2225/50 (20130101) A63B 2225/54 (20130101) A63B 2230/30 (20130101) A63B 2230/067 (20130101) Card, Board, or Roulette Games; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing Bodies; Video Games; Games Not Otherwise Provided for A63F 13/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147755 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Woo Han (San Jose, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vacuum field effect, nanostructure-based transistor (VFET) that operates at pressures as high as 101 kPa, with an operating voltage magnitude as low as about 2 Volts and has a cutoff frequency as high as 0.46 THz, and has an electrode separation gap distance of about 150 nm or less. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/249238 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02606 (20130101) H01L 21/3215 (20130101) H01L 21/28026 (20130101) H01L 29/49 (20130101) H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/41725 (20130101) H01L 29/42376 (20130101) H01L 29/66977 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147822 | Snyder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | G. Jeffrey Snyder (Pasadena, California); Heng Wang (Pasadena, California); Yanzhong Pei (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | G. Jeffrey Snyder (Pasadena, California); Heng Wang (Pasadena, California); Yanzhong Pei (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses heavily doped PbSe with high thermoelectric performance. Thermoelectric property measurements disclosed herein indicated that PbSe is high zT material for mid-to-high temperature thermoelectric applications. At 850 K a peak zT>1.3 was observed when nH˜1.0×1020 cm−3. The present invention also discloses that a number of strategies used to improve zT of PbTe, such as alloying with other elements, nanostructuring and band modification may also be used to further improve zT in PbSe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/282383 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/002 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2006/10 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09147003 | Hermitage et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suzanne Hermitage (Falls Church, Virginia); Steve D. Nguyen (Waldorf, Maryland); Jeffrey A. Steadman (Chantilly, Virginia); Kennon F. Privette (Alexandria, Virginia); Gerry Picciano (New Bern, North Carolina); Jill Padres (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Hermitage (Falls Church, Virginia); Steve D. Nguyen (Waldorf, Maryland); Jeffrey A. Steadman (Chantilly, Virginia); Kennon F. Privette (Alexandria, Virginia); Gerry Picciano (New Bern, North Carolina); Jill Padres (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The system disclosed provides an efficient mechanism for acquiring email and other data from remote systems in a forensically sound manner. Email for users can be requested by investigators from email servers across the country. It is then be automatically acquired and made available to the examiner, subject to approval, and any others he deems have a need-to-know on a web based system. The data can be searched and bookmarked, and the bookmarks shared. Data can also be uploaded manually and combined with email data in the searching, bookmarking, and sharing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/913623 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3089 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 10/107 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09147186 | Reblin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary C. Reblin (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An interrogating and processing system and method is described. A wireless communication device interrogates an information source, having a barcode or tag, and wirelessly transmits data indicative of the information source. The interrogator can be built into or adjunct to the wireless communication device. An automated processing subsystem receives the transmitted data and identifies an item corresponding to the data. A fulfillment subsystem effects delivery of the item to a destination. There can be a coupon code scanning and processing system and method. A wireless computing device having an interrogator reads a coupon code. An automated processing subsystem receives the corresponding data and provides a benefit associated with the coupon. The benefit can be a discount on a product or service. Alternatively, at least a portion of the coupon including a code is displayed on a screen of the computing device for processing at a point of sale terminal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/539124 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| 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 10/08 (20130101) G06Q 10/087 (20130101) G06Q 20/208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 20/327 (20130101) G06Q 20/3276 (20130101) G06Q 20/3278 (20130101) G06Q 30/02 (20130101) G06Q 30/06 (20130101) G06Q 30/0238 (20130101) G06Q 30/0253 (20130101) Registering the Receipt of Cash, Valuables, or Tokens G07G 1/009 (20130101) G07G 1/0045 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09148694 | Boyce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jill MacDonald Boyce (Manalapan, New Jersey); Alexandros Tourapis (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomson Licensing (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill MacDonald Boyce (Manalapan, New Jersey); Alexandros Tourapis (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided methods and apparatus for enabling a fast channel change for a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system. A channel change processing unit for enabling a channel change in a DSL system includes a demultiplexer and a selector in signal communication with the demultiplexer. The demultiplexer is for receiving a normal stream and a channel change stream. The selector is for receiving a channel change request and for sending the channel change stream in response to receiving the channel change request. The channel change stream coded pictures are of a lower quality than the normal stream coded pictures. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/579204 |
| ART UNIT | 2421 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/18 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/17318 (20130101) H04N 21/434 (20130101) H04N 21/2381 (20130101) H04N 21/4363 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 21/4381 (20130101) H04N 21/4383 (20130101) H04N 21/4384 (20130101) H04N 21/6137 (20130101) H04N 21/23106 (20130101) H04N 21/23424 (20130101) H04N 21/44016 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09147129 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingchen Liu (State College, Pennsylvania); Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple classifiers can be applied independently to evaluate images or video. Where there are heavily imbalanced class distributions, a local expert forest model for meta-level score fusion for event detection can be used. Performance variations of classifiers in different regions of a score space can be adapted. Multiple pairs of experts based on different partitions, or “trees,” can form a “forest,” balancing local adaptivity and over-fitting. Among ensemble learning methods, stacking with a meta-level classifier can be used to fuse an output of multiple base-level classifiers to generate a final score. A knowledge-transfer framework can reutilize the base-training data for learning the meta-level classifier. By recycling the knowledge obtained during a base-classifier-training stage, efficient use can be made of all available information, such as can be used to achieve better fusion and better overall performance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/622328 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00718 (20130101) G06K 9/6256 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6264 (20130101) G06K 9/6292 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09145565 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana Carroll (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mary M. Golic (Salt Lake City, Utah); Marina Bibikova (San Diego, California); Gary Drews (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kent G. Golic (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana Carroll (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mary M. Golic (Salt Lake City, Utah); Marina Bibikova (San Diego, California); Gary Drews (Salt Lake City, Utah); Kent G. Golic (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method or methods of targeted genetic recombination or mutagenesis in a host cell or organism, and compositions useful for carrying out the method. The targeting method of the present invention exploits endogenous cellular mechanisms for homologous recombination and repair of double stranded breaks in genetic material. The present invention provides numerous improvements over previous mutagenesis methods, such advantages include that the method is generally applicable to a wide variety of organisms, the method is targeted so that the disadvantages associated with random insertion of DNA into host genetic material are eliminated, and certain embodiments require relatively little manipulation of the host genetic material for success. Additionally, it provides a method that produces organisms with specific gene modifications in a short period of time. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/314490 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0339 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) C12N 15/902 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8213 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09145834 | Frost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cristopher Frost (Scottsdale, Arizona); Mary Eileen Richardson (Maricopa, Arizona); Michael Stephen Crestin (Chandler, Arizona); James Laffan (Phoenix, Arizona); Mingfong Hwang (Phoenix, Arizona); Doug Hollingshead (Phoenix, Arizona); Marc Schmittenberg (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cristopher Frost (Scottsdale, Arizona); Mary Eileen Richardson (Maricopa, Arizona); Michael Stephen Crestin (Chandler, Arizona); James Laffan (Phoenix, Arizona); Mingfong Hwang (Phoenix, Arizona); Doug Hollingshead (Phoenix, Arizona); Marc Schmittenberg (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine and an accessory gear box (AGB) are provided for. The gas turbine engine comprises a drive shaft, a compressor, a combustor and an exhaust turbine, where the exhaust turbine and the compressor are coaxially connected by the drive shaft. The gas turbine engine further comprises an engine casing of varying diameters circumferentially enveloping the compressor, the combustor and the exhaust turbine with a waist located between the compressor and the combustor. The gas turbine engine also includes an accessory gear box (AGB) attached to the engine casing at the waist, the AGB comprising a gear rotating on an axis extending in a transverse direction relative to that of the drive shaft. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/160380 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/36 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/53 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09146918 | Ashparie 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) | Yousuf Mohamed Ashparie (Centerville, Virginia); Aaron Keith Baughman (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Data pertaining to a subject matter domain, a set of text strings forming a set of seeds, a description of a linguistic structure present in a language of the domain-related data, and a statistical model applicable to the domain-related data are received. A set of portions of the domain-related data is extracted, a portion in the set of portions forming a nugget. A nugget matches the statistical model according to a criterion, and conforms to the linguistic structure within a threshold degree. The nugget is scored according to a subset of a set of features found in the nuggets. A subset of nuggets is selected. A score of each nugget included in the subset of nuggets exceeds a score threshold. The subset of nuggets is combined to form a pseudo-document. The pseudo-document is submitted to an application for answering a question related to the domain. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/026240 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/2818 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30705 (20130101) G06F 17/30731 (20130101) G06F 17/30796 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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