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| US 09161694 | Schnitzer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Jacob Schnitzer (Palo Alto, California); Juergen Claus Jung (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Jacob Schnitzer (Palo Alto, California); Juergen Claus Jung (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Imaging, testing and/or analysis of subjects are facilitated with a capillary-access approach. According to an example embodiment, a capillary is implanted into a specimen and adapted to accept an optical probe to facilitate optical access into the specimen. In some applications, the capillary is implanted for use over time, with one or more different probes being inserted into the capillary at different times, while the capillary is implanted. Certain applications involve capillary implantation over weeks, months or longer. Other applications are directed to the passage of fluid to and/or from a sample via the capillary. Still other applications are directed to the passage of electrical information between the sample and an external arrangement, via an implanted capillary. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/540897 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 1/04 (20130101) A61B 1/06 (20130101) A61B 1/07 (20130101) A61B 1/043 (20130101) A61B 1/00165 (20130101) A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0084 (20130101) |
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| US 09161704 | Greenburg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (San Fernando, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Greenburg (Los Angeles, California); Jordan M Neysmith (Mountain View, California); Neil H Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of making an implantable insulated electrical circuit that utilizes polyparaxylylene, preferably as Parylene, a known polymer that has excellent living tissue implant characteristics, to provide for chronic implantation of conductive electrical devices, such as stimulators and sensors. The device is thin, flexible, electrically insulated, and stable after long exposure to living tissue. Layers of Parylene may be combined with layers of a polymer, such as polyimide, to yield greater design flexibility in the circuit. Multiple electrical conduction layers may be stacked in the circuit to increase packing density. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/625364 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2562/125 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/01 (20130101) C23C 16/56 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/06 (20130101) H05K 3/048 (20130101) H05K 2203/176 (20130101) H05K 2203/0502 (20130101) |
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| US 09161720 | Jeraj et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jeraj (Madison, Wisconsin); Glenn Liu (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensitive method of assessing treatment using molecular and anatomical imaging scans provides automatic tumor identification and quantification within anatomical zones based on treatment criteria. Absolute or comparative measures of tumors in pre- and/or post-scans are thereby isolated from other tissue to accentuate the progress of the treatment when multiple scattered disease lesions are present. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/839339 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0035 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/742 (20130101) A61B 5/4848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7275 (20130101) A61B 6/12 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/037 (20130101) A61B 6/461 (20130101) A61B 6/469 (20130101) A61B 6/505 (20130101) A61B 8/48 (20130101) A61B 8/5223 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0083 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/10104 (20130101) G06T 2207/10108 (20130101) G06T 2207/20036 (20130101) G06T 2207/20148 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101) |
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| US 09161735 | Bradford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David S. Bradford (Sausalito, California); Jeffrey C. Lotz (San Mateo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Bradford (Sausalito, California); Jeffrey C. Lotz (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Pain factors are labeled with targeted agents or markers delivered into the body. The labeled pain factors are imaged with appropriate imaging tools in a manner allowing selective identification and localization of areas of pain source or transmission. The labeled pain factors allow spatial differentiation in the imaging sufficient to specify the location of the pain so as to drive therapeutic decisions and techniques in order to treat the pain. Pain factors labeled and imaged in this manner may include one or more of nerve factors, blood vessel factors, cellular factors, and inflammation factors. Labeled markers may include for example radioactive materials (e.g. tritiated or iodinated molecules) or other materials such as metal (e.g. gold) nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053379 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/4041 (20130101) A61B 5/4824 (20130101) A61B 6/506 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0002 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09161922 | Sayre |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence M. Sayre (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence M. Sayre (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A therapeutic agent for selectively inhibiting amine oxidases associated diseases and conditions in humans includes at least one compound selected from the group consisting of propargylamines, polypropargylamines, homopropargylamines, 4-substituted-2-butynylamines, 2- and 3-halloallylamines, pyrroline derivatives, cycloalkenyl branched primary amines, propargyl diamines, homopropargyl amines and diamines, allenyl amines and diamines, chloroallyl diamines, lysyne analogs, β-haloamines, RF-substituted amines, RCi-substituted amines, and R3Si substituted amines. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/994017 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/137 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09161950 | Self et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Self (Oviedo, Florida); Ella Bossy-Wetzel (Winter Park, Florida); Sudipta Seal (Orlando, Florida); Janet Dowding (Winter Garden, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a subject with elevated levels of peroxynitrite includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of cerium oxide nanoparticles to the subject, wherein the cerium oxide nanoparticles reduce the level of peroxynitrite in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624485 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09161954 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TISSUETECH, INC. (Doral, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Shenzhen, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796761 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/728 (20130101) A61K 35/48 (20130101) A61K 35/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09161955 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TISSUETECH, INC. (Doral, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Shenzhen, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/802359 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/48 (20130101) A61K 35/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/4886 (20130101) A61K 38/4886 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/4718 (20130101) C07K 14/8114 (20130101) |
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| US 09161956 | Tseng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TissueTech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TISSUETECH, INC. (Doral, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Shenzhen, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/802447 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/48 (20130101) A61K 35/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/4886 (20130101) A61K 38/4886 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/78 (20130101) C07K 14/4702 (20130101) C07K 14/4718 (20130101) C07K 14/8114 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09161968 | Wyss-Coray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Jian Luo (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The U.S. Government represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Jian Luo (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for preventing, attenuating neuronal damage or stimulating neuronal repair prior or following central nervous system injury. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441879 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09161973 | Vilalta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Margalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David M. Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to therapeutic polynucleotide compositions and methods for systemic immune activation which are effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in mammals. The polynucleotide compositions are particularly effective for protecting mammals from herpes simplex virus (HSV), such as HSV gD2 polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/460230 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/572 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/117 (20130101) C12N 2310/17 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) C12N 2710/16622 (20130101) C12N 2710/16634 (20130101) |
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| US 09161974 | Dubensky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Dubensky (Piedmont, California); Dirk G. Brockstedt (Richmond, California); Meredith Leong (Oakland, California); Keith S. Bahjat (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADURO BIOTECH, INC. (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Dubensky (Piedmont, California); Dirk G. Brockstedt (Richmond, California); Meredith Leong (Oakland, California); Keith S. Bahjat (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are prime-boost regimens and materials used therein. The prime-boost regimens enhance the immune response to a target antigen. The vaccines used for boost are comprised of recombinant attenuated metabolically active Listeria that encodes an expressible antigen that is cross-reactive with the target antigen. In some examples, the immune response is a cellular immune response. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699687 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/74 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/82 (20130101) |
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| US 09161989 | Chakrabarty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ananda Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois); Tapas Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Tohru Yamada (Oak Park, Illinois); Arsenio Fialho (Lisbon, Portugal) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods and materials for delivering a cargo compound into a cancer cell. Delivery of the cargo compound is accomplished by the use of protein transduction domains derived from cupredoxins. The invention further discloses methods for treating cancer and diagnosing cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/021159 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/13 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/00 (20130101) A61K 49/04 (20130101) A61K 49/14 (20130101) A61K 49/221 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/21 (20130101) C07K 14/22 (20130101) C07K 14/28 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/235 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09162019 | Horvath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Horvath (Euclid, Ohio); Leonard A. R. Golding (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Alex Massiello (Chesterland, Ohio); Barry Kuban (Avon Lake, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Horvath (Euclid, Ohio); Leonard A. R. Golding (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Alex Massiello (Chesterland, Ohio); Barry Kuban (Avon Lake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump includes a housing, a stator supported in the housing, and a rotor assembly including a rotor supported in the housing for rotation relative to the stator about an axis. The stator includes a stator core, a first lamination wound around an axial portion of the stator core, and a second lamination wound around a second axial portion of the stator core. The first and second laminations are spaced from each other along the length of the stator core. The rotor includes a rotor core, a first magnet assembly that extends around an axial portion of the rotor core, and a second magnet assembly that extends around a second axial portion of the rotor core. The first and second magnet assemblies are spaced from each other along the length of the rotor. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/540037 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power 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 1/12 (20130101) A61M 1/101 (20130101) A61M 1/1015 (20140204) A61M 1/1017 (20140204) A61M 1/1029 (20140204) A61M 1/1031 (20140204) Original (OR) Class Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 1/06 (20130101) F04D 13/06 (20130101) F04D 13/14 (20130101) F04D 13/064 (20130101) F04D 15/0033 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09162885 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ki-Bum Lee (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Sung Myung (Highland Park, New Jersey); Aniruddh Solanki (South Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki-Bum Lee (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Sung Myung (Highland Park, New Jersey); Aniruddh Solanki (South Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A field effect transistor (FET) with a source electrode and a drain electrode distanced apart from each other on a semi-conductor substrate, and a gate electrode consisting of a uniform layer of reduced graphene oxide encapsulated semiconductor nanoparticles (rGO-NPs), wherein the gate electrode is disposed between and contacts both the source and drain electrodes. Methods of making and assay methods using the FETs are also disclosed, including methods in which the rGO-NPs are functionalized with binding partners for biomarkers. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/400021 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4145 (20130101) G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/4908 (20130101) H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 29/78696 (20130101) |
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| US 09162968 | Kirsch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Cambria Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Cambria Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Kirsch (Bedford, Massachusetts); Radhia Benmohamed (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Anthony C. Arvanites (Medford, Massachusetts); Richard I. Morimoto (Evanston, Illinois); Wei Zhang (Evanston, Illinois); Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of provided cyclohexane-1,3-diones (CHD 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 CHD compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/275167 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/563 (20130101) C07C 49/567 (20130101) C07C 49/577 (20130101) C07C 69/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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09162978 — Retinal derivatives and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of visual disorders
| US 09162978 | Palczewski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio); Matthew Batten (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio); Matthew Batten (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of and methods for using synthetic retinal derivatives as retinoid replacements and opsin agonists are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619631 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/215 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/09 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 403/10 (20130101) C07C 403/12 (20130101) C07C 403/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 403/20 (20130101) C07C 2101/10 (20130101) C07C 2101/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09162980 | McKnight et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. McKnight (Dallas, Texas); Andew A. Pieper (Iowa City, Iowa); Joseph M. Ready (Carrollton, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Flower Mound, Texas); Jeffrey M. Zigman (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This technology relates generally to compounds and methods for stimulating neurogenesis (e.g., post-natal neurogenesis, including post-natal hippocampal and hypothalamic neurogenesis) and/or protecting neuronal cell from cell death. Various compounds are disclosed herein. In vivo activity tests suggest that these compounds may have therapeutic benefits in neuropsychiatric and/or neurodegenerative diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, normal aging, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease, stroke, radiation therapy, chronic stress, abuse of a neuro-active drug, retinal degeneration, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve injury, physiological weight loss associated with various conditions, as well as cognitive decline associated with normal aging, chemotherapy, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/339772 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4425 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/82 (20130101) C07D 209/86 (20130101) C07D 209/88 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 407/06 (20130101) C07D 413/06 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/022 (20130101) C07F 7/0812 (20130101) |
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| US 09162981 | Zack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald J. Zack (Baltimore, Maryland); Thomas Bannister (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Tomas Vojkovsky (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Zhiyong Yang (Baltimore, Maryland); Cynthia Berlinicke (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Zack (Baltimore, Maryland); Thomas Bannister (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Tomas Vojkovsky (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Zhiyong Yang (Baltimore, Maryland); Cynthia Berlinicke (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions, kits and methods for treating conditions related to neurodegeneration or ocular disease, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/636415 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/439 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/14 (20130101) C07D 453/02 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09162984 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Brian R. McNaughton (Rochester, New York); Peter Gareiss (Rochester, New York); Glynis Scott (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Brian R. McNaughton (Rochester, New York); Peter Gareiss (Rochester, New York); Glynis Scott (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to small molecule modulators of melanin expression and methods of making the small molecules. Also disclosed are methods of increasing pigmentation in a cell which involve providing compounds of the present invention and contacting a cell with the compounds under conditions effective to induce melanin expression in the cell, thereby increasing pigmentation. The present invention also relates to compositions containing compounds of the present invention and a carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/593673 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/14 (20130101) C07D 215/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 261/18 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09162999 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Caes (West Des Moines, Iowa); Michael Palte (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Caes (West Des Moines, Iowa); Michael Palte (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and catalyst compositions for formation of furans from carbohydrates. A carbohydrate substrate is heating in the presence of a 2-substituted phenylboronic acid (or salt or hydrate thereof) and optionally a magnesium or calcium halide salt. The reaction is carried out in a polar aprotic solvent other than an ionic liquid, an ionic liquid or a mixture thereof. Additional of a selected amount of water to the reaction can enhance the yield of furans. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629588 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/02 (20130101) B01J 23/92 (20130101) B01J 27/08 (20130101) B01J 27/20 (20130101) B01J 27/32 (20130101) B01J 31/146 (20130101) B01J 37/0209 (20130101) B01J 2231/641 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/48 (20130101) C07D 307/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163030 | Ananthan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subramaniam Ananthan (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compounds of the formula: R1; R2, R3; R4; A; X; Y and Z are defined in the present disclosure; pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, deuterium forms thereof, isomers thereof, and mixture thereof; and processes for their preparation. The compounds can be used for treating a patient suffering from a condition that is capable of treatment with an agonist and/or antagonist of the opioid receptors and are especially useful a patient suffering from pain, treating a patient in need of an immunosuppressant to prevent rejection in organ transplant and skin graft, in need of an anti-allergic agent, in need of an anti-inflammatory agent, in need of a brain cell protectant, for drug and/or alcohol abuse, to decrease gastric secretion, for diarrhea, for cardiovascular disease, for a respiratory disease, in need of a cough and/or respiratory depressant, for mental illness, for epileptic seizures and other neurologic disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398588 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 489/02 (20130101) C07D 489/06 (20130101) C07D 489/08 (20130101) C07D 491/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163063 | Mukhopadhyay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Darmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debabrata Mukhopadhyay (Rochester, Minnesota); Priyabrata Mukherjee (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark Spaller (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are peptides and nanoparticles conjugates thereof useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders mediated by GIPC/synectin, such as cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/060932 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/4706 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/906 (20130101) |
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| US 09163068 | Khurana et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Surender Khurana (Clarksburg, Maryland); Hana Golding (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Office of Technology Transfer (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surender Khurana (Clarksburg, Maryland); Hana Golding (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes influenza Hemagglutinin protein fragments that fold properly when expressed in bacteria. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/508030 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/559 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09163076 | Allen-Hoffmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Cathy Ann-Rasmussen Ivarie (Marshall, Wisconsin); Christina L. Thomas-Virnig (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Cathy Ann-Rasmussen Ivarie (Marshall, Wisconsin); Christina L. Thomas-Virnig (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compositions for wound healing. More specifically, the present invention provides human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous proteinase inhibitor polypeptides (e.g., TIMP-1 polypeptides) and compositions and methods for making human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. In addition, the present invention provides methods for treatment of wounds with human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365357 |
| 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 2267/035 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/8146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0629 (20130101) C12N 2501/70 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09163078 | Rao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anjana Rao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stefan Feske (New York, New York); Patrick Hogan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yousang Gwack (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anjana Rao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stefan Feske (New York, New York); Patrick Hogan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yousang Gwack (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of identifying an agent that modulates an NFAT regulator protein. One such method comprises contacting at least one test agent with a recombinant cell comprising at least one NFAT regulator protein or fragment or derivative thereof, assessing the effect of the test agent on an activity, interaction, expression, or binding to the NFAT regulator protein or fragment or derivative thereof, and identifying the test agent that has an effect on an activity, interaction, expression, or binding to the NFAT regulator protein or fragment or derivative thereof, whereby the identified test agent is characterized as an agent that modulates an NFAT regulator protein. Methods of identifying an agent that modulates intracellular calcium, methods to screen for an agent that modulates NFAT regulator function, methods to diagnose unexplained immunodeficiency in a subject, and methods for identifying an agent for treating or preventing a disease or disorder associated with a NFAT regulator protein or calcium signaling are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/161307 |
| 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 | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/16 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/907 (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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5041 (20130101) |
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| US 09163085 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yong-Jun Liu (Pearland, Texas); Kui Shin Voo (Pearland, Texas); Laura Bover (Pearland, Texas); Naoya Tsurushita (Palo Alto, California); J. Yun Tso (Menlo Park, California); Shankar Kumar (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Jun Liu (Pearland, Texas); Kui Shin Voo (Pearland, Texas); Laura Bover (Pearland, Texas); Naoya Tsurushita (Palo Alto, California); J. Yun Tso (Menlo Park, California); Shankar Kumar (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Human antibodies, preferably recombinant human antibodies, both humanized and chimeric, which specifically bind to human OX40 are disclosed. Preferred antibodies have high affinity for OX40 receptor and activate the receptor in vitro and in vivo. The antibody can be a full-length antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof. The antibodies, or antibody portions, are useful for modulating receptor activity, e.g., in a human subject suffering from a disorder in which OX40 activity is detrimental. Nucleic acids, vectors and host cells for expressing the recombinant human antibodies are provided, and methods of synthesizing the recombinant human antibodies, are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/240535 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2878 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/74 (20130101) C07K 2317/75 (20130101) |
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| US 09163086 | Qin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuebin Qin (Westwood, Massachusetts); Weiguo Hu (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuebin Qin (Westwood, Massachusetts); Weiguo Hu (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features proteins including an antibody, or functional derivatives thereof, that bind hCD59 and have the activity of domain 4 of the Streptococcus intermedins intermedilysin (ILY) protein. In order to prevent the independent induction of CDC and ADCC, the antibodies of the invention can bind the same hCD59 epitope as ILYd4 and/or contain modifications that disrupt the interaction between the antibody and complement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/391124 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/005 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/2896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/515 (20130101) |
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| US 09163087 | Kuchroo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton, Massachusetts); Ana C. Anderson (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton, Massachusetts); Ana C. Anderson (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel compositions comprising bispecific and multispecific polypeptide agents, and methods using these agents for targeting cells, such as functionally exhausted or unresponsive immune cells, that co-express the inhibitory receptors PD-1 and TIM-3. These compositions and methods are useful for the treatment of chronic immune conditions, such as persistent infections or cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805030 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 16/2818 (20130101) C07K 16/2896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163088 | Yang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiao-Feng Yang (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Feng Yang (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel antigens, MPD5, PV13, and PV65, which belongs to the group of cryptic antigens without conventional genomic structure and is encoded by a cryptic open reading frame located in the 3′untranslated region (3′UTR) of myotrophin mRNA. The antigens elicit IgG antibody responses in a subset of PV patients, as well as patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and prostate cancer. The translation of MPD5, PV13 and PV65 was mediated by a novel internal ribosome entry site (IRES) upstream of the open reading frame. Eliciting anti-tumor immune response against MPD5, PV13 and/or PV65 antigen in patients with myeloproliferative diseases is a novel immunotherapy. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446849 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163094 | Schmidt 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 Schmidt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward Boyden (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention, in some aspects relates to synthetic, light-activated fusion proteins and their encoding polynucleotide molecules. In some aspects the invention additionally includes expression of the light-activated fusion proteins in cells and their use in methods such as therapeutic methods and candidate compound screening methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629335 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/011 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) C07K 2319/035 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09163215 | Conboy 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) | Irina M. Conboy (El Sobrante, California); Preeti Paliwal (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for reprogramming differentiated cells into lineage restricted progenitor cells is provided. The method may include contacting differentiated cells with inhibitors of tyrosine phosphatases and apoptosis to de-differentiate differentiated cells into lineage restricted progenitor cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653021 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/34 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0652 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0658 (20130101) C12N 2501/73 (20130101) C12N 2506/1323 (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 1/025 (20130101) C12Q 1/6897 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5061 (20130101) |
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| US 09163219 | Curtiss, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roy Curtiss, III (Tempe, Arizona); Xiangmin Zhang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Curtiss, III (Tempe, Arizona); Xiangmin Zhang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses an expression vector that is capable of generating a virus from a segmented genome. In particular, a single expression vector may be utilized to produce influenza virus in cultured cells. The expression vector can be delivered in a purified DNA form or by a suitably designed bacterial carrier to cells in culture or to animals. This invention increases the virus generation efficiency, which benefits vaccine development. The bacterial carrier harboring such a plasmid encoding an attenuated virus may be used as a vaccine against corresponding viral disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759842 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2760/16051 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2800/103 (20130101) C12N 2830/36 (20130101) C12N 2840/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09163236 | Jessup et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Milburn Jessup (Potomac, Maryland); Jingyu Zhang (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Milburn Jessup (Potomac, Maryland); Jingyu Zhang (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present description relates to an inhibitory RNA molecule, comprising an oligonucleotide that selectively knocks down expression of either Nanog or a Nanog pseudogene, a vector capable of encoding such inhibitory RNA molecule, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said vector, and methods of treating cancer by administration of said pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/991989 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2740/16045 (20130101) |
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| US 09163241 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Jiehua Zhou (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Jiehua Zhou (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for delivery of siRNA to specific cells or tissue. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for cell type-specific delivery of anti-HIV siRNAs via fusion to an anti-gp120 aptamer. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/230088 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1132 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) |
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| US 09163242 | Giangrande et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paloma H. Giangrande (Iowa City, Iowa); James O. McNamara (Iowa City, Iowa); Kristina W. Thiel (Iowa City, Iowa); William Thiel (Iowa City, Iowa); William M. Rockey (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paloma H. Giangrande (Iowa City, Iowa); James O. McNamara (Iowa City, Iowa); Kristina W. Thiel (Iowa City, Iowa); William Thiel (Iowa City, Iowa); William M. Rockey (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to optimized HER2 aptamers and methods of using these aptamers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/697498 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1135 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09163244 | Klinman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Rainald Zeuner (Kiel, Germany); Mayda Gursel (Ankara, Turkey); Ihsan Gursel (Ankara, Turkey); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to oligodeoxynucleotides that suppress an immune response. Methods are disclosed for preventing or treating an immune-mediated disorder, such as, but not limited to, an autoimmune disease, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. Also disclosed are methods of suppressing an immune response in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/026995 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7125 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/117 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/18 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) |
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| US 09163248 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irvin S. Y. Chen (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Kouki Morizono (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides targeted lentiviral vectors that are psuedotyped with mutated Sindbis envelopes. For example, mutations in the Sindbis E2 protein are used to alter viral titer, specificity, specificity index, tropism, and susceptibility to host immune response. Typically, one or more of the E1, E2, or E3 proteins can be mutated at one or more amino acid positions. The psuedotyped, targeted lentiviral vectors of the invention are used to transduce heterologous genes into a cell and can be used for in vivo and ex vivo therapeutic applications, as well as for diagnostic and research tool applications. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/902067 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/33 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/867 (20130101) C12N 2740/10043 (20130101) C12N 2740/10045 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2740/16045 (20130101) C12N 2770/36122 (20130101) C12N 2810/609 (20130101) C12N 2810/855 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09163258 | Riddell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley R. Riddell (Sammamish, Washington); Michael Hudecek (Seattle, Washington); Christoph Rader (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley R. Riddell (Sammamish, Washington); Michael Hudecek (Seattle, Washington); Christoph Rader (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to therapeutic compositions for treating or preventing obesity and obesity-related disorders in a subject using immunotherapy to target and eliminate adipocytes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/811712 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) C07K 14/72 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2740/15043 (20130101) |
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| US 09163260 | Wilson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Wilson (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Weidong Xiao (Fort Washington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The nucleic acid sequences of adeno-associated virus (AAV) serotype 1 are provided, as are vectors and host cells containing these sequences and functional fragments thereof. Also provided are methods of delivering genes via AAV-1 derived vectors. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/136331 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2750/14042 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09163262 | Rao |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Catholic University of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Catholic University of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venigalla B. Rao (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is T4 DNA packaging machine comprising: one or more DNA molecules packaged in a head of the T4 DNA packaging machine, one or more Hoc-fused proteins displayed on the head of the T4 DNA packaging machine, and one or more Soc-fused proteins displayed on the head of the T4 DNA packaging machine. Also described are methods of making and using such a T4 DNA packaging machine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096238 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/10 (20130101) C07K 2319/40 (20130101) C07K 2319/61 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2795/10122 (20130101) C12N 2795/10123 (20130101) C12N 2795/10142 (20130101) C12N 2810/85 (20130101) C12N 2810/859 (20130101) C12N 2810/6009 (20130101) |
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| US 09163271 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (Columbus, Ohio); Eric L. Meggers (Marburg, Germany); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Instiute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (Columbus, Ohio); Eric L. Meggers (Marburg, Germany); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475792 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/505 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 13/00 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 13/005 (20130101) C12P 13/22 (20130101) C12P 19/26 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09163287 | Fields et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patricia Fields (Decatur, Georgia); John R. McQuiston (Decatur, Georgia); Collette Fitzgerald Leaumont (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia Fields (Decatur, Georgia); John R. McQuiston (Decatur, Georgia); Collette Fitzgerald Leaumont (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for the serotype specific detection and identification of one or more Salmonella serotypes are provided. A family of specific primers and probes are provided that allow screening of biological or environmental samples for robust, rapid, and reproducible detection and identification of one or more Salmonella serotypes in the sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877467 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/255 (20130101) |
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| US 09164053 | Collins 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) | Philip G. Collins (Santa Ana, California); Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Yongki Choi (Irvine, California); Issa S. Moody (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single molecule sensing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) connected to the first and second electrodes. At least one linker molecule having first and second functional groups is functionalized with a sidewall of the SWNT, the at least one linker molecule having the first functional group non-covalently functionalized with a sidewall of the single-walled carbon nanotube. A single sensitizing molecule having at least one functional group is functionalized with the second functional group of the at least one linker molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/626760 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/4146 (20130101) |
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| US 09164084 | Cheng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ji-Xin Cheng (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to methods for determining aggressiveness of a cancer and treatment thereof. Certain aspects of the invention provide methods that involve conducting an assay on a lipid droplet in order to detect an amount of a biomarker within the lipid droplet, and determining aggressiveness of a cancer based upon the amount of the biomarker within the lipid droplet. Other aspects of the invention provide methods for treating a cancer that involve administering an agent that blocks storage of cholesteryl ester in a lipid droplet. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371598 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0073 (20130101) A61B 5/4842 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09164095 | Hazen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Renliang Zhang (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Renliang Zhang (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic tests for characterizing an individual's risk of developing or having a cardiovascular disease. In one embodiment the present diagnostic test comprises determining the level of myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity in a bodily sample obtained from the individual or test subject. In another embodiment, the diagnostic test comprises determining the level of MPO mass in a bodily sample obtained from the test subject. In another embodiment, the diagnostic test comprises determining the level of one or more select MPO-generated oxidation products in a bodily sample obtained from the test subject. The select MPO-generated oxidation products are dityrosine, nitrotyrosine, methionine sulphoxide or an MPO-generated lipid peroxidation products. Levels of MPO activity, MPO mass, or the select MPO-generated oxidation product in bodily samples from the test subject are then compared to a predetermined value that is derived from measurements of MPO activity, MPO mass, or the select MPO-generated oxidation product in comparable bodily samples obtained from healthy controls. Such comparison characterizes the test subject's risk of developing CVD. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/313012 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/28 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09164100 | Osterfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MagArray, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MagArray, Inc. (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastian J. Osterfeld (Mountain View, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are high-throughput detection systems. The systems include a magnetic sensor device, a magnetic field source and a reservoir plate that includes a plurality of fluid reservoirs. The magnetic sensor device includes a support with two or more elongated regions each having a magnetic sensor array disposed at a distal end. Also provided are methods in which the subject high-throughput detection systems find use. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679200 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/00317 (20130101) B01J 2219/00655 (20130101) B01J 2219/00662 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5085 (20130101) B01L 9/523 (20130101) B01L 2300/0829 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/12 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/745 (20130101) G01N 27/3276 (20130101) G01N 33/587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 35/026 (20130101) G01N 35/0098 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/0094 (20130101) G01R 33/1269 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/92 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 09164109 | Kleinfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Marc Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California); Andrew Henry Huber (Encinitas, California); James Patrick Kampf (San Diego, California); Thomas Kwan (San Diego, California); Baolong Zhu (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alan Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Marc Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California); Andrew Henry Huber (Encinitas, California); James Patrick Kampf (San Diego, California); Thomas Kwan (San Diego, California); Baolong Zhu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of determining levels of unbound metabolites are disclosed. Probes derived from fatty acid binding protein muteins are described that bind preferentially to a number of unbound metabolites including oleate, stearate, linoleate, palmitate, arachidonate and unconjugated bilirubin. A profile for a patient is determined using one or more of the described probes. The profile is useful in diagnosis of disease, particularly myocardial infarction, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), diabetes, stroke, sepsis and neonatal jaundice. The responses of multiple probes to a test sample are used to classify the degree of acute coronary syndrome by comparison to multi-probe profiles generated from unstable angina, non ST elevation myocardial infarction, and ST elevation myocardial infarction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/447400 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — 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 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/728 (20130101) |
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| US 09164479 | Das et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bhargab Das (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Chandra S. Yelleswarapu (Arington, Massachusetts); Devulapalli V. G. L. N. Rao (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhargab Das (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Chandra S. Yelleswarapu (Arington, Massachusetts); Devulapalli V. G. L. N. Rao (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the disclosed DHM system includes a light source configured to emit coherent optical waves, a first optical Fourier element configured to Fourier transform the optical waves from the object area, wherein the Fourier transform occurs at a Fourier plane and the optical waves from the object area includes directly transmitted waves and diffracted waves, a phase modulator at the Fourier plane configured to introduce a phase delay between the directly transmitted waves and the diffracted waves, a second optical Fourier element configured to receive the directly transmitted waves and the diffracted waves from the phase modulator and to inversely Fourier transform the directly transmitted waves and the diffracted waves to provide interfered optical waves, and at least one imaging device configured to record the interfered optical waves at two image planes to generate a first interferogram and a second interferogram. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/234485 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/365 (20130101) G02B 26/06 (20130101) Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 1/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03H 1/0443 (20130101) G03H 1/0866 (20130101) G03H 2001/005 (20130101) G03H 2001/0447 (20130101) G03H 2001/0454 (20130101) G03H 2001/0471 (20130101) G03H 2210/10 (20130101) G03H 2210/12 (20130101) G03H 2223/13 (20130101) G03H 2223/52 (20130101) G03H 2223/55 (20130101) G03H 2226/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09165353 | Dagher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Dagher (Tucson, Arizona); Francois Georges Meyer (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPTIAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Dagher (Tucson, Arizona); Francois Georges Meyer (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance imaging (MRT) method for jointly estimating an image degradation and reconstructing an image of a subject in which that image degradation is mitigated is provided. The MRI system is operated to acquire multiple different k-space data sets that are acquired with different acquisition parameters so as to modulate the image degradation to be estimated. Using an iterative process, the image degradation is estimated while jointly reconstructing an image in which the estimated image degradation is mitigated. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/241494 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/7203 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/565 (20130101) G01R 33/56527 (20130101) G01R 33/56536 (20130101) G01R 33/56563 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/001 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) |
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| US 09166141 | Vilkomerson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DVX, LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DVX, LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vilkomerson (Princeton, New Jersey); Thomas Chilipka (East Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Matching layers improve the performance of ultrasonic transducers. Such layers have traditionally required significant effort and expense to be added to ultrasonic transducers. The present invention discloses a method of producing ultrasonic transducers with a matching layer, specifically for ultrasonic transducers utilizing piezopolymer transducer materials. Rather than the conventional method of forming the piezopolymer on a substrate and then attaching a matching layer through which the transducer emits its ultrasound energy, we teach depositing the piezopolymer on a substrate that also serves as a matching layer through which the ultrasound is emitted. We also teach depositing an additional shield layer for reducing electromagnetic interference. Methods of how to select materials and modify their ultrasonic characteristics are also discussed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/028578 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/4272 (20130101) A61B 8/4281 (20130101) A61B 8/4483 (20130101) A61B 8/4494 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/067 (20130101) B06B 1/0688 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/29 (20130101) H01L 41/37 (20130101) H01L 41/45 (20130101) H01L 41/183 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) H01L 41/257 (20130101) H01L 41/314 (20130101) H01L 41/317 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 3/04 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/0094 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
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| US 09167240 | Sevick-Muraca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva M. Sevick-Muraca (Houston, Texas); Banghe Zhu (Houston, Texas); I-Chih Tan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided and include the construction of a simple solid phantom and a measurement approach for the quantification of excitation light leakage and measurement sensitivity of fluorescence imaging devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/104846 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/063 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/286 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 17/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09162419 | Bremmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Bremmer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Darryl Mark Toni (Madison, Connecticut); Jeffrey G. Sauer (Woodbury, Connecticut); William E. Hovan (Oxford, Connecticut); Christian A. Rogg (New Milford, Connecticut); Andrew Varga (Milford, Connecticut); David M. Lent (Guilford, Connecticut); Robert A. Lacko (Oxford, Connecticut); Allan R. Macallister (Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A laminate design is provided and includes a substrate formed to define through-holes, an initially uncured pre-preg laminate disposed proximate to the substrate and an initially uncured pre-preg staple. The staple includes a main member and legs extending from the main member and being disposable with the legs extending through the through-holes to pierce the laminate. The staple is co-curable with the laminate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/044468 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 70/00 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/266 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09162514 | Trexler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Dajie Zhang (Baltimore, Maryland); Lisa A. Kelly (Ellicott City, Maryland); Jennifer L. Sample (Bethesda, Maryland); John M. Brupbacher (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes producing an article having a substrate with a plurality of independent taggant layers that each include metal oxide nanocrystals doped with at least one Lanthanide element. Each taggant layer includes metal oxide nanocrystals doped with a different Lanthanide element than each other taggant layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520455 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Printing, Duplicating, Marking, or Copying Processes; Colour Printing, B41M 3/144 (20130101) Books; Book Covers; Loose Leaves; Printed Matter Characterised by Identification or Security Features; Printed Matter of Special Format or Style Not Otherwise Provided For; Devices for Use Therewith and Not Otherwise Provided For; Movable-strip Writing or Reading Apparatus B42D 25/30 (20141001) Original (OR) Class B42D 2035/34 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 1/00 (20130101) C23F 4/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09162882 | Harris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Harris (Wilton, Connecticut); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Harris (Wilton, Connecticut); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a semiconductor nanocrystal can include contacting an M-containing compound with an X donor having the formula X(Y(R)3)3, where X is a group V element and Y is a group IV element. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/617932 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/62 (20130101) C09K 11/66 (20130101) C09K 11/74 (20130101) |
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| US 09162915 | Wilenski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark S. Wilenski (Mercer Island, Washington); Daniel C. Stanley (Renton, Washington); Michael P. Kozar (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Wilenski (Mercer Island, Washington); Daniel C. Stanley (Renton, Washington); Michael P. Kozar (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure may include a first layer, a second layer, and an adhesive layer. The first layer may have a faying surface, a side edge, and a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The second layer may also have a faying surface, a side edge, and a second coefficient of thermal expansion that is different than the first coefficient of thermal expansion. The adhesive layer may be interposed between the first and second faying surfaces. The faying surface of at least one of the first and second layers may include an edge treatment extending along at least a portion of a respective one of the side edges. The edge treatment may have an edge treatment length measured along a direction generally parallel to the faying surface and an edge treatment height measured along a direction generally perpendicular to the faying surface. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/285632 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Cutting; Details Common to Machines for Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out or Severing B26D 3/02 (20130101) B26D 3/065 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 1/04 (20130101) B32B 3/02 (20130101) B32B 7/12 (20130101) B32B 9/04 (20130101) B32B 17/00 (20130101) B32B 17/06 (20130101) B32B 38/10 (20130101) B32B 38/105 (20130101) Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 19/00 (20130101) C03C 23/00 (20130101) C03C 27/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/1059 (20150115) Y10T 156/1062 (20150115) Y10T 156/1074 (20150115) Y10T 156/1075 (20150115) |
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| US 09162931 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wesley P. Hoffman (Palmdale, California); Alexander N. Pechenik (Getzville, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley P. Hoffman (Palmdale, California); Alexander N. Pechenik (Getzville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods to fabricate bulk quantities at relatively low-cost of isotropic homogeneous nanostructured materials with high interfacial area whose properties are controlled and optimized by tailored interfaces between discrete dissimilar materials. In a preferred embodiment, the material is formed by uniformly and intimately mixing nanoparticles of different composition and then compacting and consolidating them to near theoretical density by a process that minimizes grain growth and controls the structure of the interfacial film-like region. One preferred application of these materials is a fast ion conducting material that can be used as a solid electrolyte in gas electrolyzers, electrochemical pumps, gas sensors, catalytic reactors, and most importantly in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938463 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 5/16 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/645 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09162983 | Bauta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Bauta (San Antonio, Texas); William R. Cantrell, Jr. (San Antonio, Texas); Michael W. Tidwell (Lakehills, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to organophosphate-inhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE) reactivators with central nervous system (CNS) bioavailability and their associated methods of preparation including their use for treatment of exposure to AChE inhibitors such as an organophosphate (OP) insecticides and nerve agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/284890 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163027 | Punnonen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STATegics, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STATegics, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juha Punnonen (Belmont, California); Jeffrey R. Spencer (South San Francisco, California); Timothy J. Church (San Mateo, California); Connie S. Tettenborn (Belmont, California); Karen Lariosa-Willingham (Mountain View, California); Dimitri Leonoudakis (San Rafael, California); James L. Miller (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are erythropoietin-mimetic compounds of Formula I, which modulate the survival, function, or differentiation of, for example, kidney cells, neurons, erythroid cells, or other erythropoietin-responsive cells. The present invention also relates to compounds and methods that preferentially modulate cells expressing the tissue-protective erythropoietin receptor. The compounds of the invention are useful in preventing and treating diseases, such as anemia, organ injury, and diseases of the central nervous system, and as an adjunct to cellular treatments, such as stem cell therapies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/085712 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163072 | Dahlén et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eva Maria Dahlén (Arlöv, Sweden); Karin Elisabeth Brachan (Kalgshamn, Sweden); Patrick Thomas Höjman (Malmoe, Sweden); Cecilia Ann-Christin Malmborg Hanger (Helsingborg, Sweden); Marie Asa Ingegerd Karlsson (Lund, Sweden); Mats Peter Anderson (Kävlinge, Sweden); Björn Ulrik Walse (Lund, Sweden) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alligator Bioscience AB (Lund, Sweden) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva Maria Dahlén (Arlöv, Sweden); Karin Elisabeth Brachan (Kalgshamn, Sweden); Patrick Thomas Höjman (Malmoe, Sweden); Cecilia Ann-Christin Malmborg Hanger (Helsingborg, Sweden); Marie Asa Ingegerd Karlsson (Lund, Sweden); Mats Peter Anderson (Kävlinge, Sweden); Björn Ulrik Walse (Lund, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated polypeptide comprising a variant amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a fusion or derivative of said polypeptide, or a fusion of a said derivative thereof, wherein the polypeptide, fusion or derivative retains a biological activity of wild type IL-IRa. In one embodiment, the isolated polypeptide, fusion or derivative is or comprises a polypeptide variant of amino acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 1 comprising or consisting of substitutions at one or more of the following amino acid mutations of SEQ ID NO: 1: Q29K, P38Y, P38R, L42W, D47N, E52R, H54R, E90Y, Q129L, Q129N, M136N, M136D and Q149K. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions of the above polypeptide, fusion or derivative, as well as uses of the same for treating a disease or condition capable of being treated by an agent which inhibits the function of IL-1 receptors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/545878 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/54 (20130101) C07K 14/545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163094 | Schmidt 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 Schmidt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward Boyden (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention, in some aspects relates to synthetic, light-activated fusion proteins and their encoding polynucleotide molecules. In some aspects the invention additionally includes expression of the light-activated fusion proteins in cells and their use in methods such as therapeutic methods and candidate compound screening methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629335 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/011 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) C07K 2319/035 (20130101) C07K 2319/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09163271 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (Columbus, Ohio); Eric L. Meggers (Marburg, Germany); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Instiute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (Columbus, Ohio); Eric L. Meggers (Marburg, Germany); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475792 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/505 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 13/00 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 13/005 (20130101) C12P 13/22 (20130101) C12P 19/26 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09163284 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vikram Pattanayak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Some aspects of this disclosure provide strategies, methods, and reagents for determining nuclease target site preferences and specificity of site-specific endonucleases. Some methods provided herein utilize a novel “one-cut” strategy for screening a library of concatemers comprising repeat units of candidate nuclease target sites and constant insert regions to identify library members that can been cut by a nuclease of interest via sequencing of an intact target site adjacent and identical to a cut target site. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320370 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (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 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163307 | Gleason et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen K. Gleason (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christy D. Petruczok (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are simple, efficient, and scalable methods of patterning polymeric or metallic microstructures on planar or non-planar surfaces. The methods utilize initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) technology. Also disclosed are patterned articles produced by these methods, and methods of using the articles. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792639 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/24 (20130101) G03F 7/025 (20130101) G03F 7/094 (20130101) G03F 7/2014 (20130101) |
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| US 09163334 | Fossey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen A. Fossey (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barry S. Decristofano (Plympton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Fossey (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barry S. Decristofano (Plympton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and computer-readable mediums are provide that, in some embodiments maximize bending of an actuator and, in other embodiments, minimize bending of the actuator. For example, in one embodiment, a method is provided that acquires a first ratio of a modulus of inertia for a first component to a Young's Modulus for the first component. The method also acquires a second ratio of a modulus of inertia for a second component to a Young's Modulus for the second component. Thereafter, the method provides an actuator (which includes the first component and second component). The actuator has a cross-sectional shape such that the first ratio substantially equal to said second ratio. In various embodiments of the invention, the actuator is spun fibers formed into batting and used as insulation, or may form an active element of a thermostat. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/343933 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D01D 5/16 (20130101) D01D 5/30 (20130101) D01D 5/32 (20130101) D01D 5/34 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 8/04 (20130101) D01F 8/06 (20130101) D01F 8/10 (20130101) D01F 8/12 (20130101) D01F 8/14 (20130101) D01F 8/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09163398 | Varanasi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Satya Surya Srinivas Varanasi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Somesh Khandelwal (Sunnyvale, California); Thomas Siegmund (West Lafayette, Indiana); John Stuart Bolton (West Lafayette, Indiana); Raymond J. Cipra (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A cellular material barrier system for reducing sound transmission. The cellular material system includes a planar cellular metamaterial arrangement which includes at least one unit cell, the unit cell includes a sound normalizing arrangement, and a planar metamaterial arrangement coupled to the sound normalizing arrangement on a first side, the planar metamaterial arrangement includes a plate, and a frame affixed to the plate, the sound normalizing arrangement configured to normalize incident sound received at non-normal angle to thereby convey sound at normal angles to the planar metamaterial arrangement, the unit cell further comprising a back layer that is coupled to the sound normalizing arrangement on a second side, opposite the first side, the back layer is made from a porous material, including at least one of a fibrous layer, polymeric foams, ceramic foams, and metallic foams. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/281408 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E04B 2001/748 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/168 (20130101) |
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| US 09163582 | Treat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher Treat (Manchester, Connecticut); Christina A. Stenman (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Shelton O. Duelm (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Alex J. Simpson (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Treat (Manchester, Connecticut); Christina A. Stenman (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Shelton O. Duelm (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Alex J. Simpson (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A liner assembly includes a plurality of flaps arranged about a central axis and operable to move relative to the central axis. Each of the plurality of flaps defines a forward end and an aft end, lateral sides, and an inner surface and an outer surface relative to the central axis. Each of the plurality of flaps has a thickness between the inner surface and the outer surface, and thickness varies in a lateral direction between the lateral sides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483499 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/12 (20130101) F02K 1/1223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09163883 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronggui Yang (Broomfield, New York); Yung-Cheng Lee (Boulder, Colorado); Victor M. Bright (Boulder, Colorado); Chen Li (Columbia, South Carolina); Christopher Oshman (Boulder, Colorado); Bo Shi (Nanjing, China PRC); Jen-Hau Cheng (Boulder, Colorado); George P. Peterson (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KEVLIN THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronggui Yang (Broomfield, New York); Yung-Cheng Lee (Boulder, Colorado); Victor M. Bright (Boulder, Colorado); Chen Li (Columbia, South Carolina); Christopher Oshman (Boulder, Colorado); Bo Shi (Nanjing, China PRC); Jen-Hau Cheng (Boulder, Colorado); George P. Peterson (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and systems are disclosed for flexible thermal ground planes. A flexible thermal ground plane may include a support member. The flexible thermal ground plane may include an evaporator region or multiple evaporator regions configured to couple with the support member. The flexible thermal ground plane may include a condenser region or multiple condenser regions configured to couple with the support member. The evaporator and condenser region may include a microwicking structure. The evaporator and condenser region may include a nanowicking structure coupled with the micro-wicking structure, where the nanowicking structure includes nanorods. The evaporator and condenser region may include a nanomesh coupled with the nanorods and/or the microwicking structure. Some embodiments may include a micromesh coupled with the nanorods and/or the microwicking structure. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719775 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 15/26 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 15/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F28D 15/046 (20130101) F28D 15/0233 (20130101) F28D 15/0241 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/427 (20130101) H01L 23/3677 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49353 (20150115) |
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| US 09163936 | Ulmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Thad Ulmer (San Pedro, California); Paul Shnitser (Irvine, California); David Harold Miller (San Pedro, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Paul Wilkinson (San Pedro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Profilometers for industrial metrology and other applications are described. A line is projected on a surface to be profiled. The line is scanned to build a three dimensional point cloud allowing the three-dimensional (3D) profile of the surface to be determined. In some embodiments, the line is projected by a laser system. In other embodiments, the line is projected by a digital micromirror device (DMD). In still further embodiments, multiple lines, or other patterns are projected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/889203 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09164035 | Sugrim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chandraika Sugrim (Lexington Park, Maryland); Rollie DeWayne Berry (Lexington Park, Maryland); Gerald Ferguson (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandraika Sugrim (Lexington Park, Maryland); Rollie DeWayne Berry (Lexington Park, Maryland); Gerald Ferguson (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributive transmissometer, comprising a series of light sources that illuminate and map out a volume of space to be sampled to a one-dimensional space, a light detector, the one-dimensional space being mapped to the light detector such that spatial dust density distribution of the volume to be sampled can be determined; and, a lens for focusing light emitted by the light sources toward the light detector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/182815 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 21/59 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/062 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09164168 | Petkie |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas T. Petkie (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas T. Petkie (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for wirelessly detecting movement of a target. The system comprises a reference oscillator, a transmitter, a receiver, a demodulator, and a processor, wherein: the reference oscillator generates references frequencies for the transmitter, the receiver, and the demodulator; the transmitter generates a continuous-wave signal at a frequency based on the transmitter reference frequency and wirelessly transmits it to the target; the receiver wirelessly receives a reflected signal from the target having a phase angle corresponding to movement of the target and converts the reflected signal into an intermediate frequency signal based on the receiver reference frequency; the demodulator demodulates the intermediate frequency signal into an in-phase component and a quadrature component; and the processor converts the in-phase component and the quadrature component into a movement signal corresponding to movement of the target. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727872 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/113 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/35 (20130101) G01S 13/50 (20130101) G01S 13/583 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164231 | Shubin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ivan Shubin (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Shubin (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit is described. This integrated circuit includes an optical waveguide defined in a semiconductor layer, and an optical detector disposed on top of the optical waveguide. Moreover, the optical waveguide has an end with a reflecting facet. For example, the reflective facet may be defined using an anisotropic etch of the semiconductor layer. This reflecting facet reflects light propagating in a plane of the optical waveguide out of the plane into the optical detector, thereby providing a photodetector with high optical responsivity, including an extremely low dark current (and, thus, high photosensitivity) and an extremely small capacitance (and, thus, high electrical bandwidth). |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/205484 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/1228 (20130101) G02B 6/4214 (20130101) G02B 6/12004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164236 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hsi-Chun Liu (Pasadena, California); Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsi-Chun Liu (Pasadena, California); Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Coupled-resonator optical waveguides (CROW) can be used to control a speed of an optical signal. In particular, the coupling distance between the resonators can be adjusted to precisely control a group delay of an optical wave. Systems and methods are described to control such coupling distance in a CROW. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/460638 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/26 (20130101) G02B 6/262 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/2861 (20130101) G02B 6/3596 (20130101) G02B 6/29338 (20130101) G02B 6/29343 (20130101) G02B 6/29383 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164239 | Gill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas M. Gill (South Orange, New Jersey); Mahmoud Rasras (New Providence, New Jersey); Kun-Yii Tu (Califon, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas M. Gill (South Orange, New Jersey); Mahmoud Rasras (New Providence, New Jersey); Kun-Yii Tu (Califon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method and apparatus for optically filtering a communication signal. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided an apparatus comprising an optical filter having first and second input ports and first and second output ports, the optical filter being configured to transmit light in a target frequency range to the first output port in response to receiving light at the first input port and being configured to transmit light in the target frequency range to the second input port in response to receiving light at the second output port, and first and second photodiodes, the first diode being located to be illuminated by light from the first output port and the second photodiode being located to be illuminated by light from the second input port. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376491 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/2746 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/2935 (20130101) G02B 6/4206 (20130101) G02B 6/4246 (20130101) G02B 6/29395 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/50 (20130101) H04B 10/675 (20130101) H04B 10/2507 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164491 | Ridley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff A. Ridley (Shorewood, Minnesota); Robert Compton (Plymouth, Minnesota); Mary K. Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Jeffrey James Kriz (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In an example, a chip-scale atomic clock physics package is provided. The physics package includes a body defining a cavity having a base surface and one or more side walls. The cavity includes a first step surface and a second step surface defined in the one or more side walls. A first scaffold mounted to the base surface in the cavity. One or more spacers defining an aperture therethrough are mounted to the second step surface in the cavity. A second scaffold is mounted to a first surface of the one or more spacers spans across the aperture of the one or more spacers. A third scaffold is mounted to a second surface of the one or more spacers in the cavity and spans across the aperture of the one or more spacers. Other components of the physics package are mounted to the first, second, and third scaffold. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/083067 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Time-interval Measuring G04F 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G04F 5/145 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164515 | Huebner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Daniel Huebner (Ridgecrest, California); Sam Ghaleb (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for allowing accurate navigation to a target regardless of GPS jamming levels. A method to update the navigation solution of an object being navigated toward a target based upon seeker measurements in at least one of three electromagnetic frequency domains: infrared, visible, and radio frequency (RF). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/778618 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/26 (20130101) G01C 21/3679 (20130101) G01C 21/3682 (20130101) G01C 23/00 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 19/42 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164690 | Khailany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brucek Kurdo Khailany (San Francisco, California); Sean Jeffrey Treichler (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVIDIA Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brucek Kurdo Khailany (San Francisco, California); Sean Jeffrey Treichler (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer program product are provided for copying data between memory locations. In use, a memory copy instruction is implemented. Additionally, data is copied from a first memory location to a second memory location, utilizing the memory copy instruction. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/560315 |
| ART UNIT | 2138 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/3004 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165013 | Medard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muriel Medard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Supratim Deb (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ralf Koetter (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer program product for providing a random linear coding approach to distributed data storage is presented. A file is broken into a plurality of pieces. For every peer (peer means storage-location with limited storage space), the number of coded-pieces the peer can store is determined. Each of the coded-piece is determined by taking random linear combination of all the pieces of the entire file. The associate code-vector is stored for every coded-piece. The file is retrieved by collecting code-vectors and the coded-pieces from the peers and viewing the collected code-vectors as a matrix. When a dimension of the matrix is equal to the number of pieces of the file, the file is recovered using the collection of code vectors in the matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678982 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165042 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xifeng Yan (Urbana, Illinois); Philip Shilung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xifeng Yan (Urbana, Illinois); Philip Shilung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for similarity searching are provided. Structural data in a database is searched against one or more structural queries. A desired minimum degree of similarity between the one or more queries and the structural data in the database is first specified. One or more indices are then used to exclude from consideration any structural data in the database that does not share the minimum degree of similarity with one or more of the queries. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096165 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30536 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/705 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165051 | Masud et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad Mehedy Masud (Dallas, Texas); Latifur Rahman Khan (Plano, Texas); Bhavani Marienne Thuraisingham (Dallas, Texas); Qing Chen (Plano, Texas); Jing Gao (Urbana, Illinois); Jiawei Han (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois); BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Mehedy Masud (Dallas, Texas); Latifur Rahman Khan (Plano, Texas); Bhavani Marienne Thuraisingham (Dallas, Texas); Qing Chen (Plano, Texas); Jing Gao (Urbana, Illinois); Jiawei Han (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for data classification and novel data class detection are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, a system or method for detecting a novel class includes receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of data points, and identifying a set of filtered outliers, in the plurality of data points, that are outside of a decision boundary. A cohesion and a separation for the set of filtered outliers may be determined. A novel class may be detected using the cohesion and the separation of the set of filtered outliers, and the novel class may include the set of filtered outliers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/214720 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165208 | Jeong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changsoo S. Jeong (Rancho Palos, California); Kyungnam Kim (Oak Park, California); Yang Chen (Westlake Village, California); Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Shinko Y. Cheng (Cupertino, California); Lei Zhang (Torrance, California); Alexander L. Honda (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is system and method for robust ground-plane homography estimation using adaptive feature selection. The system determines feature correspondences of an image that correspond with at least one moving object in each image in a set of images. Additionally, feature correspondences of the image that correspond with at least one above-ground object are determined in each image. Feature correspondences that correspond with each moving object in each image are excluded, and feature correspondences that correspond with each above-ground object in each image are excluded. Each image is divided into a plurality of sub-regions comprising features correspondences. The number of feature correspondences in each sub-region is limited to a predetermined threshold to ensure that feature correspondences are evenly distributed over each image. Finally, a ground-plane homography estimation between the set of images is generated. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/203470 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/4604 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165254 | Duchon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew P. Duchon (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert McCormack (Somerville, Massachusetts); William J. Salter (Harvard, Massachusetts); Paul David Allopenna (Storrs, Connecticut); Shawn Weil (Melrose, Massachusetts); John Colonna-Romano (Stow, Massachusetts); David Kramer (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aptima, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Duchon (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert McCormack (Somerville, Massachusetts); William J. Salter (Harvard, Massachusetts); Paul David Allopenna (Storrs, Connecticut); Shawn Weil (Melrose, Massachusetts); John Colonna-Romano (Stow, Massachusetts); David Kramer (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relate to a method and system to predict the likelihood of data topics that may occur from data sources. The likelihood of the data topics may be predicted over other dimensions of time or over other dimensions. In the present invention, a topic means a defining characteristic, usually represented as a data element, of a single feature, activity, subject, behavior, event or an aggregation of such defining characteristics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/812250 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 7/005 (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 10/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165369 | 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 (Torrance, California); Kyungnam Kim (Oak Park, California); Yang Chen (Westlake Village, California); Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Shinko Y. Cheng (Cupertino, California); Alexander L. Honda (Sunnyvale, California); Changsoo S. Jeong (Rancho Palos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for multi-object detection and recognition in cluttered scenes. The system receives an image patch containing multiple objects of interest as input. The system evaluates a likelihood of existence of an object of interest in each sub-window of a set of overlapping sub-windows. A confidence map having confidence values corresponding to the sub-windows is generated. A non-maxima suppression technique is applied to the confidence map to eliminate sub-windows having confidence values below a local maximum confidence value. A global maximum confidence value is determined for a sub-window corresponding to a location of an instance of an object of interest in the image patch. The sub-window corresponding to the location of the instance of the object of interest is removed from the confidence map. The system iterates until a predetermined stopping criteria is met. Finally, detection information related to multiple instances of the object of interest is output. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/207391 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/628 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165721 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Hoboken, New Jersey); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Woo Young Lee (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Linh Le (New York, New York); De Kong (Hoboken, New Jersey); Matthew Henderson Ervin (Clarksville, Maryland); James L. Zunino, III (Booton Township, New Jersey); Brian E. Fuchs (Hackettstown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical component includes an inkjet-printed graphene electrode. Graphene oxide flakes are deposited on a substrate in a graphene oxide ink using an inkjet printer. The deposited graphene oxide is thermally reduced to graphene. The electrical properties of the electrode are comparable to those of electrodes made using activated carbon, carbon nanotubes or graphene made by other methods. The electrical properties of the graphene electrodes may be tailored by adding nanoparticles of other materials to the ink to serve as conductivity enhancers, spacers, or to confer pseudocapacitance. Inkjet-printing can be used to make graphene electrodes of a desired thickness in preselected patterns. Inkjet printing can be used to make highly-transparent graphene electrodes. Inkjet-printed graphene electrodes may be used to fabricate double-layer capacitors that store energy by nanoscale charge separation at the electrode-electrolyte interface (i.e., “supercapacitors”). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/327753 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) H01G 11/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/48 (20130101) H01G 11/80 (20130101) H01G 11/86 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/092 (20130101) H05K 1/162 (20130101) H05K 1/0393 (20130101) H05K 3/125 (20130101) H05K 2201/0323 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165894 | Griffith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary M. Griffith (Thousand Oaks, California); Thomas Benjamin Reed (North Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascode gain stage apparatus includes an input transistor having an RF input node and a transistor output node, an output transistor having a transistor input node and an RF output node, and a DC blocking capacitor connected between the transistor input and transistor output nodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/802127 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/76877 (20130101) H01L 21/76897 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 23/481 (20130101) H01L 23/4824 (20130101) H01L 29/737 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Amplifiers H03F 1/22 (20130101) H03F 1/223 (20130101) H03F 3/19 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pankaj B. Shah (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pankaj B. Shah (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprising a substrate; a pair of stacks of polar semiconductor materials which create a charge by spontaneous and/or piezoelectric polarization; one of the pair of stacks having a spontaneous and/or piezoelectric polarity which is in a direction opposite to the other of the pair of stacks; whereby due to the opposing polarities, the polarization is balanced. A method of substantially eliminating the bias required to offset polarization charges in an electronic device having a heterobarrier comprising providing a substrate; growing at least one pair of stacks of semiconductor materials; one of the pair of stacks having a spontaneous and/or piezoelectric polarity which is opposite to the other of the pair of stacks; whereby due to the opposing polarities, the polarization is balanced to substantially eliminate the need for a voltage bias. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462935 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/93 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09166084 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya D. Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya D. Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic (PV) device, comprising a PV interband cascade (IC) stage, wherein the IC PV stage comprises an absorption region with a band gap, the absorption region configured to absorb photons, an intraband transport region configured to act as a hole barrier, and an interband tunneling region configured to act as an electron barrier. An IC PV architecture for a photovoltaic device, the IC PV architecture comprising an absorption region, an intraband transport region coupled to the absorption region, and an interband tunneling region coupled to the intraband transport region and to the adjacent absorption region, wherein the absorption region, the intraband transport region, and the interband tunneling region are positioned such that electrons will flow from the absorption region to the intraband transport region to the interband tunneling region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/024203 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09166147 | Carman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory P. Carman (Los Angeles, California); Kang-Lung Wang (Santa Monica, California); Tao Wu (Hillsboro, Oregon); Alexandre Bur (Lausanne, Switzerland); Pedram Khalili Amiri (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Carman (Los Angeles, California); Kang-Lung Wang (Santa Monica, California); Tao Wu (Hillsboro, Oregon); Alexandre Bur (Lausanne, Switzerland); Pedram Khalili Amiri (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferroelectric device includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a ferroelectric element arranged between the first and second electrodes. The ferroelectric element has a plurality of quasistatic strain configurations that are selectable by the application of an electric field and the device has selectable electromechanical displacement by the application of the electric field. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/113562 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/1875 (20130101) H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09166172 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rongtao Lu (Lawrence, Kansas); Judy Zhihong Wu (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongtao Lu (Lawrence, Kansas); Judy Zhihong Wu (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-sensitivity detector for opto-electronic detection using multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is provided. More specifically, multiwall carbon nanotube films demonstrate an infrared bolometric photoresponse higher than SWCNT films at room temperature. The observed D* exceeding 3.3×106 cm Hz1/2/W with MWCNT-film bolometers and can be further improved to over 1×107 cm Hz1/2/W by adding graphene flakes. The response time of about 1-2 milliseconds with MWCNT bolometers is more than an order of magnitude shorter than that of SWCNT bolometers. For individual MWCNTs with specially designed asymmetric Schottky contacts, one on the sidewall and the other covering the end, the photocurrent has been efficiently harvested and provides a higher detectivity of 6.2×109 cm·Hz1/2/W at room temperature, which is one order of magnitude higher than the convectional VOx detector and makes MWCNT competitive for practical optoelectronic detections over infrared and even longer wavelength range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/878912 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/023 (20130110) G01J 5/0853 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166242 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wayne Po-Wen Liu (San Diego, California); David Bartholomew Chadwick (San Diego, California); Jeffrey Asher Kagan (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Po-Wen Liu (San Diego, California); David Bartholomew Chadwick (San Diego, California); Jeffrey Asher Kagan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy harvester comprising: a microbial fuel cell comprising an anode; and a pump comprising a flexible diaphragm that is configured to be flexed by an ambient, renewable energy source such that with each flexing of the diaphragm nutrient-rich media is pumped past the anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/965504 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines or Engines for Liquids F03B 13/10 (20130101) F03B 13/12 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 6/34 (20130101) H01M 8/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166271 | Peroulis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Peroulis (West Lafayette, Indiana); Adam Fruehling (West Lafayette, Indiana); Joshua Azariah Small (Lexington Park, Maryland); Xiaoguang Liu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Wasim Irshad (West Lafayette, Indiana); Muhammad Shoaib Arif (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable cavity resonator includes a substrate, a cap structure, and a tuning assembly. The cap structure extends from the substrate, and at least one of the substrate and the cap structure defines a resonator cavity. The tuning assembly is positioned at least partially within the resonator cavity. The tuning assembly includes a plurality of fixed-fixed MEMS beams configured for controllable movement relative to the substrate between an activated position and a deactivated position in order to tune a resonant frequency of the tunable cavity resonator. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/908201 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 7/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166357 | Moulton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Q-Peak, Incorporated (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Q-Peak, Incorporated (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Moulton (Concord, Massachusetts); Evgueni Slobodtchikov (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yelena Isyanova (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber laser system includes at least one optical fiber with a core and a cladding and is operative at a first wavelength larger than 2000 nm. The operative first wavelength is preferably chosen to maximize transmission through the atmosphere. At least one optical pumping system includes one or more pumping fiber lasers also doped with thulium for pumping the optical fiber. The pumping system is operative at a second, shorter wavelength close to the first wavelength for low quantum defect pumping. The core of the optical fiber is doped with thulium at a doping concentration greater than one weight % to reduce absorption losses in the core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/660265 |
| 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 3/067 (20130101) H01S 3/1616 (20130101) H01S 3/1655 (20130101) H01S 3/06716 (20130101) H01S 3/094003 (20130101) H01S 3/094007 (20130101) H01S 3/094042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166358 | Miles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard B. Miles (Princeton, New Jersey); Arthur Dogariu (Hamilton, New Jersey); James B. Michael (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Miles (Princeton, New Jersey); Arthur Dogariu (Hamilton, New Jersey); James B. Michael (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for lasing molecular gases, and systems and methods of detecting molecular species are provided. The systems and methods can include the use of an excitation laser tuned to a wavelength associated with oxygen or nitrogen. The lasing can occur in both the forward and reverse directions relative to the excitation laser beam. Reverse lasing can provide a laser beam that propagates back toward the excitation laser source, and can provide a method for remote sampling of molecular species contained in the air. For example, systems and methods of detecting a molecular species of interest can be achieved by using the properties of the backward or forward propagating air laser to indicate a change in a pulse from the source of laser pulses caused by a modulation laser tuned to interact with the molecular species of interest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546888 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 21/1717 (20130101) G01N 2021/655 (20130101) G01N 2021/1725 (20130101) G01N 2021/1793 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0014 (20130101) H01S 3/22 (20130101) H01S 3/097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/2391 (20130101) H01S 3/094092 (20130101) |
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| US 09166793 | Poovendran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radha Poovendran (Seattle, Washington); Basel Alomair (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for authenticating messages is provided. A message authentication system generates an encrypted message by encrypting with a key a combination of a message and a nonce. The message authentication system generates a message authentication code based on a combination of the message and the nonce modulo a divisor. To decrypt and authenticate the message, the message authentication system generates a decrypted message by decrypting with the key the encrypted message and extracts the message and the nonce. The message authentication system then regenerates a message authentication code based on a combination of the extracted message and the extracted nonce modulo the divisor. The message authentication system then determines whether the regenerated message authentication code matches the original message authentication code. If the codes match, then the integrity and authenticity of the message are verified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/705068 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0643 (20130101) H04L 9/3242 (20130101) H04L 9/3244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/805 (20130101) |
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| US 09166857 | Kumar |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra Kumar (Cerritos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for fast and precise estimation of frequency with relatively minimal sampling and relatively high tolerance to noise. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/486597 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 21/003 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/266 (20130101) H04L 27/2657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2676 (20130101) H04L 27/2688 (20130101) H04L 2027/0065 (20130101) H04L 2027/0067 (20130101) |
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| US 09167239 | Williams |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darin S. Williams (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a system for characterization of an imaging sensor using a moving modulated target with unmodulated position references is generally described herein. A target pattern comprises through-holes in a slide and resolved patches on the slide. The slide and patch have different emission intensities in the sensor' detection band. A modulation is applied to only the emission intensities of the through-holes. The target pattern is moved across the field-of view (FOV) of the imaging sensor to present the target pattern across different frames at different positions. Frames of images of the moving target pattern as seen in the FOV of the imaging sensor are captured to generate modulated image data outputs. The unmodulated position references provided by the resolved patches are measured and used to align the modulated image data outputs, which are processed to generate data products representative of a response of the imaging sensor. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/025727 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 17/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09167463 | Serban et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Constantin Serban (Metuchen, New Jersey); Akshay Vashist (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Rauf Izmailov (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Ritu Chadha (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Kyriakos Manousakis (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Cho-Yu Jason Chiang (Clinton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Constantin Serban (Metuchen, New Jersey); Akshay Vashist (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Rauf Izmailov (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Ritu Chadha (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Kyriakos Manousakis (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Cho-Yu Jason Chiang (Clinton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication node operable to estimate faults in a mobile ad hoc network and method of performing the same. In one embodiment, the communication node includes a processor and memory including computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the communication node to monitor a set of observable parameters at the communication node, produce a fault estimate at the communication node from the set of observable parameters, and provide the fault estimate to a global fault detector at another communication node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/602796 |
| ART UNIT | 2411 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/16 (20130101) H04L 41/142 (20130101) H04L 41/0631 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/08 (20130101) H04W 24/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09167726 | Pautsch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W. Pautsch (Hayward, Wisconsin); Eric D. Lakin (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for cooling a plurality of electronics cabinets having horizontally positioned electronics assemblies. The system includes at least one blower configured to direct air horizontally across the electronics assemblies, and at least one intercooler configured to extract heat from the air flow such that the system is room neutral, meaning that the ambient temperature remains constant during operation of the system. A plurality of chassis backplanes and power supplies may also include an intercooler, wherein the intercoolers are electronically controlled such that the system is room neutral. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/681188 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20572 (20130101) H05K 7/20727 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 7/20736 (20130101) H05K 7/20781 (20130101) H05K 7/20836 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); UT-Battelle (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean T. Greenberg (Chicago, Illinois); Ho Won Jung (Chicago, Illinois); Timothy Tschaplinski (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Azelaic acid or its derivatives or analogs induce a robust and a speedier defense response against pathogens in plants. Azelaic acid treatment alone does not induce many of the known defense-related genes but activates a plant's defense signaling upon pathogen exposure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657557 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 27/00 (20130101) A01N 37/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 37/04 (20130101) A01N 37/04 (20130101) A01N 37/40 (20130101) A01N 37/42 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/82 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) Mixtures of Fertilisers Covered Individually by Different Subclasses of Class C05; Mixtures of One or More Fertilisers With Materials Not Having a Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents; Fertilisers Characterised by Their Form C05G 3/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09162212 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Manhoe Kim (Troy, Michigan); Shuli Yan (Detroit, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); K. Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manhoe Kim (Troy, Michigan); Shuli Yan (Detroit, Michigan); Steven O. Salley (Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan); K. Y. Simon Ng (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterogeneous catalyst system, a method of preparing the catalyst system and a method of forming a biodiesel product via transesterification reactions using the catalyst system is disclosed. The catalyst system according to one aspect of the present disclosure represents a class of supported mixed metal oxides that include at least calcium oxide and another metal oxide deposited on a lanthanum oxide or cerium oxide support. Preferably, the catalysts include CaO—CeO2ZLa2O3 or CaO—La2O3/CeO2. Optionally, the catalyst may further include additional metal oxides, such as CaO—La2O3—GdOxZLa2O3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/255305 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/06 (20130101) B01J 23/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/02 (20130101) B01J 23/10 (20130101) B01J 29/405 (20130101) B01J 37/08 (20130101) B01J 37/0009 (20130101) B01J 37/031 (20130101) B01J 37/0201 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/00 (20130101) B01J 2523/23 (20130101) B01J 2523/23 (20130101) B01J 2523/23 (20130101) B01J 2523/23 (20130101) B01J 2523/31 (20130101) B01J 2523/47 (20130101) B01J 2523/48 (20130101) B01J 2523/3706 (20130101) B01J 2523/3706 (20130101) B01J 2523/3706 (20130101) B01J 2523/3706 (20130101) B01J 2523/3712 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/026 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/10 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09162679 | Sujan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vivek A. Sujan (Columbus, Indiana); Phani Vajapeyazula (Columbus, Indiana); Kenneth Follen (Greenwood, Indiana); An Wu (Columbus, Indiana); Barty L. Moffett (Seymour, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CUMMINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek A. Sujan (Columbus, Indiana); Phani Vajapeyazula (Columbus, Indiana); Kenneth Follen (Greenwood, Indiana); An Wu (Columbus, Indiana); Barty L. Moffett (Seymour, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle operating condition profile can be determined over a given route while also considering imposed constraints such as deviation from time targets, deviation from maximum governed speed limits, etc. Given current vehicle speed, engine state and transmission state, the present disclosure optimally manages the engine map and transmission to provide a recommended vehicle operating condition that optimizes fuel consumption in transitioning from one vehicle state to a target state. Exemplary embodiments provide for offline and online optimizations relative to fuel consumption. The benefit is increased freight efficiency in transporting cargo from source to destination by minimizing fuel consumption and maintaining drivability. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/336959 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 23/00 (20130101) B60K 31/00 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/06 (20130101) B60W 10/11 (20130101) B60W 30/1882 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60W 2550/00 (20130101) B60W 2550/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09162914 | Nenoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tina M. Nenoff (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dorina Florentina Sava Gallis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karena Chapman (Naperville, Illinois); Peter Chupas (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that absorb waste into a metal-organic framework (MOF), and applying pressure to the MOF material's framework to crystallize or make amorphous the MOF material thereby changing the MOF's pore structure and sorption characteristics without collapsing the MOF framework. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/061345 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 5/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09162939 | Jasti 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) | Ramesh Jasti (Boston, Massachusetts); Carolyn Bertozzi (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides cycloparaphenylene compounds, their macrocyclic precursors, and methods for making the compounds. The cycloparaphenylene compounds can be used to prepare armchair carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/621340 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 1/22 (20130101) C07C 15/14 (20130101) C07C 15/14 (20130101) C07C 41/01 (20130101) C07C 41/16 (20130101) C07C 41/16 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 41/30 (20130101) C07C 43/21 (20130101) C07C 43/192 (20130101) C07C 43/192 (20130101) C07C 43/192 (20130101) C07C 2103/92 (20130101) C07C 2523/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09162999 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Caes (West Des Moines, Iowa); Michael Palte (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Caes (West Des Moines, Iowa); Michael Palte (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and catalyst compositions for formation of furans from carbohydrates. A carbohydrate substrate is heating in the presence of a 2-substituted phenylboronic acid (or salt or hydrate thereof) and optionally a magnesium or calcium halide salt. The reaction is carried out in a polar aprotic solvent other than an ionic liquid, an ionic liquid or a mixture thereof. Additional of a selected amount of water to the reaction can enhance the yield of furans. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629588 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/02 (20130101) B01J 23/92 (20130101) B01J 27/08 (20130101) B01J 27/20 (20130101) B01J 27/32 (20130101) B01J 31/146 (20130101) B01J 37/0209 (20130101) B01J 2231/641 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/48 (20130101) C07D 307/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163181 | Baird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lance Awender Baird (Prospect Heights, Illinois); Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance Awender Baird (Prospect Heights, Illinois); Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for deoxygenating a biomass-derived pyrolysis oil are provided. In one example, a method comprises the steps of separating a low-oxygen biomass-derived pyrolysis oil effluent into a low-oxygen-pyoil organic phase stream and an aqueous phase stream. Phenolic compounds are removed from the aqueous phase stream to form a phenolic-rich diluent recycle stream. A biomass-derived pyrolysis oil stream is diluted and heated with the phenolic-rich diluent recycle stream to form a heated diluted pyoil feed stream. The heated diluted pyoil feed stream is contacted with a deoxygenating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen to deoxygenate the heated diluted pyoil feed stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528475 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/40 (20130101) C10G 3/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 3/50 (20130101) C10G 3/52 (20130101) C10G 45/02 (20130101) C10G 69/06 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) |
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| US 09163223 | Schoonneveld-Bergmans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans (Delft, Netherlands); Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne (Dordrecht, Netherlands); Alrik Pieter Los (The Hague, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans (Delft, Netherlands); Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne (Dordrecht, Netherlands); Alrik Pieter Los (The Hague, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 82% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 82% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805146 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/18 (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 19/00 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09163224 | Sagt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornelis Maria Jacobus Sagt (Utrecht, Netherlands); Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schooneveld-Bergmans (Delft, Netherlands); Johannes Andries Roubos (Pijnacker, Netherlands); Alrik Pieter Los ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DSM IP ASSETS B.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cornelis Maria Jacobus Sagt (Utrecht, Netherlands); Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schooneveld-Bergmans (Delft, Netherlands); Johannes Andries Roubos (Pijnacker, Netherlands); Alrik Pieter Los ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polypeptide having carbohydrate material degrading activity which comprises the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or SEQ ID NO: 4, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 96% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 96% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional protein and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, April 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/264239 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2428 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01003 (20130101) C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
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| US 09163271 | Schultz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (Columbus, Ohio); Eric L. Meggers (Marburg, Germany); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Instiute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (Berkeley, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (Columbus, Ohio); Eric L. Meggers (Marburg, Germany); Ryan Aaron Mehl (San Diego, California); Miro Pastrnak (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/475792 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/505 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/93 (20130101) C12N 15/67 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 13/00 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 13/005 (20130101) C12P 13/22 (20130101) C12P 19/26 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09163521 | Roberts, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Byron Roberts, II (Wellington, Nevada); Shawn P. Lawlor (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dresser-Rand Company (Olean, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Byron Roberts, II (Wellington, Nevada); Shawn P. Lawlor (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine having a compressor section using blades on a rotor to deliver a gas at supersonic conditions to a stator. The stator includes one or more of aerodynamic ducts that have converging and diverging portions for deceleration of the gas to subsonic conditions and to deliver a high pressure gas to combustors. The aerodynamic ducts include structures for changing the effective contraction ratio to enable starting even when designed for high pressure ratios, and structures for boundary layer control. In an embodiment, aerodynamic ducts are provided having an aspect ratio of two to one (2:1) or more, when viewed in cross-section orthogonal to flow direction at an entrance to the aerodynamic duct. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542669 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 1/10 (20130101) F01D 1/16 (20130101) F01D 1/026 (20130101) F01D 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 9/047 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/00 (20130101) F02C 3/04 (20130101) F02C 3/06 (20130101) F02C 3/14 (20130101) F02C 7/00 (20130101) F02C 9/16 (20130101) F02C 9/18 (20130101) Non-positive-displacement Pumps F04D 21/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2220/3216 (20130101) F05D 2220/3218 (20130101) F05D 2220/3219 (20130101) F05D 2240/30 (20130101) F05D 2240/301 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09163561 | Anand et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (SCHENECTADY, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashok Kumar Anand (Schenectady, New York); Thirumala Reddy Nagarjuna Reddy (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for improved emissions performance of a power plant generally includes an exhaust gas recirculation system having an exhaust gas compressor disposed downstream from the combustor, a condensation collection system at least partially disposed upstream from the exhaust gas compressor, and a mixing chamber in fluid communication with the exhaust gas compressor and the condensation collection system, where the mixing chamber is in fluid communication with the combustor. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/662816 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — 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 3/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 3/34 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09163830 | Chiu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John H. Chiu (West Hartford, Connecticut); Bard C. Teigen (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALSTOM Technology Ltd (Baden, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Chiu (West Hartford, Connecticut); Bard C. Teigen (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealpot for a combustion power plant includes a downcomer standpipe which receives solids of the combustion power plant, a bed including a first end and a second opposite end, the first end connected to the downcomer standpipe, a discharge standpipe disposed at the second opposite end of the bed, and an orifice plate disposed between the bed and the discharge standpipe separating the discharge standpipe from the bed. The orifice plate includes apertures disposed at a height above the bed which allow transport of fluidized solids and gas through the orifice plate. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/749284 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/0025 (20130101) B01J 2208/00752 (20130101) B01J 2208/00769 (20130101) Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 31/0084 (20130101) Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 10/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23C 10/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09163861 | Al-Haddad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Radiance Solar, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia); RADIANCE SOLAR, LLC (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tristan Farris Al-Haddad (Clarkson, Georgia); Andrés Cavieres (Atlanta, Georgia); Russell Gentry (Decatur, Georgia); Joseph Goodman (Atlanta, Georgia); Wade Nolan (Birmingham, Alabama); Taylor Pitelka (Atlanta, Georgia); Keyan Rahimzadeh (Atlanta, Georgia); Bradley Brooks (Atlanta, Georgia); Joshua Lohr (Atlanta, Georgia); Ryan Crooks (Atlanta, Georgia); Jamie Porges (Atlanta, Georgia); Daniel Rubin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a solar panel truss mounting system comprising a base and a truss assembly coupled to the base. The truss assembly comprises a first panel rail mount, second panel rail mount parallel to the first panel rail mount, base rail mount parallel to the first and second panel rail mounts, and a plurality of support members. A first portion of the plurality of support members extends between the first and second panel rail mounts. A second portion of the plurality of support members extends between the first panel rail mount and the base rail mount. A third portion of the plurality of support members extends between the second panel rail mount and the base rail mount. The system can further comprise a plurality of connectors for coupling a plurality of photovoltaic solar panels to the truss assembly. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/043793 |
| ART UNIT | 3631 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Kitchen Equipment; Coffee Mills; Spice Mills; Apparatus for Making Beverages A47J 47/16 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 2001/193 (20130101) Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/523 (20130101) F24J 2/525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F24J 2/526 (20130101) Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 20/00 (20130101) H02S 20/10 (20141201) H02S 20/30 (20141201) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/47 (20130101) Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09165014 | Faibish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Aaron Torres (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); John M. Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Gary Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Aaron Torres (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for storing files in a parallel computing system using different resolutions. A method is provided for storing at least one file generated by a distributed application in a parallel computing system. The file comprises one or more of a complete file and a sub-file. The method comprises the steps of obtaining semantic information related to the file; generating a plurality of replicas of the file with different resolutions based on the semantic information; and storing the file and the plurality of replicas of the file in one or more storage nodes of the parallel computing system. The different resolutions comprise, for example, a variable number of bits and/or a different sub-set of data elements from the file. A plurality of the sub-files can be merged to reproduce the file. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536358 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30244 (20130101) |
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| US 09165743 | Reed et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan W. Reed (Livermore, California); William J. DeHope (Pleasanton, California); Glenn Huete (Tracy, California); Thomas B. LaGrange (Brentwood, California); Richard M. Shuttlesworth (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron microscope is disclosed which has a laser-driven photocathode and an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) laser system (“laser”). The laser produces a train of temporally-shaped laser pulses of a predefined pulse duration and waveform, and directs the laser pulses to the laser-driven photocathode to produce a train of electron pulses. An image sensor is used along with a deflector subsystem. The deflector subsystem is arranged downstream of the target but upstream of the image sensor, and has two pairs of plates arranged perpendicular to one another. A control system controls the laser and a plurality of switching components synchronized with the laser, to independently control excitation of each one of the deflector plates. This allows each electron pulse to be directed to a different portion of the image sensor, as well as to be provided with an independently set duration and independently set inter-pulse spacings. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/181321 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 37/265 (20130101) H01J 37/1472 (20130101) H01J 2237/15 (20130101) H01J 2237/2602 (20130101) H01J 2237/06333 (20130101) |
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| US 09165752 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Guangtao Li (Carmel, Indiana); Xin Li (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for sample analysis. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for analyzing a sample that includes a probe including a material connected to a high voltage source, a device for generating a heated gas, and a mass analyzer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/566838 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/28 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/06 (20130101) H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/42 (20130101) H01J 49/0431 (20130101) H01J 49/0459 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/24 (20150115) Y10T 436/214 (20150115) Y10T 436/25875 (20150115) |
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| US 09165754 | Owen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin C. Owen (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hilkka I. Kenttamaa (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a new tandem mass spectrometer and methods of using the same for analyzing charged particles. The differentially pumped dual linear quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer of the present disclose includes a combination of two linear quadrupole (LQIT) mass spectrometers with differentially pumped vacuum chambers. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/345672 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/004 (20130101) H01J 49/24 (20130101) H01J 49/422 (20130101) H01J 49/4225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166079 | Manning |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane Manning (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming contacts for solar cells are described. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a silicon layer above a substrate, forming and patterning a solid-state p-type dopant source on the silicon layer, forming an n-type dopant source layer over exposed regions of the silicon layer and over a plurality of regions of the solid-state p-type dopant source, and heating the substrate to provide a plurality of n-type doped silicon regions among a plurality of p-type doped silicon regions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/302254 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/225 (20130101) H01L 21/2255 (20130101) H01L 21/2256 (20130101) H01L 31/0682 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/022441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09166084 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya D. Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya D. Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic (PV) device, comprising a PV interband cascade (IC) stage, wherein the IC PV stage comprises an absorption region with a band gap, the absorption region configured to absorb photons, an intraband transport region configured to act as a hole barrier, and an interband tunneling region configured to act as an electron barrier. An IC PV architecture for a photovoltaic device, the IC PV architecture comprising an absorption region, an intraband transport region coupled to the absorption region, and an interband tunneling region coupled to the intraband transport region and to the adjacent absorption region, wherein the absorption region, the intraband transport region, and the interband tunneling region are positioned such that electrons will flow from the absorption region to the intraband transport region to the interband tunneling region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/024203 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09166170 | Perry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. Lee Perry (Jemez Springs, New Mexico); John C. Weigle (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Lee Perry (Jemez Springs, New Mexico); John C. Weigle (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing carbon-coated nano- or micron-scale particles comprising a container for entraining particles in an aerosol gas, providing an inlet for carbon-containing gas, providing an inlet for plasma gas, a proximate torch for mixing the aerosol gas, the carbon-containing gas, and the plasma gas, bombarding the mixed gases with microwaves, and providing a collection device for gathering the resulting carbon-coated nano- or micron-scale particles. Also disclosed is a method and apparatus for making hollow carbon nano- or micro-scale spheres. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326252 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166271 | Peroulis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Peroulis (West Lafayette, Indiana); Adam Fruehling (West Lafayette, Indiana); Joshua Azariah Small (Lexington Park, Maryland); Xiaoguang Liu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Wasim Irshad (West Lafayette, Indiana); Muhammad Shoaib Arif (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable cavity resonator includes a substrate, a cap structure, and a tuning assembly. The cap structure extends from the substrate, and at least one of the substrate and the cap structure defines a resonator cavity. The tuning assembly is positioned at least partially within the resonator cavity. The tuning assembly includes a plurality of fixed-fixed MEMS beams configured for controllable movement relative to the substrate between an activated position and a deactivated position in order to tune a resonant frequency of the tunable cavity resonator. |
| FILED | Monday, June 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/908201 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 7/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166355 | Messerly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Messerly (Danville, California); Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California); Christopher P. J. Barty (Hayward, California); David J. Gibson (San Francisco, California); Matthew A. Prantil (San Ramon, California); Eric Cormier (Cestas, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Messerly (Danville, California); Jay W. Dawson (Livermore, California); Christopher P. J. Barty (Hayward, California); David J. Gibson (San Francisco, California); Matthew A. Prantil (San Ramon, California); Eric Cormier (Cestas, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A robust, compact optical pulse train source is described, with the capability of generating sub-picosecond micro-pulse sequences, which can be periodic as well as non-periodic, and at repetition rates tunable over decades of baseline frequencies, from MHz to multi-GHz regimes. The micro-pulses can be precisely controlled and formatted to be in the range of many ps in duration to as short as several fs in duration. The system output can be comprised of a continuous wave train of optical micro-pulses or can be programmed to provide gated bursts of macro-pulses, with each macro-pulse consisting of a specific number of micro-pulses or a single pulse picked from the higher frequency train at a repetition rate lower than the baseline frequency. These pulses could then be amplified in energy anywhere from the nJ to MJ range. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/343706 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 3/30 (20130101) H01S 3/0057 (20130101) H01S 3/0085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/2383 (20130101) H01S 3/06754 (20130101) H01S 3/06758 (20130101) H01S 3/10046 (20130101) |
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| US 09166456 | Melfi |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Melfi (Richfield, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baldor Electric Company (Fort Smith, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Melfi (Richfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical soft-start type coupling is used as an interface between a line start, synchronous motor and a heavy load to enable the synchronous motor to bring the heavy load up to or near synchronous speed. The soft-start coupling effectively isolates the synchronous motor from the load for enough time to enable the synchronous motor to come up to full speed. The soft-start coupling then brings the load up to or near synchronous speed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/432237 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09167728 | Schultz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a system for removing heat from a rack of information technology equipment may include a sidecar indoor air to liquid heat exchanger that cools air utilized by the rack of information technology equipment to cool the rack of information technology equipment. The system may also include a liquid to liquid heat exchanger and an outdoor heat exchanger. The system may further include configurable pathways to connect and control fluid flow through the sidecar heat exchanger, the liquid to liquid heat exchanger, the rack of information technology equipment, and the outdoor heat exchanger based upon ambient temperature and/or ambient humidity to remove heat generated by the rack of information technology equipment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551858 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 23/00 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20281 (20130101) H05K 7/20836 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09161533 | Greenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); UT-Battelle (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean T. Greenberg (Chicago, Illinois); Ho Won Jung (Chicago, Illinois); Timothy Tschaplinski (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Azelaic acid or its derivatives or analogs induce a robust and a speedier defense response against pathogens in plants. Azelaic acid treatment alone does not induce many of the known defense-related genes but activates a plant's defense signaling upon pathogen exposure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657557 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 27/00 (20130101) A01N 37/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 37/04 (20130101) A01N 37/04 (20130101) A01N 37/40 (20130101) A01N 37/42 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/82 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) Mixtures of Fertilisers Covered Individually by Different Subclasses of Class C05; Mixtures of One or More Fertilisers With Materials Not Having a Specific Fertilising Activity, e.g Pesticides, Soil-conditioners, Wetting Agents; Fertilisers Characterised by Their Form C05G 3/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09161693 | Rizwan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bashirullah Rizwan (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainsville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bashirullah Rizwan (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniaturized in-body electronic device is provided. One or more antennas (e.g., 32) may be galvanically coupled to receive an alternating current (AC) signal through the body of a subject where the in-body electronic device is located. Power extraction circuitry (e.g., 36) is configured to extract electrical power from the AC signal received by the antenna. The extracted electrical power is used for electrically powering one or more components of the electronic device. A transmitter (e.g., 48) is coupled to receive power from the power extraction circuitry. A controller (e.g., 46) is coupled to the transmitter. The controller is configured to activate the transmitter to generate a sequence of intermittent transmission bursts for transmitting an uplink signal. A transmission burst may have a higher instantaneous power level than an instantaneous power level of the AC signal received by the antenna. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/257151 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0028 (20130101) A61B 5/0031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2560/0219 (20130101) |
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| US 09161950 | Self et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Self (Oviedo, Florida); Ella Bossy-Wetzel (Winter Park, Florida); Sudipta Seal (Orlando, Florida); Janet Dowding (Winter Garden, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a subject with elevated levels of peroxynitrite includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of cerium oxide nanoparticles to the subject, wherein the cerium oxide nanoparticles reduce the level of peroxynitrite in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624485 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09163114 | Budhlall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bridgette M. Budhlall (Dracut, Massachusetts); Amit L. Garle (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bridgette M. Budhlall (Dracut, Massachusetts); Amit L. Garle (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A shape-memory polymers comprising at least one monomer subunit represented by the following structural formula (1). |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/818408 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 267/10 (20130101) C07D 313/04 (20130101) C07D 323/00 (20130101) C07D 327/00 (20130101) C07D 327/02 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 63/08 (20130101) C08G 63/672 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/3324 (20130101) |
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| US 09163374 | Alcantar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norma A. Alcantar (Tampa, Florida); Dawn I. Fox (East Bank Demerara, Guyana); Sylvia Thomas (Orlando, Florida); Ryan G. Toomey (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Despite advances in off-shore oil exploration and drilling technology, accidental oil spills do occur. Depending on their magnitude and location, irreparable damage may be inflicted on marine and coastal ecosystems. Emulsification of a water/surfactant/oil system results in the production of oil droplets and this depends on the formulation and composition variables, mixing characteristics and system preparation. Thus, research is ongoing on improving methods of cleaning up oil spills. Cactus mucilage was used to disperse and absorb oil from a simulated oil slick in different salt concentrations. Results show correlations between emulsion properties and interfacial characteristics of mucilage as function of aqueous phase salinity. Mucilage powder added to the oil floating on the water dispersed the oil film and absorbed the oil while remaining afloat, facilitates removal of the oil-mucilage aggregate. This invention is a competitive treatment for oil spill remediation with the added advantage of being more environmentally friendly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/687595 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/24 (20130101) B01J 2220/485 (20130101) B01J 2220/4825 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/286 (20130101) C02F 1/682 (20130101) C02F 2101/32 (20130101) C02F 2103/007 (20130101) Hydraulic Engineering E02B 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09164053 | Collins 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) | Philip G. Collins (Santa Ana, California); Gregory A. Weiss (Irvine, California); Yongki Choi (Irvine, California); Issa S. Moody (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single molecule sensing device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) connected to the first and second electrodes. At least one linker molecule having first and second functional groups is functionalized with a sidewall of the SWNT, the at least one linker molecule having the first functional group non-covalently functionalized with a sidewall of the single-walled carbon nanotube. A single sensitizing molecule having at least one functional group is functionalized with the second functional group of the at least one linker molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/626760 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/4146 (20130101) |
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| US 09164206 | Valley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents of Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pouria Valley (Scottsdale, Arizona); Nickolaos Savidis (Tucson, Arizona); James T. Schwiegerling (Tucson, Arizona); Gholam Peyman (Sun City, Arizona); Nasser N. Peyghambarian (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable focal length achromatic lens includes a flat liquid crystal diffractive lens and a pressure-controlled fluidic refractive lens. The diffractive lens is composed of a flat binary Fresnel zone structure and a thin liquid crystal layer, producing high efficiency and millisecond switching times while applying a low ac voltage input. The focusing power of the diffractive lens is adjusted by electrically modifying the sub-zones and re-establishing phase wrapping points. The refractive lens includes a fluid chamber with a flat glass surface and an opposing elastic polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane surface. Inserting fluid volume through a pump system into the clear aperture region alters the membrane curvature and adjusts the refractive lens' focal position. Primary chromatic aberration is remarkably reduced through the coupling of the fluidic and diffractive lenses at a number of selected focal lengths. Potential applications include miniature color imaging systems, medical and ophthalmic devices, or any design that utilizes variable focal length achromats. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/857032 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/14 (20130101) G02B 5/1876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/083 (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 1/29 (20130101) G02F 1/137 (20130101) G02F 2001/294 (20130101) |
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| US 09164236 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hsi-Chun Liu (Pasadena, California); Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsi-Chun Liu (Pasadena, California); Amnon Yariv (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Coupled-resonator optical waveguides (CROW) can be used to control a speed of an optical signal. In particular, the coupling distance between the resonators can be adjusted to precisely control a group delay of an optical wave. Systems and methods are described to control such coupling distance in a CROW. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/460638 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/26 (20130101) G02B 6/262 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/2861 (20130101) G02B 6/3596 (20130101) G02B 6/29338 (20130101) G02B 6/29343 (20130101) G02B 6/29383 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muriel Medard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Supratim Deb (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ralf Koetter (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer program product for providing a random linear coding approach to distributed data storage is presented. A file is broken into a plurality of pieces. For every peer (peer means storage-location with limited storage space), the number of coded-pieces the peer can store is determined. Each of the coded-piece is determined by taking random linear combination of all the pieces of the entire file. The associate code-vector is stored for every coded-piece. The file is retrieved by collecting code-vectors and the coded-pieces from the peers and viewing the collected code-vectors as a matrix. When a dimension of the matrix is equal to the number of pieces of the file, the file is recovered using the collection of code vectors in the matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678982 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09165097 | Amin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Mohamed Eid Amin (Wheeling, Illinois); Mithuna Shamabhat Thottethodi (West Lafayette, Indiana); Terani Nadadoor Vijaykumar (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device is programmable so that a single microarchitecture design can run many assays. Specifically, the programmable microfluidic device includes an execution method to facilitate translating from a programming language to a set of requests that are specified for the device. In addition, the microfluidic device includes a contamination mitigation method that includes a conflict list to mitigate contamination effects within the microfluidic device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/790865 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/0092 (20130101) G01N 35/1097 (20130101) G01N 2035/00158 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/0426 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09165752 | Cooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Guangtao Li (Carmel, Indiana); Xin Li (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to systems and methods for sample analysis. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for analyzing a sample that includes a probe including a material connected to a high voltage source, a device for generating a heated gas, and a mass analyzer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/566838 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/28 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/06 (20130101) H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/42 (20130101) H01J 49/0431 (20130101) H01J 49/0459 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/24 (20150115) Y10T 436/214 (20150115) Y10T 436/25875 (20150115) |
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| US 09166084 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya D. Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya D. Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); John F. Klem (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic (PV) device, comprising a PV interband cascade (IC) stage, wherein the IC PV stage comprises an absorption region with a band gap, the absorption region configured to absorb photons, an intraband transport region configured to act as a hole barrier, and an interband tunneling region configured to act as an electron barrier. An IC PV architecture for a photovoltaic device, the IC PV architecture comprising an absorption region, an intraband transport region coupled to the absorption region, and an interband tunneling region coupled to the intraband transport region and to the adjacent absorption region, wherein the absorption region, the intraband transport region, and the interband tunneling region are positioned such that electrons will flow from the absorption region to the intraband transport region to the interband tunneling region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/024203 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0725 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09166252 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); ChenGuang Liu (Fairbone, Ohio); David Neff (Fairbone, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); ChenGuang Liu (Fairbone, Ohio); David Neff (Fairbone, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-controlled, lithium ion-exchanging battery device comprising: (a) A positive electrode (cathode) comprising a first functional material having a first lithium-capturing or lithium-storing surface; (b) A negative electrode (anode) comprising a second functional material having a second lithium-capturing or lithium-storing surface; (c) A porous separator disposed between the two electrodes, and (d) A lithium-containing electrolyte (preferably liquid or gel electrolyte) in physical contact with the two electrodes; wherein at least one of the two electrodes contains therein a lithium source (e.g., lithium foil, lithium powder, stabilized lithium particles, etc) prior to the first charge or the first discharge cycle of the battery device. This new generation of energy storage device exhibits the best properties of both the lithium ion battery and the supercapacitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928927 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) H01G 11/56 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/60 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/137 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/405 (20130101) H01M 4/0445 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/602 (20130101) H01M 4/604 (20130101) H01M 4/1399 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 10/0566 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09166856 | Morelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michele Morelli (Fornacette, Italy); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton, New Jersey); Luca Sanguinetti (Pisa, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele Morelli (Fornacette, Italy); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton, New Jersey); Luca Sanguinetti (Pisa, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for initial ranging in wireless communication systems is provided. A plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) blocks are received by an OFDMA base station transceiver from a plurality of remote user devices in wireless communication with the base station. A ranging subchannel is extracted from the OFDM blocks. The number of active codes in the ranging subchannel is determined, active codes are identified, and carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) are estimated for each active code. Timing delays and power levels for each active code are then estimated. The estimated CFOs, timing delays, and power levels are broadcasted by the base station to the remote user devices, so that the user devices can utilize same to adjust transmission parameters to optimize power levels and synchronize communication with the base station. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/596604 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/007 (20130101) H04L 7/0033 (20130101) H04L 27/2655 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/2657 (20130101) H04L 27/2684 (20130101) H04L 2027/0026 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rodger William Dyson, Jr. (Elyria, Ohio); Geoffrey Adam Bruder (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodger William Dyson, Jr. (Elyria, Ohio); Geoffrey Adam Bruder (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermo-acoustic engine and/or cooler is provided and includes an elongated tubular body, multiple regenerators disposed within the body, multiple heat exchangers disposed within the body, where at least one heat exchanger is disposed adjacent to each of the multiple regenerators, multiple transducers axially disposed at each end of the body, and an acoustic wave source generating acoustic waves. At least one of the acoustic waves is amplified by one of the regenerators and at least another acoustic wave is amplified by a second one of regenerators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/534804 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Hot Gas or Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants; Use of Waste Heat of Combustion Engines; Not Otherwise Provided for F02G 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02G 2243/54 (20130101) |
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| US 09165051 | Masud et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad Mehedy Masud (Dallas, Texas); Latifur Rahman Khan (Plano, Texas); Bhavani Marienne Thuraisingham (Dallas, Texas); Qing Chen (Plano, Texas); Jing Gao (Urbana, Illinois); Jiawei Han (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois); BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Mehedy Masud (Dallas, Texas); Latifur Rahman Khan (Plano, Texas); Bhavani Marienne Thuraisingham (Dallas, Texas); Qing Chen (Plano, Texas); Jing Gao (Urbana, Illinois); Jiawei Han (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for data classification and novel data class detection are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, a system or method for detecting a novel class includes receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of data points, and identifying a set of filtered outliers, in the plurality of data points, that are outside of a decision boundary. A cohesion and a separation for the set of filtered outliers may be determined. A novel class may be detected using the cohesion and the separation of the set of filtered outliers, and the novel class may include the set of filtered outliers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/214720 |
| ART UNIT | 2154 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09165971 | Greer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frank Greer (Pasadena, California); Todd J. Jones (Altadena, California); Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, California); Michael E. Hoenk (Valencia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Greer (Pasadena, California); Todd J. Jones (Altadena, California); Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, California); Michael E. Hoenk (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High-quality surface coatings, and techniques combining the atomic precision of molecular beam epitaxy and atomic layer deposition, to fabricate such high-quality surface coatings are provided. The coatings made in accordance with the techniques set forth by the invention are shown to be capable of forming silicon CCD detectors that demonstrate world record detector quantum efficiency (>50%) in the near and far ultraviolet (155 nm-300 nm). The surface engineering approaches used demonstrate the robustness of detector performance that is obtained by achieving atomic level precision at all steps in the coating fabrication process. As proof of concept, the characterization, materials, and exemplary devices produced are presented along with a comparison to other approaches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/281295 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/1462 (20130101) H01L 27/1464 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09166750 | Steele et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen F. Steele (Webster, Texas); Chatwin Lansdowne (Houston, Texas); Joan P. Zucha (Pearland, Texas); Adam M. Schlesinger (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A soft decision analyzer system is operable to interconnect soft decision communication equipment and analyze the operation thereof to detect symbol wise alignment between a test data stream and a reference data stream in a variety of operating conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/789903 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/242 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09163076 | Allen-Hoffmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Cathy Ann-Rasmussen Ivarie (Marshall, Wisconsin); Christina L. Thomas-Virnig (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin); Cathy Ann-Rasmussen Ivarie (Marshall, Wisconsin); Christina L. Thomas-Virnig (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compositions for wound healing. More specifically, the present invention provides human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous proteinase inhibitor polypeptides (e.g., TIMP-1 polypeptides) and compositions and methods for making human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. In addition, the present invention provides methods for treatment of wounds with human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365357 |
| 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 2267/035 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/8146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0629 (20130101) C12N 2501/70 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164109 | Kleinfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Marc Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California); Andrew Henry Huber (Encinitas, California); James Patrick Kampf (San Diego, California); Thomas Kwan (San Diego, California); Baolong Zhu (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alan Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Marc Kleinfeld (La Jolla, California); Andrew Henry Huber (Encinitas, California); James Patrick Kampf (San Diego, California); Thomas Kwan (San Diego, California); Baolong Zhu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of determining levels of unbound metabolites are disclosed. Probes derived from fatty acid binding protein muteins are described that bind preferentially to a number of unbound metabolites including oleate, stearate, linoleate, palmitate, arachidonate and unconjugated bilirubin. A profile for a patient is determined using one or more of the described probes. The profile is useful in diagnosis of disease, particularly myocardial infarction, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), diabetes, stroke, sepsis and neonatal jaundice. The responses of multiple probes to a test sample are used to classify the degree of acute coronary syndrome by comparison to multi-probe profiles generated from unstable angina, non ST elevation myocardial infarction, and ST elevation myocardial infarction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/447400 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — 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 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/728 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09166252 | Zhamu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); ChenGuang Liu (Fairbone, Ohio); David Neff (Fairbone, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); ChenGuang Liu (Fairbone, Ohio); David Neff (Fairbone, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface-controlled, lithium ion-exchanging battery device comprising: (a) A positive electrode (cathode) comprising a first functional material having a first lithium-capturing or lithium-storing surface; (b) A negative electrode (anode) comprising a second functional material having a second lithium-capturing or lithium-storing surface; (c) A porous separator disposed between the two electrodes, and (d) A lithium-containing electrolyte (preferably liquid or gel electrolyte) in physical contact with the two electrodes; wherein at least one of the two electrodes contains therein a lithium source (e.g., lithium foil, lithium powder, stabilized lithium particles, etc) prior to the first charge or the first discharge cycle of the battery device. This new generation of energy storage device exhibits the best properties of both the lithium ion battery and the supercapacitor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928927 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) H01G 11/56 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/60 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/137 (20130101) H01M 4/382 (20130101) H01M 4/405 (20130101) H01M 4/0445 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/602 (20130101) H01M 4/604 (20130101) H01M 4/1399 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 10/0566 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09166357 | Moulton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Q-Peak, Incorporated (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Q-Peak, Incorporated (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Moulton (Concord, Massachusetts); Evgueni Slobodtchikov (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yelena Isyanova (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber laser system includes at least one optical fiber with a core and a cladding and is operative at a first wavelength larger than 2000 nm. The operative first wavelength is preferably chosen to maximize transmission through the atmosphere. At least one optical pumping system includes one or more pumping fiber lasers also doped with thulium for pumping the optical fiber. The pumping system is operative at a second, shorter wavelength close to the first wavelength for low quantum defect pumping. The core of the optical fiber is doped with thulium at a doping concentration greater than one weight % to reduce absorption losses in the core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/660265 |
| 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 3/067 (20130101) H01S 3/1616 (20130101) H01S 3/1655 (20130101) H01S 3/06716 (20130101) H01S 3/094003 (20130101) H01S 3/094007 (20130101) H01S 3/094042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09162959 | Kiely et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Kiely (Missoula, Montana); Kirk R. Hash, Sr. (Drummond, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled nitric acid process employing oxygen and nitric acid as co-oxidants is used to oxidize organic compounds subject to nitric acid oxidation, to their corresponding carboxylic acids. Oxidation of some carbohydrates by this process can produce one or more of their corresponding acid forms. The process is carried out at moderate temperatures, typically in the range of 20° C. to 45° C. in a closed reactor, with oxygen gas being introduced into the reaction chamber as needed in order to sustain the reaction. Computer controlled reactors allow for careful and reproducible control of reaction parameters. Nitric acid can be recovered by a distillation/evaporation process, or by diffusion dialysis, the aqueous solution made basic with inorganic hydroxide, and the residual inorganic nitrate removed using a filtration (nanofiltration) device. The method eliminates issues of thermal control of the oxidation, release of nitrogen into the atmosphere, and post-reaction difficulties in the removal of nitric acid and inorganic nitrates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/150633 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/00 (20130101) C07C 51/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 51/27 (20130101) C07C 59/285 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP25994 | NeSmith |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott NeSmith (Molena, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The new variety ‘TH-929’ is provided. The new and distinct variety ripens around the second week of May in southern Georgia. The fruit of the new variety ‘TH-929’ are very large, firm, and have good flavor. The new variety ‘TH-929’ is vigorous with an estimated chilling requirement of about 500 to 550 hours at or below approximately 7° C. The asexually reproduced variety is reliably propagated vegetatively. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/998256 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09162226 | Cooksey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory A. Cooksey (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Francisco Javier Atencia-Fernandez (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia); The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Cooksey (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Francisco Javier Atencia-Fernandez (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for a folding microfluidic device comprises creating at least one folding line in a material, forming a plurality of layers of a microfluidic device in said material, and folding the material at the fold lines to create a self-aligned multilayered microfluidic device. The material can comprise a carrier material with an adhesive layer on the top and bottom surfaces. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/470126 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5055 (20130101) B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (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 65/483 (20130101) B29C 65/4815 (20130101) B29C 65/4825 (20130101) B29C 65/4855 (20130101) B29C 65/5021 (20130101) B29C 65/5057 (20130101) B29C 66/71 (20130101) B29C 66/71 (20130101) B29C 66/4322 (20130101) B29C 66/4326 (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 2083/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/756 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/054 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00119 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/85938 (20150401) Y10T 156/1049 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09163988 | Dogariu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Dogariu (Hamilton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for remote and/or portable detection are provided. The system can include a source of coherent laser pulses, components for converting the coherent laser pulses into first beam pulses at a first wavelength value, second beam pulses at a second wavelength value, and third beam pulses at a third wavelength value. Systems can further include optical components configured to delay at least one of the first beam pulses, the second beam pulses, and the third beam pulses in order to create delayed beam pulses, and a focusing component configured direct a substantially collinear combination of the delayed beam pulses and two of a set of: the first beam pulses, the second beam pulses, and the third beam pulses, onto a sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/092686 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 3/0208 (20130101) G01J 3/0216 (20130101) G01J 3/4412 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2021/653 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09161968 | Wyss-Coray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Jian Luo (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The U.S. Government represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wyss-Coray (Stanford, California); Jian Luo (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for preventing, attenuating neuronal damage or stimulating neuronal repair prior or following central nervous system injury. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/441879 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09165042 | Yan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xifeng Yan (Urbana, Illinois); Philip Shilung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xifeng Yan (Urbana, Illinois); Philip Shilung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for similarity searching are provided. Structural data in a database is searched against one or more structural queries. A desired minimum degree of similarity between the one or more queries and the structural data in the database is first specified. One or more indices are then used to exclude from consideration any structural data in the database that does not share the minimum degree of similarity with one or more of the queries. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/096165 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30536 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/705 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09163216 | Hickman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Hickman (Orlando, Florida); Mainak Das (Orlando, Florida); John W. Rumsey (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Hickman (Orlando, Florida); Mainak Das (Orlando, Florida); John W. Rumsey (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a nutrient medium composition and associated methods for lengthening the useful life of a culture of muscle cells. Disclosed is a method of culturing mammalian muscle cells, including preparing one or more carriers coated with a covalently bonded monolayer of trimethoxy-silylpropyl-diethylenetriamine (DETA); verifying DETA monolayer formation by one or more associated optical parameters; suspending isolated fetal rat skeletal muscle cells in serum-free medium according to medium composition 1; plating the suspended cells onto the prepared carriers at a predetermined density; leaving the carriers undisturbed for cells to adhere to the DETA monolayer; covering the carriers with a mixture of medium 1 and medium 2; and incubating. A cell nutrient medium composition includes Neurobasal, an antibiotic-antimycotic composition, cholesterol, human TNF-alpha, PDGF BB, vasoactive intestinal peptides, insulin-like growth factor 1, NAP, r-Apolipoprotein E2, purified mouse Laminin, beta amyloid, human tenascin-C protein, rr-Sonic hedgehog Shh N-terminal, and rr-Agrin C terminal. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/765399 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — 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 5/0619 (20130101) C12N 5/0658 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/99 (20130101) C12N 2502/1335 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09164517 | Kelekar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California); Gaurav Verma (Sunnyvale, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intermolecular, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California); Gaurav Verma (Sunnyvale, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure gauge may be coupled to a supply line which carries liquid from a bottle to either one or more mixing vessels and/or one or more reactors in a combinatorial processing tool. A control device may monitor the pressure measured by the pressure gauge, and the control device may be configured to change the pressure supplied to the bottle based on a comparison of the measured pressure to a predetermined pressure value. The control device may adjust the pressure provided to the bottle using a pressure regulator coupled to the pressure source. By changing the pressure provided to the bottle, the control device may maintain a relatively constant flow rate of fluids from the liquid source into one or more mixing vessels and/or the one or more reactors. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/214426 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/0072 (20130101) B01J 2219/00286 (20130101) B01J 2219/00306 (20130101) B01J 2219/00337 (20130101) B01J 2219/00389 (20130101) B01J 2219/00418 (20130101) B01J 2219/00479 (20130101) B01J 2219/00585 (20130101) B01J 2219/00698 (20130101) B01J 2219/00756 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 7/0635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0379 (20150401) Y10T 137/3115 (20150401) Y10T 137/3127 (20150401) Y10T 137/4807 (20150401) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09165633 | Golke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith W. Golke (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David K. Nelson (Medicine Lake, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A desired current through a carbon nano tube (CNT) element of a CNT memory device can be controlled by a wordline voltage, and a voltage on the CNT common node can be held constant. The common node can be constant at a source voltage if a p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) is used in the CNT memory device, or the common node can be constant at a supply voltage if an n-channel MOSFET is used in the CNT memory device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/777592 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 13/0002 (20130101) G11C 13/025 (20130101) G11C 13/0069 (20130101) G11C 2013/0071 (20130101) G11C 2213/79 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09167351 | Roper |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher S. Roper (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A heated resonator includes a base substrate, a piezoelectric piece having a thickness and a top side and a bottom side, a first electrode on the top side, a second electrode opposite the first electrode on the bottom side, an anchor connected between the piezoelectric piece and the base substrate, and a heater on the piezoelectric material. A thermal resistor region in the piezoelectric piece is between the heater and the anchor. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/968218 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2015/fedinvent-patents-20151020.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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