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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 15, 2015
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| US 09211085 | Streeter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard B. Streeter (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Streeter (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A respiration sensing subsystem includes a band made of stretchable material and a pair of spaced conductors extending along the band in a flexible pattern. A moisture repellant compound is added to the stretchable material of the band between the pair of spaced conductors. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/799822 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0816 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/6823 (20130101) A61B 5/6831 (20130101) |
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| US 09211200 | Moyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HDT Expeditionary Systems, Inc. (Solon, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HDT Expeditionary Systems, Inc. (Solon, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Moyer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Eric L. Faulring (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Julio J. Santos-Munne (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical finger comprises a plurality of phalanges coupled to a single actuator using a kinematic linkage and a differential linkage arranged in parallel. The mechanical finger is capable of exhibiting consistent predictable motion when moving in free space or when contacting an object at the fingertip, and of curling in order to conform to an object when the contact is at other locations on the finger. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/925054 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/586 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2002/5072 (20130101) |
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| US 09211586 | Lavernia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California); Julie M. Schoenung (Davis, California); Yizhang Zhou (Sacramento, California); Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas); Ying Li (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Troy Topping (Carmichael, California); Rustin Vogt (Sacramento, California); Deepak Kapoor (Rockaway, New Jersey); Joseph Paras (Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey); Christopher Haines (Union, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique J. Lavernia (Davis, California); Julie M. Schoenung (Davis, California); Yizhang Zhou (Sacramento, California); Zhihui Zhang (Katy, Texas); Ying Li (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Troy Topping (Carmichael, California); Rustin Vogt (Sacramento, California); Deepak Kapoor (Rockaway, New Jersey); Joseph Paras (Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey); Christopher Haines (Union, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-faceted nanoparticle reinforced metal matrix composite having increased ductility, while maintaining strength. In particular, a non-faceted nanoparticle reinforced metal matrix composite is provided comprised of spherical or ellipsoidal shaped (non-faceted) nanoparticles comprising one or more of boron carbide, titanium diboride, silicon nitride, alumina and boron nitride, and a nanostructured matrix composite comprised of one or more metals and/or metal alloys. In addition, a method of manufacturing such a non-faceted nanoparticle reinforced metal matrix composite is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404139 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0044 (20130101) B22F 3/12 (20130101) B22F 3/15 (20130101) B22F 3/17 (20130101) B22F 3/18 (20130101) B22F 3/20 (20130101) B22F 3/105 (20130101) B22F 3/1017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 9/04 (20130101) B22F 2998/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09211690 | McKnight et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California); Christopher Paul Henry (Thousand Oaks, California); Guillermo Herrera (Winnetka, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California); Christopher Paul Henry (Thousand Oaks, California); Guillermo Herrera (Winnetka, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microstructured reconfigurable or morphing composite material with controlled anisotropic deformation properties. The composite material provides highly controlled deformation and stiffness properties. Microscopic three dimensional structures are included in the composite material to control its deformation kinematics and stiffness properties. The composite material has highly segregated in-plane and out-of-plane stiffness properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/354662 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 2260/00 (20130101) B32B 2305/07 (20130101) B32B 2305/08 (20130101) B32B 2307/50 (20130101) B32B 2605/18 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/29 (20150115) |
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| US 09211960 | Embler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Embler (Huntington Beach, California); Jeff Eichinger (Fountain Valley, California); Edward Zadorozny (Redondo Beach, California); Billy Liu (Alhambra, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Embler (Huntington Beach, California); Jeff Eichinger (Fountain Valley, California); Edward Zadorozny (Redondo Beach, California); Billy Liu (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A floating stud assembly system of particular use in attaching insulating material to aircraft structures is described employing a stud extended through a hole in a plate. The plate comprises a pocket or cavity and an end of the stud is configured to reside in the pocket or cavity such that the stud is retained by the plate while still being allowed movement in a plane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255580 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 1/40 (20130101) B64C 1/403 (20130101) Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 19/1045 (20130101) F16B 33/002 (20130101) F16B 35/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09212055 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Weilie Zhou (New Orleans, Louisiana); Jiajun Chen (Guangdong, China PRC); Kai Wang (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Weilie Zhou (New Orleans, Louisiana); Jiajun Chen (Guangdong, China PRC); Kai Wang (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Aligned nanowire arrays were coated with semiconductor shell layers, and optionally with noble metal nanoparticles for use as three dimensional gas sensors. The sensors show room-temperature responses to low concentrations of various gases. Arrays containing different sensor types can discriminate among different gases, based upon changes in conductivity and response times. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245138 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/127 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0676 (20130101) |
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| US 09212100 | Kirby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Cincinnati, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen Harold Kirby (Cincinnati, Ohio); Brett Allen Boutwell (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Environmental barrier coatings for high temperature ceramic components. The barrier coatings include a bond coat layer containing silicon, an optional silica layer, at least one transition layer containing about 85% to about 100% by volume of a primary transition material comprising mullite, BSAS, or a mullite/BSAS mixture; an outer layer containing about 85% to about 100% by volume of a primary outer material comprising BSAS; and at least one of a sintering aid and a secondary material in the transition layer and/or outer layer. The secondary material is a reaction product of the sintering aid and at least one of the primary transition material and the primary outer material. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627474 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/565 (20130101) C04B 35/581 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/89 (20130101) C04B 41/455 (20130101) C04B 41/4527 (20130101) C04B 41/4535 (20130101) C04B 41/4539 (20130101) C04B 41/5022 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5037 (20130101) C04B 41/5092 (20130101) C04B 41/5096 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24967 (20150115) |
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| US 09212102 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul E. Anderson (Ogdensburg, New Jersey); Hongwei Qiu (Harrison, New Jersey); Victor Stepanov (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Anderson (Ogdensburg, New Jersey); Hongwei Qiu (Harrison, New Jersey); Victor Stepanov (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An insensitive crystalline high explosive molding powder, usable as a booster HE. The subject insensitive crystalline high explosive molding powder being manufactured by adding the crystalline high explosive, metal or semi-metal particles and a polymer or wax based binder to a solvent to form a solution, spray drying the solution to drive off the solvent, thereby co-precipitating the HE and binder to form granules in which the crystals of HE and metal particles are uniformly distributed in the binder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/742011 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 45/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212179 | Uesugi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B-C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures, for example, but not limited to, heterocyclic, phenyl or benzyl ring structures with or without substitutions and are described in detail herein. Also provided are methods for the treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders, for example, obesity or diabetes, utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof and/or the A-B-C tripartite compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310339 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/10 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09212209 | Androphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana); The Brigham Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliot Androphy (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Jonathan Cherry (Carmel, Indiana); Marcie A. Glicksman (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In certain embodiments, compounds are provided that increase full-length survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein production by an SMN2 gene. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941099 |
| 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 | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/37 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2103/20 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 215/227 (20130101) C07D 239/82 (20130101) C07D 261/06 (20130101) C07D 277/46 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 493/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212222 | Pons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jaume Pons (San Francisco, California); Arnon Rosenthal (Woodside, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RINAT NEUROSCIENCE CORP. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaume Pons (San Francisco, California); Arnon Rosenthal (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns anti-NGF antibodies (such as anti-NGF antagonist antibodies), and polynucleotides encoding the same. The invention further concerns use of such antibodies and/or polynucleotides in the treatment and/or prevention of pain, including post-surgical pain, rheumatoid arthritis pain, and osteoarthritis pain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/302264 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) |
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| US 09212424 | Hunt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | nGimat Co. (Norcross, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | nGimat Co. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Tye Hunt (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen Johnson (Georgetown, Kentucky); Ganesh Venugopal (Johns Creek, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method of sintering inorganic powder coatings on substrates, and includes a flame and an electric plasma. The method is capable of being used in an open atmospheric environment. The substrate is electrically conductive and is used as one electrode while the flame is used as the other electrode that is moved over the areas of the powder coating to be sintered. An electrical current is used to cause a plasma produced through the flame, resulting in a combined energy and temperature profile sufficient for inorganic powder-powder and powder-substrate bonding. This method is referred to as “flame-assisted flash sintering” (FAFS). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/721171 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| 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 24/082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) |
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| US 09212520 | Hennings |
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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) | Elsa Johnson Hennings (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An end guide for a cord attachment device includes a cloth. The cloth is configured to fold over, unto, and overlap itself. The cloth has three portions. The first and second portions are longer than a third portion. The cloth is folded axially about a central longitudinal axis. The central longitudinal axis spans from the proximal end to the distal end of the cloth. The folding causes the first and second portions to overlap. A plurality of flutes are configured in the cloth by a plurality of stitch lines running parallel to each other and extending through first and second sides (the front and back) of the cloth and extending through the overlap of the first and second portions. At least one of the plurality of stitch lines are located between each of the flutes. The flutes span to both the proximal and distal ends of the cloth. First and second portions are folded outwardly away from the plurality of flutes at both the proximal and distal ends and then stitched to the cloth so as to create end channels for the routing of a cover cord (when a cover is used) or a keeper cord. The stitching is perpendicular to the plurality of stitch lines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/172211 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Fixed or Movable Closures for Openings in Buildings, Vehicles, Fences or Like Enclosures in General, e.g Doors, Windows, Blinds, Gates E06B 9/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212679 | Gmirya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuriy Gmirya (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Matthew J. Karlak (Plymouth, Connecticut); John H. Meeson, Jr. (Trumbull, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A connection between a first component and a second component is provided including a first hole formed in a portion of the first component and a second hole formed in a portion of the second component. The second hole is aligned with the first hole. A pin includes a through hole having a pin hole diameter. The pin extends through a portion of the first hole and into a first portion of the second hole. The pin is configured to absorb a shear load applied to the connection. A bolt extends through the second hole and the pin such that a clearance fit is formed between the bolt and the pin. The bolt is configured to absorb an axial load applied to the connection. A nut connected to the free end of the bolt limits movement of the bolt relative to the first and second component. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/087464 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 19/00 (20130101) F16B 21/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212876 | Kostka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. Kostka (Denville, New Jersey); Luis M. Lavrador (Stanhope, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Kostka (Denville, New Jersey); Luis M. Lavrador (Stanhope, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A large caliber, frangible, training projectile imitates, for training purposes, the corresponding tactical projectile. To enable fragmentation of the training projectile at impact, some embodiments of the frangible projectile are partially or entirely made of a material with a lower yield strength than the material used in the counterpart tactical projectile. Some embodiments of the frangible projectile may include portions that are sectioned, welded, or provided with stress risers. Some embodiments of the frangible projectile may include high density particles suspended in a weaker medium. The fragmentation methods may be applied to the overall mass of the projectile, or to a portion of the projectile. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/015079 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 8/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42B 12/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09212877 | Valledor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christian A. Valledor (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas); John A. Condon (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian A. Valledor (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas); John A. Condon (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A fin retention system having a plurality of fin retention units and in which each unit is associated with one deployable fin of the projectile. Each retention unit has an alignment device and a pair of span arms extending outwardly from opposite sides of the alignment device. An attachment device attaches the free ends of the span arms of adjacent fin retention units together. In doing so, the alignment device engages and holds each fin in its undeployed position. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/542041 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 10/06 (20130101) F42B 10/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212948 | Englund |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk R. Englund (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for hyperspectral imaging using a spatial light modulator having a plurality of pixels, including encoding electromagnetic radiation incident a first pixel at a first location and a second pixel at a second location into a first modulated signal having a first modulation frequency and a second modulated signal having a second modulation frequency, the first modulation frequency being different than the second modulation frequency. A sum of intensities of at least the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal is measured at a plurality of optical frequencies and a transform is applied to the sum to obtain an intensity of electromagnetic radiation incident each of the first location and the second location for each of the plurality of optical frequencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/074554 |
| 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 3/0218 (20130101) G01J 3/0229 (20130101) G01J 3/433 (20130101) G01J 3/2823 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212990 | Muraviev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zybertec LLC (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zybertec LLC (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey Muraviev (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In a gas phase analyte testing method a laser beam is generated using a laser beam from a laser gain medium located within an external laser cavity. A gain parameter of the laser gain medium is changed so that the laser gain medium emits across a range of wavelengths in response to the change. The beam is passed through a test sample as the gain parameter is changed, the test sample being positioned inside the external laser cavity. A change in the spatial or spectral mode distribution or dynamics of the laser emission spectrum is detected. It is then determined whether the change in the spatial or spectral mode distribution or dynamics of the laser emission spectrum is caused by the test sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707300 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0205 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/3504 (20130101) G01N 2201/022 (20130101) G01N 2201/0636 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09212994 | Maltezos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); John Kim Lee (New York, New York); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); John Kim Lee (New York, New York); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic filter is disclosed. The filter can be used with onchip fluid filtration such as whole blood filtration for microfluidic blood analysis. The filter is able to filter the necessary volume of fluid and in particular blood in an acceptable time frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/348495 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) |
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| US 09213024 | Sniadecki 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) | Nathan J. Sniadecki (Bothell, Washington); Lucas H. Ting (Seattle, Washington); Shirin Feghhi (Seattle, Washington); Kevin S. Bielawski (Seattle, Washington); Nathan J. White (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present technology relates generally to microfluidic devices for measuring platelet coagulation, and associated systems and methods. In some embodiments, a fluidics device includes an array of microstructures including pairs of generally rigid blocks and generally flexible posts. The fluidics device further includes at least one fluid channel configured to accept the array. The fluid channel is configured to induce fluid flow of a biological sample, such as whole blood, through the array. The fluidics device can further include a detection component configured to measure a degree of deflection of one or more of the flexible posts in the array. In some embodiments, the fluidics device comprises a handheld device and usable for point of care testing of platelet forces and coagulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/126412 |
| 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 | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502746 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 35/04 (20130101) C12M 41/46 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1056 (20130101) G01N 15/1404 (20130101) G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 15/1463 (20130101) G01N 33/4905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5302 (20130101) G01N 2015/1006 (20130101) |
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| US 09213077 | Kieffer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin Kieffer (Germantown, Maryland); Walter Allensworth (Poolesville, Maryland); Conrad Zeglin (Rockville, Maryland); James Wiggins (Thurmont, Maryland); Peter Owen (Monrovia, Maryland); Jeffrey Herdman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Methods, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Kieffer (Germantown, Maryland); Walter Allensworth (Poolesville, Maryland); Conrad Zeglin (Rockville, Maryland); James Wiggins (Thurmont, Maryland); Peter Owen (Monrovia, Maryland); Jeffrey Herdman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of locating an underwater based system, the method including determining the underwater based system's geo-location, encoding the underwater based system's geo-location for RF transmission, encoding the underwater based system's geo-location for acoustic transmission, and transmitting RF and acoustic signals containing the encoded geo-location to a receiving station. A locator for locating an underwater based system including a buoy, a global positioning system having an antenna and a receiver, an RF transmission system including an antenna and a transmitter, an underwater acoustic transducer, and a locator control unit adapted to determine the underwater based system's geo-location, encode the underwater based system's geo-location for RF transmission, encode the underwater based system's geo-location for acoustic transmission, and transmit RF and underwater acoustic signals containing the encoded geo-location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/563268 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 22/00 (20130101) B63B 2201/16 (20130101) B63B 2201/18 (20130101) B63B 2201/20 (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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 1/72 (20130101) G01S 19/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09213083 | Carter 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) | Kaylene L. Carter (San Diego, California); Rohan Ramlall (Brentwood, California); John McEachen (Carmel, California); Murali Tummala (Monterey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involve determining a time difference of arrival between two robust broadcast digital television (DTV) signals received at a mobile receiver and a monitor receiver from at least two DTV transmitters, determining a pseudorange between the mobile receiver and each of the DTV transmitters, and determining a position of the mobile receiver using the determined pseudoranges and the distance between the monitor receiver and the mobile receiver. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477586 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09213085 | Kanter |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory S. Kanter (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nucript LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Kanter (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to phase detection in lidar systems using single photon detectors (SPDs). The frequency at which the SPDs are time gated is related to but not an integer multiple of the frequency of the transmitted optical pulses. Each return optical pulse arrives with a particular temporal position with respect to the nearest gate, and thus is detected with a related detection efficiency. The SPD output can be segmented into multiple time-multiplexed signals whose relative detection efficiency reveals the phase of the optical return pulses, and no such phases have negligible detection efficiency for all the time-multiplexed signals. To mitigate the impact of afterpulsing and other saturation effects, when a first optical pulse is detected with high detection efficiency the next optical pulse that is detected with high detection efficiency is separated by a time period about equal to or greater than the detector dead time. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/768652 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/4808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 7/4865 (20130101) G01S 17/58 (20130101) G01S 17/102 (20130101) G01S 17/107 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/70 (20130101) |
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| US 09213100 | Ricks 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) | Rockie L. Ricks (San Diego, California); Cherry Y. Wakayama (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method forms a passive acoustic track to cue an active multistatic acoustic tracking system. The passive track cue reduces the false track rate in the active tracker by focusing search area and selectively initiating active tracks. The passive track originates from a fixed passive acoustic horizontal line array (HLA). The HLA cannot determine target range or resolve left-right ambiguity but can predict Closest-Point-of-Approach (CPA) events. For each CPA event, a cue is forwarded to the active system for initiation. The method presents a minimal parametric representation for a passive acoustic track and uses an algorithm to obtain initial estimated parameters to initiate the passive track more effectively. A performance evaluation is given. The method also includes conversion of the passive track to normalized-coordinates for use with multistatic tracking systems. The passive track quality is assessed to determine whether it is sufficient to justify cueing the active multistatic system. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/898366 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 15/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09213112 | Stubbers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STARFIRE INDUSTRIES, LLC (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Starfire Industries, LLC (Champaign, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Stubbers (Champaign, Illinois); Darren A. Alman (Mahomet, Illinois); Brian E. Jurczyk (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew D. Coventry (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments utilize high energy particles generated by nuclear reactions involving neutron radiation and neutron-sensitive materials to generate and maintain an electric potential gradient between an electrode and a region separated from the electrode by an electric insulator. System and methods contemplated by the invention thereby enable passive detection of neutrons without an externally applied electric potential bias by maintaining a charge accumulation facilitated by nuclear reactions involving neutrons. The charge accumulation produces an electric potential gradient within an electric insulator that separates the charge accumulation from an exterior region. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/217135 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wavefront Research, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Stone (Hellertown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for optical interconnection. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701653 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/04 (20130101) G02B 6/06 (20130101) G02B 6/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/262 (20130101) G02B 6/327 (20130101) |
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| US 09213148 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NANOPRECISION PRODUCTS, INC. (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NANOPRECISION PRODUCTS, INC. (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuhe Li (Pasadena, California); Robert Ryan Vallance (Newbury Park, California); Michael K. Barnoski (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hermetic optical fiber alignment assembly, including a first ferrule portion having a first surface provided with a plurality of grooves receiving the end sections of optical fibers, wherein the grooves define the location and orientation of the end sections with respect to the first ferrule portion, and a second ferrule portion having a second surface facing the first surface of the first ferrule, wherein the first ferrule portion is attached to the second ferrule portion with the first surface against the second surface, wherein a cavity is defined between the first ferrule portion and the second ferrule portion, wherein the cavity is wider than the grooves, and wherein a suspended section of each optical fiber is suspended in the cavity, and wherein the cavity is sealed with a sealant. The sealant extends around the suspended sections of the optical fibers within the cavity. An aperture is provided in at least one of the first ferrule portion and the second ferrule portion, exposing the cavity, wherein the sealant is feed through the aperture. In another aspect, the hermetic assembly provides optical alignment and a hermetic feedthrough for an opto-electronic module. In a further aspect, the hermetic assembly provides alignment and a terminal for access to an opto-electronic module. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/861268 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/3636 (20130101) G02B 6/3838 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/3839 (20130101) G02B 6/3861 (20130101) G02B 6/4214 (20130101) G02B 6/4219 (20130101) G02B 6/4248 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4998 (20150115) |
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| US 09213215 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Rafael R. Gattass (Washington, District of Columbia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie Brandon Shaw (Woodbridge, Virginia); Rafael R. Gattass (Washington, District of Columbia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating a supercontinuum in chalcogenide fiber with a pump light comprising a short pulse fiber laser or diode laser operating with a wavelength of 1.0 μm or greater that is wavelength shifted through a nonlinear fiber one or more times and amplified one or more times and launched into a chalcogenide fiber whereby the spectrum is broadened in the chalcogenide fiber through various nonlinear processes to generate a supercontinuum within the mid-IR from 1.5 to greater than 5 μm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/742563 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/365 (20130101) G02F 1/3532 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 2001/3528 (20130101) |
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| US 09213336 | Chalhoub et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nabil Chalhoub (Canton Township, Michigan); Nassim Khaled (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nabil Chalhoub (Canton Township, Michigan); Nassim Khaled (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for guiding an under-actuated marine surface vessel in tracking a desired trajectory comprises expressing a predetermined vessel trajectory as a set of straight line segments, determining a desired current line segment, and determining the vessel's current position. A cross-track error and the derivative of the cross-track error are then determined. Next, a radius R of the line-of-sight (LOS) circle using a newly introduced exponential function is determined. Intersection points M and N between the LOS circle and the current desired line segment are determined. A desired heading angle is determined as the angle between the line of sight and a predetermined fixed reference line. A drift detection algorithm is built into the proposed guidance scheme to detect situations whereby the ship moves parallel to its desired trajectory for an extended period of time without being able to correct for the cross track error. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/821631 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Auxiliaries on Vessels B63J 99/00 (20130101) B63J 2099/008 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09213621 | Atkins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark G. Atkins (Arvada, Colorado); James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark G. Atkins (Arvada, Colorado); James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for administering event pools for relevant event analysis are provided. Embodiments include assigning, by an incident analyzer, a plurality of events to an events pool; determining, by the incident analyzer, an event suppression duration; determining, by the incident analyzer in dependence upon event analysis rules, to suppress events having particular attributes indicating the events occurred during the event suppression duration; and suppressing, by the incident analyzer, each event assigned to the events pool having the particular attributes indicating the events occurred during the event suppression duration. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/117371 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/0709 (20130101) G06F 11/0763 (20130101) G06F 11/0784 (20130101) G06F 11/3495 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09213788 | Huynh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dinh Bao Phuong Huynh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David John Knezevic (Boston, Massachusetts); Anthony Tyr Patera (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Harriet Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dinh Bao Phuong Huynh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David John Knezevic (Boston, Massachusetts); Anthony Tyr Patera (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Harriet Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatus for modeling and analyzing a physical system comprising a plurality of components. In some embodiments, a component type of a component of the plurality of components may be used to access a dataset from a plurality of datasets. The dataset may include a representation of at least one partial differential equation. A model of the component may be constructed based at least in part on the accessed dataset and at least one parameter relating to a physical characteristic of the component, and may be used to compute at least one output value based on at least one input value. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/398717 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/13 (20130101) G06F 17/5018 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09213807 | Martz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies, Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON CYBER PRODUCTS, LLC (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Martz (Laurel, Maryland); David Matthews (Ellicott City, Maryland); Joshua Edmison (Ellicott City, Maryland); Greg Vorsanger (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting foreign code injected into a computer system including a processor and memory, the processor being configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, includes: detecting, on the computer system, an illegal instruction error; recording the illegal instruction error; determining whether a threshold condition is met; and generating an alert if the threshold condition is met. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/018234 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09213885 | Schneiderman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Schneiderman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for determining a classifier to discriminate between two classes—object or non-object. The classifier may be used by an object detection program to detect presence of a 3D object in a 2D image. The overall classifier is constructed of a sequence of classifiers, where each such classifier is based on a ratio of two graphical probability models. A discreet-valued variable representation at each node in a Bayesian network by a two-stage process of tree-structured vector quantization is discussed. The overall classifier may be part of an object detector program that is trained to automatically detect different types of 3D objects. Computationally efficient statistical methods to evaluate overall classifiers are disclosed. The Bayesian network-based classifier may also be used to determine if two observations belong to the same category. |
| FILED | Friday, May 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/901803 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00288 (20130101) |
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| US 09213938 | Mehta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siddhartha Satish Mehta (Maharashtra, India); Warren E. Dixon (Gainesville, Florida); Prabir Barooah (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddhartha Satish Mehta (Maharashtra, India); Warren E. Dixon (Gainesville, Florida); Prabir Barooah (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method for estimating pose includes generating hypotheses for a pose component under consideration, identifying a mode of a probability mass function associated with the hypotheses, extracting low-noise hypotheses, and averaging the low-noise hypotheses to obtain a pose component estimate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/701153 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/78 (20130101) G06K 9/6215 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0042 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) |
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| US 09214276 | Shepard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles Patrick Shepard (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Patrick Shepard (DeKalb, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A capacitor is provided having an outer shell. A capacitor film member is disposed within the outer shell. A conductor member is disposed within the outer shell in thermal contact with the capacitor film member. A collet member is slidingly coupled to the conductor member. |
| FILED | Monday, January 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/351044 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 2/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 2/106 (20130101) H01G 4/18 (20130101) H01G 4/32 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
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| US 09214344 | Brodie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. Brodie (Palo Alto, California); Yehiel Gotkis (Belmont, California); Allen Carroll (San Jose, California); Leonid Baranov (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a pillar-supported array of micro electron lenses. The micro-lens array includes a base layer on a substrate, the base layer including an array of base electrode pads and an insulating border surrounding the base electrode pads so as to electrically isolate the base electrode pads from each other. The micro-lens array further includes an array of lens holes aligned with the array of base electrode pads and one or more stacked electrode layers having openings aligned with the array of lens holes. The micro-lens array further includes one or more layers of insulating pillars, each layer of insulating pillars supporting a stacked electrode layer. Another embodiment relates to a method of fabricating a pillar-supported array of micro electron lenses. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296960 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09214352 | Hagleitner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Helmut Hagleitner (Zebulon, North Carolina); Daniel Namishia (Louisburg, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helmut Hagleitner (Zebulon, North Carolina); Daniel Namishia (Louisburg, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of an ohmic contact structure for a Group III nitride semiconductor device and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, the ohmic contact structure has less than or equal to 5%, more preferably less than or equal to 2%, more preferably less than or equal to 1.5%, and even more preferably less than or equal to 1% degradation for 1000 hours High Temperature Soak (HTS) at 300 degrees Celsius. In another embodiment, the ohmic contact structure additionally or alternatively has less than or equal to 10% degradation, more preferably less than or equal to 7.5% degradation, more preferably less than or equal to 6% degradation, more preferably less than or equal to 5% degradation, and even more preferably less than 3% degradation for 1000 hours High Temperature operating Life (HToL) at 225 degrees Celsius and 50 milliamps (mA) per millimeter (mm). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/182661 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28 (20130101) H01L 21/28575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/20 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/452 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) |
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| US 09214404 | Margomenos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros D. Margomenos (Pasadena, California); Miroslav Micovic (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for mounting microelectronic chips to a thermal heat sink. The chips are arranged in a desired configuration with their active faces all facing a common direction and with their active faces defining a common planar surface for all of said chips. A metallic material is applied to the chip, preferably by electroplating to backsides of the chips, the metallic material being electro-formed thereon and making void-free contact with the backsides of the chips. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/080691 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/367 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/0206 (20130101) |
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| US 09214574 | Jen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Hin-Lap Yip (Seattle, Washington); Chang-zhi Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Fullerene surfactant compounds useful as interfacial layer in polymer solar cells to enhance solar cell efficiency. Polymer solar cell including a fullerene surfactant-containing interfacial layer intermediate cathode and active layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/706230 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/08 (20130101) C07D 209/70 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/02167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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09214590 — High fidelity nano-structures and arrays for photovoltaics and methods of making the same
| US 09214590 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Zhilian Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Edward T. Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Meredith Earl (Durham, North Carolina); Stuart Williams (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device includes an electron accepting material and an electron donating material. One of the electron accepting or donating materials is configured and dimensioned as a first component of a bulk heterojunction with a predetermined array of first structures, each first structure is substantially equivalent in three dimensional shape, has a substantially equivalent cross-sectional dimension, and where each first structure of the array of first structures has a substantially equivalent orientation with respect to adjacent first structures of the predetermined array forming a substantially uniform array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787134 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 37/0003 (20130101) B29C 39/36 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00214 (20130101) B81C 99/0085 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0352 (20130101) H01L 51/0004 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/422 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09214618 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Patrick Arnold (Gainesville, Florida); Israel Boniche (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Christopher David Meyer (Bethesda, Maryland); Sivaraman Masilamani (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Patrick Arnold (Gainesville, Florida); Israel Boniche (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Christopher David Meyer (Bethesda, Maryland); Sivaraman Masilamani (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to thermoelectric power generation. According to certain embodiments, a stack of silicon-micromachined chips can be connected to form a cylindrical heat exchanger that enables a large, uniform temperature difference across a radially-oriented thermopile. Each layer in the stack can comprise two thermally-isolated concentric silicon rings connected by a polyimide membrane that supports patterned thermoelectric thin films. The polyimide membrane can be formed by selectively etching away the supporting silicon, resulting in thermally-isolated inner and outer rings. In operation, hot gas can flow through a finned central channel, and an external cross flow can enhance heat transfer to ambient to keep the outer surfaces cool. The resulting temperature gradient across the thermopile generates a voltage potential across the open ends due to the Seebeck effect. When connected to a load, current flows, and electrical power is supplied by the generated voltage potential caused by the temperature gradient. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/061422 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09214710 | Cowen |
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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) | Steven James Cowen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid battery is configured to power at least one of a low current circuitry and a high current circuitry. The hybrid battery includes a primary battery configured to supply relatively constant, low current to the low current circuitry and a secondary battery configured to supply intermittent, high peak current to the high current circuitry. The hybrid battery also includes a controller configured to monitor energy load requirements of the low current circuitry and the high current circuitry, adaptively direct energy generated by the primary battery and the secondary battery to the low current circuitry and the high current circuitry respectively, and maintain a state of charge of the secondary battery by directing electrical energy from the primary battery to the secondary battery. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/038135 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 16/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09214782 | Solgaard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olav Solgaard (Stanford, California); Chia Ming Chang (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser-driven dielectric electron accelerator is composed of a dielectric photonic crystal accelerator structure having an electron beam channel and buried grating whose elements are arranged linearly parallel to the electron beam channel. The accelerator structure preferably has a thin film material coating. The grating may have an asymmetric structure. The accelerator and undulator structures may be integrated with on-chip optical and electronic devices such as waveguide devices and control circuits so that multiple devices can be fabricated on the same chip. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/024548 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 3/0903 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/04 (20130101) H05H 15/00 (20130101) H05H 2007/041 (20130101) |
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| US 09215382 | Hilde |
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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) | Jeffrey J. Hilde (Onyx, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Data fusion and visualization of video and LADAR data includes using a fusion matrix to electronically transform each point of a LADAR point cloud from Cartesian coordinates into a homogeneous fusion coordinate system (FCS). The FCS has projective geometry dimensions of row, column, and depth. A control camera is provided for user input to generate a control matrix. A fusion point cloud is generated by electronically fusing each transformed point. The pixel color is found in the video frame at the row and column indicated from the transform of each point of the LADAR point cloud. The control camera is used to control a view of the fusion point cloud by removing non-visible points found at depths deeper than a point having the smallest depth for each row and column. The visible points are rendered on the fusion point cloud to generate a control frame. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/172146 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/51 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4061 (20130101) G06T 2207/20221 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/265 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09215479 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Luo (Yorktown Heights, New York); Rong Yan (Elmsford, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for detecting new events in a video stream that yield improved detection efficiency in real time. For example, a method determines whether a given event is a new event in a video stream. The video stream includes a plurality of events. A first step extracts a first set of features (e.g., text features) from the given event. The first set of features is computationally less expensive to process as compared to a second set of features (e.g., image features) associated with the given event. A second step computes one or more first dissimilarity values between the given event and one or more previous events in the video stream using only the first set of features when one or more first dissimilarity criteria exist. A third step determines whether the given event is a new event based on the one or more computed first dissimilarity values. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/759638 |
| 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 9/00765 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/4542 (20130101) H04N 21/23418 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 21/44008 (20130101) H04N 21/45452 (20130101) |
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| US 09215525 | Howarth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas R. Howarth (Newport, Rhode Island); Kim C. Benjamin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Howarth (Newport, Rhode Island); Kim C. Benjamin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A transducer is provided that converts energy between two forms using active components. The transducer also includes passive components in contact with the active components that perform passive component functions separate from the energy conversion function. The passive components have elastic properties that are modifiable by exposure of the passive component to a magnetic field to selectively control the energy conversion function. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248337 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04R 9/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09215710 | McHenry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Dmitry Dain (Herndon, Virginia); Eugene Livis (Vienna, Virginia); Karl Steadman (Arlington, Virginia); Olga Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for using a detector to monitor and detect channel occupancy are disclosed. The detector resides on a station within a network using a framed format having a periodic time structure. When non-cooperative transmissions are detected by the network, the detector assesses the availability of a backup channel enabling migration of the network. The backup channel serves to allow the network to migrate transparently when the current channel becomes unavailable. The backup channel, however, could be occupied by another network that results in the migrating network interfering with the network already using the backup channel. Thus, the detector detects active transmission sources on the backup channel to determine whether the backup channel is occupied. Methods for using the detector include scheduling detection intervals asynchronously. The asynchronous detection uses offsets from a reference point within a frame. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/636314 |
| ART UNIT | 2411 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/022 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) H04W 72/0446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Songtao Shi (Irvine, California); Byoung-Moo Seo (Seoul, South Korea); Masako Miura (Kyoto, Japan) |
| 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) | Songtao Shi (Irvine, California); Byoung-Moo Seo (Seoul, South Korea); Masako Miura (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to postnatal periodontal ligament stem cells and methods for their use. More specifically, the invention relates in one aspect to postnatal periodontal ligament multipotent stem cells, use of the cells to generate periodontium, differentiation of the cells and methods of tissue cryopreservation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433627 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 1/0205 (20130101) A01N 1/0221 (20130101) Dentistry; Apparatus or Methods for Oral or Dental Hygiene A61C 8/0006 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/32 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0664 (20130101) |
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09211082 — Method for magnetic resonance imaging using saturation harmonic induced rotary saturation
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence L Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bruce R Rosen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence L Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bruce R Rosen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing an image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging system, in which the image depicts an image contrast indicative of rotary saturation produced in response to magnetic particles administered to the subject, are provided. An agent that includes magnetic particles is administered to the subject. An electromagnetic drive field is applied to the subject at a drive frequency so that the magnetic particles produce magnetic fields that oscillate at the drive frequency and harmonics thereof. A spin-lock field is then established at a spin-lock frequency that is a harmonic of the drive frequency in order to produce rotary saturation of nuclear spins affected by the magnetic fields produced by the magnetic particles. Image data is then acquired from the subject using the MRI system, from which an image of the subject that depicts an image contrast indicative of the produced rotary saturation is reconstructed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/537518 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/5601 (20130101) G01R 33/5616 (20130101) |
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| US 09211250 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Johnson (Snohomish, Washington); Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Robert Overell (Shoreline, Washington); Anna Gall (Woodinville, Washington); Mary Prieve (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Amber Paschal (Redmond, Washington); Charbel Diab (Seattle, Washington); Priyadarsi De (Mohanpur, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); PhaseRx, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Johnson (Snohomish, Washington); Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Robert Overell (Shoreline, Washington); Anna Gall (Woodinville, Washington); Mary Prieve (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Amber Paschal (Redmond, Washington); Charbel Diab (Seattle, Washington); Priyadarsi De (Mohanpur, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising a heterogeneous polymeric micelle and an agent (e.g., a polynucleotide) associated with the micelle are disclosed, together with methods for intracellular delivery of such agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/059946 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1075 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 53/00 (20130101) C08L 53/00 (20130101) C08L 2666/24 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/88 (20130101) |
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| US 09211275 | Clarke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kieran Clarke (Oxford, United Kingdom); Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ISIS INNOVATION LTD. (Oxford, United Kingdom); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kieran Clarke (Oxford, United Kingdom); Richard Lewis Veech (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject disclosure provides compositions for reducing serum cholesterol and/or triglyceride levels in subjects. These compositions can comprise racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, optionally in the acid form, physiologically compatible salts of racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, esters of D-β-hydroxybutyrate, oligomers of D-β-hydroxybutyrate containing from 2 to 20 or more monomeric units in either linear or cyclic form, racemic 1,3 butandiol or R-1,3 butandiol alone and can be, optionally, administered in conjunction with a low fat diet to a subject. Alternatively, compositions comprising racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, optionally in the acid form, physiologically compatible salts of racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, esters of D-β-hydroxybutyrate, oligomers of D-β-hydroxybutyrate containing from 2 to 20 or more monomeric units in either linear or cyclic form, racemic 1,3 butandiol, R-1,3 butandiol or combinations thereof can be formulated as nutritional supplements (also referred to as nutritional compositions) or incorporated into therapeutic compositions containing a) anti-hypertensive agents; b) anti-inflammatory agents; c) glucose lowering agents; or d) anti-lipemic agents) which are administered to a subject, optionally in combination with a low fat diet, in order to cause a reduction or lowering of: serum cholesterol levels; triglyceride levels; serum glucose levels, serum homocysteine levels, inflammatory proteins (e.g., C reactive protein) and/or hypertension in treated subjects. Alternatively, compositions disclosed herein can be administered alone, or in combination with other therapeutic agents to prevent or reverse vascular disease. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/811648 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/047 (20130101) A61K 31/047 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09211296 | Ricciardi |
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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) | Robert P. Ricciardi (East Marlborough, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of inhibiting replication of a poxvirus by contacting a poxvirus with a compound having formula I, formula XXI, formula XXXII, or formula XLI which in turn reduce, inhibit, or abrogate poxvirus DNA polymerase activity and/or its interaction with its processivity factor. Formula I, formula XXI, formula XXXII, or formula XLI can be utilized to treat humans and animals suffering from a poxvirus infection. Pharmaceutical compositions for treating poxvirus infected subjects are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/011378 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/10 (20130101) A61K 31/42 (20130101) A61K 31/65 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/095 (20130101) A61K 31/166 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/351 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/429 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) |
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| US 09211301 | Dudley, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing arrhythmic risk associated with cardiomyopathy by improving conduction velocity, includes administering a composition containing NAD+ or a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant to an individual or person in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585396 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09211302 | Fessler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael B. Fessler (Cary, North Carolina); Jim J. Aloor (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Fessler (Cary, North Carolina); Jim J. Aloor (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for altering cellular functions and processes by modulating the activity of Lrch4. Corresponding compositions that may be used in carrying out the described methods are also disclosed as are related methods of treatment for relevant diseases and physiological states. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/980097 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) |
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| US 09211303 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tzu-Hao Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan); Chia-Rung Liu (Tainan, Taiwan); Tzu-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan); Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Yang-Ming University (Taipei, Taiwan); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzu-Hao Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan); Chia-Rung Liu (Tainan, Taiwan); Tzu-Han Wang (Taipei, Taiwan); Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention include methods of selectively reducing the deleterious activity of mutant extended trinucleotide repeat containing genes in a cell, as well as compositions used in such methods. The deleterious activity (e.g., toxicity and/or dis-functionality of products encoded thereby) of a mutant extended trinucleotide repeat containing gene may be selectively reduced in a variety of different ways, e.g., by selectively decreasing SPT4 mediated transcriptional activity, by enhancing functionality of proteins encoded thereby, etc. Aspects of the invention further include assays for identifying agents that find use in methods of the invention, e.g. as summarized above. Methods and compositions of the invention find use in a variety of different applications, including the prevention or treatment of disease conditions associated with the presence of genes containing mutant extended trinucleotide repeats, such as Huntington's Disease (HD). |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/988605 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 51/10 (20130101) A61K 51/1075 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09211313 | Sachs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Sachs (Buffalo, New York); Philip Gottlieb (Buffalo, New York); Thomas Suchyna (Amherst, New York); Seth L. Alper (Boston, Massachusetts); David H. Vandorpe (Watertown, Massachusetts); Chang Xu (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Sachs (Buffalo, New York); Philip Gottlieb (Buffalo, New York); Thomas Suchyna (Amherst, New York); Seth L. Alper (Boston, Massachusetts); David H. Vandorpe (Watertown, Massachusetts); Chang Xu (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for inhibiting calcium permeable cation conductance of red blood cells from individuals afflicted with sickle cell anemia. The method comprises exposing the cells to the peptide GsMTx4 and/or variants thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/351611 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1767 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09211323 | Stinchcomb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan T. Stinchcomb (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge E. Osorio (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Charalambos D. Partidos (Chicago, Illinois); Joseph N. Brewoo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TAKEDA VACCINES, INC. (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan T. Stinchcomb (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge E. Osorio (Mount Horeb, Wisconsin); Charalambos D. Partidos (Chicago, Illinois); Joseph N. Brewoo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention report compositions and methods for vaccinating a subject against dengue viruses. In some embodiments, vaccine compositions may be administered by intradermal introduction. In certain embodiments, intradermal introduction in a subject of a vaccine against dengue virus may include one or more intradermal boosts after initial vaccination. Other embodiments include intradermal injection of a vaccine composition against dengue virus wherein the composition provides protection against two or more of DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3 and DEN-4. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790511 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/24134 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09211328 | Lanier 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) | Lewis L. Lanier (San Francisco, California); Koetsu Ogasawara (Tokyo, Japan); Jeffrey A. Bluestone (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease. In particular, the present invention provides therapeutics for impairing the expansion and function of autoreactive T cells, NK cells and/or NKT cells, by modulating NKG2D. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/797921 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39541 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2851 (20130101) C07K 2316/96 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/885 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09211345 | Boons et al. |
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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) | Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Therese Buskas (Athens, Georgia); Sampat Ingale (San Diego, California); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A glycolipopeptide comprising a carbohydrate component, a peptide component and a lipid component, for use as a therapeutic or prophylactic vaccine. Also provided are monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that recognize the glycolipopeptide of the invention, as well as uses thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/558088 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0008 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/4833 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/6075 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) Peptides C07K 9/00 (20130101) C07K 14/22 (20130101) C07K 14/4727 (20130101) C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/3076 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/16011 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2400/02 (20130101) G01N 2800/042 (20130101) G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09211347 | Uc et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aliye Uc (Iowa City, Iowa); Paul B. McCray (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (Iowa City, Iowa); Abhay Divekar (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a safe and effective way to deliver and express therapeutic compositions (e.g., transgenes) to the pancreas and lungs of a mammal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/030731 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09211407 | Della Santina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Della Santina (Towson, Maryland); Gene Yevgeny Fridman (Pikesville, Maryland); Bryce Chiang (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable nerve stimulation device has a sensor system, a data processor in communication with the sensor system, and a nerve stimulation system in communication with the data processor and constructed to provide electrical stimulation to at least one branch of at least one vestibulocochlear nerve. The nerve stimulation system includes an electrode array that has a first plurality of electrodes structured to be surgically implanted in electrical communication with a superior branch of the vestibular nerve, a second plurality of electrodes structured to be surgically implanted in electrical communication with a horizontal branch of the vestibular nerve, a third plurality of electrodes structured to be surgically implanted in electrical communication with a posterior branch of the vestibular nerve, and a common crus reference electrode structured to be surgically implanted into a common crus of the vestibular labyrinth. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/679741 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36032 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09211409 | Tracey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Mauricio Rosas-Ballina (Bayside, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Mauricio Rosas-Ballina (Bayside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are devices, systems and method of treating inflammation, including methods of treating a T-cell mediated disease. In particular, described herein are methods of treating inflammation including the steps of stimulating a subject's inflammatory reflex to inhibit the immune response and administering a T-cell modifying agent to modify the activity of splenic T-cells. Also described herein are systems for treating inflammation including an inflammatory reflex stimulation module and a T-cell response modifying module. The T-cell response modifying module typically modifies the response of splenic T-cells to enhance or otherwise regulate the effect of stimulation of the inflammatory reflex. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415671 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/326 (20130101) A61N 1/3605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36071 (20130101) |
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| US 09211520 | Satyamurthy 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) | Nagichettiar Satyamurthy (Los Angeles, California); Jorge R. Barrio (Agoura Hills, California); Bernard Amarasekera (Winnetka, California); R. Michael Van Dam (Los Angeles, California); Sebastian Olma (Muenster, Germany); Dirk Williams (Northridge, California); Mark Eddings (San Pedro, California); Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen (Westlake Village, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular chemical production system includes multiple modules for performing a chemical reaction, particularly of radiochemical compounds, from a remote location. One embodiment comprises a reaction vessel including a moveable heat source with the position thereof relative to the reaction vessel being controllable from a remote position. Alternatively the heat source may be fixed in location and the reaction vial is moveable into and out of the heat source. The reaction vessel has one or more sealing plugs, the positioning of which in relationship to the reaction vessel is controllable from a remote position. Also the one or more reaction vessel sealing plugs can include one or more conduits there through for delivery of reactants, gases at atmospheric or an elevated pressure, inert gases, drawing a vacuum and removal of reaction end products to and from the reaction vial, the reaction vial with sealing plug in position being operable at elevated pressures. The modular chemical production system is assembled from modules which can each include operating condition sensors and controllers configured for monitoring and controlling the individual modules and the assembled system from a remote position. Other modules include, but are not limited to a Reagent Storage and Delivery Module, a Cartridge Purification Module, a Microwave Reaction Module, an External QC/Analysis/Purification Interface Module, an Aliquotting Module, an F-18 Drying Module, a Concentration Module, a Radiation Counting Module, and a Capillary Reactor Module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/582885 |
| 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 19/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 19/126 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212134 | Basu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arnab Basu (Acton, Massachusetts); Debra M. Mills (Ayer, Massachusetts); John D. Williams (Watertown, Massachusetts); Bing Li (Northborough, Massachusetts); Norton P. Peet (North Andover, Massachusetts); Terry L. Bowlin (Maineville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microbiotix, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnab Basu (Acton, Massachusetts); Debra M. Mills (Ayer, Massachusetts); John D. Williams (Watertown, Massachusetts); Bing Li (Northborough, Massachusetts); Norton P. Peet (North Andover, Massachusetts); Terry L. Bowlin (Maineville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to the development of compounds and methods for inhibiting viral infection in a mammal. A pseudotype virus was developed for use in a high throughput assay for identifying nonpeptidic small molecule inhibitors that prevent viral entry into a host cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/821682 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212137 | DeLuca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hector F. DeLuca (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Pawel Grzywacz (Madison, Wisconsin); Lori A. Plum (Arena, Wisconsin); Agnieszka Flores (Madison, Wisconsin); James B. Thoden (Madison, Wisconsin); Hazel M. Holden (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of purifying the compound (20R,22R)-2-methylene-19-nor-22-methyl-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 to obtain the compound in crystalline form. The methods typically include the steps of dissolving a product containing the compound in a solvent comprising hexane and 2-propanol, cooling the solvent and dissolved product below ambient temperature for a sufficient amount of time to form a precipitate of crystals, and recovering the crystals. Certain diol precursors formed during the synthesis of the compound and its diasteromers also may be obtained in crystalline form using ethyl acetate as a solvent. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/828302 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 2200/07 (20130101) C07B 2200/13 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 35/32 (20130101) C07C 401/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2102/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09212144 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Maris A. Cinelli (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Various 2-aminoquinoline compounds as can be used, in vivo or in vitro, for selective inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/594925 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212161 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Winnetka, Illinois); Fengtian Xue (Baton Rogue, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A chiral synthesis of pyrrolidine compounds en route to selective neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitors, and representative inhibitor compounds heretofore unattainable. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/252478 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 493/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212167 | Steller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hermann Steller (New York, New York); Cristinel Sandu (New York, New York); Anshuman Kelkar (New York, New York); Nidhi Gangadhar (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hermann Steller (New York, New York); Cristinel Sandu (New York, New York); Anshuman Kelkar (New York, New York); Nidhi Gangadhar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Pro-apoptotic compounds having a tripartite structure: A-L-B are disclosed. In these compounds A is an IBM mimetic moiety; L is a linker and B is a moiety that binds to a protein on the outer mitochondrial membrane. The compounds are useful for inducing cell apoptosis and therefore treating cancer. An example of such a compound is |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/611128 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/40 (20130101) C07D 303/46 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 413/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09212179 | Uesugi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the compound for treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders utilizes an A-B-C tripartite structure, wherein A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures, for example, but not limited to, heterocyclic, phenyl or benzyl ring structures with or without substitutions and are described in detail herein. Also provided are methods for the treatment and/or prevention of one or more metabolic disorders, for example, obesity or diabetes, utilizing fatostatin A and/or a derivative and/or analog thereof and/or the A-B-C tripartite compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/310339 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 277/10 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09212180 | Grembecka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan); VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jolanta Grembecka (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tomasz Cierpicki (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sunil Kumar Upadhyay (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Shaun R. Stauffer (Brentwood, Tennessee); Rocco D. Gogliotti (Kingston Springs, Tennessee); Timothy J. Senter (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compounds that inhibit the binding of menin and MLL or MLL fusion proteins and methods of use thereof. In particular embodiments, the present invention provides compositions comprising piperidine-containing compounds and methods of use thereof to inhibit the interaction of menin with MLL oncoproteins (e.g., MLL1, MLL2, MLL-fusion oncoproteins), for example, for the treatment of leukemia, solid cancers, diabetes, and other diseases dependent on activity of MLL1, MLL2, MLL fusion proteins, MLL-PTD and/or menin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/302219 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/22 (20130101) C07D 211/26 (20130101) C07D 295/088 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212189 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher J. Chang (Berkeley, California); Alexander R. Lippert (Dallas, Texas); Vivian S. Lin (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Chang (Berkeley, California); Alexander R. Lippert (Dallas, Texas); Vivian S. Lin (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides reaction-based fluorescent probes for selective imaging of hydrogen sulfide in living cells. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/493253 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) |
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| US 09212205 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Brian R. McNaughton (Rochester, New York); Peter C. Gareiss (Rochester, New York); Joseph Wedekind (Rochester, New York); Charles Thornton (Rochester, New York); Krzysztof Sobczak (Poznan, Poland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Brian R. McNaughton (Rochester, New York); Peter C. Gareiss (Rochester, New York); Joseph Wedekind (Rochester, New York); Charles Thornton (Rochester, New York); Krzysztof Sobczak (Poznan, Poland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to homo- and hetero-dimer compounds formed by a disulfide, sulfinyl thio, or olefin bond between two monomers. A method of making a homo- or hetero-dimer compound is also disclosed. The present invention also relates to monomer compounds capable of forming homo- or hetero-dimer compounds, as well as oligomers formed via linkage of one or more dimers. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting the activity of target RNA molecules, particularly those having a secondary structure that include a stem or stem-loop formation. Dimer compounds capable of inhibiting the activity of an HIV-I RNA frameshifting stem-loop and a (CUG)n expanded repeat stem-loop are disclosed, as are methods of treating diseases associated with these target RNA molecules. The dimer compounds can also be used for selectively detecting presence of the target RNA molecule in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/670772 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/047 (20130101) C07K 5/081 (20130101) C07K 5/0806 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 5/0812 (20130101) C07K 5/0815 (20130101) C07K 5/0821 (20130101) |
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| US 09212209 | Androphy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana); The Brigham Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliot Androphy (Indianapolis, Indiana); Gregory D. Cuny (Houston, Texas); Jonathan Cherry (Carmel, Indiana); Marcie A. Glicksman (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In certain embodiments, compounds are provided that increase full-length survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein production by an SMN2 gene. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941099 |
| 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 | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/37 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2103/20 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 215/227 (20130101) C07D 239/82 (20130101) C07D 261/06 (20130101) C07D 277/46 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 493/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212212 | Gilkeson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado); MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado); MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Gilkeson (Charleston, South Carolina); Stephen Tomlinson (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); V. Michael Holers (Denver, Colorado); Baerbel Rohrer (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a CR2-FH molecule comprising a CR2 portion comprising CR2 protein or a fragment thereof and a FH portion comprising a factor H protein or a fragment thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a CR2-FH molecule. Also provided are methods of using the compositions for treatment diseases in which the alternative complement pathway is implicated, such as age-related macular degeneration, rheumatoid arthritis, and ischemia reperfusion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/043317 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/70596 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09212218 | Norris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Norris (Houston, Texas); Jing-Ren Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); John M. Hardham (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Jerrilyn K. Howell (Houston, Texas); Alan G. Barbour (Newport Beach, California); George M. Weinstock (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to DNA sequences encoding Vmp-like polypeptides of pathogenic Borreliae, the use of the DNA sequences in recombinant vectors to express polypeptides, the encoded amino acid sequences, application of the DNA and amino acid sequences to the production of polypeptides as antigens for immunoprophylaxis, immunotherapy, and immunodiagnosis. Also disclosed are the use of the nucleic acid sequences as probes or primers for the detection of organisms causing Lyme disease, relapsing fever, or related disorders, and kits designed to facilitate methods of using the described polypeptides, DNA segments and antibodies. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/738518 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/40 (20130101) A61K 39/44 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/20 (20130101) C07K 16/1207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 2333/20 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 7/0065 (20130101) G11B 7/128 (20130101) G11B 7/00772 (20130101) |
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| US 09212219 | Schneewind et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Chicago, Illinois); Alice Cheng (Boston, Massachusetts); Dominique M. Missiakas (Chicago, Illinois); Hwan Keun Kim (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions for treating or preventing a bacterial infection, particularly infection by a Staphylococcus bacterium. The invention provides methods and compositions for stimulating an immune response against the bacteria. In certain embodiments, the methods and compositions involve a non-toxigenic Protein A (SpA) variant or an antibody directed thereto. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/335411 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/40 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1271 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212221 | Kim |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hyesook Kim (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Detroit R and D, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyesook Kim (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing form-specific anti-peptide antibodies for a wild type protein and its one amino acid mutated protein using a peptide antigen, by obtaining a protein sequence of the wild type protein and its one amino acid mutated protein, selecting a continuous amino acid sequence without any internal cysteine residues that includes the one amino acid mutated sequence and wild type sequence corresponding to the mutated site at the end of the sequence to obtain a synthetic mutation peptide and a synthetic wild type peptide, conjugating the synthetic peptides to a carrier protein, and immunizing an animal to produce antibodies. Methods of detecting cancer and methods of treating cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/039894 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/33 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/574 (20130101) |
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| US 09212347 | Weinberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Weinberg (Brookline, Massachusetts); Sendurai A. Mani (Houston, Texas); Mai-Jing Liao (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Weinberg (Brookline, Massachusetts); Sendurai A. Mani (Houston, Texas); Mai-Jing Liao (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for preparing progenitor cells are described where epithelial cells are induced to undergo epithelial-mesenchymal transition as a result of exposure to an inducing agent or introduction of a gene therein that induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition. Progenitor cells resulting therefrom have use in cell-based therapies, among other utilities. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526271 |
| 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 5/0631 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/60 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09212349 | Shenk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Shenk (Princeton, New Jersey); Emre Koyuncu (Princeton, New Jersey); Joshua D. Rabinowitz (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Shenk (Princeton, New Jersey); Emre Koyuncu (Princeton, New Jersey); Joshua D. Rabinowitz (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for improving virus production in a host cell infected with the virus is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/112824 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/16151 (20130101) C12N 2710/16751 (20130101) |
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| US 09212353 | Fang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ansun Biopharma, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ansun Biopharma, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fang Fang (San Diego, California); Michael Malakhov (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new compositions and methods for preventing and treating pathogen infection. In particular, the present invention provides compounds having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a therapeutic domain that can act extracellularly to prevent infection of a target cell by a pathogen, such as a virus. The present invention also comprises therapeutic compositions having sialidase activity, including protein-based compounds having sialidase catalytic domains. Compounds of the invention can be used for treating or preventing pathogen infection, and for treating and reducing allergic and inflammatory responses. The invention also provides compositions and methods for enhancing transduction of target cells by recombinant viruses. Such compositions and methods can be used in gene therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/274912 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 48/0008 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/521 (20130101) C07K 14/775 (20130101) C07K 14/5421 (20130101) C07K 14/8117 (20130101) C07K 14/8128 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/01 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14145 (20130101) C12N 2760/16111 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01018 (20130101) |
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| US 09212358 | Razavi-Shirazi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Microvi Biotech Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MICROVI BIOTECH, INC. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fatemeh Razavi-Shirazi (Hayward, California); Mohammad Ali Dorri (Milpitas, California); Farhad Dorri-Nowkoorani (Union City, California); Ameen(nmn) Razavi (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The microorganism-containing biocatalysts disclosed have a large population of the microorganisms irreversibly retained in the interior of the biocatalysts. The biocatalysts possess a surprisingly stable population of microorganisms and have an essential absence of debris generation from metabolic activity of the microorganisms. The biocatalysts are composed of highly hydrophilic polymer and have an internal, open, porous structure that promotes community phenotypic changes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918868 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 3/06 (20130101) C02F 3/28 (20130101) C02F 3/34 (20130101) C02F 3/085 (20130101) C02F 3/108 (20130101) C02F 3/307 (20130101) C02F 3/308 (20130101) C02F 3/348 (20130101) C02F 2101/12 (20130101) C02F 2101/16 (20130101) C02F 2101/20 (20130101) C02F 2101/34 (20130101) C02F 2101/105 (20130101) C02F 2101/163 (20130101) C02F 2301/08 (20130101) C02F 2301/106 (20130101) C02F 2303/02 (20130101) C02F 2303/20 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 11/04 (20130101) C12N 11/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 11/10 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 3/00 (20130101) C12P 5/023 (20130101) C12P 7/06 (20130101) C12P 7/08 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/46 (20130101) C12P 7/065 (20130101) C12P 7/6463 (20130101) C12P 39/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/12 (20150501) Y02W 10/15 (20150501) Y02W 10/37 (20150501) |
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| US 09212359 | Silverman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanford Jay Silverman (Roosevelt, New Jersey); Robert Scott McIsaac (Princeton, New Jersey); Marcus Noyes (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); David Botstein (Princeton, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford Jay Silverman (Roosevelt, New Jersey); Robert Scott McIsaac (Princeton, New Jersey); Marcus Noyes (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); David Botstein (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system allows for rapid and specific induction of individual genes in eukaryotic cells using a chimeric transcriptional activator that is responsive to hormone inducer. Upon addition of the hormone, cytoplasmic transcriptional activator localizes to the nucleus and subsequently binds to promoters containing sequences that bind to its DNA-binding domain. Genetic modifications allow for rapid and specific degradation of a targeted protein upon addition of hormone by means of a regulated degron method that utilizes a protease variant. This system is useful for discovering new compounds by high throughput screening when introducing compound libraries to these protein-depleted cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/128700 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/1079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212360 | Tuschl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Tuschl (Brooklyn, New York); Pablo Landgraf (Duesseldorf, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated DNA or RNA molecules comprising at least ten contiguous bases having a sequence in a microRNA shown in SEQ ID NOs: 1-94; 281-374; 467-481; 497-522; or 549, except that up to thirty percent of the bases may be wobble bases, and up to 10% of the contiguous bases may be non-complementary. The invention further relates to modified single stranded microRNA molecules, isolated single stranded anti-microRNA molecules and isolated microRNP molecules. In another embodiment, the invention relates to a method for inhibiting microRNP activity in a cell. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/959064 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2330/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09212363 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Duarte, California); Ulrike Jung (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Universal RNA interference (RNAi) molecules having an inhibitory RNA sequence which binds a target pathologic RNA sequence are provided according to some embodiments. Such RNAi molecules bind the target pathologic RNA sequence via at least one non-Watson Crick paired base. In some embodiments, the target pathologic RNA sequence is a target viral RNA sequence derived from a human immunodeficiency HIV virus, a hepatitis B virus (HBV), a hepatitis C virus (HCV), or an influenza virus. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/842977 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1131 (20130101) C12N 15/1132 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) C12N 2310/533 (20130101) C12N 2320/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09212981 | Mercer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth Mercer (Zionsville, Indiana); Johnny Zhang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Joseph Michael Pellettiere (Long Grove, Illinois); Jason Wenhaw Lee (Vernon Hills, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A lead fixation and stability feedback assembly for testing stability and anchoring of a fixation tip of a distal end of an implantable lead to a tissue is disclosed. The assembly includes a first member including a first coupling arrangement configured to couple to a proximal end of an implantable lead, wherein the proximal end of the implantable lead is coupled to a distal end of the implantable lead configured to be anchored to a tissue, and a second member including a second coupling arrangement configured to couple the first member to the second member, the second coupling arrangement configured to decouple the second member from the first member when a predetermined force is applied to pull the second member away from the first member to thereby test the anchoring of the distal end of the implantable lead to the tissue. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/099953 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/3468 (20130101) A61B 2019/464 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) A61N 1/057 (20130101) A61N 2001/0578 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 99/007 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/04 (20130101) G01N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 19/04 (20130101) G01N 2203/0017 (20130101) |
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| US 09212994 | Maltezos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); John Kim Lee (New York, New York); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); John Kim Lee (New York, New York); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic filter is disclosed. The filter can be used with onchip fluid filtration such as whole blood filtration for microfluidic blood analysis. The filter is able to filter the necessary volume of fluid and in particular blood in an acceptable time frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/348495 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) |
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| US 09212995 | Moll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MBio Diagnostics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MBio Diagnostics, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin D. Moll (Boulder, Colorado); Kurt R. Vogel (Boulder, Colorado); Marie J. Delaney (Boulder, Colorado); Michael J. Lochhead (Boulder, Colorado); Christopher J. Myatt (Boulder, Colorado); Keagan B. Rowley (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid diagnostic system that delivers a panel of serologic assay results using a small amount of blood, serum, or plasma is described. The system includes a disposable cartridge, including an integral lens portion coupled to a planar waveguide, and a reader instrument, based on planar waveguide imaging technology. The cartridge incorporates a microarray of recombinant antigens and antibody controls in a fluidic channel, providing multiple parallel fluorescence assay results for a single sample. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/831788 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5023 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 9/52 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0825 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/648 (20130101) G01N 21/6452 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/7703 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 35/00029 (20130101) |
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| US 09213027 | Doranz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Integral Molecular, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integral Molecular, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin J. Doranz (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Sharon Willis (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to lipoparticles. The invention also relates to producing lipoparticles. The invention further relates to lipoparticles comprising a viral structural protein. The invention further relates to a lipoparticle comprising a membrane protein, and the lipoparticle can be attached to a sensor surface. The invention further relates to methods of producing and using the lipoparticle to, inter alia, assess protein binding interactions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/069696 |
| 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 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 2039/64 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55533 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/2812 (20130101) C07K 16/2851 (20130101) C07K 16/2866 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/16422 (20130101) C12N 2710/16434 (20130101) C12N 2710/24143 (20130101) C12N 2740/13022 (20130101) C12N 2760/18522 (20130101) C12N 2770/36122 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/569 (20130101) G01N 33/586 (20130101) G01N 33/5432 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6872 (20130101) G01N 2333/726 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tian Liu (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MedImageMetric LLC (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tian Liu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary quantitative susceptibility mapping methods, systems and computer-accessible medium can be provided to generate images of tissue magnetism property from complex magnetic resonance imaging data using the Bayesian statistical approach. The likelihood is constructed directly using the complex data. A prior is constructed from matching structures or information content in known morphology. The quantitative susceptibility map can be determined by, e.g., maximizing the posterior. Thus, according to the exemplary embodiment, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining information associated with at least one structure. Using such exemplary embodiment, it is possible to receive signals associated with the structure(s), where the signals can include complex data that is in the complex domain. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/406137 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0042 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/24 (20130101) G01R 33/56536 (20130101) G01R 33/56545 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirsten J. McCabe (White Rock, New Mexico); Robert M. Wingo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Timothy K. Haarmann (Jemenz Pueblo, New Mexico); Andrew Sutherland (Davis, California); Walter D. Gubler (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirsten J. McCabe (White Rock, New Mexico); Robert M. Wingo (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Timothy K. Haarmann (Jemenz Pueblo, New Mexico); Andrew Sutherland (Davis, California); Walter D. Gubler (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A specialized conditioning protocol for honeybees that is designed for use within a complex agricultural ecosystem. This method ensures that the conditioned bees will be less likely to exhibit a conditioned response to uninfected plants, a false positive response that would render such a biological sensor unreliable for agricultural decision support. Also described is a superboosting training regime that allows training without the aid of expensive equipment and protocols for training in out in the field. Also described is a memory enhancing cocktail that aids in long term memory retention of a vapor signature. This allows the bees to be used in the field for longer durations and with fewer bees trained overall. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/439825 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 51/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 55/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09211520 | Satyamurthy 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) | Nagichettiar Satyamurthy (Los Angeles, California); Jorge R. Barrio (Agoura Hills, California); Bernard Amarasekera (Winnetka, California); R. Michael Van Dam (Los Angeles, California); Sebastian Olma (Muenster, Germany); Dirk Williams (Northridge, California); Mark Eddings (San Pedro, California); Clifton Kwang-Fu Shen (Westlake Village, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular chemical production system includes multiple modules for performing a chemical reaction, particularly of radiochemical compounds, from a remote location. One embodiment comprises a reaction vessel including a moveable heat source with the position thereof relative to the reaction vessel being controllable from a remote position. Alternatively the heat source may be fixed in location and the reaction vial is moveable into and out of the heat source. The reaction vessel has one or more sealing plugs, the positioning of which in relationship to the reaction vessel is controllable from a remote position. Also the one or more reaction vessel sealing plugs can include one or more conduits there through for delivery of reactants, gases at atmospheric or an elevated pressure, inert gases, drawing a vacuum and removal of reaction end products to and from the reaction vial, the reaction vial with sealing plug in position being operable at elevated pressures. The modular chemical production system is assembled from modules which can each include operating condition sensors and controllers configured for monitoring and controlling the individual modules and the assembled system from a remote position. Other modules include, but are not limited to a Reagent Storage and Delivery Module, a Cartridge Purification Module, a Microwave Reaction Module, an External QC/Analysis/Purification Interface Module, an Aliquotting Module, an F-18 Drying Module, a Concentration Module, a Radiation Counting Module, and a Capillary Reactor Module. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/582885 |
| 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 19/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 19/126 (20130101) |
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| US 09211598 | Gillard |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan John Gillard (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A trim tool for trimming a part having a complex shape. The trim tool defines a plurality of electro-hydraulic cavities that are separated by walls in a lower die of the trim tool. Electrodes are discharged in the electro-hydraulic cavities to drive the panel into engagement with a trim steel edge. The discharge of the electrode severs the panel above the cavity and also across a portion of a wall separating adjacent cavities. Discharging an electrode in an adjacent cavity completes the trim operation above the wall. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/090208 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Working or Processing of Sheet Metal or Metal Tubes, Rods or Profiles Without Essentially Removing Material; Punching Metal B21D 24/16 (20130101) B21D 26/12 (20130101) B21D 26/023 (20130101) Planing; Slotting; Shearing; Broaching; Sawing; Filing; Scraping; Like Operations for Working Metal by Removing Material, Not Otherwise Provided for B23D 15/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23D 31/00 (20130101) B23D 31/001 (20130101) Perforating; Punching; Cutting-out; Stamping-out; Severing by Means Other Than Cutting B26F 1/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09212320 | Woods et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth M. Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); John Kania (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth M. Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); John Kania (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods, reactor systems, and catalysts for converting biomass to fuels and chemicals in a batch and/or continuous process. The process generally involves the conversion of water insoluble components of biomass, such as hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin, to volatile C2+O1-2 oxygenates, such as alcohols, ketones, cyclic ethers, esters, carboxylic acids, aldehydes, and mixtures thereof. In certain applications, the volatile C2+O1-2 oxygenates can be collected and used as a final chemical product, or used in downstream processes to produce liquid fuels, chemicals and other products. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479004 |
| ART UNIT | 3649 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 3/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 3/44 (20130101) C10G 3/48 (20130101) C10G 3/52 (20130101) C10G 3/62 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/301 (20130101) C10G 2300/302 (20130101) C10G 2300/305 (20130101) C10G 2300/308 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2400/02 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) C10G 2400/30 (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 1/04 (20130101) C10L 1/06 (20130101) C10L 1/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212327 | Diver |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ADVANCED COOLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Diver (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermochemical process and system for producing fuel are provided. The thermochemical process includes reducing an oxygenated-hydrocarbon to form an alkane and using the alkane in a reforming reaction as a reducing agent for water, a reducing agent for carbon dioxide, or a combination thereof. Another thermochemical process includes reducing a metal oxide to form a reduced metal oxide, reducing an oxygenated-hydrocarbon with the reduced metal oxide to form an alkane, and using the alkane in a reforming reaction as a reducing agent for water, a reducing agent for carbon dioxide, or a combination thereof. The system includes a reformer configured to perform a thermochemical process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/445492 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/1518 (20130101) C07C 29/1518 (20130101) C07C 29/1518 (20130101) C07C 29/1518 (20130101) C07C 29/1518 (20130101) C07C 31/04 (20130101) C07C 31/08 (20130101) C07C 31/10 (20130101) C07C 31/12 (20130101) Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 3/08 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212328 | Kania et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Kania (Madison, Wisconsin); Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth M. Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kania (Madison, Wisconsin); Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth M. Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes improved systems and methods for producing biomass-derived feedstocks for biofuel and biochemical manufacturing processes. The systems and methods use components that are capable of transferring relatively high concentrations of solid biomass utilizing pressure variations between vessels, and allows for the recovery and recycling of heterogeneous catalyst materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462378 |
| ART UNIT | 3649 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 3/00 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09212354 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVOZYMES INC. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also provides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/876507 |
| 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 14/37 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 21/00 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212430 | Harper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason C. Harper (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dulce C. Arango (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M. Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason C. Harper (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Ronen Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shawn M. Dirk (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Dulce C. Arango (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan M. Brozik (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing an electrochemical biosensor uses bias-assisted assembly of unreactive -onium molecules on an electrode array followed by post-assembly electro-addressable conversion of the unreactive group to a chemical or biological recognition group. Electro-addressable functionalization of electrode arrays enables the multi-target electrochemical sensing of biological and chemical analytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930267 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/20 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 9/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 20/02 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212822 | Berry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Dwight Berry (Greenville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Dwight Berry (Greenville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injection assembly for use in a turbine engine is provided. The fuel injection assembly includes an end cover, an endcap assembly, a fluid supply chamber, and a plurality of tube assemblies positioned at the endcap assembly. Each of the tube assemblies includes housing having a fuel plenum and a cooling fluid plenum. The cooling fluid plenum is positioned downstream from the fuel plenum and separated from the fuel plenum by an intermediate wall. The plurality of tube assemblies also include a plurality of tubes that extends through the housing. Each of the plurality of tubes is coupled in flow communication with the fluid supply chamber and a combustion chamber positioned downstream from the tube assembly. The plurality of tube assemblies further includes an aft plate at a downstream end of the cooling fluid plenum. The plate includes at least one aperture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483153 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/286 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212905 | Klann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond T. Klann (Channahon, Illinois); Richard B. Vilim (Sugar Grove, Illinois); Sergio de la Barrera (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond T. Klann (Channahon, Illinois); Richard B. Vilim (Sugar Grove, Illinois); Sergio de la Barrera (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining the shielding thickness of a detected radiation source. The gamma ray spectrum of a radiation detector is utilized to estimate the shielding between the detector and the radiation source. The determination of the shielding may be used to adjust the information from known source-localization techniques to provide improved performance and accuracy of locating the source of radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/106651 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09213083 | Carter 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) | Kaylene L. Carter (San Diego, California); Rohan Ramlall (Brentwood, California); John McEachen (Carmel, California); Murali Tummala (Monterey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involve determining a time difference of arrival between two robust broadcast digital television (DTV) signals received at a mobile receiver and a monitor receiver from at least two DTV transmitters, determining a pseudorange between the mobile receiver and each of the DTV transmitters, and determining a position of the mobile receiver using the determined pseudoranges and the distance between the monitor receiver and the mobile receiver. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477586 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven D. Miller (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Miller (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring luminescence of a material is disclosed. The method includes applying a light source to excite an exposed material. The method also includes amplifying an emission signal of the material. The method further includes measuring a luminescent emission at a fixed time window of about 10 picoseconds to about 10 nanoseconds. The luminescence may be radio photoluminescence (RPL) or optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/449607 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/58 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/64 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/10 (20130101) G01T 1/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/105 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09213176 | Pertsinidis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexandros Pertsinidis (Oakland, California); Steven Chu (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Pertsinidis (Oakland, California); Steven Chu (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the present invention is an imaging arrangement that includes imaging optics, a fiducial light source, and a control system. In operation, the imaging optics separate light into first and second tight by wavelength and project the first and second light onto first and second areas within first and second detector regions, respectively. The imaging optics separate fiducial light from the fiducial light source into first and second fiducial light and project the first and second fiducial light onto third and fourth areas within the first and second detector regions, respectively. The control system adjusts alignment of the imaging optics so that the first and second fiducial light projected onto the first and second detector regions maintain relatively constant positions within the first and second detector regions, respectively. Another embodiment of the present invention is a microscope that includes the imaging arrangement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/132598 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/16 (20130101) G02B 21/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/0056 (20130101) G02B 21/0076 (20130101) |
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| US 09213343 | Campbell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Levi A. Campbell (Poughkeepsie, New York); Richard C. Chu (Hopewell Junction, New York); Milnes P. David (Fishkill, New York); Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr. (Lagrangeville, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Foster City, California); Roger R. Schmidt (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert E. Simons (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Energy efficient control of cooling system cooling of an electronic system is provided based, in part, on weighted cooling effectiveness of the components. The control includes automatically determining speed control settings for multiple adjustable cooling components of the cooling system. The automatically determining is based, at least in part, on weighted cooling effectiveness of the components of the cooling system, and the determining operates to limit power consumption of at least the cooling system, while ensuring that a target temperature associated with at least one of the cooling system or the electronic system is within a desired range by provisioning, based on the weighted cooling effectiveness, a desired target temperature change among the multiple adjustable cooling components of the cooling system. The provisioning includes provisioning applied power to the multiple adjustable cooling components via, at least in part, the determined control settings. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783618 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 23/1932 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/2079 (20130101) H05K 7/20836 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09213378 | Anderl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William James Anderl (Rochester, Minnesota); Evan George Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); James Dorance Gerken (Zumbro Falls, Minnesota); Christopher Michael Marroquin (Rochester, Minnesota); Shurong Tian (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide for non interruptive fluid cooling of an electronic enclosure. One or more electronic component packages may be removable from a circuit card having a fluid flow system. When installed, the electronic component packages are coincident to and in a thermal relationship with the fluid flow system. If a particular electronic component package becomes non-functional, it may be removed from the electronic enclosure without affecting either the fluid flow system or other neighboring electronic component packages. |
| FILED | Friday, March 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/781837 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/473 (20130101) H01L 23/4093 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
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| US 09213934 | Versteeg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roelof J. Versteeg (Hanover, New Hampshire); Douglas A. Few (Worthington, Ohio); Robert A. Kinoshita (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Douglas Johnson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Ondrej Linda (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses provide robotic explosive hazard detection. A robot intelligence kernel (RIK) includes a dynamic autonomy structure with two or more autonomy levels between operator intervention and robot initiative A mine sensor and processing module (ESPM) operating separately from the RIK perceives environmental variables indicative of a mine using subsurface perceptors. The ESPM processes mine information to determine a likelihood of a presence of a mine. A robot can autonomously modify behavior responsive to an indication of a detected mine. The behavior is modified between detection of mines, detailed scanning and characterization of the mine, developing mine indication parameters, and resuming detection. Real time messages are passed between the RIK and the ESPM. A combination of ESPM bound messages and RIK bound messages cause the robot platform to switch between modes including a calibration mode, the mine detection mode, and the mine characterization mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/623997 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/13 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0088 (20130101) G05D 2201/0209 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09214572 | Banerjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Monolith Semiconductor Inc. (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MONOLITH SEMICONDUCTOR INC. (Round Rock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sujit Banerjee (San Jose, California); Kevin Matocha (Round Rock, Texas); Kiran Chatty (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A SiC MOSFET device having low specific on resistance is described. The device has N+, P-well and JFET regions extended in one direction (Y-direction) and P+ and source contacts extended in an orthogonal direction (X-direction). The polysilicon gate of the device covers the JFET region and is terminated over the P-well region to minimize electric field at the polysilicon gate edge. In use, current flows vertically from the drain contact at the bottom of the structure into the JFET region and then laterally in the X direction through the accumulation region and through the MOSFET channels into the adjacent N+ region. The current flowing out of the channel then flows along the N+ region in the Y-direction and is collected by the source contacts and the final metal. Methods of making the device are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/456110 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/22 (20130101) H01L 29/0696 (20130101) H01L 29/6606 (20130101) H01L 29/7802 (20130101) H01L 29/8083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66712 (20130101) H01L 29/66893 (20130101) |
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| US 09214574 | Jen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwan-Yue Jen (Kenmore, Washington); Hin-Lap Yip (Seattle, Washington); Chang-zhi Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Fullerene surfactant compounds useful as interfacial layer in polymer solar cells to enhance solar cell efficiency. Polymer solar cell including a fullerene surfactant-containing interfacial layer intermediate cathode and active layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/706230 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/08 (20130101) C07D 209/70 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/02167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0043 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09214668 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gao Liu (Piedmont, California); Shidi Xun (Pinole, California); Vincent S. Battaglia (San Anselmo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gao Liu (Piedmont, California); Shidi Xun (Pinole, California); Vincent S. Battaglia (San Anselmo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon electrode is described, formed by combining silicon powder, a conductive binder, and SLMP™ powder from FMC Corporation to make a hybrid electrode system, useful in lithium-ion batteries. In one embodiment the binder is a conductive polymer such as described in PCT Published Application WO 2010/135248 A1. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/700681 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/0402 (20130101) H01M 4/621 (20130101) H01M 4/622 (20130101) H01M 4/624 (20130101) H01M 4/626 (20130101) H01M 4/661 (20130101) H01M 4/1395 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09214695 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Jie Xiao (Richland, Washington); Xiaoliang Wei (Richland, Washington); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | RFBs having solid hybrid electrodes can address at least the problems of active material consumption, electrode passivation, and metal electrode dendrite growth that can be characteristic of traditional batteries, especially those operating at high current densities. The RFBs each have a first half cell containing a first redox couple dissolved in a solution or contained in a suspension. The solution or suspension can flow from a reservoir to the first half cell. A second half cell contains the solid hybrid electrode, which has a first electrode connected to a second electrode, thereby resulting in an equipotential between the first and second electrodes. The first and second half cells are separated by a separator or membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/166389 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/405 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/587 (20130101) H01M 4/5815 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/225 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09215587 | Moradi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hussein Moradi (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Behrouz Farhang (Salt Lake City, Utah); Vijayarangam Subramanian (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-generating fault-tolerant keys for use in spread-spectrum systems are disclosed. At a communication device, beacon signals are received from another communication device and impulse responses are determined from the beacon signals. The impulse responses are circularly shifted to place a largest sample at a predefined position. The impulse responses are converted to a set of frequency responses in a frequency domain. The frequency responses are shuffled with a predetermined shuffle scheme to develop a set of shuffled frequency responses. A set of phase differences is determined as a difference between an angle of the frequency response and an angle of the shuffled frequency response at each element of the corresponding sets. Each phase difference is quantized to develop a set of secret-key quantized phases and a set of spreading codes is developed wherein each spreading code includes a corresponding phase of the set of secret-key quantized phases. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/163723 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/69 (20130101) H04B 1/707 (20130101) H04B 1/709 (20130101) H04B 1/7093 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/04 (20130101) H04L 9/0816 (20130101) H04L 27/264 (20130101) H04L 2209/24 (20130101) H04L 2209/80 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 09211307 | McDevitt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Todd Christopher McDevitt (Atlanta, Georgia); Rehka Ramachandran Nair (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Christopher McDevitt (Atlanta, Georgia); Rehka Ramachandran Nair (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions containing acellularized biomaterial derived from differentiating pluripotent cells, for example, embryonic stem cells are provided. The acellularized biomaterial can be used to promote wound healing, promote tissue regeneration, or inhibit scarring. Methods for using the acellularized biomaterial for treating degenerative diseases are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092863 |
| 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 35/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/545 (20130101) |
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| US 09211539 | Amin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ahmed Mohamed Eid Amin (Wheeling, Illinois); Han-Sheng Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan); Steven T. Wereley (West Lafayette, Indiana); Mithuna Shamabhat Thottethodi (Bellevue, Washington); Terani Nadadoor Vijaykumar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen C. Jacobson (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Mohamed Eid Amin (Wheeling, Illinois); Han-Sheng Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan); Steven T. Wereley (West Lafayette, Indiana); Mithuna Shamabhat Thottethodi (Bellevue, Washington); Terani Nadadoor Vijaykumar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen C. Jacobson (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic arrangement including a fluid channel configured to receive a first fluid from a first inlet and a second fluid from a second inlet, and a mixer connected to the fluid channel, the mixer including a mixer channel configured to receive a volume of the first fluid and a volume of the second fluid from the fluid channel, the mixer channel defining a mixer capacity, wherein the mixer is (i) configured to mix the volume of the first fluid and the volume of the second fluid in order to provide a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid when the combined volume of the first fluid and the second fluid is less than the mixer capacity, and (ii) further configured to mix the volume of the first fluid and the volume of the second fluid in order to provide a mixture of the first fluid and the second fluid when the combined volume of the first fluid and the second fluid is equal to the mixer capacity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/262664 |
| ART UNIT | 2126 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 5/102 (20130101) B01F 5/108 (20130101) B01F 13/0059 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502723 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0605 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0867 (20130101) B01L 2300/0883 (20130101) B01L 2300/1827 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0633 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 35/08 (20130101) G01N 2035/00544 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) Y10T 137/85978 (20150401) |
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| US 09212093 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hwai-Chung Wu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kraig Warnemuende (Canton, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NTH Consultants, Ltd. (Northville, Michigan); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hwai-Chung Wu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kraig Warnemuende (Canton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid magnesium cement composition formed of an A-side and a B-side. The A-side having an A1-component including a light-burn grade magnesium-containing material, and an A2-component including a non-metallic oxide salt. A B-side having a metal silicate polymer is included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533520 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 12/005 (20130101) C04B 12/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 14/06 (20130101) C04B 14/304 (20130101) C04B 14/304 (20130101) C04B 14/304 (20130101) C04B 18/08 (20130101) C04B 18/08 (20130101) C04B 18/08 (20130101) C04B 18/141 (20130101) C04B 18/141 (20130101) C04B 18/141 (20130101) C04B 18/141 (20130101) C04B 22/16 (20130101) C04B 22/062 (20130101) C04B 22/062 (20130101) C04B 22/062 (20130101) C04B 22/064 (20130101) C04B 28/008 (20130101) C04B 28/008 (20130101) C04B 28/34 (20130101) C04B 28/34 (20130101) C04B 28/34 (20130101) C04B 28/34 (20130101) C04B 40/0259 (20130101) C04B 2111/00163 (20130101) C04B 2111/00172 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 30/92 (20150501) Y02W 30/94 (20150501) |
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| US 09213238 | Ober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher K. Ober (Ithaca, New York); George Malliaras (Ithaca, New York); Jin-Kyun Lee (Incheon, South Korea); Alexander Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Margarita Chatzichristidi (Athens, Greece); Priscilla Dodson (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An orthogonal process for photolithographic patterning organic structures is disclosed. The disclosed process utilizes fluorinated solvents or supercritical CO2 as the solvent so that the performance of the organic conductors and semiconductors would not be adversely affected by other aggressive solvent. One disclosed method may also utilize a fluorinated photoresist together with the HFE solvent, but other fluorinated solvents can be used. In one embodiment, the fluorinated photoresist is a resorcinarene, but various fluorinated polymer photoresists and fluorinated molecular glass photoresists can be used as well. For example, a copolymer perfluorodecyl methacrylate (FDMA) and 2-nitrobenzyl methacrylate (NBMA) is a suitable orthogonal fluorinated photoresist for use with fluorinated solvents and supercritical carbon dioxide in a photolithography process. The combination of the fluorinated photoresist and the fluorinated solvent provides a robust, orthogonal process that is yet to be achieved by methods or devices known in the art. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/471095 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/30 (20130101) G03F 7/40 (20130101) G03F 7/0046 (20130101) G03F 7/325 (20130101) G03F 7/0392 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0018 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) |
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| US 09213916 | Gardiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Gardiner (Washington, District of Columbia); Rishi Gupta (Cupertino, California); Piotr Indyk (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eric Price (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yaron Rachlin (Newton, Massachusetts); Christopher Yu (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for compressive sensing that enable efficient recovery of features in an input signal based on acquiring a few measurements corresponding to the input signal. One method of compressive sensing includes folding an image to generate first and second folds, and recovering a feature of the image based on the first and second folds without reconstructing the image. One example of a compressive sensing apparatus includes a lens, a focal plane array coupled to the lens and configured to generate first and second folds based on the image, and a decoder configured to receive the first and second folds and to recover a feature of the image without reconstructing the image. The feature may be a local geometric feature or a corner. Compressive sensing methods and apparatuses for determining translation and rotation between two images are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800375 |
| 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 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 2009/4695 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 9/00 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/90 (20141101) |
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09214590 — High fidelity nano-structures and arrays for photovoltaics and methods of making the same
| US 09214590 | DeSimone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. DeSimone (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Ginger Denison Rothrock (Durham, North Carolina); Zhilian Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Edward T. Samulski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Meredith Earl (Durham, North Carolina); Stuart Williams (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device includes an electron accepting material and an electron donating material. One of the electron accepting or donating materials is configured and dimensioned as a first component of a bulk heterojunction with a predetermined array of first structures, each first structure is substantially equivalent in three dimensional shape, has a substantially equivalent cross-sectional dimension, and where each first structure of the array of first structures has a substantially equivalent orientation with respect to adjacent first structures of the predetermined array forming a substantially uniform array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787134 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 37/0003 (20130101) B29C 39/36 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00214 (20130101) B81C 99/0085 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0352 (20130101) H01L 51/0004 (20130101) H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/422 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09214644 | Rinzler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Gabriel Rinzler (Gainesville, Florida); Mitchell Austin McCarthy (Gainesville, Florida); Bo Liu (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Gabriel Rinzler (Gainesville, Florida); Mitchell Austin McCarthy (Gainesville, Florida); Bo Liu (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are provided for dilute source enabled vertical organic light emitting transistors. In various embodiments, a display panel includes an array of pixels. In one embodiment, among others, at least one pixel includes a switching transistor and a driving transistor coupled to the switching transistor, where the driving transistor is configured to emit light responsive to activation by the switching transistor. The driving transistor may be a dilute source enabled vertical organic light emitting transistor (DS-VOLET). The switching transistor may include a dilute source enabled vertical-field effect transistor (DS-VFET). In another embodiment, a double dilute source enabled vertical-field effect transistor (DS-VFET) includes a first DS-VFET coupled to a second DS-VFET. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/519176 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 99/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/3262 (20130101) H01L 27/3274 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 29/7827 (20130101) H01L 51/0045 (20130101) H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/057 (20130101) H01L 51/102 (20130101) H01L 51/5203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/5296 (20130101) |
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| US 09215114 | Emami-Neyestanak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Azita Emami-Neyestanak (Pasadena, California); Meisam Honarvar Nazari (Pasadena, California); Saman Saeedi (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A receiver architecture is disclosed which employs an RC double-sampling front-end and dynamic offset modulation technique. A low-voltage double-sampling technique provides high power efficiency by avoiding linear high-gain elements conventionally employed in typical transimpedance-amplifier (TIA) receivers. In addition, a demultiplexed output of the receiver helps save power in the subsequent digital blocks. Various applications are described including optical receivers, electrical on-chip interconnects, as well as pulse amplitude modulation. The receiver can be implemented in CMOS and is scalable and portable to other technologies. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/888334 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers H03F 1/08 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09212104 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for catalytic deconstruction of biomass using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/339661 |
| 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 20/34 (20130101) B01J 23/462 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/687 (20130101) B01J 23/6527 (20130101) General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 63/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/132 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 1/06 (20130101) C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2400/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09212314 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Dick A. Nagaki (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Dick A. Nagaki (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/339720 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) |
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| US 09212315 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for deconstructing and purifying biomass using water. The method includes the steps of loading a reactor with biomass and water, establishing and maintaining a deconstruction temperature and pressure for a deconstruction period, flushing the reactor with water, and repeating these steps to produce a solid phase and a biomass hydrolysate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539003 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) |
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| US 09212316 | Qiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin); Randy Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass using water. The method generally includes loading a reactor with biomass and water, heating the reactor to a first deconstruction temperature and establishing a first deconstruction pressure, maintaining the reactor at the first deconstruction temperature and a first deconstruction pressure for a first deconstruction period, flushing the reactor with water, and repeating these steps one or more times after establishing a second deconstructing temperature and second deconstruction pressure. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/539178 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 1/065 (20130101) C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/46 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 3/48 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2300/4006 (20130101) C10G 2300/4012 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212328 | Kania et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Kania (Madison, Wisconsin); Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth M. Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kania (Madison, Wisconsin); Ming Qiao (Pewaukee, Wisconsin); Elizabeth M. Woods (Middleton, Wisconsin); Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul Myren (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes improved systems and methods for producing biomass-derived feedstocks for biofuel and biochemical manufacturing processes. The systems and methods use components that are capable of transferring relatively high concentrations of solid biomass utilizing pressure variations between vessels, and allows for the recovery and recycling of heterogeneous catalyst materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462378 |
| ART UNIT | 3649 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| 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 3/00 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 09212960 | Lipomi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Lipomi (San Diego, California); Michael Vosgueritchian (Mountain View, California); Chee-Keong Tee (Stanford, California); Sondra Hellstrom (Stanford, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods, consistent with embodiments herein, are directed to an apparatus having a stretchable substrate and a plurality of nanostructures. While the plurality of nanostructures are adhered to the stretchable substrate, the stretchable substrate and the nanostructures are stretched and/or operate in a stretched mode in which the nanostructures are characterized by a resistance corresponding to a strain imparted due to the stretching. When the substrate is relaxed or the stretching otherwise lessened, the nanostructures continue to be characterized as a function of the strain and the corresponding resistance, with buckled segments of the nanostructures being adhered along a surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/060364 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/22 (20130101) G01L 1/144 (20130101) G01L 1/2287 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0048 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09211324 | Meng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Martijn Fenaux (Redwood City, California); Patrick G. Halbur (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Martijn Fenaux (Redwood City, California); Patrick G. Halbur (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to infectious DNA clones, infectious chimeric DNA clones of porcine circovirus (PCV), vaccines and means of protecting pigs against viral infection or postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) caused by PCV2. The new chimeric infectious DNA clone and its derived, avirulent chimeric virus are constructed from the nonpathogenic PCV1 in which the immunogenic ORF gene of the pathogenic PCV2 replaces a gene of the nonpathogenic PCV1, preferably in the same position. The chimeric virus advantageously retains the nonpathogenic phenotype of PCV1 but elicits specific immune responses against the pathogenic PCV2. The invention further embraces the immunogenic polypeptide expression products. In addition, the invention encompasses two mutations in the PCV2 immunogenic capsid gene and protein, and the introduction of the ORF2 mutations in the chimeric clones. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/268008 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (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 2750/10022 (20130101) C12N 2750/10034 (20130101) C12N 2750/10061 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09211301 | Dudley, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing arrhythmic risk associated with cardiomyopathy by improving conduction velocity, includes administering a composition containing NAD+ or a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant to an individual or person in need thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/585396 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09211564 | Hofmann |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Hofmann (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement layers of metallic glass-based materials. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a layer of metallic glass includes: applying a coating layer of liquid phase metallic glass to an object, the coating layer being applied in a sufficient quantity such that the surface tension of the liquid phase metallic glass causes the coating layer to have a smooth surface; where the metallic glass has a critical cooling rate less than 1000 K/s; and cooling the coating layer of liquid phase metallic glass to form a layer of solid phase metallic glass. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/060478 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/02 (20130101) B05D 1/005 (20130101) B05D 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B05D 7/222 (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 2/04 (20130101) C23C 2/12 (20120101) C23C 2/28 (20130101) C23C 2/38 (20130101) C23C 4/08 (20130101) C23C 4/121 (20130101) C23C 4/185 (20130101) C23C 6/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 09214594 | Stan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chelsea Mackos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeff Steinfeldt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a solar cell including: providing a first substrate and a second substrate; depositing on the first substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell including a top subcell and a bottom subcell; forming a back metal contact over the bottom subcell; applying a conductive polyimide adhesive to the second substrate; attaching the second substrate on top of the back metal contact; and removing the first substrate to expose the surface of the top subcell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961354 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1892 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/06875 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09215479 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Luo (Yorktown Heights, New York); Rong Yan (Elmsford, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for detecting new events in a video stream that yield improved detection efficiency in real time. For example, a method determines whether a given event is a new event in a video stream. The video stream includes a plurality of events. A first step extracts a first set of features (e.g., text features) from the given event. The first set of features is computationally less expensive to process as compared to a second set of features (e.g., image features) associated with the given event. A second step computes one or more first dissimilarity values between the given event and one or more previous events in the video stream using only the first set of features when one or more first dissimilarity criteria exist. A third step determines whether the given event is a new event based on the one or more computed first dissimilarity values. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/759638 |
| 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 9/00765 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/4542 (20130101) H04N 21/23418 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 21/44008 (20130101) H04N 21/45452 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09212990 | Muraviev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zybertec LLC (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Zybertec LLC (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey Muraviev (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In a gas phase analyte testing method a laser beam is generated using a laser beam from a laser gain medium located within an external laser cavity. A gain parameter of the laser gain medium is changed so that the laser gain medium emits across a range of wavelengths in response to the change. The beam is passed through a test sample as the gain parameter is changed, the test sample being positioned inside the external laser cavity. A change in the spatial or spectral mode distribution or dynamics of the laser emission spectrum is detected. It is then determined whether the change in the spatial or spectral mode distribution or dynamics of the laser emission spectrum is caused by the test sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707300 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0205 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/3504 (20130101) G01N 2201/022 (20130101) G01N 2201/0636 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US D745765 | Mikolajczyk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryszard K. Mikolajczyk (Chicago, Illinois); Taurris D. Baskerville (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
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| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 29/492725 |
| ART UNIT | 2912 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous D99/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09211256 | Trexler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Jenna L. Graham (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer L. Breidenich (Atlanta, Georgia); Jeffrey P. Maranchi (Clarksburg, Maryland); Julia B. Patrone (Laurel, Maryland); Marcia W. Patchan (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiomara Calderon-Colon (Laurel, Maryland); Daniel Mulreany (Baltimore, Maryland); Qiongyu Guo (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morgana M. Trexler (Baltimore, Maryland); Jenna L. Graham (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer L. Breidenich (Atlanta, Georgia); Jeffrey P. Maranchi (Clarksburg, Maryland); Julia B. Patrone (Laurel, Maryland); Marcia W. Patchan (Columbia, Maryland); Jennifer H. Elisseeff (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiomara Calderon-Colon (Laurel, Maryland); Daniel Mulreany (Baltimore, Maryland); Qiongyu Guo (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a wound healing composition comprising a biocompatible hydrogel membrane wherein the hydrogel membrane has one or more of the following properties: high water content, high transparency, high permeability, high biocompatibility, high tensile strength and an optimal thickness. The invention further provides methods of treating a wound in a subject in need thereof, comprising contacting the wound with a biocompatible cellulose hydrogel membrane of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/295515 |
| 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 9/0051 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 38/39 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 15/42 (20130101) A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) A61L 2300/62 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2430/16 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 1/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09212556 | Lucas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James L. Lucas (Hamden, Connecticut); Jason D. Himes (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Lucas (Hamden, Connecticut); Jason D. Himes (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine section comprises a rotatable shaft, first and second axially adjacent components, a nut, and a multifunction positioning lock washer. The first and second axially adjacent components are located on the rotatable shaft and are separated by an axial separation distance. The nut is configured to thread onto the rotatable shaft to hold one of the first and second axially adjacent components in compression. The multifunction positioning lock washer has antirotation geometry configured to prevent the nut from tightening or loosening. The axial length of the multifunction positioning lock washer is adjusted by removing material based on measurement of the axial separation distance to take in tolerances and reduce the axial separation distance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/590397 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/31 (20130101) Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 35/073 (20130101) F16C 2226/70 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 1/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4932 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09215608 | Berenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CUBIC CORPORATION (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Berenberg (Los Altos, California); Anatoli Gostev (Cupertino, California); Igor Ryshakov (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of telecommunicating and systems configured to perform the methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods include establishing a primary communications link, determining that a backup communications link is to be established, and determining a plurality of candidate network nodes. The method also includes selecting one of the candidate network nodes with which to establish the backup communications link, where the selected candidate network node is selected based at least in part on the selected candidate network node being in a foreign network, establishing the backup communications link with a selected candidate network node, and communicating using the backup communications link. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/256871 |
| ART UNIT | 2412 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 69/40 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 24/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 40/04 (20130101) H04W 40/10 (20130101) H04W 40/14 (20130101) H04W 76/023 (20130101) H04W 84/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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