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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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| US 09216391 | Revanur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravindra Revanur (Fremont, California); Valentin Lulevich (Berkeley, California); Il Juhn Roh (San Ramon, California); Jennifer E. Klare (Berkeley, California); Sangil Kim (Pleasanton, California); Aleksandr Noy (San Carlos, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Porifera, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra Revanur (Fremont, California); Valentin Lulevich (Berkeley, California); Il Juhn Roh (San Ramon, California); Jennifer E. Klare (Berkeley, California); Sangil Kim (Pleasanton, California); Aleksandr Noy (San Carlos, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Membranes for fluid separation are disclosed. These membranes have a matrix layer sandwiched between an active layer and a porous support layer. The matrix layer includes 1-D nanoparticles that are vertically aligned in a porous polymer matrix, and which substantially extend through the matrix layer. The active layer provides species-specific transport, while the support layer provides mechanical support. A matrix layer of this type has favorable surface morphology for forming the active layer. Furthermore, the pores that form in the matrix layer tend to be smaller and more evenly distributed as a result of the presence of aligned 1-D nanoparticles. Improved performance of separation membranes of this type is attributed to these effects. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/428843 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 61/002 (20130101) B01D 61/025 (20130101) B01D 67/006 (20130101) B01D 67/009 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 69/125 (20130101) B01D 69/148 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/021 (20130101) B01D 71/56 (20130101) B01D 71/70 (20130101) B01D 2323/40 (20130101) B01D 2325/48 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09216404 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Jared B. DeCoste (Baltimore, Maryland); Martin W. Smith (Salisbury, United Kingdom); Corinne A Stone (Salisbury, United Kingdom); Colin R. Willis (Salisbury, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of filtering comprising adsorbing a toxic chemical using a metal-organic framework (MOF) compound that has been post-treated with fluorocarbons using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The toxic chemical may comprise any of ammonia and cyanogen chloride. Furthermore, the toxic chemical may comprise any of an acidic/acid-forming gas, basic/base-forming gas, oxidizer, reducer, and organic gas/vapor. The toxic chemical is physically adsorbed by the MOF compound. Moreover, the toxic chemical interacts with unsaturated metal sites within the MOF. Additionally, the MOF compound may comprise any of Cu-BTC, MOF-177, and an isoreticular metal-organic frame work (IRMOF) compound. The MOF compound may comprise a metal-carboxylate bond. Additionally, the MOF compound may be unstable in the presence of moisture. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528504 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09216415 | Shenderov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander D. Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic (Morrisville, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander D. Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for dispensing liquid, comprising the steps of: (a) positioning a droplet to be dispensed in a gap of an electrowetting device using an electrowetting array; and (b) dispensing the droplet through a hole in a housing or substrate of the electrowetting device. The invention further provides a method for withdrawing liquid comprising the steps of: (a) positioning a droplet to be withdrawn from a gap of an electrowetting device using an electrowetting array; and (b) withdrawing the droplet through a hole in a housing or substrate of the electrowetting device. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006798 |
| 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 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) |
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| US 09216781 | Ohm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy R. Ohm (Grover Beach, California); Michael Bassett (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Configurations are provided for vehicular robots or other vehicles to provide shifting of their centers of gravity for enhanced obstacle navigation. A robot chassis with pivotable driven flippers has a pivotable neck and sensor head mounted toward the front of the chassis. The neck is pivoted forward to shift the vehicle combined center of gravity (combined CG) forward for various climbing and navigation tasks. The flippers may also be selectively moved to reposition the center of gravity. Various weight distributions allow different CG shifting capabilities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/158090 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 5/005 (20130101) Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 55/075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0246 (20130101) G05D 2201/0207 (20130101) G05D 2201/0209 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09216949 | Tan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David Huabin Wang (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Ketoxime- and amide-functionalized nanomaterials. The nanomaterials including a nanomaterial comprising a carbon nanotube or a carbon nanofiber. At least one ketoxime group coupled to a first location on the nanomaterial, and at least one amide group coupled to a second location on the nanomaterial. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/933421 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/10 (20130101) C07C 231/10 (20130101) C07C 235/56 (20130101) C07C 249/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 249/08 (20130101) C07C 251/48 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 3/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09216976 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marie-Celine Frantz (Vaujours, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marie-Celine Frantz (Vaujours, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and related methods useful for free radical scavenging, with particular selectivity for mitochondria. The compounds comprise a nitroxide-containing group attached to a mitochondria-targeting group. The compounds can be cross-linked into dimers without loss of activity. Also provided herein are methods, for preventing, mitigating and treating damage caused by radiation. The method comprises delivering a compound, as described herein, to a patient in an amount and dosage regimen effective to prevent, mitigate or treat damage caused by radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/088233 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 237/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/46 (20130101) C07D 211/58 (20130101) C07D 211/94 (20130101) C07D 221/22 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217055 | Bulluck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for coating a metallic surface of an aircraft. The process includes applying to the metallic surface a composition that polymerizes to form a polyurea having a tensile strength of more than 3500 psi and at least 700% elongation. The polyurea can be formed from an A-side and a B-side, where the weight percents of components for the A-side are: from about 30 to about 65 percent of polyisocyanate; from about 15 to about 70 percent of a polytetramethylene ether glycol; diluent, from 0 to about 20 percent; where the weight percents of components for the B-side are: from 35 to about 40 percent of one or more aromatic diamines; from about 20 to about 70 percent of one or more amine terminated polyether polyols. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533732 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/02 (20130101) B05D 1/34 (20130101) B05D 2202/10 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/12 (20130101) C08G 18/12 (20130101) C08G 18/325 (20130101) C08G 18/755 (20130101) C08G 18/3234 (20130101) C08G 18/3237 (20130101) C08G 18/4854 (20130101) C08G 18/5024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 2261/62 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 175/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/31681 (20150401) |
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| US 09217062 | Ricks-Laskoski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Holly L. Ricks-Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Arthur W Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Stephen M. Deese (Burke, Virginia); Brian L. Chaloux (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holly L. Ricks-Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Arthur W Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Stephen M. Deese (Burke, Virginia); Brian L. Chaloux (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are the compounds shown below. Also disclosed are methods of making the compounds. R1=—O—; R2=any alkyl chain; R3=—CH3, —CN, —COOCH3, -tetrazole, -imidazole, or -triazole; R4=—H or —R5; R5=—H, -halogen, —C≡CH, or —C≡C—; n is a positive integer; and m is a positive integer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/957391 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 257/04 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/002 (20130101) C08G 73/0605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217064 | Vij et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vandana Vij (Palmdale, California); Andrew Guenthner (Lancaster, California); Timothy Haddad (Lancaster, California); Joseph Mabry (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reactive, non-hydrolyzable silane. The silane comprises a quaternary silicon atom and first and second terminal groups. Each of the first and second terminal groups is chemically bonded to the quaternary silicon atom and is selected from a group consisting of cyanate ester, epoxide, episulfide, acrylate, alkene, styrenic, maleimide, phthalonitrile, acetylene, aryl ethynylene, benzoxazine, anthracene, aniline, trifluorovinyl ether, and perfluorocyclobutyl. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748730 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/10 (20130101) C07F 7/0809 (20130101) C07F 7/0818 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/80 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217132 | Eshoo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark W. Eshoo (Solana Beach, California); Jose R. Gutierrez (San Marcos, California); Jared J. Drader (Carlsbad, California); John Picuri (Carlsbad, California); Karl M. Cabrera (Cypress, California); Stanley Motley (Carlsbad, California); Thomas N. Chiesl (Hurcules, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IBIS BIOSCIENCES, INC. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Eshoo (Solana Beach, California); Jose R. Gutierrez (San Marcos, California); Jared J. Drader (Carlsbad, California); John Picuri (Carlsbad, California); Karl M. Cabrera (Cypress, California); Stanley Motley (Carlsbad, California); Thomas N. Chiesl (Hurcules, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are apparatuses and methods for fragmenting nucleic acids or disrupting cells. For example, some embodiments provide a disposable microfluidic device designed to position a sample to be in direct contact with a high frequency vibrating element that emits an ultrasonic frequency into the sample such that the vibrational energy transduced into the sample results in fragmenting nucleic acids or disrupting cells. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/355261 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 47/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/066 (20130101) C12N 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/25 (20150115) |
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| US 09217134 | Vivekananda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeevalatha Vivekananda (San Antonio, Texas); Nancy J. Millenbaugh (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeevalatha Vivekananda (San Antonio, Texas); Nancy J. Millenbaugh (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Aptamers and methods of use thereof are presented for the treatment or diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus infection. The aptamers binds to and capable of neutralization of Staphylococcus aureus alpha-toxin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/470506 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5091 (20130101) |
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| US 09217452 | Woodall, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Woodall, Jr. (Panama City, Florida); Christopher J. Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Woodall, Jr. (Panama City, Florida); Christopher J. Doyle (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A blind fastener assembly utilizes flexible legs extending from a cylindrical section of a spring pin. Gripping elements extend radially outwardly from the ends of the flexible legs. When the flexible legs and gripping elements are extended through an opening in the wall, a center pin can be pushed into the cylindrical portion to expand the flexible legs so that the gripping elements can engage the back of the wall. In one embodiment, removal of the center pin causes the flexible legs to contract whereupon the assembly can be removed from the wall. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/907476 |
| 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 13/063 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16B 19/109 (20130101) F16B 19/1081 (20130101) |
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| US 09217455 | Woodall, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Woodall, Jr. (Panama City, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Woodall, Jr. (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A quick release collapsible bolt utilizes a plurality of bolt segments that surround a removable central core. When the central core is in place, the bolt is used as a normal bolt that may screw into a nut or socket. The central, core can be pulled out when the bolt is attached to a nut to collapse the plurality of bolt segments so that the bolt segments then can be quickly withdrawn from the nut or receptacle without the need to unscrew the nut. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/907541 |
| 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 35/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217639 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiyue Zhang (Cupertino, California); Michael A. Horton (Mountain View, California); Ralph M. Kling (Sunnyvale, California); Semen Shtigluz (Fremont, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Moog Inc. (East Aurora, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiyue Zhang (Cupertino, California); Michael A. Horton (Mountain View, California); Ralph M. Kling (Sunnyvale, California); Semen Shtigluz (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A true north heading is determined by using gyroscopes of differing accuracy and orienting a gyroscope of a higher accuracy to a direction that is more sensitive to azimuth change (e.g., an east/west direction). A gyroscope with a lower accuracy is placed perpendicular to the gyroscope with a higher accuracy and can be oriented towards a north or south direction. The gyroscopes may be placed on a rotatable platform to properly orient the gyroscopes. The higher-accuracy gyroscope may be implemented by using multiple gyroscopes oriented in the same direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424639 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 19/5649 (20130101) G01C 19/5656 (20130101) |
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| US 09217643 | Belenkii et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mikhail S. Belenkii (San Diego, California); Timothy Brinkley (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail S. Belenkii (San Diego, California); Timothy Brinkley (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An angles only navigation system. The system includes an IMU coupled with a passive optical sensor. The optical sensor provides periodic updates to the IMU in order to correct for accelerometer and gyro drifts. The IMU computes the air vehicle's instantaneous position, velocity, and attitude using gyro and accelerometer measurements. The optical sensor images stars and satellites. The navigation filter combines optical sensor measurements with IMU inputs, and determines those corrections needed to compensate for the IMU drifts. By applying periodic corrections to the IMU using satellite angular measurements, the navigation filter maintains an accurate position estimate during an entire flight. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/121918 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/24 (20130101) B64G 1/36 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 15/00 (20130101) G01C 15/002 (20130101) G01C 21/10 (20130101) G01C 21/18 (20130101) G01C 21/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/165 (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 5/16 (20130101) G01S 19/40 (20130101) G01S 19/47 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0883 (20130101) |
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| US 09217729 | Gruca |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl M. Gruca (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl M. Gruca (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultrasonic transducer holder with a floating head is disclosed. This transducer holder allows the waterpath of the ultrasonic signal to be maintained over a contoured surface. Maintaining a constant waterpath between a transducer and the piece being inspected allows for inspection of surfaces that normally would not be capable of inspection by prior ultrasonic transducer holders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/604018 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/28 (20130101) G01N 29/225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/265 (20130101) G01N 2291/2694 (20130101) |
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| US 09217730 | Zhang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chang Zhang (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ACELLENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Zhang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural health monitoring (SHM) system that protects its active and passive components with filter circuits, instead of switches. The active module of the SHM system utilizes a high pass filter, and the passive module of the SHM system utilizes a low pass filter. The active module transmits its interrogating, or excitation, signals at relatively high frequencies that are filtered out by the low pass filter of the passive module, preventing the passive module from sustaining any damage due to the high voltage excitation signals. Meanwhile, the high frequency interrogating signals are passed to the active module's circuitry by its high pass filter, where they can be analyzed accordingly. |
| FILED | Monday, May 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/781639 |
| ART UNIT | 2865 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/42 (20130101) G01N 29/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2291/0258 (20130101) |
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| US 09217740 | Deckman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Koren Holland Deckman (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Barbara C. Levin (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Kristian Helmerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Rani B. Kishore (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Joseph E. Reiner (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Koren Holland Deckman (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Barbara C. Levin (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Kristian Helmerson (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Rani B. Kishore (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Joseph E. Reiner (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying mitochondrial heteroplasmy within eukaryotic cells is provided. This method includes means for isolating and capturing a single mitochondrion from at least one eukaryotic cell, wherein the means for isolating and capturing a single mitochondrion further includes optical tweezers or a similar optical technology; means for analyzing the isolated and captured mitochondrion, wherein the means for analyzing the isolated and captured mitochondrion further includes a DNA amplification system and a sequencing system for amplifying and sequencing DNA extracted from the mitochondrion; means for identifying at least one mitochondrial heteroplasmy of interest; and means for using the DNA amplification and DNA sequencing systems to determine the presence or absence of the mitochondrial heteroplasmy within the eukaryotic cell from which the mitochondrion was obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/100342 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217741 | Bidle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kay Daniel Bidle (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Assaf Vardi (Haifa, Israel); Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy (Falmouth, Massachusetts); Helen F. Fredricks (Rochester, Massachusetts); Liti Haramaty (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay Daniel Bidle (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Assaf Vardi (Haifa, Israel); Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy (Falmouth, Massachusetts); Helen F. Fredricks (Rochester, Massachusetts); Liti Haramaty (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Phytoplankton represent a potential source of bioactive compounds. The present disclosure provides, inter alia, methods for identifying glycerolipids and apoptosis-inducing sphingosine-like lipids from virally-infected phytoplankton. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940927 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09217756 | Simon 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) | Brenton R. Simon (Irvine, California); Alexander A. Trusov (Irvine, California); Andrei M. Shkel (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS resonator includes two resonating masses having an anti-phase and in-phase resonance mode, each mode having a resonance frequency, and an anti-phase resonance levering system coupled to the two resonating masses to stiffen and/or dampen the in-phase resonance mode while leaving the anti-phase resonance mode compliant. This effectively raises the in-phase resonance frequency above the anti-phase resonance frequency, and potentially creates a large frequency separation between the two resonance modes. This reduces the energy transfer between the two modes, allowing for robustness to external acceleration, because the in-phase mode is of a higher frequency. The anti-phase resonance levering system is disposed between the two resonating masses as an internal levering mechanism, or is disposed around the two resonating masses as an external levering mechanism. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840362 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5621 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/2463 (20130101) H03H 9/2468 (20130101) H03H 2009/02496 (20130101) |
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| US 09217791 | Wakayama |
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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) | Cherry Y. Wakayama (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes, until the end of an operational scenario time window, iteratively repeating the steps of selecting a ping optimization method based upon a mission mode, remaining scenario time, total remaining ping energy, and an acoustic performance metric, generating a set of acoustic pings using an acoustic ping source network including more than one acoustic ping sources selected according to the ping optimization method, processing detections from the generated set of acoustic pings, and updating performance metric predictions associated with optimization decision variables for the operational scenario time window. The method may provide intelligent ping control decisions for multi-static active acoustic networks. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/874136 |
| 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 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 15/66 (20130101) |
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| US 09217829 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Zhang (Elkton, Delaware); Shuyu Yang (Newark, Delaware); Tom Baehr-Jones (Newark, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Coriant Advanced Technology, LLC (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zhang (Elkton, Delaware); Shuyu Yang (Newark, Delaware); Tom Baehr-Jones (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, low-loss and wavelength insensitive Y-junction for submicron silicon waveguides. The design was performed using FDTD and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The device was fabricated in a 248 nm CMOS line. Measured average insertion loss is 0.28±0.02 dB across an 8-inch wafer. The device footprint is less than 1.2 μm×2 μm, orders of magnitude smaller than MMI and directional couplers. |
| FILED | Friday, November 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/093263 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/125 (20130101) G02B 6/1223 (20130101) G02B 6/2808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/1215 (20130101) G02B 2006/12061 (20130101) |
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| US 09217836 | Asghari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mehdi Asghari (Pasadena, California); Roshanak Shafiiha (La Canada-Flintridge, California); Daniel C. Lee (Montclair, California); Dazeng Feng (El Monte, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Hiren Thacker (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kotura, Inc. (Monterey Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehdi Asghari (Pasadena, California); Roshanak Shafiiha (La Canada-Flintridge, California); Daniel C. Lee (Montclair, California); Dazeng Feng (El Monte, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Hiren Thacker (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes optical modules. Each module includes a different base and one or more module waveguides on the base. Module waveguides from different modules are aligned such that the aligned module waveguides exchange light signals. At least a portion of one of the aligned module waveguides is between the base of one of the modules and the base of another module. First electronics operate a transmitter on a first one of the optical modules so as to generate one of the light signals. Second electronics operate a receiver on a second one of the modules such that the electronics generate an electrical signal in response to the receiver receiving one of the light signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/694070 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217856 | Wang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secratary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The process for fabricating a visible spectrum modulator makes use of thin film conductive oxides and air gaps to reflect colors of certain wavelengths, achieving transparency due to the transparent nature of conductive oxides and via electrostatic pull-in to reduce the air gaps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/569331 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09218254 | Locasto et al. |
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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) | Michael E. Locasto (Springfield, Virginia); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Angelos Stavrou (Springfield, Virginia); Gabriela F. Ciocarlie (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and media for recovering an application from a fault or an attack are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method is provided for enabling a software application to recover from a fault condition. The method includes specifying constrained data items and assigning a set of repair procedures to the constrained data items. The method further includes detecting a fault condition on the constrained data items during execution of the software application, which triggers at least one repair procedure. The triggered repair procedures are executed and the execution of the software application is restored. In some embodiments, the restoring comprises providing memory rollback to a point of execution of the software application before the fault condition was detected. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/575640 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1469 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/1471 (20130101) G06F 11/3604 (20130101) G06F 11/3612 (20130101) G06F 2201/84 (20130101) |
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| US 09218318 | Nestler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric Nestler (Harvard, Massachusetts); Vladimir Zlatkovic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Analog Devices, Inc. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Nestler (Harvard, Massachusetts); Vladimir Zlatkovic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Some general aspects of the invention relate to a circuit and to a method for analog computation, for example, using switched capacitor integrated circuits. In some examples, a circuit includes a first group of capacitors and a second group of capacitors that may store charges during circuit operation. The first and/or the second group of capacitors may include multiple disjoint subsets of capacitors. An input circuit is provided for receiving a set of input signals and for inducing a charge on each of some or all capacitors in the first group of capacitors according to a corresponding input signal. Switches, for example, transistors controlled by a sequence of clock signals, are used to couple different sets of capacitors. Different configurations of the switches are used to form different sets of the capacitors among which charge can redistribute. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/482112 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 5/24 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/2605 (20130101) G01R 31/028 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Analogue Computers G06G 7/19 (20130101) |
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| US 09218426 | Tyson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Mabry Tyson (Los Altos, California); Douglas E. Appelt (Palo Alto, California); Min Yin (San Jose, California); William Jarrold (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to collect explicit feedback from a user regarding user content preferences. Multiple data sources are monitored. Topics associated with the multiple data sources are classified. The importance of the topics to the user is characterized. Content is delivered to the user when a selected topic exceeds an importance threshold for the user. Implicit feedback from the user that characterizes refined user content preferences is tracked. The instructions to characterize the importance of topics evaluates the explicit feedback and the implicit feedback. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/595109 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30699 (20130101) G06F 17/30705 (20130101) G06F 17/30867 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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09218467 — Intra stack frame randomization for protecting applications against code injection attack
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies, Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON CYBER PRODUCTS, LLC (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Matthews (Ellicott City, Maryland); Robert Martz (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of randomizing locations of variables in a stack includes: identifying a plurality of stack locations corresponding to a plurality of variables; shuffling the stack locations of the variables to produce shuffled stack locations; and updating the stack locations of the variables with the shuffled stack locations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/905122 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/14 (20130101) G06F 12/16 (20130101) G06F 12/1441 (20130101) G06F 21/14 (20130101) G06F 21/52 (20130101) G06F 21/54 (20130101) G06F 21/125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09218483 | Matthews et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies, Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON CYBER PRODUCTS, LLC (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Matthews (Ellicott City, Maryland); Robert Martz (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of increasing processing diversity on a computer system includes: loading a plurality of instruction streams, each of the plurality of instruction streams being equivalent; executing, in a context, a first stream of the plurality of instruction streams; stopping execution of the first stream at a first location of the first stream; and executing, in the context, a second stream of the plurality of instruction streams at a second location of the second stream, the second location corresponding to the first location of the first stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/939061 |
| ART UNIT | 2495 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09218506 | Tehranipoor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Tehranipoor (Mansfield, Connecticut); Kan Xiao (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and systems for preventing hardware Trojan insertion. An example method can comprise determining unused space in an integrated circuit (IC), selecting a plurality of built-in self-authentication (BISA) filler cells based on the determined unused space, and placing the selected plurality of BISA filler cells onto the unused space. The plurality of BISA filler cells can be connected to form a plurality of BISA blocks. The plurality of BISA blocks can correspond to a plurality of signatures. A modification of one or more BISA filler cell can lead to an alteration of one or more signatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/204656 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/70 (20130101) G06F 21/71 (20130101) G06F 21/75 (20130101) G06F 21/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09218519 | Hadley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Alfred Hadley (Newark, California); James Harold Atherton (Morgan Hill, California); Jay Tu (Pleasanton, California); Edward John Boling (Fremont, California); John Stephen Smith (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for selecting a subset of RFID tags are provided in some embodiments. These methods and apparatuses utilize the susceptibility to light by persistent nodes found in passive tags. Light can be used to intentionally reduce persistence times in a particular subset tags or even an individual tag. Then, persistent nodes can be used as a selection criterion to distinguish previously illuminated tags from non-illuminated tags. In other embodiments, a power circuit receives a RF input source and generates a direct current (DC) output voltage. The circuit includes a bias circuit to supply a gate to source bias, which is independent of the DC output voltage. The circuit further includes a voltage multiplier circuit that is coupled to the bias circuit. The voltage multiplier circuit has MOS transistors with one transistor to receive the gate to source bias. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791774 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/0008 (20130101) G06K 7/10009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 7/10079 (20130101) G06K 19/0701 (20130101) G06K 19/0723 (20130101) G06K 19/0728 (20130101) G06K 19/07749 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 5/145 (20130101) |
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| US 09218564 | Arthur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); John E. Barth, Jr. (Williston, Vermont); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); John E. Barth, Jr. (Williston, Vermont); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout. One embodiment comprises maintaining synaptic weights for multiple synapses connecting multiple axons and multiple neurons, wherein the synaptic weights are maintained based on a recursive array layout. The recursive array layout facilitates transposable access to the synaptic weights. A neuronal spike event between an axon and a neuron is communicated via a corresponding connecting synapse by accessing the synaptic weight of the corresponding connecting synapse in the recursive array layout. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/562195 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09218571 | Abraham 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) | David W. Abraham (Croton, New York); Jerry M. Chow (White Plains, New York); Antonio D. Corcoles Gonzalez (Egham, United Kingdom); Jay M. Gambetta (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and chip to control Purcell loss are described. The chip includes qubits formed on a first surface of a substrate. The method includes determining frequencies of the qubits, and controlling a separation between the frequencies of the qubits and chip mode frequencies of the chip. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/604938 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/22 (20130101) H01L 39/24 (20130101) H01L 49/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09218648 | McCloskey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Yuanyuan Ding (Newark, Delaware); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott McCloskey (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Yuanyuan Ding (Newark, Delaware); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for estimating motion blur of an image associated with a moving object. The direction of one-dimensional motion blur may be estimated by inspecting a power spectrum associated with the image. A radon transform with respect to the image power spectrum is computed in the direction of the motion blur. A family of kernels with respect to the one-dimensional motion blur may then be defined utilizing a shutter triggering sequence associated with an image capturing device. The family of kernels may be modeled utilizing a modulation transfer function (MTF). Each modulation transfer function may be compared with the radon transform of the power spectrum associated with the image via a correlation function. The kernel with highest correlation with respect to the radon transform of the image power spectrum may be employed for de-blurring the image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/606780 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 5/10 (20130101) G06T 2207/20201 (20130101) |
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| US 09218660 | Carrola, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Carrola, Jr. (San Antonio, Texas); Warren Carl Couvillion, Jr. (San Antonio, Texas); Susan M. Porter (San Antonio, Texas); David R. Chambers (San Antonio, Texas); Christopher J. Guerra (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for analysis of a viscoelastic response in a deformable material. The system includes a light source configured to provide linearly polarized light and a polariscope configured to receive said linearly polarized light and to generate an image associated with a viscoelastic response of said deformable material. The system also includes a machine vision system configured to operate on the image to locate the response on the deformable material and to classify the response as one of a plurality of predefined types of responses. A display may then be provide that is configured to provide feedback of the location of the viscoelastic response and classification of the response to a user of said system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/208941 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/168 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/06 (20130101) G01L 1/248 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00624 (20130101) G06K 9/4642 (20130101) G06K 9/6267 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/60 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09218883 | Rumberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon David Rumberg (Beckley, West Virginia); David W. Graham (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of a continuous-time memory cell circuit are described. In various embodiments, the memory cell circuit may comprise a memory cell, a current source coupled to the memory cell, and circuitry for programming the memory cell at an adaptive rate, based on a target voltage for programming, using a feedback loop between a gate terminal of the memory cell and a reference control input. Based on the circuitry for programming, the memory cell may be programmed according to various voltage and/or current references, by linear injection and/or tunneling mechanisms. According to various aspects, the circuitry for programming drives a memory cell to converge to a voltage target for programming within a short period of time and to a suitable level of accuracy. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/838575 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 16/06 (20130101) G11C 16/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 16/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09218906 | Hübler |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred W. Hübler (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for storing information or energy. An array of nano-capacitors is provided, where each nano-capacitor has a cathodic electrode and an anode separated by a dielectric. The thickness of the intervening solid dielectric is in the range between 0.1 nanometers and 1000 nanometers and is shorter than an electron mean free path within the dielectric. The cathodic electrode is at least 100 times larger than the thickness of the intervening dielectric in every direction transverse to the thickness of the intervening dielectric. An excess of electrons is stored on the cathodic electrode. The dielectric may be a metal oxide, particularly a native oxide of the cathode material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186118 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/10 (20130101) H01G 4/12 (20130101) H01G 4/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09219189 | Northrup et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John E. Northrup (Palo Alto, California); Bowen Cheng (Atherton, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Zhihong Yang (San Jose, California); Suk Choi (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Northrup (Palo Alto, California); Bowen Cheng (Atherton, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Zhihong Yang (San Jose, California); Suk Choi (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device includes a p-side heterostructure, an n-side heterostructure, an active region disposed between the p-side heterostructure and the n-side heterostructure. An electron blocking layer (EBL) disposed between the p-side heterostructure and the active region comprises an aluminum containing group-III-nitride alloy. An aluminum composition of the EBL decreases as a function of distance along a [0001] direction from the active region towards the p-side heterostructure over a majority of the thickness of the EBL. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/619687 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/06 (20130101) H01L 33/16 (20130101) H01L 33/0025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/0075 (20130101) H01L 33/145 (20130101) |
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| US 09219239 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsong Huang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Bin Yang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Yongbo Yuan (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a substrate; and a photoactive layer disposed on the substrate. The photoactive layer includes an electron acceptor material; an electron donor material; and a material having dipoles. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/263571 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/44 (20130101) H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/445 (20130101) H01L 51/4293 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09219298 | Abraham 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) | David W. Abraham (Croton, New York); Jerry M. Chow (White Plains, New York); Antonio D. Corcoles Gonzalez (Mount Kisco, New York); George A. Keefe (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Mary E. Rothwell (Ridgefield, Connecticut); James R. Rozen (Peekskill, New York); Matthias Steffen (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A coplanar waveguide device includes a coplanar waveguide structure disposed on a substrate, at least one qubit coupled to the coplanar waveguide structure and an add-on chip having a metallized trench, and disposed over the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/838324 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/14 (20130101) H01L 39/223 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 3/003 (20130101) H01P 7/086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 11/003 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert S. Evans (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Evans (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic shear force transfer device for transferring shear forces across a non-magnetic gap includes a first magnetic structure comprising concentric circular tracks of magnetic sources magnetically printed into a first magnetizable material a second magnetic structure comprising concentric circular tracks of magnetic sources magnetically printed into a second magnetizable material. Each concentric circular track has an even number of magnetic sources where adjoining magnetic sources alternate in polarity. One or more tracks of the first magnetic structure are rotated relative to one or more tracks of the second magnetic structure such that a maximum torque condition coincides to one angular orientation between the first and second magnetic structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/604939 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 49/104 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 49/108 (20130101) H02K 2213/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09219553 | Frade, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division, Newport (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S Frade, Jr. (Lakeville, Massachusetts); Kenneth F White (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable wideband harmonic signal generator includes circuitry for generating a signal having a selected fundamental frequency, for producing a signal having a harmonic series of the selected fundamental frequency, for transferring the signal having the harmonic series using a balanced impedance output, and for directionally transmitting transferred signal having the harmonic series using a directional antenna having a characteristic impedance that is matched to the balanced impedance output. There is thus provided a compact, efficient transmitter and antenna assembly for transmitting a wideband signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/183659 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 17/11 (20150115) H04B 17/15 (20150115) H04B 17/0017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09219603 | Douglis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Zachary Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Fan Ye (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Zachary Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Fan Ye (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for protecting streams in a mixed infrastructure includes determining processing elements that are to access a data stream in a stream processing environment and determining a security level for each processing element. Keys are generated per stream per processing element in accordance with the security level. The keys are associated with processing elements in an access control list in a location accessible by producing and consuming processing elements. The stream is decrypted for processing using keys released upon authenticating processing elements in accordance with the access control list. At security boundaries, the stream is re-encrypted in accordance with a next processing element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971322 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/088 (20130101) H04L 9/0841 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09219655 | Kienzle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darrell Kienzle (Vienna, Virginia); Nathan Evans (Sterling, Virginia); Matthew Elder (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Symantec Corporation (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell Kienzle (Vienna, Virginia); Nathan Evans (Sterling, Virginia); Matthew Elder (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for discovering network topologies. The method may include (1) receiving, on a host system within a network, a switch-protocol message that includes a switch identifier, a port identifier, and/or a root path cost, (2) identifying a set of switches within the network based on the switch-protocol message, (3) determining how the set of switches are connected based on the switch-protocol message, and (4) mapping a topology of the network based on determining how the set of switches are connected. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/660574 |
| ART UNIT | 2472 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09219706 | Hom et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard V. Hom (Troy, Michigan); Eric M. Nelson (Durham, North Carolina); James C. North (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard V. Hom (Troy, Michigan); Eric M. Nelson (Durham, North Carolina); James C. North (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to just-in-time (JIT) retrieval of directory information to reduce network traffic and load on directory servers and/or data sources by requesting only the information that is currently needed from the directory server. In the invention, a wrapper operating with a directory server and an application programming interface (API) provides this capability. The wrapper is configured to receive a request from a client and to determine a location corresponding to a set of current attribute values for responding to the request. The wrapper retrieves the set of current attribute values in a JIT manner from at least one of the following: the directory server and an external source. A set of current attributes is returned to the client from the wrapper. By propagating information in a JIT manner, only the information that will be currently used is propagated across the network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/893437 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/121 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 61/1523 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/2842 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09219890 | Manzur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tariq Manzur (Lincoln, Rhode Island); John W. Zeller (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tariq Manzur (Lincoln, Rhode Island); John W. Zeller (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An image analysis system and method are provided. The system can include a base for receiving an optical surface, at least one light source positioned above and at an oblique angle with respect to the optical surface, a camera positioned above the optical surface and adapted to provide an image data indicative of an image of the optical surface, and a computerized system adapted to receive the image data from the camera. The computerized system can analyze the image data to identify and quantify surface defects. Classification identifiers can be assigned to each surface defect based on the physical characteristics of the surface defect. A transmission metric is calculated for the optical surface to allow objective judgment of the surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/591871 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/183 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Rui Zhang (Gainsville, Florida); Gang Hua (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Rui Zhang (Gainsville, Florida); Gang Hua (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates in part to fragments of non-cadherin Cry toxin binding proteins, wherein the fragments potentiate, or act as synergists with, the insecticidal activity of Cry proteins. In some preferred embodiments, the binding protein (a Cry protein receptor on insect midgut cells) is an aminopeptidase. In preferred embodiments, the fragment comprises a Cry protein binding region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/090830 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| 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 37/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09215983 | Milner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel contrast mechanism for imaging blood flow using magneto-motive optical Doppler tomography (MM-ODT), Optical Coherence Tomography, and Ultrasound. MM-ODT, OCT, and ultrasound combined with an externally applied temporally oscillating high-strength magnetic field detects erythrocytes moving according to the field gradient. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229200 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/05 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 8/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09215987 | Trayanova et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Natalia A. Trayanova (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiaozhong Chen (Hoover, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Natalia A. Trayanova (Baltimore, Maryland); Xiaozhong Chen (Hoover, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of predicting ventricular arrhythmias includes receiving an electrical signal from a subject's heart for a plurality of heart beats, identifying characteristic intervals and heart beat durations of the electrical signal corresponding to each of the plurality of heart beats to provide a plurality of characteristic intervals with corresponding heart beat durations, representing dynamics of the plurality of characteristic intervals as a function of a plurality of preceding characteristic intervals and durations of corresponding heart beats over a chosen period time, assessing a stability of the function over the chosen period of time, and predicting ventricular arrhythmias based on detected instabilities in the dynamics of the characteristic intervals. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/515477 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/0468 (20130101) A61B 5/04017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/04028 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09216155 | Thaxton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Shad Thaxton (Chicago, Illinois); Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Kaylin M. McMahon (Chicago, Illinois); Sushant Tripathy (Evanston, Illinois); Raja Kannan Mutharasan (Chicago, Illinois); David M. Leander (St. Louis, Missouri); Andrea Luthi (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Articles, compositions, kits, and methods relating to nanostructures, including synthetic nanostructures, are provided. Certain embodiments described herein include structures having a core-shell type arrangement; for instance, a nanostructure core may be surrounded by a shell including a material, such as a lipid bilayer, and may include other components such as oligonucleotides. In some embodiments, the structures, when introduced into a subject, can be used to deliver nucleic acids and/or can regulate gene expression. Accordingly, the structures described herein may be used to diagnose, prevent, treat or manage certain diseases or bodily conditions. In some cases, the structures are both a therapeutic agent and a diagnostic agent. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/215569 |
| 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 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/1271 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 47/48053 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) A61K 47/48838 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander V. Mazin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fei Huang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Mazin (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fei Huang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compositions comprising a selective small-molecule inhibitor of RAD51 recombinase and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention further includes methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject, comprising the step of administering to the subject the compositions contemplated within the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/001806 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 2005/1098 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09216189 | Devi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lakshmi A. Devi (New Rochelle, New York); Raphael Rozenfeld (Swampscott, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshmi A. Devi (New Rochelle, New York); Raphael Rozenfeld (Swampscott, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions useful for the treatment of liver diseases and methods of treating liver diseases are disclosed. The compounds of the invention specifically interact with heteromers of cannabinoid receptors as compared to monomers or homodimers. The invention also relates to methods of screening for compounds useful for the treatment of liver diseases and to methods of screening for diacylglycerol lipase inhibitors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/575220 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/286 (20130101) C07K 16/2869 (20130101) C07K 2317/32 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09216202 | Centanni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Centanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Centanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compositions for wound closure. More specifically, the present invention provides human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides (e.g., antimicrobial polypeptides and keratinocyte growth factor 2) and compositions and methods for making human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. In addition, the present invention provides methods for treatment of wounds with human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/297916 |
| 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 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 2035/122 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/60 (20130101) A61L 27/3813 (20130101) A61L 27/3895 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0629 (20130101) C12N 5/0698 (20130101) C12N 2501/117 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2502/094 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trudy Morrison (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trudy Morrison (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides expression vectors and virus-like particles (VLPs) containing Newcastle Disease Virus Sequences in combination with sequences encoding proteins of interest. The vectors are useful in, for example, generating virus-like particles (VLPs) that contain proteins of interest. In one embodiment, the expressed VLPs elicit an immune response by an animal host against the protein. The invention's VLPs are useful as, for example, vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329159 |
| 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 39/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/552 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/14143 (20130101) C12N 2760/18123 (20130101) C12N 2760/18134 (20130101) C12N 2760/18171 (20130101) C12N 2760/18523 (20130101) C12N 2760/18534 (20130101) C12N 2760/18571 (20130101) |
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| US 09216214 | Peng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Istituto Superiore di Sanita (Rome, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Peng (Rockville, Maryland); Rebecca Voltan (Ferrara, Italy); Barbara Ensoli (Rome, Italy); Marjorie Robert-Guroff (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides improved replication-competent adenoviral vectors. The improved vectors have both a hybrid regulatory unit that provides for high level transgene expression. The vectors can be use, e.g., for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571942 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10043 (20130101) C12N 2710/16143 (20130101) C12N 2740/16034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16071 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) |
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| US 09216220 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kytai T. Nguyen (Grand Prairie, Texas); Maham Rahimi (Lubbock, Texas); Soujanya Kona (Andhra Pradesh, India); Arthur H. Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kytai T. Nguyen (Grand Prairie, Texas); Maham Rahimi (Lubbock, Texas); Soujanya Kona (Andhra Pradesh, India); Arthur H. Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are systems, methods, and compositions for polymer nanoparticles and polymer magnetic nanoparticles. More particularly, the polymer nanoparticles and polymer magnetic nanoparticles are temperature sensitive and responsive to a first temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937218 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0009 (20130101) A61K 9/5094 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 41/00 (20130101) A61K 41/0028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/4893 (20130101) A61K 49/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09216222 | Zwiener et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert M. Zwiener (Helotes, Texas); Kenneth H. Carson (San Antonio, Texas); Joseph A. McDonough (Helotes, Texas); Larry A. Cabell (San Antonio, Texas); Norma L. Cantu (San Antonio, Texas); Sandra J. Drabik (San Antonio, Texas); Andrew P-Z. Clark (San Antonio, Texas); Paul M. Thompson (San Antonio, Texas); Richard Michael Corbett (Dresher, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed at isoamyl nitrite formulations suitable for use in medicinal applications. The formulations include a composition of isoamyl nitrite in combination with an epoxidized vegetable oil, identified as stabilized isoamyl nitrite. The isoamyl nitrite may also be combined with petrolatum. Methods of treatment of the formulations are applicable to cyanide poisoning, H2S poisoning as well as treatment for elevated blood pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/054135 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 31/04 (20130101) A61K 47/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/44 (20130101) |
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| US 09216960 | Chu |
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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) | Chung K. Chu (Statham, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods, and compositions for the treatment of infections in or exposure to humans and other host animals of Flaviviridae viruses, including HCV, that includes the administration of an effective amount of a spiro[2.4]heptane as described herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, are provided. The spiro[2.4]heptane compounds either possess antiviral activity, or are metabolized to a compound that exhibits such activity. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/552050 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) A61K 31/7056 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/06 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/212 (20130101) A61K 39/42 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/2458 (20130101) C07F 9/65125 (20130101) C07F 9/65586 (20130101) C07F 9/65616 (20130101) C07F 9/65744 (20130101) |
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| US 09216976 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marie-Celine Frantz (Vaujours, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marie-Celine Frantz (Vaujours, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and related methods useful for free radical scavenging, with particular selectivity for mitochondria. The compounds comprise a nitroxide-containing group attached to a mitochondria-targeting group. The compounds can be cross-linked into dimers without loss of activity. Also provided herein are methods, for preventing, mitigating and treating damage caused by radiation. The method comprises delivering a compound, as described herein, to a patient in an amount and dosage regimen effective to prevent, mitigate or treat damage caused by radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, November 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/088233 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 237/16 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/46 (20130101) C07D 211/58 (20130101) C07D 211/94 (20130101) C07D 221/22 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09216977 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kuo-Hsiung Lee (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xiaoming Yang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Qian Shi (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kenneth F. Bastow (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Che-Ming Teng (Taipei, Taiwan); Tse-Ming Hong (Taipei, Taiwan); Pan-Chyr Yang (Taipei, Taiwan); Shuenn-Chen Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuo-Hsiung Lee (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xiaoming Yang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Qian Shi (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kenneth F. Bastow (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Che-Ming Teng (Taipei, Taiwan); Tse-Ming Hong (Taipei, Taiwan); Pan-Chyr Yang (Taipei, Taiwan); Shuenn-Chen Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I-IV): compositions containing the same, and methods of use thereof such as for the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/503113 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 491/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09216983 | Phillips et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Margaret Phillips (Dallas, Texas); Pradipsinh K. Rathod (Seattle, Washington); Ramesh Gujjar (Seattle, Washington); Alka Marwaha (Seattle, Washington); Susan A. Charman (Parkville, Australia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington); MONASH UNIVERSITY (Victoria, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret Phillips (Dallas, Texas); Pradipsinh K. Rathod (Seattle, Washington); Ramesh Gujjar (Seattle, Washington); Alka Marwaha (Seattle, Washington); Susan A. Charman (Parkville, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds according to Formula I, Formula II, Formula III, Formula V, Formula VI, or to Formula VII, and pharmaceutical compositions of compounds that conform to Formula IV or Formula VIII: where R1 through R33 are prescribed, selectively inhibit P. falciparum dihydroorotate dehydrogenase. Accordingly, a method for preventing and treating malaria attaches to such compounds, as well as to pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, stereoisomers, tautomers, and prodrugs thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/339905 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 473/34 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09216993 | Grembecka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jolanta Grembecka (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tomasz Cierpicki (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dmitry Borkin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jay L. Hess (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Duxin Sun (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xiaoqin Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates generally to thienopyrimidine and thienopyridine compounds and methods of use thereof. In particular embodiments, the present disclosure provides compositions comprising thienopyrimidine and thienopyridine compounds of Formula 4: and methods of use to inhibit the interaction of menin with MLL1, MLL2 and MLL-fusion oncoproteins. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/203233 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 495/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 495/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09217000 | Wipf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marie-Celine Frantz (Vaujours, France) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univerisyt of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marie-Celine Frantz (Vaujours, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having a structure of: |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/000173 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/94 (20130101) C07D 295/24 (20130101) C07D 451/14 (20130101) C07D 471/08 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217008 | Brady et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean Brady (New York, New York); Hahk-Soo Kang (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Brady (New York, New York); Hahk-Soo Kang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Anthracyclin compounds of the general structure: are disclosed. In these compounds R1 is methyl, acetyl or hydroxyacetyl; R2-R5 and R10-R13 are independently H or methyl; R6 R7 and R8 are independently H, OH or OCH3; and n is zero or one. The compounds are useful for treating cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/327597 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/252 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217010 | Cushman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Andrew E. Morrell (San Diego, California); Muthukaman Nagarajan (Hyderabad, India); Yves G. Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland); Keli K. Agama (Germantown, Maryland); Smitha Antony (Silver Springs, Maryland); Daniel E. Beck (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | N-Substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds, and pharmaceutical formulations of N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds are described. Also described are processes for preparing N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds. Also described are methods for treating cancer in mammals using the described N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds or pharmaceutical formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/339766 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/4741 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 221/18 (20130101) Steroids C07J 73/003 (20130101) C07J 73/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217012 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhong-Yin Zhang (Carmel, Indiana); Sheng Zhang (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong-Yin Zhang (Carmel, Indiana); Sheng Zhang (Carmel, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds that selectively inhibit members of the PTP family of enzymes. Synthesized compounds demonstrated selective inhibition of TC-PTP. Also provided are methods of using the compounds and formulations containing the compounds. Also described is a fluorescence-tagged combinatorial library synthesis and screening method. And methods of using these compounds to effect enzyme activity both in cells and in vitro as well as method of using these compounds to treat diseases in human and animals. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/260623 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/0812 (20130101) C07K 5/06078 (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 1/42 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 2333/916 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Jensen (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric transmembrane immunoreceptors, named “zetakines,” comprised of an extracellular domain comprising a soluble receptor ligand linked to a support region capable of tethering the extracellular domain to a cell surface, a transmembrane region and an intracellular signalling domain. Zetakines, when expressed on the surface of T lymphocytes, direct T cell activity to those specific cells expressing a receptor for which the soluble receptor ligand is specific. Zetakine chimeric immunoreceptors represent a novel extension of antibody-based immunoreceptors for redirecting the antigen specificity of T cells, with application to treatment of a variety of cancers, particularly via the autocrin/paracrine cytokine systems utilized by human maligancy. In a preferred embodiment is a glioma-specific immunoreceptor comprising the extracellular targetting domain of the IL-13Rα2-specific IL-13 mutant IL-13(E13Y) linked to the Fc region of IgG, the transmembrane domain of human CD4, and the human CD3 zeta chain. |
| FILED | Monday, July 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/953622 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/5437 (20130101) C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 14/7155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/46 (20130101) C07K 19/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) |
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| US 09217040 | Kipps et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Kipps (San Diego, California); George F. Widhopf, II (San Diego, California); Bing Cui (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Kipps (San Diego, California); George F. Widhopf, II (San Diego, California); Bing Cui (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Therapeutic antibodies having binding specificity for ROR-1 expressed on cancer cells (particularly leukemic and lymphomic cells) and pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such antibodies for use in treating cancer. Methods for diagnosing such cancers through in vitro detection of binding to ROR-1 protein expressed on putative cancer cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/997934 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2803 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) |
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| US 09217136 | Palese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (New York, New York); MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New york, New York); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Dmitriy Zamarin (New York, New York); Yuman Fong (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are chimeric Newcastle disease viruses engineered to express a heterologous interferon antagonist and compositions comprising such viruses. The chimeric Newcastle disease viruses and compositions are useful in the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/060166 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/13 (20130101) A61K 39/17 (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) Original (OR) Class C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/18121 (20130101) C12N 2760/18122 (20130101) C12N 2760/18132 (20130101) C12N 2760/18143 (20130101) |
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| US 09217137 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Nir Qvit (Menlo Park, California); Marie-Helene Disatnik Dziesietnik (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Nir Qvit (Menlo Park, California); Marie-Helene Disatnik Dziesietnik (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A peptide composition is provi'deo! which specifically inhibits the ability of δ protein kinase C (δPKC) to phosphor/late pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK) under ischemic conditions. The peptide composition is useful for treating or reducing tissue damage resulting from ischemia and/or reperfusion. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/238449 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — 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 9/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 207/11002 (20130101) C12Y 207/11013 (20130101) |
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| US 09217145 | Sokoloff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander V. Sokoloff (Madison, Wisconsin); Jon Asher Wolff (Shorewood, Wisconsin); James John Ludtke (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Sokoloff (Madison, Wisconsin); Jon Asher Wolff (Shorewood, Wisconsin); James John Ludtke (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A bacteriophage T7 display vector for expressing and displaying an exogenous peptide, wherein the display vector comprises a polynucleotide encoding a bacteriophage T7 tail fiber protein p17 in which a hepatocyte-targeting determinant sequence is inactivated, and wherein a cloning site is contained in a coding sequence for the tail fiber protein p17 or in a coding sequence for a capsid protein p10B. Also provided are a host cell containing the display vector as described above, a bacteriophage T7 particle comprising at least one copy of a p17 protein which comprises an exogenous peptide displayed thereon, or at least one copy of a p10 protein with an exogenous peptide displayed thereon, wherein a hepatocyte-targeting determinant sequence on the bacteriophage T7 tail fiber protein p17 is inactivated. The present invention further provides a viral lysate containing assembled bacteriophage T7 particle described above, and a method for determining if a candidate peptide is a liver-targeting peptide, or for screening for liver targeting peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/121176 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2795/10222 (20130101) |
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| US 09217147 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra N. Singh (Ames, Iowa); Natalia N. Singh (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for blocking the effect of the intronic inhibitory splicing region of intron 7 of the SMN2 gene. The compositions and methods of the instant invention include short oligonucleotide reagents (e.g., oligoribonucleotides) that effectively target sites in the SMN2 pre-mRNA, thereby modulating the splicing of SMN2 pre-mRNA to include exon 7 in the processed transcript. The short target regions are 8-mers and 5-mers and also include the identification of a single nucleotide base that is essential for initiating a long distance stearic inhibitory interactions as well as novel targets distant from intron 7 which block the intronic inhibitory splicing of the same. These short target regions and concomitant inhibitory blocking oligonucleotides are less expensive and easier to manufacture and are small enough to cross the blood brain barrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/134057 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3231 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) C12N 2320/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09217155 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guangping Gao (Westborough, Massachusetts); Phillip D. Zamore (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guangping Gao (Westborough, Massachusetts); Phillip D. Zamore (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention in some aspects relates to isolated nucleic acids, compositions, and kits useful for identifying adeno-associated viruses in cells. In some aspects, the invention provides kits and methods for producing somatic transgenic animal models using recombinant AAV (rAAV) to an animal having at least one transgene that expresses a small interfering nucleic acid or at least one binding site for a miRNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686097 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 2217/058 (20130101) A01K 2227/105 (20130101) A01K 2267/0331 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/8509 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/13 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) C12N 2330/51 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09217157 | Garcia-Sastre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Loonta, New Jersey); Balaji Manicassamy (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Loonta, New Jersey); Balaji Manicassamy (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified influenza virus NS gene segments and nucleic acid sequences encoding such modified influenza virus NS gene segments are described. In certain embodiments, a modified influenza virus NS gene segment comprises an influenza virus NS 1 open reading frame (ORF) lacking a stop codon, a heterologous nucleotide sequence, a 2A autoproteolytic cleavage site or another cleavage site, an NEP ORF, wherein the gene segment has one or more mutations in either the splice acceptor site, splice donor site, or both the splice acceptor and splice donor sites that prevents splicing of mRNA. Also recombinant influenza viruses comprising a modified influenza virus NS gene segment and the use of such viruses are described. The recombinant influenza viruses may be used in the prevention and/or treatment of influenza virus disease or as a delivery vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/387293 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/50 (20130101) C07K 2319/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16143 (20130101) |
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| US 09217160 | O'Shea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clodagh O'Shea (San Diego, California); Colin Powers (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of assembling modified adenoviruses, libraries of adenoviral gene modules and compositions thereof are provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769025 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/861 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/10351 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2800/70 (20130101) |
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| US 09217695 | Winkelman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Winkelman (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Milenko Tanasijevic (West Newton, Massachusetts); David Zahniser (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Roche Diagnostics Hematology, Inc. (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Winkelman (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Milenko Tanasijevic (West Newton, Massachusetts); David Zahniser (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods analyzing body fluids such as blood and bone marrow are disclosed. The systems and methods may utilize an improved technique for applying a monolayer of cells to a slide to generate a substantially uniform distribution of cells on the slide. Additionally aspects of the invention also relate to systems and methods for utilizing multi color microscopy for improving the quality of images captured by a light receiving device. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785314 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/312 (20130101) G01N 1/2813 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/1475 (20130101) G01N 35/00029 (20130101) |
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| US 09217698 | Ravin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rea Ravin (Rockville, Maryland); Paul S. Blank (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Alex Steinkamp (Portland, Oregon); Kim Lee Mcafee (Linden, Virginia); Joshua Zimmerberg (Bethesda, Maryland); Sergey Bezrukov (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for simulating a blast shock wave of the type produced by explosive devices such as bombs. A pneumatic charge releases a blast shock wave along a conduit which terminates in a first outlet that communicates with the atmosphere and a second outlet that is sealed to a specimen chamber. The first outlet has a quick release valve that prevents venting of the pneumatic charge to the atmosphere until the pressure at the valve reaches a predetermined level that opens the valve. The pneumatic charge therefore initially flows through the second outlet to direct the blast into the specimen chamber, until subsequent opening of the quick release valve redirects the gas flow out of the first outlet and rapidly reduces pressure in the chamber. The blast wave closely simulates the Friedlander curve, and its effects are viewed during instead of only after the blast is completed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748410 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 3/307 (20130101) |
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| US 09217703 | Zharov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoacoustic flow cytometry (PAFC) device for the in vivo detection of cells circulating in blood or lymphatic vessels is described. Ultrasound transducers attached to the skin of an organism detect the photoacoustic ultrasound waves emitted by target objects in response to their illumination by at least one pulse of laser energy delivered using at least one wavelength. The wavelengths of the laser light pulse may be varied to optimize the absorption of the laser energy by the target object. Target objects detected by the device may be unlabelled biological cells or cell products, contrast agents, or biological cells labeled with one or more contrast agents. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/661551 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 5/412 (20130101) A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/416 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 8/08 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/22 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/147 (20130101) G01N 15/1425 (20130101) G01N 15/1434 (20130101) G01N 21/39 (20130101) G01N 21/1702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2015/1477 (20130101) G01N 2201/0697 (20130101) |
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| US 09217710 | Peng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leilei Peng (Tucson, Arizona); Ming Zhao (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A fast fluorescence lifetime microscopic system images FRET between multiple labels in live cells and deep tissue, using a quantitative analysis method to reconstruct the molecular machinery behind the multiplexed FRET phenomenon. The system measures fluorescence lifetime, intensity and anisotropy as images of excitation-emission matrices (EEM) in real time and high speed within a single image scan, performs high-resolution deep-penetrating 3D FRET imaging in live samples, and fully analyzes all possible photon pathways of multiplexed FRET. The system provides a way for systematic and dynamic imaging of biochemical networks in cells, tissue and live animals, which will help to understand mechanisms of genetic disorders, cancers, and more. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/956212 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) G01N 2021/6441 (20130101) G01N 2201/10 (20130101) G01N 2201/126 (20130101) |
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| US 09217727 | Rosenstein et al. |
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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) | Jacob Rosenstein (New York, New York); Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting a single-molecule using an integrated circuit which includes at least one membrane having a nanopore located between first and second reservoirs and a low-noise preamplifier having an electrode formed on the surface thereof is provided. The method includes passing a target molecule through the nanopore, and measuring a current through the nanopore to detect the presence of a biomolecular entity, if any. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787341 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/852 (20130101) |
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| US 09217745 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Tim R. Mosmann (Pittsford, New York); David Topham (Pittsford, New York); Charles R. Mace (Auburn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor chip for detecting an immune response against an influenza virus, the sensor chip including a substrate having a surface and a plurality of hemagglutinin polypeptides bound to discrete locations on the surface of the substrate, each hemagglutinin polypeptide having a hemagglutinin epitope. Detection devices containing the sensor chip and methods of detecting influenza immune responses are also described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940011 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/05 (20130101) G01N 21/211 (20130101) G01N 21/553 (20130101) G01N 33/54373 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/558 (20130101) G01N 2021/1725 (20130101) G01N 2021/5957 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09217746 | Geddes |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chris D. Geddes (Bel-Air, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris D. Geddes (Bel-Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to detecting and/or measuring scattering effects due to the aggregating metallic nanostructures or the interaction of plasmonic emissions from approaching metallic nanoparticles. The scattering effects may be measured at different angles, different wavelengths, changes in absorption and/or changes in polarization relative to changes in the distances between nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/355794 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/47 (20130101) G01N 21/554 (20130101) G01N 33/553 (20130101) G01N 33/587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2021/258 (20130101) G01N 2021/4709 (20130101) G01N 2021/4714 (20130101) G01N 2021/7773 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09217748 | Thadhani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravi Thadhani (Boston, Massachusetts); S. Ananth Karumanchi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Anders Hayden Berg (Dedham, Massachusetts); Ishir Bhan (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi Thadhani (Boston, Massachusetts); S. Ananth Karumanchi (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Anders Hayden Berg (Dedham, Massachusetts); Ishir Bhan (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are assays directed to determining the level of bioavailable or free vitamin D in a blood sample in a subject. The values determined for bioavailable or free vitamin D indicate whether the subject suffers from insufficient levels of vitamin D. Also described herein are methods of treatment for vitamin D insufficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/978193 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/82 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217749 | Sabbadini et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger A. Sabbadini (Lakeside, California); William A. Garland (San Clemente, California); Genevieve Hansen (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lpath, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger A. Sabbadini (Lakeside, California); William A. Garland (San Clemente, California); Genevieve Hansen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for producing monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives reactive against bioactive lipid targets are described. These compositions include derivatized lipids, each of which comprises a bioactive lipid that having a polar head group and at least one hydrocarbon chain (e.g., a lysolipid such as lysophosphatidic acid or sphingosine-1-phosphate) in which a carbon atom has been derivatized with a pendant reactive group; immunogens made by linking a derivatized lipid to a carrier moiety (e.g., a carrier protein, polyethylene glycol, colloidal gold, alginate, or a silicone bead); monoclonal antibodies and derivatives produced by immunizing an animal with such an immunogen; and therapeutic and diagnostic compositions containing such antibodies and antibody derivatives. Methods for making such derivatized lipids, immunogens, and monoclonal antibodies and derivatives, methods for detecting such antibodies once generated, and therapeutic and diagnostic methods for using such antibodies and derivatives, are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/755721 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/4833 (20130101) A61K 47/48053 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 47/48284 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/56 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/74 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217756 | Simon 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) | Brenton R. Simon (Irvine, California); Alexander A. Trusov (Irvine, California); Andrei M. Shkel (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS resonator includes two resonating masses having an anti-phase and in-phase resonance mode, each mode having a resonance frequency, and an anti-phase resonance levering system coupled to the two resonating masses to stiffen and/or dampen the in-phase resonance mode while leaving the anti-phase resonance mode compliant. This effectively raises the in-phase resonance frequency above the anti-phase resonance frequency, and potentially creates a large frequency separation between the two resonance modes. This reduces the energy transfer between the two modes, allowing for robustness to external acceleration, because the in-phase mode is of a higher frequency. The anti-phase resonance levering system is disposed between the two resonating masses as an internal levering mechanism, or is disposed around the two resonating masses as an external levering mechanism. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840362 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5621 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/2463 (20130101) H03H 9/2468 (20130101) H03H 2009/02496 (20130101) |
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| US 09218426 | Tyson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Mabry Tyson (Los Altos, California); Douglas E. Appelt (Palo Alto, California); Min Yin (San Jose, California); William Jarrold (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to collect explicit feedback from a user regarding user content preferences. Multiple data sources are monitored. Topics associated with the multiple data sources are classified. The importance of the topics to the user is characterized. Content is delivered to the user when a selected topic exceeds an importance threshold for the user. Implicit feedback from the user that characterizes refined user content preferences is tracked. The instructions to characterize the importance of topics evaluates the explicit feedback and the implicit feedback. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/595109 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30699 (20130101) G06F 17/30705 (20130101) G06F 17/30867 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218643 | Siewerdsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen (Baltimore, Maryland); Sajendra Nithiananthan (Baltimore, Maryland); Daniel J. Mirota (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen (Baltimore, Maryland); Sajendra Nithiananthan (Baltimore, Maryland); Daniel J. Mirota (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for registering images includes an image registration unit. The image registration unit is configured to receive first image data for a first image in an N-dimensional space, receive second image data for a second image in the N-dimensional space, calculate a field of update vectors that maps the first image into a moving image, and map the first image into the moving image using the field of update vectors such that the moving image more closely matches the second image. The field of update vectors includes a plurality of N+M dimensional update vectors, each update vector having N spatial components and M extra components. N is a number greater than zero, and M is a number greater than zero. The M extra components of the plurality of update vectors identify portions of the first image that are assigned external values during the mapping the first image into the moving image. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117009 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/12 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/506 (20130101) A61B 6/4085 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0034 (20130101) G06T 11/60 (20130101) G06T 2207/10084 (20130101) G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09220169 — Biocompatible electroplated interconnection electronics package suitable for implantation
| US 09220169 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Device is a hermetically sealed electronics package bonded to an electrode or flexible circuit that is suitable for implantation such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array. The hermetically sealed electronics package is bonded to the electrode or flexible circuit by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, forming a plated connection, bonding the flexible circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation. The device comprises a substrate containing a contact, a flexible assembly containing a pad, and electroplated bonding between said contact and said pad that bonds said substrate and said flexible assembly together. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821327 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/02 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 3/62 (20130101) C25D 3/567 (20130101) C25D 5/02 (20130101) C25D 5/18 (20130101) C25D 5/56 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/32 (20130101) H05K 3/361 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 2203/0723 (20130101) |
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| US 09216144 | Sutton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Procter and Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio); Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Procter and Gamble Company (Cincinnati, Ohio); Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Matthew Charles Sutton (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bruce Carvell Lamartine (Los Alamos, New Mexico); E. Bruce Orler (Blacksburg, Virginia); Shuangqi Song (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hair treatment process for providing dispersed colors by light diffraction including (a) coating the hair with a material comprising a polymer, (b) pressing the hair with a pressing device including one or more surfaces, and (c) forming a secondary nanostructured surface pattern on the hair that is complementary to the primary nanostructured surface pattern on the one or more surfaces of the pressing device. The secondary nanostructured surface pattern diffracts light into dispersed colors that are visible on the hair. The section of the hair is pressed with the pressing device for from about 1 to 55 seconds. The polymer has a glass transition temperature from about 55° C. to about 90° C. The one or more surfaces include a primary nanostructured surface pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/229414 |
| ART UNIT | 3776 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Hairdressing or Shaving Equipment; Equipment for Cosmetics or Cosmetic Treatments, e.g for Manicuring or Pedicuring A45D 19/00 (20130101) A45D 2019/0091 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 8/85 (20130101) A61K 8/87 (20130101) A61K 8/8129 (20130101) A61K 8/8152 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 5/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09216390 | Ho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. S. Winston Ho (Columbus, Ohio); Hendrik Verweij (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Krenar Shqau (Columbus, Ohio); Kartik Ramasubramanian (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. S. Winston Ho (Columbus, Ohio); Hendrik Verweij (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Krenar Shqau (Columbus, Ohio); Kartik Ramasubramanian (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are membranes comprising a substrate, a support layer, and a selective layer. In some embodiments the membrane may further comprise a permeable layer. Methods of forming membranes are also disclosed comprising forming a support layer on a substrate, removing adsorbed species from the support layer, preparing a solution containing inorganic materials of a selective layer, contacting the support layer with the solution, drying the membrane, and exposing the membrane to rapid thermal processing. Also disclosed are methods of fluid purification comprising providing a membrane having a feed side and a permeable side, passing a fluid mixture across the feed side of the membrane, providing a driving force for transmembrane permeation, removing from the permeate side a permeate stream enriched in a purified fluid, and withdrawing from the feed side a fluid that is depleted in a purified fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184433 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/009 (20130101) B01D 67/0051 (20130101) B01D 67/0069 (20130101) B01D 67/0072 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/02 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 69/105 (20130101) B01D 69/148 (20130101) B01D 71/022 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 71/025 (20130101) B01D 71/028 (20130101) B01D 71/44 (20130101) B01D 71/68 (20130101) B01D 71/70 (20130101) B01D 2323/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09216391 | Revanur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravindra Revanur (Fremont, California); Valentin Lulevich (Berkeley, California); Il Juhn Roh (San Ramon, California); Jennifer E. Klare (Berkeley, California); Sangil Kim (Pleasanton, California); Aleksandr Noy (San Carlos, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Porifera, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra Revanur (Fremont, California); Valentin Lulevich (Berkeley, California); Il Juhn Roh (San Ramon, California); Jennifer E. Klare (Berkeley, California); Sangil Kim (Pleasanton, California); Aleksandr Noy (San Carlos, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Membranes for fluid separation are disclosed. These membranes have a matrix layer sandwiched between an active layer and a porous support layer. The matrix layer includes 1-D nanoparticles that are vertically aligned in a porous polymer matrix, and which substantially extend through the matrix layer. The active layer provides species-specific transport, while the support layer provides mechanical support. A matrix layer of this type has favorable surface morphology for forming the active layer. Furthermore, the pores that form in the matrix layer tend to be smaller and more evenly distributed as a result of the presence of aligned 1-D nanoparticles. Improved performance of separation membranes of this type is attributed to these effects. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/428843 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 61/002 (20130101) B01D 61/025 (20130101) B01D 67/006 (20130101) B01D 67/009 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 69/125 (20130101) B01D 69/148 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/021 (20130101) B01D 71/56 (20130101) B01D 71/70 (20130101) B01D 2323/40 (20130101) B01D 2325/48 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09216396 | Khinkis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark J Khinkis (Morton Grove, Illinois); Aleksandr P Kozlov (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Harry Kurek (Dyer, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J Khinkis (Morton Grove, Illinois); Aleksandr P Kozlov (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Harry Kurek (Dyer, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-catalytic recuperative reformer has a flue gas flow path for conducting hot flue gas from a thermal process and a reforming mixture flow path for conducting a reforming mixture. At least a portion of the reforming mixture flow path is embedded in the flue gas flow path to permit heat transfer from the hot flue gas to the reforming mixture. The reforming mixture flow path contains substantially no material commonly used as a catalyst for reforming hydrocarbon fuel (e.g., nickel oxide, platinum group elements or rhenium), but instead the reforming mixture is reformed into a higher calorific fuel via reactions due to the heat transfer and residence time. In a preferred embodiment, extended surfaces of metal material such as stainless steel or metal alloy that are high in nickel content are included within at least a portion of the reforming mixture flow path. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/086433 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 12/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 19/249 (20130101) B01J 2219/00081 (20130101) B01J 2219/00085 (20130101) B01J 2219/00099 (20130101) B01J 2219/00157 (20130101) B01J 2219/00159 (20130101) B01J 2219/2453 (20130101) B01J 2219/2458 (20130101) B01J 2219/2462 (20130101) B01J 2219/2479 (20130101) B01J 2219/2482 (20130101) B01J 2219/2486 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/34 (20130101) C01B 2203/148 (20130101) C01B 2203/0216 (20130101) C01B 2203/0222 (20130101) C01B 2203/0811 (20130101) C01B 2203/1235 (20130101) |
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| US 09216401 | Turner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry D. Turner (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bradley C. Benefiel (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry D. Turner (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dennis N. Bingham (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bradley C. Benefiel (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M. Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactors for carrying out a chemical reaction, as well as related components, systems and methods are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a reactor is provided that includes a furnace and a crucible positioned for heating by the furnace. A downtube is disposed at least partially within the interior crucible along an axis. At least one structure is coupled with the downtube and extends substantially across the cross-sectional area of the interior volume taken in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis. A plurality of holes is formed in the structure enabling fluid flow therethrough. The structure coupled with the downtube may include a lower body portion and an upper body portion coupled with the lower body portion, wherein the plurality of holes is formed in the lower body portion adjacent to, and radially outward from, a periphery of the upper body portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/188121 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 4/002 (20130101) B01J 10/005 (20130101) B01J 19/2415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2219/00157 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/384 (20130101) C01B 2203/04 (20130101) C01B 2203/06 (20130101) C01B 2203/047 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0475 (20130101) C01B 2203/1005 (20130101) C01B 2203/1041 (20130101) C01B 2203/1247 (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 1/083 (20130101) C10G 2400/26 (20130101) Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 3/57 (20130101) C10J 3/723 (20130101) C10J 2300/0913 (20130101) C10J 2300/0973 (20130101) C10J 2300/0986 (20130101) C10J 2300/1246 (20130101) C10J 2300/1807 (20130101) |
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| US 09216445 | Muralidharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas R Muth (Knoxville, Tennessee); David C Harper (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas R Muth (Knoxville, Tennessee); David C Harper (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A machine for asymmetric rolling of a work-piece includes pair of rollers disposed in an arrangement to apply opposing, asymmetric rolling forces to roll a work-piece therebetween, wherein a surface of the work-piece is rolled faster than an opposite surface of the work-piece; and an exit constraint die rigidly disposed adjacent an exit side of the pair of rollers so that, as the work-piece exits the pair of rollers, the work-piece contacts the exit constraint die to constrain curling of the work-piece. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/197297 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Rolling of Metal B21B 1/08 (20130101) B21B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B21B 45/004 (20130101) B21B 2265/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09216900 | Chung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hoon Taek Chung (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hoon Taek Chung (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing nitrogen-doped carbon tubes involves preparing a solution of cyanamide and a suitable transition metal-containing salt in a solvent, evaporating the solvent to form a solid, and pyrolyzing the solid under an inert atmosphere under conditions suitable for the production of nitrogen-doped carbon tubes from the solid. Pyrolyzing for a shorter period of time followed by rapid cooling resulted in a tubes with a narrower average diameter. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/220093 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0226 (20130101) C01B 31/0233 (20130101) |
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| US 09216939 | Farha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar K. Farha (Morton Grove, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Christopher E. Wilmer (Evanston, Illinois); Ibrahim Eryazici (Chicago, Illinois); Randall Q. Snurr (Evanston, Illinois); Diego A. Gomez-Gualdron (Evanston, Illinois); Bhaskarjyoti Borah (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal organic framework (MOF) material including a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area greater than 7,010 m2/g. Also a metal organic framework (MOF) material including hexa-carboxylated linkers including alkyne bond. Also a metal organic framework (MOF) material including three types of cuboctahedron cages fused to provide continuous channels. Also a method of making a metal organic framework (MOF) material including saponifying hexaester precursors having alkyne bonds to form a plurality of hexa-carboxylated linkers including alkyne bonds and performing a solvothermal reaction with the plurality of hexa-carboxylated linkers and one or more metal containing compounds to form the MOF material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/920828 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/226 (20130101) B01J 20/3085 (20130101) B01J 20/28066 (20130101) B01J 20/28076 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 63/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/005 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 11/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09217101 | Hermes |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E. Hermes (White Rock, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hermes (White Rock, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An encapsulated composition for polymerization includes an initiator composition for initiating a polymerization reaction, and a capsule prepared from an elemental metal or fusible alloy having a melting temperature from about 20° C. to about 200° C. A fluid for polymerization includes the encapsulated composition and a monomer. When the capsule melts or breaks open, the initiator is released. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/081935 |
| ART UNIT | 1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217105 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lightscape Materials, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lightscape Materials, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuanqiang Li (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Michael D. Romanelli (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Yongchi Tian (Princeton Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of oxycarbonitride phosphor compositions is provided. Also provided are light emitting devices incorporating the oxycarbonitride phosphor compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/279769 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/0883 (20130101) C09K 11/7705 (20130101) C09K 11/7706 (20130101) C09K 11/7728 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 11/7731 (20130101) C09K 11/7733 (20130101) C09K 11/7734 (20130101) Non-electric Light Sources Using Luminescence; Light Sources Using Electrochemiluminescence; Light Sources Using Charges of Combustible Material; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices as Light-generating Elements; Light Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F21K 9/56 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/63 (20130101) H01J 29/20 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/502 (20130101) |
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| US 09217187 | Brady et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gail M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Don M. Nicholson (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yukinori Yamamoto (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gail M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerard M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Govindarajan Muralidharan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Don M. Nicholson (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yukinori Yamamoto (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The method provides heat-resistant chromia- or alumina-forming Fe-, Fe(Ni), Ni(Fe), or Ni-based alloys having improved creep resistance. A precursor is provided containing preselected constituents of a chromia- or alumina-forming Fe-, Fe(Ni), Ni(Fe), or Ni-based alloy, at least one of the constituents for forming a nanoscale precipitate MaXb where M is Cr, Nb, Ti, V, Zr, or Hf, individually and in combination, and X is C, N, O, B, individually and in combination, a=1 to 23 and b=1 to 6. The precursor is annealed at a temperature of 1000-1500° C. for 1-48 h in the presence of a magnetic field of at least 5 Tesla to enhance supersaturation of the MaXb constituents in the annealed precursor. This forms nanoscale MaXb precipitates for improved creep resistance when the alloy is used at service temperatures of 500-1000° C. Alloys having improved creep resistance are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/553940 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/18 (20130101) C21D 1/26 (20130101) C21D 6/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C21D 2201/03 (20130101) C21D 2211/004 (20130101) C21D 2281/00 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 19/03 (20130101) C22C 30/00 (20130101) C22C 38/00 (20130101) C22C 38/42 (20130101) C22C 38/44 (20130101) C22C 38/46 (20130101) C22C 38/48 (20130101) C22C 38/50 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09217198 | Berland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian Spencer Berland (Morrison, Colorado); Bruce Roy Lanning (Littleton, Colorado); Jonathan Mack Frey (Denver, Colorado); Kathryn Suzanne Barrett (Boise, Idaho); Paul Damon DuPont (Morrison, Colorado); Ronald William Schaller (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITN Energy Systems, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Spencer Berland (Morrison, Colorado); Bruce Roy Lanning (Littleton, Colorado); Jonathan Mack Frey (Denver, Colorado); Kathryn Suzanne Barrett (Boise, Idaho); Paul Damon DuPont (Morrison, Colorado); Ronald William Schaller (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes methods of inserting lithium into an electrochromic device after completion. In the disclosed methods, an ideal amount of lithium can be added post-fabrication to maximize or tailor the free lithium ion density of a layer or the coloration range of a device. Embodiments are directed towards a method to insert lithium into the main device layers of an electrochromic device as a post-processing step after the device has been manufactured. In an embodiment, the methods described are designed to maximize the coloration range while compensating for blind charge loss. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/544391 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C23C 14/548 (20130101) |
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| US 09217338 | Ernst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana); Dave Morris (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CUMMINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana); Dave Morris (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a waste heat recovery (WHR) system and method for regulating exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooling, and more particularly, to a Rankine cycle WHR system and method, including a recuperator bypass arrangement to regulate EGR exhaust gas cooling for engine efficiency improvement and thermal management. This disclosure describes other unique bypass arrangements for increased flexibility in the ability to regulate EGR exhaust gas cooling. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/336945 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 23/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/16 (20130101) Y02T 10/166 (20130101) |
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| US 09217396 | Wu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ko-Jen Wu (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ko-Jen Wu (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a turbine housing includes a turbine inlet in fluid communication with a turbine volute configured to house a turbine wheel, the turbine inlet configured to direct an exhaust gas flow from an engine to the turbine wheel. The turbine housing also includes a turbine outlet in fluid communication with the turbine volute, the turbine outlet configured to direct the exhaust gas flow to an exhaust gas conduit and a first exhaust gas recirculation supply port located on and in fluid communication with the turbine outlet, the first exhaust gas recirculation supply port being configured to direct a portion of the exhaust gas flow to an exhaust gas recirculation supply conduit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/975983 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Machines or Engines in General; Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines F01N 3/10 (20130101) F01N 2340/06 (20130101) Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 29/0406 (20130101) F02B 37/00 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 6/12 (20130101) Supplying Combustion Engines in General With Combustible Mixtures or Constituents Thereof F02M 25/0709 (20130101) F02M 25/0712 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02M 25/0727 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2270/082 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/121 (20130101) |
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| US 09217603 | Turner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terry D. Turner (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael G. McKellar (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry D. Turner (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Michael G. McKellar (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Heat exchangers include a housing having an inlet and an outlet and forming a portion of a transition chamber. A heating member may form another portion of the transition chamber. The heating member includes a first end having a first opening and a second end having a second opening larger than the first opening. Methods of conveying a fluid include supplying a first fluid into a transition chamber of a heat exchanger, supplying a second fluid into the transition chamber, and altering a state of a portion of the first fluid with the second fluid. Methods of sublimating solid particles include conveying a first fluid comprising a material in a solid state into a transition chamber, heating the material to a gaseous state by directing a second fluid through a heating member and mixing the first fluid and the second fluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938826 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquefaction, Solidification or Separation of Gases or Gaseous Mixtures by Pressure and Cold Treatment F25J 3/061 (20130101) F25J 3/067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25J 3/0635 (20130101) F25J 5/002 (20130101) F25J 2205/20 (20130101) F25J 2220/82 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Come into Direct Contact Without Chemical Interaction F28C 3/08 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09217738 | Almond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip M. Almond (Martinez, Georgia); Christine A. Langton (Aiken, South Carolina); David B. Stefanko (North Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for determining the redox condition of cementitious materials. The methods are leaching methods that utilize an in situ redox indicator that is present in the cementitious materials as formed. The in situ redox indicator leaches from cementitious material and, when the leaching process is carried out under anaerobic conditions can be utilized to determine the redox condition of the material. The in situ redox indicator can exhibit distinct characteristics in the leachate depending upon the redox condition of the indicator. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/973485 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/31 (20130101) G01N 31/22 (20130101) G01N 33/383 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217744 | Weisenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Weisenberger (Yorktown, Virginia); Gregory M. Bonito (Durham, North Carolina); Chantal D. Reid (Durham, North Carolina); Mark Frederick Smith (Catonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to dynamically image the actual translocation of molecular compounds of interest in a plant root, root system, and rhizosphere without disturbing the root or the soil. The technique makes use of radioactive isotopes as tracers to label molecules of interest and to image their distribution in the plant and/or soil. The method allows for the study and imaging of various biological and biochemical interactions in the rhizosphere of a plant, including, but not limited to, mycorrhizal associations in such regions. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/970314 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56961 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/004 (20130101) |
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| US 09217852 | Baleine |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erwan Baleine (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwan Baleine (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical inspection system for nondestructive internal visual inspection and non-contact infra-red (IR) temperature monitoring of an online, operating power generation turbine. The optical inspection system includes an optical tube having a viewing port, at least one reflective mirror or a mirror array having a reflectivity spectral range from 550 nm to 20 μm, and capable of continuous operation at temperatures greater than 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius), and a transparent window with high transmission within the same spectral range mounted distal the viewing port. The same optical mirror array may be used to measure selectively surface temperature of metal turbine blades in the near IR range (approximately 1 μm wavelength) and of thermal barrier coated turbine blades in the long IR range (approximately 10 μm wavelength). |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/597919 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/00 (20130101) G01N 21/95 (20130101) G01N 21/954 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 17/0652 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 23/2492 (20130101) |
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| US 09218008 | 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 | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/706543 |
| 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) |
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| US 09218439 | Payne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah A. Payne (Richland, Washington); Edwin R. Burtner (Richland, Washington); Shawn J. Bohn (Richland, Washington); Shawn D. Hampton (Kennewick, Washington); David S. Gillen (Kennewick, Washington); Michael J. Henry (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Search systems and computer-implemented search methods are described. In one aspect, a search system includes a communications interface configured to access a plurality of data items of a collection, wherein the data items include a plurality of image objects individually comprising image data utilized to generate an image of the respective data item. The search system may include processing circuitry coupled with the communications interface and configured to process the image data of the data items of the collection to identify a plurality of image content facets which are indicative of image content contained within the images and to associate the image objects with the image content facets and a display coupled with the processing circuitry and configured to depict the image objects associated with the image content facets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/910005 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30991 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218444 | Hamlet et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporaton (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Hamlet (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jackson R. Mayo (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention describe a Boolean circuit having a voter circuit and a plurality of approximate circuits each based, at least in part, on a reference circuit. The approximate circuits are each to generate one or more output signals based on values of received input signals. The voter circuit is to receive the one or more output signals generated by each of the approximate circuits, and is to output one or more signals corresponding to a majority value of the received signals. At least some of the approximate circuits are to generate an output value different than the reference circuit for one or more input signal values; however, for each possible input signal value, the majority values of the one or more output signals generated by the approximate circuits and received by the voter circuit correspond to output signal result values of the reference circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/792109 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218733 | Bermudez 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) | Sergio A. Bermudez (Cronton on Hudson, New York); Hendrik F. Hamann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Fernando J. Marianno (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting cooling-loss event early is provided. The method includes defining a relative humidity limit and change threshold for a given space, measuring relative humidity in the given space, determining, with a processing unit, whether the measured relative humidity is within the defined relative humidity limit, generating a warning in an event the measured relative humidity is outside the defined relative humidity limit and determining whether a change in the measured relative humidity is less than the defined change threshold for the given space and generating an alarm in an event the change is greater than the defined change threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/608886 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 2219/2642 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/20 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 21/20 (20130101) G08B 21/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08B 21/245 (20130101) G08B 23/00 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/30 (20130101) Y04S 20/227 (20130101) |
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| US 09218915 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lu Zhang (Woodridge, Illinois); Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Oakbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolyte including an alkali metal salt; a polar aprotic solvent; and a triazinane trione; wherein the electrolyte is substantially non-aqueous. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/196840 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 251/34 (20130101) C07D 307/93 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/64 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) H01M 10/0568 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218917 | Brambilla et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicolò Michele Brambilla (Boston, Massachusetts); Fabrizio Martini (Boston, Massachusetts); Kavya Ramachandra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Riccardo Signorelli (Boston, Massachusetts); Oscar Enrique Corripio Luna (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FastCAP Sysems Corporation (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolò Michele Brambilla (Boston, Massachusetts); Fabrizio Martini (Boston, Massachusetts); Kavya Ramachandra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Riccardo Signorelli (Boston, Massachusetts); Oscar Enrique Corripio Luna (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultracapacitor includes at least one electrode that includes carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes may be applied in a variety of ways, and a plurality of layers may be included. Methods of fabrication of carbon nanotubes and ultracapacitors are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/491593 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — 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) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0233 (20130101) C01B 2202/04 (20130101) C01B 2202/32 (20130101) C01B 2202/34 (20130101) C01B 2202/36 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/155 (20130101) H01G 9/2004 (20130101) H01G 9/2009 (20130101) H01G 9/2013 (20130101) H01G 9/2018 (20130101) H01G 11/28 (20130101) H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 11/68 (20130101) H01G 11/84 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/345 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09219022 | Parida |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Heat transfer devices and methods for making the same that include a first enclosure having at least one inlet port; a second enclosure having a bottom plate and one or more dividing walls to establish channels, at least one internal surface of each channel having rib structures to create turbulence in a fluid flow; and a jet plate connecting the first enclosure and the second enclosure having impinging jets that convey fluid from the first enclosure to the channels, said impinging jets being set at an angular deviation from normal to cause local acceleration of fluid and to increase a local heat transfer rate. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/415266 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/4735 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4935 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09219182 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuming Chen (Pearland, Texas); Pak-Wing S. Chum (Montgomery, Texas); Kevin E. Howard (Midland, Michigan); Leonardo C. Lopez (Midland, Michigan); William C. Sumner (Midland, Michigan); Shaofu Wu (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuming Chen (Pearland, Texas); Pak-Wing S. Chum (Montgomery, Texas); Kevin E. Howard (Midland, Michigan); Leonardo C. Lopez (Midland, Michigan); William C. Sumner (Midland, Michigan); Shaofu Wu (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The fluoropolymer compositions of the present invention generally incorporate ingredients comprising one or more fluoropolymers, an ultraviolet light protection component (hereinafter UV protection component), and optionally one or more additional ingredients if desired. The UV protection component includes a combination of at least one hindered tertiary amine (HTA) compound having a certain structure and a weight average molecular weight of at least 1000. This tertiary amine is used in combination with at least one organic, UV light absorbing compound (UVLA compound) having a weight average molecular weight greater than 500. When the HTA compound and the UVLA compound are selected according to principles of the present invention, the UV protection component provides fluoropolymer compositions with significantly improved weatherability characteristics for protecting underlying materials, features, structures, components, and/or the like. In particular, fluoropolymer compositions incorporating the UV protection component of the present invention have unexpectedly improved ability to resist blackening, coloration, or other de gradation that may be caused by UV exposure. As a consequence, devices protected by these compositions would be expected to have dramatically improved service life. The compositions have a wide range of uses but are particularly useful for forming protective layers in optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/131103 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 5/005 (20130101) C08K 5/005 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 27/18 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/048 (20130101) H01L 31/0481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09219215 | Yang 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) | Peidong Yang (El Cerrito, California); Arunava Majumdar (Orinda, California); Allon I. Hochbaum (Berkeley, California); Renkun Chen (Berkeley, California); Raul Diaz Delgado (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for a nanostructure, or an array of such nanostructures, each comprising a rough surface, and a doped or undoped semiconductor. The nanostructure is an one-dimensional (1-D) nanostructure, such a nanowire, or a two-dimensional (2-D) nanostructure. The nanostructure can be placed between two electrodes and used for thermoelectric power generation or thermoelectric cooling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/226569 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 35/22 (20130101) H01L 35/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 35/32 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09219317 — Delivering both sum and difference beam distributions to a planar monopulse antenna array
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bernd H. Strassner, II (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernd H. Strassner, II (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar monopulse radar apparatus includes a planar distribution matrix coupled to a planar antenna array having a linear configuration of antenna elements. The planar distribution matrix is responsive to first and second pluralities of weights applied thereto for providing both sum and difference beam distributions across the antenna array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/556348 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 21/0006 (20130101) H01Q 21/0075 (20130101) H01Q 25/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | W. S. Winston Ho (Columbus, Ohio); Hendrik Verweij (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Krenar Shqau (Columbus, Ohio); Kartik Ramasubramanian (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. S. Winston Ho (Columbus, Ohio); Hendrik Verweij (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Krenar Shqau (Columbus, Ohio); Kartik Ramasubramanian (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are membranes comprising a substrate, a support layer, and a selective layer. In some embodiments the membrane may further comprise a permeable layer. Methods of forming membranes are also disclosed comprising forming a support layer on a substrate, removing adsorbed species from the support layer, preparing a solution containing inorganic materials of a selective layer, contacting the support layer with the solution, drying the membrane, and exposing the membrane to rapid thermal processing. Also disclosed are methods of fluid purification comprising providing a membrane having a feed side and a permeable side, passing a fluid mixture across the feed side of the membrane, providing a driving force for transmembrane permeation, removing from the permeate side a permeate stream enriched in a purified fluid, and withdrawing from the feed side a fluid that is depleted in a purified fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/184433 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/009 (20130101) B01D 67/0051 (20130101) B01D 67/0069 (20130101) B01D 67/0072 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/02 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 69/105 (20130101) B01D 69/148 (20130101) B01D 71/022 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 71/025 (20130101) B01D 71/028 (20130101) B01D 71/44 (20130101) B01D 71/68 (20130101) B01D 71/70 (20130101) B01D 2323/30 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09216391 | Revanur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravindra Revanur (Fremont, California); Valentin Lulevich (Berkeley, California); Il Juhn Roh (San Ramon, California); Jennifer E. Klare (Berkeley, California); Sangil Kim (Pleasanton, California); Aleksandr Noy (San Carlos, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Porifera, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra Revanur (Fremont, California); Valentin Lulevich (Berkeley, California); Il Juhn Roh (San Ramon, California); Jennifer E. Klare (Berkeley, California); Sangil Kim (Pleasanton, California); Aleksandr Noy (San Carlos, California); Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Membranes for fluid separation are disclosed. These membranes have a matrix layer sandwiched between an active layer and a porous support layer. The matrix layer includes 1-D nanoparticles that are vertically aligned in a porous polymer matrix, and which substantially extend through the matrix layer. The active layer provides species-specific transport, while the support layer provides mechanical support. A matrix layer of this type has favorable surface morphology for forming the active layer. Furthermore, the pores that form in the matrix layer tend to be smaller and more evenly distributed as a result of the presence of aligned 1-D nanoparticles. Improved performance of separation membranes of this type is attributed to these effects. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/428843 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/228 (20130101) B01D 61/002 (20130101) B01D 61/025 (20130101) B01D 67/006 (20130101) B01D 67/009 (20130101) B01D 67/0079 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 69/125 (20130101) B01D 69/148 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 71/021 (20130101) B01D 71/56 (20130101) B01D 71/70 (20130101) B01D 2323/40 (20130101) B01D 2325/48 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09216590 | Marconi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colorado); SYNOPSYS, INC. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Fort Collins, Colorado); SYNOPSYS, INC. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario C. Marconi (Fort Collins, Colorado); Lukasz Urbanski (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge J. Rocca (Fort Collins, Colorado); Artak Isoyan (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for nanopatterning of substrates using the demagnified Talbot effect, wherein: (a) large arrays of nanostructures can rapidly be printed; (b) short extreme ultraviolet wavelengths permits sub-100 nm spatial resolution; (c) the de-magnification factor can be continuously adjusted, that is, continuously scaled; (d) the patterning is the effect of the collective diffraction of numerous tiled units that constitute the periodic array, giving rise to error resistance such that a defect in one unit is averaged over the area of the mask and the print does not show any defects; (e) the Talbot mask does not wear out since the method is non-contact; and (f) the feature sizes on the mask do not have to be as small as the feature sizes desired on the target, are described. The apparatus includes a source of coherent radiation having a chosen wavelength directed onto a focusing optic, the reflected converging light passing through a Talbot mask and impinging on a target substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/637004 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Typewriters; Selective Printing Mechanisms,, i.e Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From a Forme; Correction of Typographical Errors B41J 2/465 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/2053 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09217058 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Miller (Gainesville, Florida); Alexander G. Pemba (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing a polyacetal comprising polymerization of a mixture comprising a plurality of at least one bis-acetal monomer in the presence of an acid catalyst that promotes the metathesis of the acetal units. The bis-acetal can be formed from an acid catalyzed exchange between a mono-acetal monomer with a diol. The formation of the bis-acetal and the polyacetal can be carried out simultaneously. The diol can be isolated from a biorenewable source and the ultimate polyacetal is a degradable or biodegradable polymer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/034839 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2/06 (20130101) C08G 2/18 (20130101) C08G 4/00 (20130101) C08G 65/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 59/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09217210 | Velev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orlin D. Velev (Cary, North Carolina); Stoyan Smoukov (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlin D. Velev (Cary, North Carolina); Stoyan Smoukov (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanofibers are fabricated by introducing a mixture of a polymer solution and inorganic precursor into a dispersion medium and shearing the mixture. Liquid strands, streaks or droplets of the mixture are spun into elongated fibers that include inorganic fibrils. The resulting composite inorganic/polymer fibers may be provided as an end product. Alternatively, the polymer may be removed to liberate the inorganic fibrils, which may be of the same or smaller cross-section as the polymer fibers and may be provided as an end product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/473018 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — 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 47/122 (20130101) B29C 55/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/638 (20130101) C04B 35/6225 (20130101) C04B 35/6264 (20130101) C04B 35/62236 (20130101) C04B 35/62259 (20130101) C04B 35/63432 (20130101) C04B 2235/441 (20130101) C04B 2235/765 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/40 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class D01F 9/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2913 (20150115) Y10T 442/698 (20150401) |
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| US 09217211 | Velev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orlin D. Velev (Cary, North Carolina); Stoyan Smoukov (Skokie, Illinois); Peter Geisen (Durham, North Carolina); Miles C. Wright (Raleigh, North Carolina); Sumit Gangwal (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raliegh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlin D. Velev (Cary, North Carolina); Stoyan Smoukov (Skokie, Illinois); Peter Geisen (Durham, North Carolina); Miles C. Wright (Raleigh, North Carolina); Sumit Gangwal (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanofibers are fabricated in a continuous process by introducing a polymer solution into a dispersion medium, which flows through a conduit and shears the dispersion medium. Liquid strands, streaks or droplets of the polymer solution are continuously shear-spun into elongated fibers. An inorganic precursor may be introduced with the polymer solution, resulting in fibers that include inorganic fibrils. The resulting composite inorganic/polymer fibers may be provided as an end product. Alternatively, the polymer may be removed to liberate the inorganic fibrils, which may be of the same or smaller cross-section as the polymer fibers and may be provided as an end product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/473327 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/40 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09217370 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ivan Wang (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Ethier (Boston, Massachusetts); Hardy Shen (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dynamo Micropower Corporation (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Wang (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Ethier (Boston, Massachusetts); Hardy Shen (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-turbine engine, consisting of at least a compressor, combustor, and turbine, is a complicated fluid flow device that controls the flow rate and thermodynamic properties of a working fluid in order to generate shaft power. Existing micro-turbines are costly to manufacture because they are designed with sophisticated contours and exotic materials. The present invention discloses a method for designing a micro-turbine with stacked layers of structure, each of which is designed with vertically simple geometry such that it can be manufactured using conventional machining technology. The resulting micro-turbine is low cost compared to existing alternatives in the target range of power outputs and applications. The present invention also describes a method for connecting the micro-turbine to an electrical generator to generate power. Lastly, the method for designing the micro-turbine is applied to heat exchangers, Rankine engines, fluid mixers, and other fluid flow devices. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/399047 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 15/10 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/05 (20130101) F02C 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/32 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/10 (20130101) F05D 2250/82 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/16 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/6416 (20150401) Y10T 137/8593 (20150401) Y10T 137/85978 (20150401) |
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| US 09217727 | Rosenstein et al. |
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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) | Jacob Rosenstein (New York, New York); Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting a single-molecule using an integrated circuit which includes at least one membrane having a nanopore located between first and second reservoirs and a low-noise preamplifier having an electrode formed on the surface thereof is provided. The method includes passing a target molecule through the nanopore, and measuring a current through the nanopore to detect the presence of a biomolecular entity, if any. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787341 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44791 (20130101) G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/852 (20130101) |
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| US 09217741 | Bidle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kay Daniel Bidle (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Assaf Vardi (Haifa, Israel); Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy (Falmouth, Massachusetts); Helen F. Fredricks (Rochester, Massachusetts); Liti Haramaty (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay Daniel Bidle (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Assaf Vardi (Haifa, Israel); Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy (Falmouth, Massachusetts); Helen F. Fredricks (Rochester, Massachusetts); Liti Haramaty (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Phytoplankton represent a potential source of bioactive compounds. The present disclosure provides, inter alia, methods for identifying glycerolipids and apoptosis-inducing sphingosine-like lipids from virally-infected phytoplankton. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940927 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5097 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09217830 | Lipson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Sasikanth Manipatruni (Ithaca, New York); Long Chen (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Kyle Preston (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Sasikanth Manipatruni (Ithaca, New York); Long Chen (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Kyle Preston (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic modulator structure, a method for fabricating the electro-optic modulator structure, a method for operating an electro-optic modulator device that derives from the electro-optic modulator structure and a related communications apparatus that includes the electro-optic modulator structure all are directed towards effecting a comparatively low voltage operation of the electro-optic modulator device predicated upon consideration of optimal charge carrier injection efficiency characteristics of a PIN diode charge carrier injection based micro-ring electro-optic modulator structure as a function of applied bias voltage. To realize the foregoing result, at least in part, the PIN diode charge carrier injection based electro-optic modulator structure includes at least one of a p-doped region and an n-doped region that has a relatively high volume dopant concentration at a surface thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/697866 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 6/29338 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29341 (20130101) G02B 2006/12142 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/3133 (20130101) |
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| US 09218035 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tao Li (Gainesville, Florida); Chao Li (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Li (Gainesville, Florida); Chao Li (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Various examples are provided for renewable energy control. In one example, among others, a system includes a PV source, a multi-core processor load, and a solar power manager configured to adjust an operating point of the PV source about a maximum power point by dynamically adjusting a transfer ratio and a load level. In another example, a method includes sensing an output current supplied to a multi-core processor load by a power converter at a first transfer ratio, sensing another output current supplied at a second transfer ratio, and determining an operating point of the PV source with respect to a maximum power point based upon the output currents. In another example, a system includes a power manager configured to switch servers between a renewable energy supply and a utility energy supply based at least in part upon a budget level and the load power consumption. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/763643 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/263 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218061 | Majumder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California); Fadi Kurdahi (Irvine, California); Kiarash Amiri (Irvine, California); Magda El Zarki (Irvine, California); Shih-Hsien Yang (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California); Fadi Kurdahi (Irvine, California); Kiarash Amiri (Irvine, California); Magda El Zarki (Irvine, California); Shih-Hsien Yang (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of audio and video synchronization may include capturing an image by each of a plurality of cameras. The images and audio may be compared with each other for synchronization. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528675 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/3147 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218460 | Singh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ambuj K. Singh (Santa Barbara, California); Sayan Ranu (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ambuj K. Singh (Santa Barbara, California); Sayan Ranu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for mining pharmacophore patterns including computer-implemented methods for generating a database of pharmacophores and computer-implemented methods for classifying a query molecule with the database of pharmacophores. Generation of the pharmacophore database includes methods of defining a Joint Pharmacophore Space (JPS) using the three-dimensional geometry of pharmacophoric features of all active molecules against multiple targets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/466669 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/16 (20130101) G06F 19/28 (20130101) G06F 19/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/707 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218506 | Tehranipoor et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Tehranipoor (Mansfield, Connecticut); Kan Xiao (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and systems for preventing hardware Trojan insertion. An example method can comprise determining unused space in an integrated circuit (IC), selecting a plurality of built-in self-authentication (BISA) filler cells based on the determined unused space, and placing the selected plurality of BISA filler cells onto the unused space. The plurality of BISA filler cells can be connected to form a plurality of BISA blocks. The plurality of BISA blocks can correspond to a plurality of signatures. A modification of one or more BISA filler cell can lead to an alteration of one or more signatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/204656 |
| ART UNIT | 2494 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 21/70 (20130101) G06F 21/71 (20130101) G06F 21/75 (20130101) G06F 21/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09218906 | Hübler |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred W. Hübler (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for storing information or energy. An array of nano-capacitors is provided, where each nano-capacitor has a cathodic electrode and an anode separated by a dielectric. The thickness of the intervening solid dielectric is in the range between 0.1 nanometers and 1000 nanometers and is shorter than an electron mean free path within the dielectric. The cathodic electrode is at least 100 times larger than the thickness of the intervening dielectric in every direction transverse to the thickness of the intervening dielectric. An excess of electrons is stored on the cathodic electrode. The dielectric may be a metal oxide, particularly a native oxide of the cathode material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186118 |
| ART UNIT | 2848 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 4/10 (20130101) H01G 4/12 (20130101) H01G 4/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09219166 | Kan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York); NANO-C, INC. (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin C. Kan (Ithaca, New York); Qianying Xu (Ithaca, New York); Ramesh Sivarajan (Shrewbury, Massachusetts); Henning Richter (Newton, Massachusetts); Viktor Vejins (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of tunneling barriers and methods for same can embed molecules exhibiting a monodispersion characteristic into a dielectric layer (e.g., between first and second layers forming a dielectric layer). In one embodiment, by embedding C60 molecules inbetween first and second insulating layers forming a dielectric layer, a field sensitive tunneling barrier can be implemented. In one embodiment, the tunneling barrier can be between a floating gate and a channel in a semiconductor structure. In one embodiment, a tunneling film can be used in nonvolatile memory applications where C60 provides accessible energy levels to prompt resonant tunneling through the dielectric layer upon voltage application. Embodiments also contemplate engineered fullerene molecules incorporated within the context of at least one of a tunneling dielectric and a floating gate within a nonvolatile flash memory structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/138294 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/0466 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28273 (20130101) H01L 21/28282 (20130101) H01L 27/11521 (20130101) H01L 27/11568 (20130101) H01L 29/51 (20130101) H01L 29/513 (20130101) H01L 29/7883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/42324 (20130101) |
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| US 09219226 | Shi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Shi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Valy Vardeny (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The spacer in a spin-valve is replaced with an organic layer, allowing for numerous applications, including light-emitting structures. The invention demonstrates that the spin coherence of the organic material is sufficiently long that the carriers do not lose their spin memory even in traversing a thicker passive barrier. At least three methods to fabricate the organic spin-valve devices are disclosed, in which the difficulties associated with depositing the ferromagnetic (FM) and organic layers are addressed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/851537 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 25/00 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/091 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 5/29 (20130101) G11B 5/31 (20130101) G11B 5/3906 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 11/16 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 10/005 (20130101) H01F 10/1936 (20130101) H01F 10/3213 (20130101) H01F 10/3254 (20130101) H01F 10/3268 (20130101) H01F 10/3281 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 43/12 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1107 (20150115) |
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| US 09219239 | Huang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsong Huang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Bin Yang (Lincoln, Nebraska); Yongbo Yuan (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a substrate; and a photoactive layer disposed on the substrate. The photoactive layer includes an electron acceptor material; an electron donor material; and a material having dipoles. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/263571 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) H01L 51/44 (20130101) H01L 51/0046 (20130101) H01L 51/445 (20130101) H01L 51/4293 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/308 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09219694 | Banerjee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin); Yadi Ma (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) provides a pre-classifier section which analyzes a subset of received data values to forward the entire received data values only to selected portions of a TCAM likely holding that data value to substantially reduce power consumption required for classification. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/841477 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/24 (20130101) H04L 47/2441 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09219998 | King et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary King (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Brian Lukoff (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Representative embodiments of a method for grouping participants in an activity include the steps of: (i) defining a grouping policy; (ii) storing, in a database, participant records that include a participant identifier, a characteristic associated with the participant, and/or an identifier for a participant's handheld device; (iii) defining groupings based on the policy and characteristics of the participants relating to the policy and to the activity; and (iv) communicating the groupings to the handheld devices to establish the groups. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/537790 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30893 (20130101) G06F 17/30896 (20130101) G06F 21/41 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06311 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/02 (20130101) H04W 4/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09216202 | Centanni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Centanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Centanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compositions for wound closure. More specifically, the present invention provides human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides (e.g., antimicrobial polypeptides and keratinocyte growth factor 2) and compositions and methods for making human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. In addition, the present invention provides methods for treatment of wounds with human skin equivalents engineered to express exogenous polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/297916 |
| 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 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (20130101) A61K 2035/122 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/60 (20130101) A61L 27/3813 (20130101) A61L 27/3895 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/50 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0629 (20130101) C12N 5/0698 (20130101) C12N 2501/117 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2502/094 (20130101) C12N 2502/1323 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09217055 | Bulluck |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Research International, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Bulluck (Spicewood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for coating a metallic surface of an aircraft. The process includes applying to the metallic surface a composition that polymerizes to form a polyurea having a tensile strength of more than 3500 psi and at least 700% elongation. The polyurea can be formed from an A-side and a B-side, where the weight percents of components for the A-side are: from about 30 to about 65 percent of polyisocyanate; from about 15 to about 70 percent of a polytetramethylene ether glycol; diluent, from 0 to about 20 percent; where the weight percents of components for the B-side are: from 35 to about 40 percent of one or more aromatic diamines; from about 20 to about 70 percent of one or more amine terminated polyether polyols. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/533732 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/02 (20130101) B05D 1/34 (20130101) B05D 2202/10 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/10 (20130101) C08G 18/12 (20130101) C08G 18/12 (20130101) C08G 18/325 (20130101) C08G 18/755 (20130101) C08G 18/3234 (20130101) C08G 18/3237 (20130101) C08G 18/4854 (20130101) C08G 18/5024 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 18/6685 (20130101) C08G 2261/62 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 175/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/31681 (20150401) |
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| US 09217370 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ivan Wang (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Ethier (Boston, Massachusetts); Hardy Shen (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dynamo Micropower Corporation (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan Wang (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Ethier (Boston, Massachusetts); Hardy Shen (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-turbine engine, consisting of at least a compressor, combustor, and turbine, is a complicated fluid flow device that controls the flow rate and thermodynamic properties of a working fluid in order to generate shaft power. Existing micro-turbines are costly to manufacture because they are designed with sophisticated contours and exotic materials. The present invention discloses a method for designing a micro-turbine with stacked layers of structure, each of which is designed with vertically simple geometry such that it can be manufactured using conventional machining technology. The resulting micro-turbine is low cost compared to existing alternatives in the target range of power outputs and applications. The present invention also describes a method for connecting the micro-turbine to an electrical generator to generate power. Lastly, the method for designing the micro-turbine is applied to heat exchangers, Rankine engines, fluid mixers, and other fluid flow devices. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/399047 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 15/10 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/05 (20130101) F02C 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/32 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/10 (20130101) F05D 2250/82 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/16 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/6416 (20150401) Y10T 137/8593 (20150401) Y10T 137/85978 (20150401) |
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| US 09219166 | Kan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York); NANO-C, INC. (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin C. Kan (Ithaca, New York); Qianying Xu (Ithaca, New York); Ramesh Sivarajan (Shrewbury, Massachusetts); Henning Richter (Newton, Massachusetts); Viktor Vejins (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of tunneling barriers and methods for same can embed molecules exhibiting a monodispersion characteristic into a dielectric layer (e.g., between first and second layers forming a dielectric layer). In one embodiment, by embedding C60 molecules inbetween first and second insulating layers forming a dielectric layer, a field sensitive tunneling barrier can be implemented. In one embodiment, the tunneling barrier can be between a floating gate and a channel in a semiconductor structure. In one embodiment, a tunneling film can be used in nonvolatile memory applications where C60 provides accessible energy levels to prompt resonant tunneling through the dielectric layer upon voltage application. Embodiments also contemplate engineered fullerene molecules incorporated within the context of at least one of a tunneling dielectric and a floating gate within a nonvolatile flash memory structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/138294 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 16/10 (20130101) G11C 16/0466 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28273 (20130101) H01L 21/28282 (20130101) H01L 27/11521 (20130101) H01L 27/11568 (20130101) H01L 29/51 (20130101) H01L 29/513 (20130101) H01L 29/7883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/42324 (20130101) |
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| US 09215983 | Milner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel contrast mechanism for imaging blood flow using magneto-motive optical Doppler tomography (MM-ODT), Optical Coherence Tomography, and Ultrasound. MM-ODT, OCT, and ultrasound combined with an externally applied temporally oscillating high-strength magnetic field detects erythrocytes moving according to the field gradient. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/229200 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/05 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/0073 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 8/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09216414 | Chu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Larry Li-Yang Chu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gen9, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Li-Yang Chu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain aspects of the present invention provide devices and methods for preparing oligonucleotides and for assembling nucleic acid molecules using microfluidic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/511850 |
| 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 Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/0052 (20130101) B01J 2219/00286 (20130101) B01J 2219/00511 (20130101) B01J 2219/00596 (20130101) B01J 2219/00619 (20130101) B01J 2219/00653 (20130101) B01J 2219/00655 (20130101) B01J 2219/00722 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502784 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2300/1861 (20130101) B01L 2400/0478 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09217144 | Jacobson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Jacobson (Newton, Massachusetts); Larry Li-Yang Chu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gen9, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Jacobson (Newton, Massachusetts); Larry Li-Yang Chu (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus relate to the synthesis of high fidelity polynucleotides and to the reduction of sequence errors generated during synthesis of nucleic acids on a solid support. Specifically, design of support-bound template oligonucleotides is disclosed. Assembly methods include cycles of annealing, stringent wash and extension of polynucleotides comprising a sequence region complementary to immobilized template oligonucleotides. The error free synthetic nucleic acids generated therefrom can be used for a variety of applications, including synthesis of biofuels and value-added pharmaceutical products. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/520383 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1031 (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 1/6811 (20130101) C12Q 1/6811 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2565/525 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09217129 | Moretti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matteo G. Moretti (Milan, Italy); Lisa E. Freed (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matteo G. Moretti (Milan, Italy); Lisa E. Freed (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for cell or tissue culture are provided. One aspect provides a bioreactor having a gas permeable, closed-loop chamber for cell or tissue culture, and an oscillating means for moving the gas permeable, closed-loop chamber bidirectionally along an axis horizontal to an axis normal to the closed-loop chamber to force convection of cells and fluid in the gas permeable, closed-loop chamber. The bioreactor optionally includes a tissue engineering scaffold, an inlet means, an outlet means, and integrated sensors. Another aspect provides a bioreactor having a plurality of gas permeable, closed-loop chambers for cell or tissue culture. Methods of culturing cells and producing tissue constructs are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/526300 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3895 (20130101) Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 23/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 23/06 (20130101) C12M 23/24 (20130101) C12M 25/14 (20130101) C12M 27/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09218641 | Ellis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth K. Ellis (Columbia City, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Exelis, Inc. (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth K. Ellis (Columbia City, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining slope of pixel intensities in an image includes the following steps: (a) receiving, from an imaging device, input pixel samples of a region of interest; (b) forming an impulse response function (IPR) for use in resampling the input pixel samples into output pixel intensities; and (c) calculating a derivative of the IPR. Also included is the step of convolving the derivative of the IPR with the input pixel samples to determine the slope of the output pixel intensities in the region of interest. In addition, the input pixel samples are generated in a first coordinate system by the imaging device, and the output pixel intensities are generated in a second coordinate system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/526799 |
| ART UNIT | 2481 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 11/02 (20130101) G01C 11/025 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 3/4007 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09216213 | Maki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joanne L. Maki (Colbert, Georgia); Tricia Lynn Fry (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jerome Cornelius Hurley (Fort Collins, Colorado); Lowell Allen Miller (Greeley, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MERIAL, INC. (Duluth, Georgia); The United States of America As Represented By The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanne L. Maki (Colbert, Georgia); Tricia Lynn Fry (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jerome Cornelius Hurley (Fort Collins, Colorado); Lowell Allen Miller (Greeley, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to adjuvanted recombinant anti-rabies vaccines and the oral administration of such vaccines to raccoons and other wildlife. Advantageously, the anti-rabies vaccine may comprise a recombinant vaccinia virus containing a rabies glycoprotein gene. The invention encompasses methods of vaccinating raccoons and other wildlife by administration of an anti-rabies vaccines which may comprise a recombinant vaccinia virus containing a rabies glycoprotein gene, in combination with an adjuvant which increases both vaccine viscosity and efficacy. The invention provides effective oral recombinant vaccines used in oral rabies vaccination (ORV) programs for wildlife, effective at protecting raccoons, gray foxes, coyotes, and other animals. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/451667 |
| 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 39/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/542 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) A61K 2039/55583 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/145 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/24111 (20130101) C12N 2710/24141 (20130101) C12N 2710/24143 (20130101) C12N 2760/18034 (20130101) C12N 2760/20134 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09216415 | Shenderov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander D. Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic (Morrisville, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander D. Shenderov (Raleigh, North Carolina); Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for dispensing liquid, comprising the steps of: (a) positioning a droplet to be dispensed in a gap of an electrowetting device using an electrowetting array; and (b) dispensing the droplet through a hole in a housing or substrate of the electrowetting device. The invention further provides a method for withdrawing liquid comprising the steps of: (a) positioning a droplet to be withdrawn from a gap of an electrowetting device using an electrowetting array; and (b) withdrawing the droplet through a hole in a housing or substrate of the electrowetting device. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006798 |
| 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 3/502792 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0673 (20130101) B01L 2300/089 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0427 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09218426 | Tyson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Mabry Tyson (Los Altos, California); Douglas E. Appelt (Palo Alto, California); Min Yin (San Jose, California); William Jarrold (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes instructions to collect explicit feedback from a user regarding user content preferences. Multiple data sources are monitored. Topics associated with the multiple data sources are classified. The importance of the topics to the user is characterized. Content is delivered to the user when a selected topic exceeds an importance threshold for the user. Implicit feedback from the user that characterizes refined user content preferences is tracked. The instructions to characterize the importance of topics evaluates the explicit feedback and the implicit feedback. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/595109 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30699 (20130101) G06F 17/30705 (20130101) G06F 17/30867 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09219603 | Douglis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Zachary Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Fan Ye (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Douglis (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Zachary Garbow (Rochester, Minnesota); Fan Ye (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for protecting streams in a mixed infrastructure includes determining processing elements that are to access a data stream in a stream processing environment and determining a security level for each processing element. Keys are generated per stream per processing element in accordance with the security level. The keys are associated with processing elements in an access control list in a location accessible by producing and consuming processing elements. The stream is decrypted for processing using keys released upon authenticating processing elements in accordance with the access control list. At security boundaries, the stream is re-encrypted in accordance with a next processing element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971322 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/088 (20130101) H04L 9/0841 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09216220 | Nguyen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kytai T. Nguyen (Grand Prairie, Texas); Maham Rahimi (Lubbock, Texas); Soujanya Kona (Andhra Pradesh, India); Arthur H. Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kytai T. Nguyen (Grand Prairie, Texas); Maham Rahimi (Lubbock, Texas); Soujanya Kona (Andhra Pradesh, India); Arthur H. Lin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are systems, methods, and compositions for polymer nanoparticles and polymer magnetic nanoparticles. More particularly, the polymer nanoparticles and polymer magnetic nanoparticles are temperature sensitive and responsive to a first temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/937218 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0009 (20130101) A61K 9/5094 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 41/00 (20130101) A61K 41/0028 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/4893 (20130101) A61K 49/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09218061 | Majumder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California); Fadi Kurdahi (Irvine, California); Kiarash Amiri (Irvine, California); Magda El Zarki (Irvine, California); Shih-Hsien Yang (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aditi Majumder (Irvine, California); Fadi Kurdahi (Irvine, California); Kiarash Amiri (Irvine, California); Magda El Zarki (Irvine, California); Shih-Hsien Yang (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of audio and video synchronization may include capturing an image by each of a plurality of cameras. The images and audio may be compared with each other for synchronization. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528675 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/017 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 9/3147 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09217649 | Dror et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moshe Dror (Tucson, Arizona); Katherine E. Carl (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing a topographical graph are provided. A computer-implemented method for providing a topographical graph includes accessing, by a computer processor, road map data associated with a geographic area, and accessing, by the computer processor, elevation data associated with the geographic area. The computer processor references the elevation data to determine points at which there is a change in incline along roads in the geographic area. The topographical graph is constructed, with the points defining nodes in the topographical graph, and arcs between the nodes representing road segments having a substantially constant degree of incline. Further provided are methods for determining levels of perceived exertion in traversing arcs, and for optimizing travel routes for minimal perceived exertion. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/051338 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) G01C 21/20 (20130101) G01C 21/32 (20130101) G01C 21/34 (20130101) G01C 21/3484 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/3617 (20130101) G01C 21/3641 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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