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| US 09220411 | Hillman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elizabeth M.C. Hillman (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elizabeth M.C. Hillman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In-vivo optical molecular imaging methods for producing an image of an animal are described. A time series of image data sets of an optical contrast substance in the animal is acquired using an optical detector Each image data set is obtained at a selected time and has the same plurality of pixels, with each pixel having an associated value. The image data sets are analyzed to identify a plurality of distinctive time courses, and respective pixel sets are determined from the plurality of pixels which correspond to each of the time courses. In one embodiment, each pixel set is associated with an identified anatomical or other structure, and an anatomical image map of the animal can be generated which includes one or more of the anatomical structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302986 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/415 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) A61B 2503/40 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0017 (20130101) |
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| US 09220427 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for reconstructing cardiac activation information, an analysis cardiac signal and a reference cardiac signal are processed to determine a first point of change in a derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a derivative of the reference cardiac signal. The analysis cardiac signal and the reference cardiac signal are processed to determine a second point of change in a different derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a different derivative of the reference cardiac signal. An activation onset time is assigned in the analysis cardiac signal at a point based on a mathematical association of the first point of change and the second point of change to define cardiac activation indicating a beat in the analysis cardiac signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/670300 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/04011 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) |
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| US 09220483 | Frankhouser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul L. Frankhouser (Miami Beach, Florida); Maureen L. Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Roger B. Bagwell (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Ryan S. Clement (State College, Pennsylvania); Gabriela Hernandez Mesa (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan M. Sheehan (Altoona, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Park (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Frankhouser (Miami Beach, Florida); Maureen L. Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Roger B. Bagwell (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Ryan S. Clement (State College, Pennsylvania); Gabriela Hernandez Mesa (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan M. Sheehan (Altoona, Pennsylvania); Brian M. Park (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical device for reducing the force necessary to penetrate living being tissue using a variety of reciprocating motion actuators. The reciprocating actuator drives a penetrating member, such as a needle, through the tissue at a reduced force while the device detects the passage of the penetrating member through the tissue. Upon passage of the penetrating member through the tissue, a feedback system monitors electromechanical properties of a control signal of the device and automatically modifies control based thereon, e.g., electrical power to the reciprocating actuator is automatically terminated. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371310 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 10/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/3401 (20130101) A61B 17/3415 (20130101) A61B 17/3476 (20130101) A61B 17/320068 (20130101) A61B 2017/00115 (20130101) A61B 2017/00123 (20130101) A61B 2019/464 (20130101) |
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| US 09220634 | Nirenberg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sheila Nirenberg (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheila Nirenberg (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a retinal prosthetic method and device that mimics the responses of the retina to a broad range of stimuli, including natural stimuli. Ganglion cell firing patterns are generated in response to a stimulus using a set of encoders, interfaces, and transducers, where each transducer targets a single cell or a small number of cells. The conversion occurs on the same time scale as that carried out by the normal retina. In addition, aspects of the invention may be used with robotic or other mechanical devices, where processing of visual information is required. The encoders may be adjusted over time with aging or the progression of a disease. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/595812 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 9/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0543 (20130101) A61N 1/36046 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) |
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| US 09220654 | Barlow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INNARA HEALTH (Olathe, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innara Health, Inc. (Olathe, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Barlow (Lawrence, Kansas); David L. Stalling (Olathe, Kansas); Kenneth Aron (Olathe, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a therapeutic system and methods of using the therapeutic system. In particular, the present invention relates to systems having hardware, software, and appliance components for assessing and entraining a neuromuscular pattern or behavior in a patient. The methods include configuring the hardware and software systems to receive data from an orofacial stimulation appliance and to generate a precise therapeutic pulse profile that is actuated as a tactile stimulus. In one embodiment, the system and methods also include collecting data using the orofacial stimulation appliance and delivering the tactile stimulus via the orofacial stimulation appliance to entrain an organized neuromuscular pattern or behavior. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/530232 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/038 (20130101) A61B 5/0053 (20130101) A61B 5/4064 (20130101) A61B 5/6896 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 9/0007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Containers Specially Adapted for Medical or Pharmaceutical Purposes; Devices or Methods Specially Adapted for Bringing Pharmaceutical Products into Particular Physical or Administering Forms; Devices for Administering Food or Medicines Orally; Baby Comforters; Devices for Receiving Spittle A61J 1/1418 (20150501) A61J 17/001 (20150501) A61J 17/02 (20130101) A61J 2017/001 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/3606 (20130101) A61N 1/3611 (20130101) A61N 1/3615 (20130101) A61N 1/36067 (20130101) A61N 1/36103 (20130101) A61N 1/36171 (20130101) A61N 1/36178 (20130101) A61N 1/37247 (20130101) |
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| US 09220683 | Manoharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Butler (Medford, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Narayanannair (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laxmab Eltepu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Burnaby, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muthiah Manoharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kallanthottathil G. Rajeev (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Butler (Medford, Massachusetts); Jayaprakash K. Narayanannair (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Muthusamy Jayaraman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Laxmab Eltepu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides lipids that are advantageously used in lipid particles for the in vivo delivery of therapeutic agents to cells. In particular, the invention provides lipids having the following structures: (Formula (I) or (XXXV)). |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128253 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09220685 | Trogler 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) | William C. Trogler (Del Mar, California); Sadik C. Esener (Solana Beach, California); Davorka Messmer (San Diego, California); Johan Ulrik Lind (Copenhagen E., Denmark); Kristina K. P. Mitchell (San Diego, California); Jian Yang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provide hollow nanospheres and methods of making and using the same. The methods and compositions of the disclosure are useful for drug delivery and gene transfer. |
| FILED | Friday, April 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/866940 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/1611 (20130101) A61K 9/2009 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 47/48869 (20130101) A61K 48/0041 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/6093 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 33/12 (20130101) C01B 33/18 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/87 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09220695 | Golub et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lorne M. Golub (Smithtown, New York); Francis Johnson (Setauket, New York); Galina I. Botchkina (Stony Brook, New York); Iwao Ojima (Port Jefferson, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorne M. Golub (Smithtown, New York); Francis Johnson (Setauket, New York); Galina I. Botchkina (Stony Brook, New York); Iwao Ojima (Port Jefferson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of inhibiting the growth of or promoting differentiation and destruction of cancer stem cells (CSCs) comprising contacting the cancer stem cells with a compound having the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/408748 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/136 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09220697 | Delgado-Escueta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Kazuhiro Yamakawa (Saitama, Japan); Toshimitsu Suzuki (Saitama, Japan); Marco Tulio Medina-Hernandez (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); Maria Elisa Alonso Vilatela (Delegacion, Mexico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Kazuhiro Yamakawa (Saitama, Japan); Toshimitsu Suzuki (Saitama, Japan); Marco Tulio Medina-Hernandez (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); Maria Elisa Alonso Vilatela (Delegacion, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1, EFHC1 agonists, or EFHC1 analogs are provided. Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1a, EFHC1a agonists, or EFHC1a analogs are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914844 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09220706 | Perrotti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland); U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS) (Bethesda, Maryland); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NIH DIVISION OF EXTRAMURAL INVENTIONS AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Danilo Perrotti (Dublin, Ohio); Paolo Neviani (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting the growth of leukemic hematopoietic stem cells in a subject with leukemia is described. The method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition including a compound of formula I: I wherein R1 is independently selected from hydrogen and methyl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of 4,8-dimethyl-non-1-enyl, 4,8-dimethyl-nonyl, non-1-enyl, and nonanyl groups; X is a carboxyl, phosphonic, or sulfonic moiety, and n is an integer from 1 to 6, or a compound of Formula II: II wherein R1 is a C6-C12 alkyl or C6-C12 alkoxy group; R2 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, methoxy, and hydroxyl; and R3 is an alkyl or cycloalkyl group; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/404496 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/353 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/353 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09220709 | Wheatley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Margaret A. Wheatley (Media, Pennsylvania); Odelia Mualem Burstein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John R. Eisenbrey (Middletown, Delaware); Dalia El-Sherif (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret A. Wheatley (Media, Pennsylvania); Odelia Mualem Burstein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John R. Eisenbrey (Middletown, Delaware); Dalia El-Sherif (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an improvement to methods of drug loading of ultrasound contrast agents. Echogenic drug-loaded polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof produced by the method of the invention wherein the echogenic drug-loaded polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof contain at least 10% more of a drug as compared to (1) echogenic drug-loaded polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof prepared by adding drug prior to emulsifying or (2) echogenic drug-loaded polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof prepared by adding drug to lyophilized polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/301423 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — 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 9/1647 (20130101) A61K 9/1694 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 41/0028 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48869 (20130101) A61K 49/225 (20130101) |
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| US 09220711 | Niedernhofer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura J. Niedernhofer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Paul D. Robbins (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of inhibiting one or more signs of aging and/or degenerative disorder in a subject in need of such treatment, which comprise administering, to the subject, an effective amount of one or more of the compounds as set forth herein. “Inhibiting a sign of aging or degenerative disorder” means reducing the risk of occurrence, delaying the onset, slowing the progression, and/or reducing the severity and/or manifestation, of a sign of aging or degenerative disorder, and includes, but is not limited to, preventing the occurrence, development or progression of a sign of aging or degenerative disorder. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/218784 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/4926 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/54 (20130101) A61K 31/445 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 19/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09220716 | Bischoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joyce Bischoff (Weston, Massachusetts); Shoshana Greenberger (Modiin, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce Bischoff (Weston, Massachusetts); Shoshana Greenberger (Modiin, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | The technology described herein is directed to methods and compositions for the treatment of proliferative vascular disorders, e.g. hemangioma. In some aspects, the methods and compositions described herein related to a mTOR inhibitor or nifedipine. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/558850 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/138 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09220720 | Dudley, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing arrhythmic risk associated with cardiomyopathy includes administering a composition containing NAD+ or a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant to an individual in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551790 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/7084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09220721 | Aguirre et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aitor Aguirre (La Jolla, California); Ignacio Sancho-Martinez (San Diego, California); Juan Carlos Izpisua-Belmonte (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for heart regeneration are provided. The invention provided herein includes methods of modulating proliferation of cardiomyocytes using small molecules and micro RNAs. In embodiments, the methods provided may be used to increase proliferation or cardiomyocytes. Further provided are methods to be used for the treatment of myocardial infarction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/052538 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09220723 | Ren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ruibao Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Benjamin Cuiffo (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruibao Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Benjamin Cuiffo (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides agents useful in the treatment of cancer, as well as systems for identifying and/or characterizing such agents, and systems for identifying and/or characterizing patient populations responsive to particular agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805621 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/336 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 203/01085 (20130101) |
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| US 09220729 | Kriegstein 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) | Arnold Kriegstein (Mill Valley, California); John L. R. Rubenstein (San Francisco, California); Scott C. Baraban (Novato, California); Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods for the treatment of a mammal having a neurological condition, disease, or injury. The methods involve increasing the number of functional GABAergic interneurons at or near the site of the neurological disease, injury, or condition. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/744201 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2800/28 (20130101) G01N 2800/2835 (20130101) G01N 2800/2842 (20130101) |
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| US 09220730 | Johe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NeuralStem, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neuralstem, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl K. Johe (Potomac, Maryland); Thomas G. Hazel (North Potomac, Maryland); Martin Marsala (San Diego, California); Osamu Kakinohana (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to methods of treating spasticity, rigidity, or muscular hyperactivity conditions by introducing a portion of an expanded population of neural stem cells into an area of a recipient spinal cord. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/890787 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0623 (20130101) C12N 2501/11 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2501/148 (20130101) |
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| US 09220746 | Clemmons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Clemmons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Clifford J. Rosen (Freeport, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Maine Medical Center (Scarborough, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Clemmons (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Clifford J. Rosen (Freeport, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptides and methods of their use in treating bone disorders and bone-related conditions and in treating obesity. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/375562 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09220764 | Talaat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adel M. Talaat (Madison, Wisconsin); Sarah K. Ward (Madison, Wisconsin); Bassam Abomoelak (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with one or more disrupted genes are presented, where the disrupted genes include ctpV, rv0990c, rv0971c, and/or rv0348. Compositions containing mutants with attenuated virulence and pathogenesis, which are capable of stimulation of an immune response against tuberculosis, are described. Compositions and methods relating to immunogenic compositions, which include an attenuated M. tb strain in which the M. tb genome includes a disruption of at least one of the ctpV gene, the rv0990c gene, the rv0971c gene, and the rv0348 gene, are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/733777 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/74 (20130101) A61K 39/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/35 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/36 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) |
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| US 09220772 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yu Zhou (San Francisco, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Zhou (San Francisco, California); James D. Marks (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies that bind to tumor associated antigen CD44 or to tumor associated antigen EphA2, are disclosed herein, as well as related compositions and methods of use. Methods of use encompass cancer therapies, diagnostics, and screening methods. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/810638 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/464 (20130101) C07K 16/2866 (20130101) C07K 16/2884 (20130101) C07K 2317/10 (20130101) C07K 2317/21 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) |
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| US 09220791 | Stayton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); PhaseRx, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); PhaseRx, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Anthony Convertine (Seattle, Washington); Craig L. Duvall (Nashville, Tennessee); Robert Overell (Shoreline, Washington); Paul Johnson (Snohomish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for delivering an agent to a cell, comprising a bispecific affinity reagent and a pH-responsive, membrane destabilizing polymer. The bispecific affinity reagent may include a first affinity reagent covalently linked to a second affinity reagent, wherein the first affinity reagent binds to a molecule on the surface of a cell, and the second affinity reagent binds to an intracellular target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/173730 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48176 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 47/48507 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48715 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/32 (20130101) C07K 16/468 (20130101) C07K 16/2881 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09221764 | Bushweller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John H. Bushweller (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jolanta Grembecka (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anuradha Illendula (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren Dixon (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Bushweller (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jolanta Grembecka (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anuradha Illendula (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren Dixon (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes the development of targeted small molecule inhibitors of the inv(16) fusion, the causative agent in ˜12% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The inv(16) fusion results in expression of the CBFβ-SMMHC fusion protein in the blood cells of afflicted patients. The present invention provides compounds which inhibit the function of both CBFβ and the CBFβ-SMMHC fusion. These compounds block the growth of an inv(16) leukemia cell line as well as increase its apoptosis, while showing minimal effects against non inv(16) cell lines. As a mechanism to develop inhibitors with selectivity for the CBFβ-SMMHC fusion protein, the present invention further provides dimeric derivatives of these compounds which show both increased potency as well as selectivity for CBFβ-SMMHC. These compounds show potent inhibition of an inv(16) leukemia cell line with minimal effects on non inv(16) cell lines. Analysis of the pharmacokinetics of the developed compounds has made it possible to improve the lifetime of the compound in the plasma of mice to a level commensurate with long-term treatment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/271978 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09221800 | Dioum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elhadji Dioum (Lausanne, Switzerland); Jay Schneider (Coppell, Texas); Doug Frantz (Flower Mound, Texas); Hector Aguilar (San Antonio, Texas); Melanie Cobb (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds and methods for inducing synthesis and secretion of insulin from pancreatic beta cells. The methods may take place in vitro, ex vivo such as in isolates from adult mammalian tissue, or in vivo. Compounds and methods described herein may find use in the treatment of diabetes. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/249846 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/415 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 261/18 (20130101) C07D 413/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09221808 | Lawrence et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas J. Lawrence (Tampa, Florida); Roberta Pireddu (Tampa, Florida); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas J. Lawrence (Tampa, Florida); Roberta Pireddu (Tampa, Florida); Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions having activity as inhibitors of Rho-associated proteinkinases (ROCKs), and methods of making and using the subject compounds are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/640385 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 417/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 417/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09221840 | Schwiebert |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik M. Schwiebert (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DISCOVERYBIOMED INC. (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik M. Schwiebert (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel CFTR corrector compounds that are effective in rescuing halide efflux in a cell are provided. Also provided are methods for treating protein folding disorders (e.g., cystic fibrosis). The methods include administering a CFTR corrector compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof. Methods of screening for CFTR corrector compounds are also described herein. The methods of screening include contacting a cell that endogenously expresses a CFTR mutation with the compound to be screened and detecting a rescue of halide efflux from the cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117705 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 223/04 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 239/95 (20130101) C07D 241/52 (20130101) C07D 251/46 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) C07D 473/06 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/84 (20130101) G01N 33/502 (20130101) G01N 2800/382 (20130101) |
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| US 09221871 | Arora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paramjit Arora (Huntington, New York); Ross Chapman (Tuckahoe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for preparing a peptide having a stable, internally constrained alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region and a method of stabilizing an alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region within a peptide structure. The resulting peptides and methods of using them are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868959 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/113 (20130101) C07K 1/1072 (20130101) C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/12 (20130101) C07K 5/0215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09221880 | Ebright et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Yon W. Ebright (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Yu Feng (New Brunswick, New Jersey); David Degen (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds of formula (I): and salts thereof, wherein X and Y have any of the values defined herein. The compounds inhibit bacterial RNA polymerase, inhibit bacterial growth, and have applications in, analysis of RNA polymerase structure and function, control of bacterial gene expression, control of bacterial growth, antibacterial chemistry, antibacterial therapy, and drug discovery. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/104914 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09221886 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Brian R. McNaughton (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Joseph Cronican (Somerville, Massachusetts); David B. Thompson (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Brian R. McNaughton (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Joseph Cronican (Somerville, Massachusetts); David B. Thompson (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, preparations, systems, and related methods for delivering a supercharged protein, or a complex of a supercharged protein and an agent (e.g., nucleic acids, peptides, proteins, small molecules) to cells are provided. Such systems and methods include the use of supercharged proteins. For example, superpositively charged proteins may be associated with nucleic acids (which typically have a net negative charge) via electrostatic interactions. In some embodiments, such systems and methods involve altering the primary sequence of a protein in order to “supercharge” the protein (e.g., to generate a superpositively-charged protein). In some embodiments, complexes comprising supercharged proteins and one or more agents to be delivered are useful as therapeutic agents. In some embodiments, complexes and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof are administered to a subject in need thereof. The inventive complexes or pharmaceutical compositions thereof may be used to treat proliferative diseases, infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, inborn errors in metabolism, genetic diseases, etc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/318032 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 14/43595 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/01 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/13043 (20130101) |
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| US 09221888 | Beniash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elia Beniash (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Charles S. Sfeir (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to peptides including DEDE(SSD)nDEG indicated by SEQ NO. 1, RRRDEDE(SSD)nDEG indicated by SEQ No. 2, RRRGDEDE(SSD)nDEG indicated by SEQ No. 3, and LKKLKKLDEDE(SSD)nDEG indicated by SEQ NO. 4, wherein n is an integer from 2 to 20. The invention also relates to phosphorylating these peptides at multiple amino acid sites by employing casein kinases. These phosphorylated peptides may be used in various applications such as forming mineralized collagen fibrils and biomimetic composites for use in tissue repair and regeneration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/079086 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2300/25 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09221895 | Tykocinski |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Fusion proteins which act on the OX40/TRAIL signaling axes are provided. The proteins are useful in the treatment or amelioration of autoimmune diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis, and alloimmune diseases, as well as cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/256401 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/70575 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/70578 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09221919 | Pantazis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Periklis Pantazis (Oberwil, Switzerland); Jelena Culic-Viskota (Chandler, Arizona); William P. Dempsey (The Woodlands, Texas); Scott E. Fraser (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized second harmonic nanoprobes for imaging samples and a method of using such probes to monitor the dynamics different processeses using a variety of imaging techniques are provided. The functionalized second harmonic generating (SHG) nanoprobes are comprised of various kinds of nanocrystalline materials that do not possess an inversion symmetry and therefore are capable of generating second harmonic signals that can then be detected by conventional two-photon microscopy, and are provided with functional surface modifications that allow for targeted imaging of a variety of biological and non-biological processes and structures such as cell signaling, neuroimaging, protein conformation probing, DNA conformation probing, gene transcription, virus infection and replication in cells, protein dynamics, tumor imaging and cancer therapy evaluation and diagnosis as well as quantification in optical imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/683975 |
| 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 49/0063 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/10 (20130101) C07F 7/28 (20130101) C07F 7/1836 (20130101) Peptides C07K 17/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/48 (20130101) C08G 65/33303 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/902 (20130101) |
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| US 09222080 | Qasba et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pradman K. Qasba (Bethesda, Maryland); Boopathy Ramakrishnan (Frederick, Maryland); Elizabeth Boeggeman (Bethesda, Maryland); Marta Pasek (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradman K. Qasba (Bethesda, Maryland); Boopathy Ramakrishnan (Frederick, Maryland); Elizabeth Boeggeman (Bethesda, Maryland); Marta Pasek (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally features compositions and methods based on the structure-based design of alpha 1-3 N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (alpha 3 GalNAc-T) enzymes from alpha 1-3galactosyltransferase (a3Gal-T) that can transfer 2′-modified galactose from the corresponding UDP-derivatives due to substitutions that broaden the alpha 3Gal-T donor specificity and make the enzyme a3 GalNAc-T. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/860946 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1051 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/26 (20130101) C12P 21/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09222086 | Judge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam Judge (Vancouver, Canada); Yun-Han Lee (Rockville, Maryland); Ian MacLachlan (Mission, Canada); Snorri S. Thorgeirsson (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PROTIVA BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC. (Burnaby, BC, Canada); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Judge (Vancouver, Canada); Yun-Han Lee (Rockville, Maryland); Ian MacLachlan (Mission, Canada); Snorri S. Thorgeirsson (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides therapeutic nucleic acids such as interfering RNA (e.g., siRNA) that target the expression of genes associated with tumorigenesis and/or cell transformation, lipid particles (e.g., nucleic acid-lipid particles) comprising one or more (e.g., a cocktail) of the therapeutic nucleic acids, methods of making the lipid particles, and methods of delivering and/or administering the lipid particles, e.g., for the treatment of a cell proliferative disorder such as cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/497789 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/344 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09222114 | Gentry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Gentry (Lexington, Kentucky); Craig Vander Kooi (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter includes thermophilic glucan phosphatase polypeptides. In some embodiments the polypeptide includes non-native laforin polypeptides, or fragments and/or variants thereof, and in some instances the polypeptide can alter the biophysical properties of starch in vitro or in planta. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes isolated polynucleotides encoding the present polypeptides, methods for processing starch by exposing starch to the present polypeptides, and methods for making the present polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/282815 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222118 | Kawaoka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Shinji Watanabe (Madison, Wisconsin); Yasuko Hatta (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Shinji Watanabe (Madison, Wisconsin); Yasuko Hatta (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods to identify agents useful to prevent, inhibit or treat viral infections, e.g. filovirus infections, as well as compositions having one or more agents to prevent, inhibit or treat viral infection. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/127951 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/45 (20130101) A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/135 (20130101) A61K 31/351 (20130101) A61K 31/352 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) A61K 31/395 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 31/435 (20130101) A61K 31/438 (20130101) A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 31/4155 (20130101) A61K 31/4535 (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 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/701 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/08 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09222136 | Zeiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martha Allen Zeiger (Baltimore, Maryland); Jeanne Kowalski (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher Umbricht (Baltimore, Maryland); Yongchun Wang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha Allen Zeiger (Baltimore, Maryland); Jeanne Kowalski (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher Umbricht (Baltimore, Maryland); Yongchun Wang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates, e.g., to a method for determining if a thyroid tumor in a subject is malignant, comprising determining in a sample from the subject the amount of TERT (telomerase reverse transcriptase) mRNA which lacks the β sequence and the amount of TERT mRNA in the sample which comprises the β sequence, wherein a preponderance (e.g., at least about 55%) of TERT mRNA in the sample which comprises the β sequence indicates that the tumor is malignant, and wherein a preponderance of TERT mRNA which lacks the β sequence indicates that the tumor is not malignant. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/746418 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) |
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| US 09222142 | Chiu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas); THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Texas Biomedical Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Chiu (San Francisco, California); Jean Patterson (San Antonio, Texas); Mary Michelle Leland (San Antonio, Texas); Kenneth Dee Carey (San Antonio, Texas); Dean Ehrdman (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Baboon Adenovirus (BaAdV)-2/4 and BaAdV-3 are described herein. BaAdV-2/4 and BaAdV-3 polynucleotide, polypeptides and antibodies that specifically bind BaAdV-2/4 and/or BaAdV-3 are described. Methods are described for detecting BaAdV-2/4 and BaAdV-3. Methods are also described for treating, preventing, and inducing an immune response to BaAdV-2/4 and/or BaAdV-3. Kits are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/233710 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/075 (20130101) C07K 16/081 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (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 15/861 (20130101) C12N 2710/10321 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/68 (20130101) C12Q 1/701 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/702 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
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| US 09222936 | Schwartz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SoluLink, Inc. (San Diego, California); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOLULINK, INC. (San Diego, California); THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Schwartz (Encinitas, California); Jimmy Williams (Santee, California); Xinfang Zhao (San Diego, California); Stephen J. Kron (Oak Park, Illinois); Amy Catherine Flor (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to methods and/or uses of oligonucleotide conjugates for assays and detections and related systems and/or kits for suppressing background due to cross-hybridization. Certain methods are directed to a method for detecting one or more biological targets of a sample in a detection assay, comprising: providing a molecular probe, comprising a binding moiety and an oligonucleotide sequence, to a sample comprising one or more biological targets; binding the one or more biological targets with the binding moiety; providing a detectable component to the sample, wherein the detectable component comprises a signal generating moiety conjugated to an oligonucleotide sequence complementary to the oligonucleotide sequence of the molecular probe; hydridizing the oligonucleotide sequence of the target-bound molecular probe to the detectable component; and detecting a signal generated from the hydridized detectable component. Various other embodiments, applications etc. are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, May 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/898015 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/547 (20130101) G01N 33/5306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222938 | Tainsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Tainsky (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Sorin Draghici (Troy, Michigan); Madhumita Chatterjee (Lake Orion, Michigan) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Tainsky (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Sorin Draghici (Troy, Michigan); Madhumita Chatterjee (Lake Orion, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A biosensor for use in detecting the presence of diseases, the biosensor comprising a detector for detecting a presence of at least one marker indicative of a specific disease. A method of determining efficacy of a pharmaceutical for treating a disease or staging disease by administering a pharmaceutical to a sample containing markers for a disease, detecting the amount of at least one marker of the disease in the sample, and analyzing the amount of the marker in the sample, whereby the amount of marker correlates to pharmaceutical efficacy or disease stage. Markers for gynecological disease. An immuno-imaging agent comprising labeled antibodies, whereby the labeled antibodies are isolated and reactive to proteins overexpressed in vivo. Informatics software for analyzing the arrays, the software including analyzing means for analyzing the arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/824305 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57411 (20130101) G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 33/57449 (20130101) G01N 33/57484 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/364 (20130101) |
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| US 09222939 | Doxsey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Doxsey (Sterling, Massachusetts); Chun-Ting Chen (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to a newly identified animal cell structure, the midbody scar. This structure is a remnant of the midbody that is retained by one daughter cell following cytokinesis and persists through multiple subsequent cell cycles. The midbody scar can be useful as a marker of dividing cells or of a cell's replicative age. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/862143 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/56966 (20130101) G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 33/57492 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/12 (20130101) G01N 2800/20 (20130101) G01N 2800/36 (20130101) G01N 2800/085 (20130101) G01N 2800/323 (20130101) G01N 2800/328 (20130101) G01N 2800/342 (20130101) G01N 2800/347 (20130101) G01N 2800/364 (20130101) |
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| US 09222943 | Rychnovsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott Rychnovsky (Irvine, California); Lan Huang (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Rychnovsky (Irvine, California); Lan Huang (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel cross-linking compounds that can be used in mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, and multi-stage tandem mass spectrometry to facilitate structural analysis of proteins and protein complexes are provided and have the formula: where X is an N-hydroxy-succinimidyl or similar heterocyclic group. Also provided is a method of mapping protein-protein interactions of protein complexes using various mass spectrometry techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/471365 |
| 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 | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/46 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/12 (20130101) G06F 19/16 (20130101) G06F 19/24 (20130101) G06F 19/26 (20130101) G06F 19/705 (20130101) G06F 19/706 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0036 (20130101) |
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| US 09222999 | Michaeli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shalom Michaeli (St. Paul, Minnesota); Silvia Mangia (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Dennis J. Sorce (Cockeysville, Maryland); Michael G. Garwood (Medina, Minnesota); Timo Liimatainen (Kuopio, Finland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalom Michaeli (St. Paul, Minnesota); Silvia Mangia (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Dennis J. Sorce (Cockeysville, Maryland); Michael G. Garwood (Medina, Minnesota); Timo Liimatainen (Kuopio, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a driving module, a processor, and a readout module. The driving module is configured to apply a perturbation to a sample. The processor is configured to define a plurality of different rotating frames relative to the perturbation, wherein each frame has a corresponding fictitious field. The readout module is coupled to the processor and is configured to generate an output based on relaxation of the sample as a function of the perturbation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/442597 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/446 (20130101) |
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| US 09223317 | Winger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore Winger (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Droplet actuators that include molecular barrier coatings are provided. The molecular barrier coating may be provided atop the conductive layer of the top substrate, atop the droplet operations electrodes of the bottom substrate, or both. Where the conductive layer of the top substrate and/or the droplet operations electrodes of the bottom substrate are formed of an electrically conductive organic polymer, such as poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), the molecular barrier coating helps to immobilize the contents of the PEDOT:PSS layer. Further, the molecular barrier coating reduces, preferably entirely eliminates, moisture from seeping into the electrically conducting organic polymer. Methods of conducting droplet operations using the disclosed droplet actuators are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915842 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502784 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2300/161 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 7/0629 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/206 (20150401) Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) |
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| US 09224210 | Epstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick H Epstein (Charlottesville, Virginia); Xiao Chen (Charlottesville, Virginia); Yang Yang (Charlottesville, Virginia); Michael Salerno (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for accelerated dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In an example embodiment, a method includes acquiring undersampled MRI data corresponding to a set of images associated with an area of interest of a subject, and separating an image of the set of images into image regions. The method also includes performing motion tracking for each of the image regions, grouping the motion-tracked image regions into clusters, and applying a sparsity transform to the clusters, to form sparsity-exploited, transformed image regions. The method further includes forming a set of merged images from the plurality of sparsity-exploited, transformed image regions, and updating the set of merged images based on data fidelity, to form an updated set of estimated images. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174748 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/561 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/56308 (20130101) G01R 33/56509 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6218 (20130101) G06K 2209/05 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10096 (20130101) G06T 2207/30048 (20130101) |
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| US 09225402 | Gollakota et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ching-Ju Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ching-Ju Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of techniques, which may be used together, provide distributed coordination of multiple stations so that concurrent transmissions and increased throughput are achieved on a shared radio medium. Each of the techniques provides a separate innovation that can be used alone or in combination with one or more of the other techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/562907 |
| ART UNIT | 2411 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 5/0018 (20130101) H04B 7/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0002 (20130101) H04L 27/0006 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary F. Hawkins (Torrance, California); Ching-Yao Tang (Alhambra, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary F. Hawkins (Torrance, California); Ching-Yao Tang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Force diversion apparatus, methods and devices including the same result in rotational motion being imparted to an impacting object. The apparatus, methods and devices may include, or may involve the use of, a force conversion portion, secured to the outer surface of a bumper, and a force spreading portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756788 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Outerwear; Protective Garments; Accessories A41D 13/015 (20130101) Hats; Head Coverings A42B 3/064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 71/10 (20130101) A63B 71/12 (20130101) A63B 2071/1208 (20130101) Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, or Vehicle Parts, Not Otherwise Provided for B60R 2019/186 (20130101) B60R 2019/1866 (20130101) B60R 2019/1886 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 1/428 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 1/02 (20130101) F41H 1/04 (20130101) F41H 5/04 (20130101) F41H 7/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09220810 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teng Ma (Tallahassee, Florida); Junho Kim (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Tallahasse, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teng Ma (Tallahassee, Florida); Junho Kim (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns materials and methods for growing and expanding MSC while maintaining their undifferentiated phenotype, self-renewal ability, and/or multi-lineage potential. In one embodiment, a method of the invention comprises i) seeding freshly isolated MSC on a planar surface or a 3-D scaffold and growing the cells under physiological or low O2 tension for a period of time sufficient to support formation of 3-D ECM network; ii) decellularizing the planar surface or 3-D scaffold; and iii) reseeding the decellularized planar surface or 3-D scaffold with MSCs, whereby the reseeded MSCs can be grown on the scaffold and maintain an undifferentiated phenotype. In one embodiment, the 3-D scaffold comprises or is composed of PET. In one embodiment, the MSC are human MSC (hMSC). |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/323475 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/3804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3895 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) C12N 5/0663 (20130101) C12N 2500/02 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) C12N 2539/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09221064 | Hersam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Jung-Woo T. Seo (Evanston, Illinois); Joohoon Kang (Evanston, Illinois); Alexander A. Green (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide, in part, methods of separating two-dimensional nanomaterials by atomic layer thickness. In certain embodiments, the present teachings provide methods of generating graphene nanomaterials having a controlled number of atomic layer(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528729 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/26 (20130101) Flotation; Differential Sedimentation B03D 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/0648 (20130101) C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) C01B 31/0492 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/06 (20130101) C01B 2204/28 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 29/006 (20130101) C01G 39/06 (20130101) C01G 41/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09221142 | Nelson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Orbital ATK, Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital ATK, Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob L. Nelson (Layton, Utah); Steven M. Garner (Ogden, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A guard assembly for a tool is provided. The guard assembly has a body with a first open end, a second open end and a mid-portion between the first open end and the second open end. The body forms an inner passage between the first open end and the second open end. The passage is configured to receive a portion of a tool. The body has a plurality of spaced slots. Each slot extends from the first open end a select distance toward the mid-portion of the body. The body has a port and a plurality of openings proximate the second open end to allow air or fluid passage. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803361 |
| ART UNIT | 3722 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning; Boring B23B 2260/058 (20130101) B23B 2260/058 (20130101) B23B 2270/30 (20130101) B23B 2270/30 (20130101) B23B 2270/62 (20130101) B23B 2270/62 (20130101) Details, Components, or Accessories for Machine Tools, e.g Arrangements for Copying or Controlling; Machine Tools in General Characterised by the Construction of Particular Details or Components; Combinations or Associations of Metal-working Machines, Not Directed to a Particular Result B23Q 11/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23Q 11/0071 (20130101) B23Q 11/0071 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 408/44 (20150115) Y10T 408/50 (20150115) Y10T 408/50 (20150115) Y10T 409/304088 (20150115) Y10T 409/304088 (20150115) |
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| US 09221863 | Schneider et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James W. Schneider (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Shane T. Grosser (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey M. Savard (McGaheysville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Schneider (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Shane T. Grosser (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey M. Savard (McGaheysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates transiently attaching drag-tags to molecules during electrophoresis. The invention includes running buffers having drag-tags that transiently attach to lipophilic moieties attached to the molecules. The lipophilic moieties can be covalently or ionically bonded to the molecules. One particular aspect of the invention is a nucleoside analog or a nucleic acid analog comprising a lipophilic moiety. The invention is also directed to methods of separating molecules that comprise a lipophilic moiety. The methods generally comprise transiently attaching a drag-tag to the lipophilic moiety during a separation modality. These methods can be used to separate the molecules by size or weight, to measure a hydrodynamic radius of a drag-tag, or to separate a plurality of drag-tag by their hydrodynamic radius. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/665994 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2030/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09221994 | Gunari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nikhil A. Gunari (Etobicoke, Canada); Gilbert C. Walker (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SYLLETA INC. (Toronto, ON, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil A. Gunari (Etobicoke, Canada); Gilbert C. Walker (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method to transfer block copolymers from water immiscible organic phase to aqueous phase using a phase transfer agent. At higher concentrations, micellar networks of the block copolymers were obtained in the aqueous solution that can be coated onto a variety of substrates. Block copolymer films showed very good antifouling properties. The phase transferred block copolymers can be used to synthesize encapsulated nanoparticle aggregates for biodiagnostic imaging applications. The phase transferred block copolymer micelles can be used to encapsulate active compounds. The invention has applications in drug delivery, crop protection, and medical device coating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/642620 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/07 (20130101) C08J 3/09 (20130101) C08J 3/24 (20130101) C08J 2353/00 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1668 (20130101) C09D 153/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222159 | Hofmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas C. Hofmann (Pasadena, California); William C. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Hofmann (Pasadena, California); William C. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming bulk metallic glass engineering materials, and more particularly a method for forming coarsening microstructures within said engineering materials is provided. Specifically, the method forms ‘designed composites’ by introducing ‘soft’ elastic/plastic inhomogeneities in a metallic glass matrix to initiate local shear banding around the inhomogeneity, and matching of microstructural length scales (for example, L and S) to the characteristic length scale RP (for plastic shielding of an opening crack tip) to limit shear band extension, suppress shear band opening, and avoid crack development. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/980637 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 1/002 (20130101) C22C 45/10 (20130101) C22C 49/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C22C 2200/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09222755 | Zondervan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Zondervan (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A simpler, smaller, less costly intercepting vehicle is provided. For example, a highly scalable intercepting vehicle may include a single axial rocket motor and a body-fixed, wide field of view (FOV) sensor unit to accommodate attitude changes required to steer the intercepting vehicle. This intercepting vehicle may be much smaller and less costly than conventional intercepting vehicles. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/171307 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 7/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 10/60 (20130101) F42B 10/66 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jesse L. Belden (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse L. Belden (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system for determining the position of a gas-liquid interface on a surface includes a light source and photo detectors spaced along the surface and capable of detecting reflections from the light source. The photo detectors are joined to a processor which determines if the detectors have received a reflection when the gas phase of the gas-liquid interface contacts the surface. An optical guide can be provided having the light source and detectors positioned therein. The guide is positioned in the region of the gas-liquid interface. The guide can utilize total internal reflection to distribute light to the detectors where light strikes a gas-guide interface whereas light striking a liquid-guide interface is refracted through the interface. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170788 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 23/292 (20130101) G01F 23/2921 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222874 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Hill (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yongle Pan (Cheshire, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for continuously sampling particles from air. In one embodiment, a system for continuously sampling particles from air may include: an airflow system configured to continuously draw air including airborne particles into the system; a photophoretic trap that uses photophoretic forces of a laser beam to trap one or more of the airborne particles from the drawn air; a measurement device configured to measure one or more properties of the trapped one or more airborne particles; and a controller configured to repeatedly trap, measure and release one or more airborne particles. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/793556 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/14 (20130101) G01N 21/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/65 (20130101) |
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| US 09222880 | Smith |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarcos LC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarcos LC (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fraser M. Smith (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe for underground sensing of materials of interest, for example chemicals such as explosives, includes a probe body that is capable of being inserted into the ground, and one or more sensors that are able to sense one or more materials in the vicinity of at least a portion of the probe body. The sensor(s) may include a light source that directs light to the vicinity of the portion of the probe body, and a light detector, such as a photosensor or spectrometer, that detects reflected light from the material around the probe body. The reflected light may be analyzed to determine the presence of one or more materials of interest, such as chemicals used in explosive devices. The probe may be part of a vehicle used to detect and neutralize buried explosive devices, with the probe for example being on an articulable arm of the vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/037655 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/16 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/8507 (20130101) |
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| US 09222887 | Englund |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk R. Englund (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for imaging a characteristic of a sample with a plurality of conjugates of diamond-metallic nanoparticles having a nitrogen vacancy center. The plurality of conjugates can be exposed to a sample and the nitrogen vacancy centers can be optically pumped. One or more microwave pulses can be applied to the nitrogen vacancy center, and a fluorescent response can be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/150412 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/585 (20130101) G01N 33/54326 (20130101) |
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| US 09222907 | Prasad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Prasad (Allen, Texas); Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy (Bend, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors include nano-porous alumina membranes that are sensitized by immobilization of antibodies in the nano-pores. The nano-membranes can be sensitized to respond to a single target compound, or different portions of the nano-membrane can be differently sensitized. Capture of the target compound can be detected based on a spectral signature associated with electrical conductance in the nano-pores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/855146 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3278 (20130101) |
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| US 09223007 | Wellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Wellman (Santa Barbara, California); Eric J. Gudim (Goleta, California); Lee M. Savage (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Accurate remote tracking of fixed objects from a moving platform requires overcoming platform noise. Such tracking becomes difficult when the only inertial reference (such as a central aircraft inertial navigation system) is remote from the sensor, which experiences non-measured angular movements due to airframe vibrations and flexing. In such a scenario, Kalman filtering cannot converge on a true value because all noise sources are not known. Current naïve approaches arbitrarily boost noise with fixed additive or multiplicative factors. However, such approaches slow filter response and; thus, often fail to give timely results. Embodiments of the present disclosure derive inertial reference parameters to quantify noise of the sensor that is remote from the inertial reference. Advantageously, disclosed embodiments enable use of remote sensors with an existing inertial reference, rather than consolidating sensors and the inertial reference at a single location or providing inertial references at each sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/682933 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 3/22 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry 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 5/0294 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 11/10 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (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) | Geoffrey Howard Goldman (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method and system for removing time-varying Doppler shifts and the effects of turbulence from data comprising at least one processor operating to estimate the average instantaneous frequency; reduce or remove noise from the state space variables estimates describing the frequency of the target; compensate for the motion of the target to obtain motion compensated data and increase the coherency of the data, and reduce or remove the noise from the state space variables describing the frequency of the target using a filter or smoother. Alternately, the method and system may comprise at least one processor operating to estimate the average instantaneous frequency of the first harmonic of a moving target; the average instantaneous frequency being inputted into an error reduction subroutine; using state space estimates of the frequency, calculating a time warping to remove the effect of the Doppler shift; and focusing the data using a modified PGA. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/657844 |
| 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 3/8006 (20130101) G01S 5/18 (20130101) G01S 15/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09223091 | Beresnev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonid A. Beresnev (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for controlled displacement, rotation and deformation of parts of a fiber optic collimator so as to provide multiple degrees of adjustment freedom that are decoupled one from another, for adjusting the path of a light beam, comprising: an output elongate hollow node for passing a light beam therethrough and towards a lens, and an elongate hollow base node having separate top and bottom parts connected to each other by opposed ends of a plurality of flexible rods that restrict the relative movement between the top and bottom parts of the base node to substantially only translational parallel movement. Opposed portions of the top and bottom parts of the base node each include a respective screw and an opposed slanted surface, which upon interaction, develop a shearing force which is applied to the top and bottom parts of the base node and cause a translational parallel relative movement therebetween. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/780112 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 27/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09223156 | Goldsmith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Howard Goldsmith (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin Daniel Heylman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for resonance tuning of microcavities are provided. An apparatus comprises a whispering gallery mode optical microcavity characterized by at least one resonance frequency; optical components configured to evanescently couple a probe laser beam into the microcavity; an absorber element in thermal contact with the microcavity; and optical components configured to illuminate the absorber element with a free space pump light beam, wherein the absorber element is configured to absorb energy from the free space pump light beam, thereby generating heat, and to transfer the heat to the microcavity, thereby inducing a shift in the at least one resonance frequency. The absorber element may be configured as a pillar forming an interfacial region with the microcavity at one of the ends of the pillar. The surface of the microcavity may be substantially free of a coating material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/180778 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Printing, Duplicating, Marking, or Copying Processes; Colour Printing, B41M 5/382 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/7746 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/26 (20130101) G02B 6/243 (20130101) G02B 6/29341 (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 1/01 (20130101) G02F 1/0115 (20130101) G02F 1/0118 (20130101) G02F 1/0147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/05 (20130101) H01S 3/06 (20130101) H01S 3/08 (20130101) H01S 3/30 (20130101) H01S 3/0627 (20130101) |
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| US 09223202 | Choi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Carlton Grant Willson (Austin, Texas); Mattherw E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York); John G. Ekerdt (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Carlton Grant Willson (Austin, Texas); Mattherw E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York); John G. Ekerdt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is an automatic fluid dispensing method and system for dispensing fluid on the surface of a plate-like material, or substrate, including a semiconductor wafer for imprint lithography processes. The dispensing method uses fluid dispenser and a substrate stage that may generate relative lateral motions between a fluid dispenser tip a substrate. Also described herein are methods and devices for creating a planar surface on a substrate using a substantially unpatterned planar template. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774710 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G03F 7/16 (20130101) G03F 7/164 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 2224/3003 (20130101) H01L 2224/3016 (20130101) H01L 2224/29012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/01067 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) |
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| US 09224104 | Lin 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) | Ching-Yung Lin (Scarsdale, New York); Wan-Yi Lin (White Plains, New York); Yinglong Xia (Rye Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Injecting generated data samples into a minority data class of an imbalanced training data set is provided. In response to receiving an input to balance the imbalanced training data set that includes a majority data class and the minority data class, a set of data samples is generated for the minority data class. A distance is calculated from each data sample in the set of generated data samples to a center of a kernel that includes a set of data samples of the majority data class. Each data sample in the set of generated data samples is stored within a corresponding distance score bucket based on the calculated distance of a data sample. Generated data samples are selected from a number of highest ranking distance score buckets. The generated data samples selected from the number of highest ranking distance score buckets are injected into the minority data class. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/034797 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09224196 | Duerksen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ClearMark Systems, LLC (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ClearMark Systems, LLC (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Duerksen (Ward, Colorado); Seth A. Miller (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods and systems for determining authenticity. For example, the method may include providing an object of authentication, capturing characteristic data from the object of authentication, deriving authentication data from the characteristic data of the object of authentication, and comparing the authentication data with an electronic database comprising reference authentication data to provide an authenticity score for the object of authentication. The reference authentication data may correspond to one or more reference objects of authentication other than the object of authentication. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/656705 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/18 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 5/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09224207 | Vitaladevuni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiv N. Vitaladevuni (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rohit Prasad (Acton, Massachusetts); Premkumar Natarajan (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach to segmentation or clustering of a set of elements combines separate procedures and uses training data for those procedures on labeled data. This approach is applied to elements being components of an image of text (e.g., printed or handwritten). In some examples, the elements are connected sets of pixels. In images of text, the clusters can correspond to individual lines. The approach provides improved clustering performance as compared to any one of the procedures taken alone. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/028833 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/34 (20130101) G06K 9/469 (20130101) G06K 2209/01 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0079 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0093 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30176 (20130101) |
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| US 09224447 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minnesota); Jonathan D. Harms (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell array includes a logic connection line, a plurality of bit selection lines, and a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a memory element connected to a respective bit selection line and a logic switching element that selectively connects the memory element to the logic connection line. When logic switching elements of multiple separate cells connect their respective memory elements to the logic connection line, the memory elements connected to the logic connection line operate as a logic device with an output of the logic device stored in one of the memory elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/259568 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 5/08 (20130101) G11C 11/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09224532 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiuling Li (Champaign, Illinois); Wen Huang (Champaign, Illinois); Placid M. Ferreira (Champaign, Illinois); Xin Yu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A rolled-up inductor structure for a radiofrequency integrated circuit (RFIC) comprises a multilayer sheet in a rolled configuration comprising multiple turns about a longitudinal axis. The multilayer sheet comprises a conductive pattern layer on a strain-relieved layer, and the conductive pattern layer comprises at least one conductive strip having a length extending in a rolling direction. The at least one conductive strip thereby wraps around the longitudinal axis in the rolled configuration. The conductive pattern layer may also comprise two conductive feed lines connected to the conductive strip for passage of electrical current therethrough. The conductive strip serves as an inductor cell of the rolled-up inductor structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/051188 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 5/00 (20130101) H01F 5/02 (20130101) H01F 17/0013 (20130101) H01F 27/2804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 27/2847 (20130101) H01F 41/02 (20130101) H01F 41/041 (20130101) H01F 41/0604 (20130101) H01F 2017/006 (20130101) H01F 2027/2809 (20130101) H01F 2027/2857 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/4814 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 23/645 (20130101) H01L 23/5227 (20130101) H01L 28/10 (20130101) H01L 2223/6627 (20130101) H01L 2223/6677 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49071 (20150115) |
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| US 09224596 | Saxler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam William Saxler (Boise, Idaho); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California); Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Santa Barbara, California); Richard Peter Smith (Santa Barbara, California); Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor device structures and methods of fabricating semiconductor devices structures are provided that include a semi-insulating or insulating GaN epitaxial layer on a conductive semiconductor substrate and/or a conductive layer. The semi-insulating or insulating GaN epitaxial layer has a thickness of at least about 4 μm. GaN semiconductor device structures and methods of fabricating GaN semiconductor device structures are also provided that include an electrically conductive SiC substrate and an insulating or semi-insulating GaN epitaxial layer on the conductive SiC substrate. The GaN epitaxial layer has a thickness of at least about 4 μm. GaN semiconductor device structures and methods of fabricating GaN semiconductor device structures are also provided that include an electrically conductive GaN substrate, an insulating or semi-insulating GaN epitaxial layer on the conductive GaN substrate, a GaN based semiconductor device on the GaN epitaxial layer and a via hole and corresponding via metal in the via hole that extends through layers of the GaN based semiconductor device and the GaN epitaxial layer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/975491 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0237 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02425 (20130101) H01L 21/02439 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02581 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/4175 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/41766 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) |
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| US 09224631 | Puligadda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rama Puligadda (Rolla, Missouri); Xing-Fu Zhong (Rolla, Missouri); Tony D. Flaim (St. James, Missouri); Jeremy McCutcheon (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple bonding layer schemes that temporarily join semiconductor substrates are provided. In the inventive bonding scheme, at least one of the layers is directly in contact with the semiconductor substrate and at least two layers within the scheme are in direct contact with one another. The present invention provides several processing options as the different layers within the multilayer structure perform specific functions. More importantly, it will improve performance of the thin-wafer handling solution by providing higher thermal stability, greater compatibility with harsh backside processing steps, protection of bumps on the front side of the wafer by encapsulation, lower stress in the debonding step, and fewer defects on the front side. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/191544 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 38/0008 (20130101) B32B 38/10 (20130101) B32B 43/006 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/2007 (20130101) H01L 21/6835 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/6836 (20130101) H01L 24/83 (20130101) H01L 2221/6834 (20130101) H01L 2221/68318 (20130101) H01L 2221/68327 (20130101) H01L 2221/68381 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/1461 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) H01L 2924/12041 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) Y10T 428/26 (20150115) Y10T 428/24942 (20150115) Y10T 428/31511 (20150401) Y10T 428/31551 (20150401) Y10T 428/31663 (20150401) Y10T 428/31721 (20150401) Y10T 428/31725 (20150401) Y10T 428/31935 (20150401) Y10T 428/31938 (20150401) |
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| US 09224809 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiuling Li (Champaign, Illinois); Yi Song (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A field effect transistor structure comprises a source and a drain on a substrate, and a stack of n vertically separated channel nanowires isolated from the substrate and connecting the source and the drain, where n is an integer and 2≦n≦20. The channel nanowires collectively comprise at least two different thicknesses and/or at least two different dopant concentrations and/or at least two different semiconductor materials. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896537 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/20 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1054 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7841 (20130101) H01L 29/7869 (20130101) H01L 29/42392 (20130101) |
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| US 09224882 | Na et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun-Chung Na (Hsinchu, Taiwan); Han-Din Liu (Santa Clara, California); Yimin Kang (San Jose, California); Shu-Lu Chen (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low voltage photodetector structure including a semiconductor device layer, which may be Ge, is disposed over a substrate semiconductor, which may be Si, for example within a portion of a waveguide extending laterally within a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip. In exemplary embodiments where the device layer is formed over an insulator layer, the insulator layer is removed to expose a surface of the semiconductor device layer and a passivation material formed as a replacement for the insulator layer within high field regions. In further embodiments, controlled avalanche gain is achieved by spacing electrodes in a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) architecture, or complementary doped regions in a p-i-n architecture, to provide a field strength sufficient for impact ionization over a distance not significantly more than an order of magnitude greater than the distance that a carrier must travel so as to acquire sufficient energy for impact ionization. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/129181 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) H01L 31/1085 (20130101) H01L 31/1868 (20130101) H01L 31/1872 (20130101) H01L 31/02161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02327 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09224895 | Arango et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexi Arango (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vanessa Wood (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a charge transporting layer that includes an inorganic material. The charge transporting layer can be a hole or electron transporting layer. The inorganic material can be an inorganic semiconductor. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/015301 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0352 (20130101) H01L 31/0392 (20130101) H01L 31/035272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/426 (20130101) H01L 51/4213 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew C. Guyette (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Goverment of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew C. Guyette (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for independently tuning bandwidth and center frequencies in a bandpass filter. The filter can be configured with a plurality of resonators, wherein the resonators are coupled over a certain coupling region. Additionally, the filter can be configured with a plurality of tuning elements. For each of the inter-resonator couplings, at least one of the resonators associated with the inter-resonator coupling can have a first tuning element placed at a first location on the resonator and a second tuning element placed at a second location on the resonator. Simultaneously tuning the first and second tuning elements can adjust the center frequency, and offset tuning the first and second tuning elements can adjust the bandwidth frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/247793 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/20336 (20130101) H01P 1/20381 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 7/088 (20130101) |
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| US 09225069 | Bowers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Bowers (Duarte, California); Seyed Ali Hajimiri (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated Multi-Port Driven (MPD) antenna that can be driven at many points with different signals. An integrated MPD radiating source utilizing an 8-phase ring oscillator and eight power amplifiers to drive the MPD antenna at 161 GHz with a total radiated power of −2 dBm and a single element EIRP of 4.6 dBm has been demonstrated in silicon with single lobe well behaved radiation patterns closely matching simulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/654420 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 11/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 25/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09225074 | Hicks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brian C. Hicks (Alexandria, Virginia); Kenneth P. Stewart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Tracy Clarke (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Nagini P. Dalal (Torrance, California); Henrique Schmitt (Greenbelt, Maryland); Paul S. Ray (Alexandria, Virginia); Stephen J. Burns (Hollis, New Hampshire); Namir E. Kassim (Annandale, Virginia); Emil J. Polisensky (Alexandria, Virginia); Norman R. Mcglothlin, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian C. Hicks (Alexandria, Virginia); Kenneth P. Stewart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Tracy Clarke (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Nagini P. Dalal (Torrance, California); Henrique Schmitt (Greenbelt, Maryland); Paul S. Ray (Alexandria, Virginia); Stephen J. Burns (Hollis, New Hampshire); Namir E. Kassim (Annandale, Virginia); Emil J. Polisensky (Alexandria, Virginia); Norman R. Mcglothlin, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An active antenna system for receiving electromagnetic radiation at frequencies below 100 MHz. The system includes a vertical support mast; a front end electronics unit including an active balun, the front end electronics unit affixed to the support mast; two crossed-dipole antennas affixed oriented at about 90 degrees to each other, each crossed-dipole antenna having two arms formed of electrically conductive material, each arm having an isoceles triangular frame with an apex of the frame electrically connected to a feedpoint of the front end electronics unit, each arm also having a longitudinal member extending from the apex to the center of the base of the triangular shape and a cross member extending between sides of the triangular frame. The system can operate independently or as part of a long wavelength array for astronomical radio telescope applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/072715 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 9/28 (20130101) H01Q 21/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09225137 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zenghu Chang (Oviedo, Florida); Yi Wu (Orlando, Florida); Eric Cunningham (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of a laser pulse has been shown to influence many physical processes such as pulse propagation through polar molecules, cross-phase modulation, ponderomotive surface-plasmon electron acceleration, photoemission from metallic surfaces, terahertz emission from the laser breakdown of air, above-threshold ionization, high harmonic generation, and attosecond pulse generation. Current technology does not allow for the CEP stabilization of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) systems operating at a repetition rate much lower than a kHz. The inventors disclose apparatus and methods that enable CEP control in CPA systems operating at arbitrarily-low repetition rates. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/583904 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0085 (20130101) H01S 3/1307 (20130101) H01S 3/2316 (20130101) |
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| US 09225208 | Downing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Scott Downing (Rockford, Illinois); Roger John Collings (Rockford, Illinois); Mark F. Franzen (Brodhead, Wisconsin); Hebri Vijayendra Nayak (Rockford, Illinois); Kris H. Campbell (Poplar Grove, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Scott Downing (Rockford, Illinois); Roger John Collings (Rockford, Illinois); Mark F. Franzen (Brodhead, Wisconsin); Hebri Vijayendra Nayak (Rockford, Illinois); Kris H. Campbell (Poplar Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A core for an electric machine includes a core component having a plurality of core teeth defining a plurality of core slots between adjacent core teeth of the plurality of core teeth. The plurality of core slots are receptive of one or more windings. A coolant flowpath through the core component is formed through at least one core tooth. The at least one core tooth has one or more coolant tube banks and one or more mixing chambers arranged in an alternating pattern along the at least one core tooth. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/250185 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 1/32 (20130101) H02K 9/19 (20130101) |
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| US 09225338 | Weiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marc Weiner (West Lafayette, Indiana); Amir Dezfooliyan (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic waveform generator and a method of generating an electrical waveform based on a photonic signal are disclosed. The generator includes an input port for receiving an optical signal, a pulse shaper coupled to the input port and configured to Fourier transform the optical signal and apply a pre-distort waveform onto optical spectrum of the optical signal, a dispersive pulse stretcher coupled to the pulse shaper, an optical-to-electrical converter coupled to the dispersive pulse stretcher, and an output port coupled to the optical-to-electrical converter, the pre-distortion removes distortion of the electrical signal that exists in the absence of the pre-distortion caused by violation of far field limitation between the optical signal and the electrical signal. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/215960 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 3/84 (20130101) H03K 23/004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 10/505 (20130101) H04B 2210/006 (20130101) |
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| US 09225348 | Ainspan 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) | Herschel A. Ainspan (New Hempstead, New York); Mark A. Ferriss (Tarrytown, New York); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Bodhisatwa Sadhu (White Plains, New York); Alberto Valdes Garcia (Hartsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for phase correction include determining a phase error direction and generating a prediction for the phase error based on a sigma-delta error. It is determined whether the prediction agrees with the determined phase error direction. If the prediction does not agree, a phase correction is adjusted in accordance with the predicted phase error. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/496643 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/085 (20130101) H03L 7/0992 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03L 7/1974 (20130101) |
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| US 09225402 | Gollakota et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ching-Ju Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ching-Ju Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of techniques, which may be used together, provide distributed coordination of multiple stations so that concurrent transmissions and increased throughput are achieved on a shared radio medium. Each of the techniques provides a separate innovation that can be used alone or in combination with one or more of the other techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/562907 |
| ART UNIT | 2411 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 5/0018 (20130101) H04B 7/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0002 (20130101) H04L 27/0006 (20130101) |
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| US 09225601 | Khurshid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Khurshid (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Chapman Caesar (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Philip Brighten Godfrey (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network-wide verification system may be adapted with a data plane verification layer positioned between a set of multiple network devices and a controller in network communication with the devices, where the controller is configured to transmit packet-forwarding rules to the devices. The data plane verification layer monitors network rule modifications, such as monitoring modifications initiated by the network devices and/or by the controller, and verifies the validity of invariants of the monitored network according to multiple stored network invariants. The verification may be executed on parts of the network taking actions that are capable of being influenced by a new rule modification. The network invariants include conditions expected to be upheld in valid network operation as related to packet routing and the packet-forwarding rules. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/919670 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/0866 (20130101) H04L 41/0869 (20130101) H04L 41/0873 (20130101) H04L 41/0893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09225637 | Ramanujan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ranga Sri Ramanujan (Medina, Minnesota); Barry Alan Trent (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Clint Michael Sanders (Plymouth, Minnesota); Maher N. Kaddoura (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranga Sri Ramanujan (Medina, Minnesota); Barry Alan Trent (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Clint Michael Sanders (Plymouth, Minnesota); Maher N. Kaddoura (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device-implemented network with domains each having nodes, the nodes of each of the domains sharing network information with one another according to an intra-domain communication policy. An inter-domain protocol is configured to control communication between at least one of the nodes of one of the domains and at least one of the nodes of a different one of the domains. A broker is configured to be communicatively coupled to the nodes and configured to control communication according to the inter-domain protocol and to which all of the nodes of each of the plurality of domains are configured to send the network information. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/446341 |
| ART UNIT | 2467 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/04 (20130101) H04L 45/026 (20130101) H04L 45/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 40/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09225964 | Pizlo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zygmunt Pizlo (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tadamasa Sawada (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yunfeng Li (Whitewater, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zygmunt Pizlo (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tadamasa Sawada (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yunfeng Li (Whitewater, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for processing a pair of 2-D images are described. In one example, a stereoscopic set of images is converted into a collection of regions that represent individual 3-D objects in the pair of images. In one embodiment, the system recovers the 3-D point P for each point p that appears in both images. It estimates the 3-D orientation of the floor plane, and the image capture planes and their height from the floor. The system then identifies the collection B of points P that do not represent points on the floor and generates a projection C of B onto a plane parallel to the floor. It blurs the projection C and identifies peaks in the blurred image, then fits symmetric figures to the points in C around the identified peaks. The system projects the 3-D figures associated with the symmetric figures back onto the 2-D images. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/001227 |
| ART UNIT | 2482 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0042 (20130101) G06T 7/0075 (20130101) G06T 2207/10012 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0203 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert James Perry (Niskayuna, New York); Michael Joseph O'Brien (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a composition which contains the amino-siloxane structures I, or III, as described herein. The composition is useful for the capture of carbon dioxide from process streams. In addition, the present invention provides methods of preparing the amino-siloxane composition. Another aspect of the present invention provides methods for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream employing the amino-siloxane compositions of the invention, as species which react with carbon dioxide to form an adduct with carbon dioxide. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153548 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 47/00 (20130101) B01D 53/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/1475 (20130101) B01D 53/1493 (20130101) B01D 2252/205 (20130101) B01D 2252/20415 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/0854 (20130101) Purifying or Modifying the Chemical Composition of Combustible Gases Containing Carbon Monoxide C10K 1/16 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 3/104 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09221076 | Simpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Linda A. Lewis (Andersonville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Linda A. Lewis (Andersonville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for producing an optically clear, well bonded superhydrophobic coating includes a plurality of hydrophobic particles comprising an average particle size of about 200 nm or less, a binder at a binder concentration of from about 0.1 wt. % to about 0.5 wt. %, and a solvent. The hydrophobic particles may be present in the composition at a particle concentration of from about 0.1 wt. % to about 1 wt. %. An optically transparent, superhydrophobic surface includes a substrate, a plurality of hydrophobic particles having an average particle size of about 200 nm or less dispersed over the substrate, and a discontinuous binder layer bonding the hydrophobic particles to the substrate, where the hydrophobic particles and the binder layer form an optically transparent, superhydrophobic coating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/938044 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 3/10 (20130101) B32B 5/16 (20130101) B32B 2264/102 (20130101) B32B 2307/412 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/36 (20130101) C08K 9/06 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1681 (20130101) C09D 7/1225 (20130101) C09D 7/1266 (20130101) C09D 127/18 (20130101) C09D 175/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24868 (20150115) |
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| US 09221091 | Beltran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Penn State Reasearch Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Beltran (Chicago, Illinois); Jian Cao (Wilmette, Illinois); John T. Roth (Erie, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a frame configured to hold a workpiece and first and second tool positioning assemblies configured to be opposed to each other on opposite sides of the workpiece. The first and second tool positioning assemblies each include a toolholder configured to secure a tool to the tool positioning assembly, a first axis assembly, a second axis assembly, and a third axis assembly. The first, second, and third axis assemblies are each configured to articulate the toolholder along a respective axis. Each axis assembly includes first and second guides extending generally parallel to the corresponding axis and disposed on opposing sides of the toolholder with respect to the corresponding axis. Each axis assembly includes first and second carriages articulable along the first and second guides of the axis assembly, respectively, in the direction of the corresponding axis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/667846 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Working or Processing of Sheet Metal or Metal Tubes, Rods or Profiles Without Essentially Removing Material; Punching Metal B21D 31/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09221351 | Miller |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John M. Miller (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Miller (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Power transfer rate at a charging facility can be maximized by employing a feedback scheme. The state of charge (SOC) and temperature of the regenerative energy storage system (RESS) pack of a vehicle is monitored to determine the load due to the RESS pack. An optimal frequency that cancels the imaginary component of the input impedance for the output signal from a grid converter is calculated from the load of the RESS pack, and a frequency offset f* is made to the nominal frequency f0 of the grid converter output based on the resonance frequency of a magnetically coupled circuit. The optimal frequency can maximize the efficiency of the power transfer. Further, an optimal grid converter duty ratio d* can be derived from the charge rate of the RESS pack. The grid converter duty ratio d* regulates wireless power transfer (WPT) power level. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/484404 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/182 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1838 (20130101) B60L 11/1861 (20130101) B60L 2240/545 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 7/025 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/705 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7044 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/122 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) Y02T 90/163 (20130101) |
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| US 09221720 | Tulyani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sonia Tulyani (Manchester, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia (Middletown, Connecticut); John G. Smeggil (Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonia Tulyani (Manchester, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia (Middletown, Connecticut); John G. Smeggil (Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for depositing a protective coating on a complex shaped substrate includes the steps of: (1) dipping a complex shaped substrate into a slurry to form a base coat thereon, the slurry comprising an aqueous solution, at least one refractory metal oxide, and at least one transient fluid additive present in an amount of about 0.1 percent to 10 percent by weight of the slurry; (2) curing the dipped substrate; (3) dipping the substrate into a precursor solution to form a top barrier coat thereon; and (4) heat treating the dipped, cured substrate to form a protective coating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366901 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/565 (20130101) C04B 35/584 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/009 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/0072 (20130101) C04B 41/0072 (20130101) C04B 41/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 41/455 (20130101) C04B 41/522 (20130101) C04B 41/4535 (20130101) C04B 41/4539 (20130101) C04B 41/5007 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5027 (20130101) C04B 41/5044 (20130101) C04B 41/5044 (20130101) C04B 41/5045 (20130101) C04B 41/5089 (20130101) C04B 41/5096 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 26/00 (20130101) C23C 28/042 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/288 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/90 (20130101) F05D 2300/611 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/13 (20150115) |
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| US 09221957 | Nam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Yong Nam (Coram, New York); Jovan Kamcev (Austin, Texas); Charles T. Black (New York, New York); Robert Grubbs (Miller Place, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies are described for methods for producing a pattern of a material on a substrate. The methods may comprise receiving a patterned block copolymer on a substrate. The patterned block copolymer may include a first polymer block domain and a second polymer block domain. The method may comprise exposing the patterned block copolymer to a light effective to oxidize the first polymer block domain in the patterned block copolymer. The method may comprise applying a precursor to the block copolymer. The precursor may infuse into the oxidized first polymer block domain and generate the material. The method may comprise applying a removal agent to the block copolymer. The removal agent may be effective to remove the first polymer block domain and the second polymer block domain from the substrate, and may not be effective to remove the material in the oxidized first polymer block domain. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/576479 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 7/123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2353/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09222032 | Steele et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip H. Steele (Starkville, Mississippi); Sathishkumar Tanneru (Starkville, Mississippi); Sanjeev K. Gajjela (Andhra Pradesh, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the present invention are configured to produce boiler and transportation fuels. A first phase of the method may include oxidation and/or hyper-acidification of bio-oil to produce an intermediate product. A second phase of the method may include catalytic deoxygenation, esterification, or olefination/esterification of the intermediate product under pressurized syngas. The composition of the resulting product—e.g., a boiler fuel—produced by these methods may be used directly or further upgraded to a transportation fuel. Certain embodiments of the present invention also include catalytic compositions configured for use in the method embodiments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/875159 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 3/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 65/12 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/00 (20130101) C11C 3/003 (20130101) C11C 3/006 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom N. Kalnes (LaGrange, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods for deoxygenating a biomass-derived pyrolysis oil are provided herein. In one example, the method comprises of dividing a feedstock stream into first and second feedstock portions. The feedstock stream comprises the biomass-derived pyrolysis oil and has a temperature of about 60° C. or less. The first feedstock portion is combined with a heated organic liquid stream to form a first heated diluted pyoil feed stream. The first heated diluted pyoil feed stream is contacted with a first deoxygenating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen to form an intermediate low-oxygen pyoil effluent. The second feedstock portion is combined with the intermediate low-oxygen pyoil effluent to form a second heated diluted pyoil feed stream. The second heated diluted pyoil feed stream is contacted with a second deoxygenating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen to form additional low-oxygen pyoil effluent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676281 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/00 (20130101) C10G 49/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222040 | Steele et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raymond Douglas Steele (Cypress, Texas); Judith Pauline Oppenheim (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Douglas Steele (Cypress, Texas); Judith Pauline Oppenheim (Friendswood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a slurry depressurizing system that includes a liquid expansion system configured to continuously receive a slurry at a first pressure and continuously discharge the slurry at a second pressure. For example, the slurry depressurizing system may include an expansion turbine to expand the slurry from the first pressure to the second pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/491463 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Production of Producer Gas, Water-gas, Synthesis Gas From Solid Carbonaceous Material, or Mixtures Containing These Gases; Carburetting Air or Other Gases C10J 3/526 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10J 3/723 (20130101) C10J 3/845 (20130101) C10J 2300/093 (20130101) C10J 2300/169 (20130101) C10J 2300/0959 (20130101) C10J 2300/1846 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 20/16 (20130101) Y02E 20/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09222094 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki S Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); David William Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Brady D Lee (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David N Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Francisco F Roberto (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Jeffrey A Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods for modulating or altering metabolism in a cell using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/226573 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 9/00 (20130101) C12N 9/1029 (20130101) C12N 15/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222126 | Bearinger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jane P. Bearinger (Livermore, California); Lawrence C. Dugan (Modesto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane P. Bearinger (Livermore, California); Lawrence C. Dugan (Modesto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and apparatus for detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample and related methods and apparatus for diagnosing a condition in an individual. The condition is associated with presence of nucleic acid produced by certain pathogens in the individual. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/115878 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5029 (20130101) B01L 3/502776 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2300/0609 (20130101) B01L 2300/0851 (20130101) B01L 2300/1877 (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 1/689 (20130101) C12Q 1/701 (20130101) C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6844 (20130101) C12Q 2537/101 (20130101) |
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| US 09222158 | Han et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyou Han (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zhiwei Liu (Shijiazhuang, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing particle-reinforced composite materials through utilization of an in situ reaction to produce a uniform dispersion of a fine particulate reinforcement phase. The process includes forming a melt of a first material, and then introducing particles of a second material into the melt and subjecting the melt to high-intensity acoustic vibration. A chemical reaction initiates between the first and second materials to produce reaction products in the melt. The reaction products comprise a solid particulate phase, and the high-intensity acoustic vibration fragments and/or separates the reaction products into solid particles that are dispersed in the melt and are smaller than the particles of the second material. Also encompassed are particle-reinforced composite materials produced by such a process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/084834 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 2202/01 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2998/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) B22F 2999/00 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/02 (20130101) C22C 1/0416 (20130101) C22C 1/0491 (20130101) C22C 1/1036 (20130101) C22C 32/0052 (20130101) C22C 47/00 (20130101) C22C 49/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C22C 2001/1052 (20130101) C22C 2001/1052 (20130101) |
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| US 09222164 | Helmick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Andrew Helmick (Fountain Inn, South Carolina); Dennis William Cavanaugh (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Ganjiang Feng (Greenville, South Carolina); David Vincent Bucci (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Andrew Helmick (Fountain Inn, South Carolina); Dennis William Cavanaugh (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Ganjiang Feng (Greenville, South Carolina); David Vincent Bucci (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method for forming an article with a diffusion portion comprises: forming a slurry comprising chromium and silicon, applying the slurry to the article, and heating the article to a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient period of time to diffuse chromium and silicon into the article and form a diffusion portion comprising silicon and a microstructure comprising α-chromium. In one embodiment, a gas turbine component comprises: a superalloy and a diffusion portion having a depth of less than or equal to 60 μm measured from the superalloy surface into the gas turbine component. The diffusion portion has a diffusion surface having a microstructure comprising greater than or equal to 40% by volume α-chromium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/226126 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 10/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12458 (20150115) |
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| US 09222193 | Abas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emmanuel Chua Abas (Laguna, Philippines); Chen-An Chen (Milpitas, California); Diana Xiaobing Ma (Saratoga, California); Kalyana Bhargava Ganti (Fremont, California); Edmundo Anida Divino (Cavite, Philippines); Jake Randal G. Ermita (Laguna, Philippines); Jose Francisco S. Capulong (Laguna, Philippines); Arnold Villamor Castillo (Batangas, Philippines) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a substrate carrier for use in electroplating a plurality of substrates. The substrate carrier comprises a non-conductive carrier body on which the substrates are to be held. Electrically-conductive lines are embedded within the carrier body, and a plurality of contact clips are coupled to the electrically-conductive lines embedded within the carrier body. The contact clips hold the substrates in place and electrically couple the substrates to the electrically-conductive lines. The non-conductive carrier body is continuous so as to be impermeable to flow of electroplating solution through the non-conductive carrier body. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/661966 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 17/001 (20130101) C25D 17/005 (20130101) C25D 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25D 17/10 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/10 (20150115) Y10T 156/1057 (20150115) |
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| US 09222201 | Patton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jasson T. Patton (Midland, Michigan); Bryan E. Barton (Midland, Michigan); Mark T. Bernius (Bowling Green, Ohio); Xiaoyun Chen (Midland, Michigan); Eric J. Hukkanen (Midland, Michigan); Christina A. Rhoton (Beaverton, Michigan); Zenon Lysenko (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed here are processes for preparing carbonized polymers (preferably carbon fibers), comprising sulfonating a polymer with a sulfonating agent that comprises SO3 dissolved in a solvent to form a sulfonated polymer; treating the sulfonated polymer with a heated solvent, wherein the temperature of the solvent is at least 95° C.; and carbonizing the resulting product by heating it to a temperature of 500-3000° C. Carbon fibers made according to these methods are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/413456 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/14 (20130101) D01F 9/21 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Treatment, Not Provided for Elsewhere in Class D06, of Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers or Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials D06M 11/55 (20130101) D06M 2101/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09222432 | Jiang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Jiang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nikhil Ravi (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for transitioning between a first combustion mode and a second combustion mode in an internal combustion engine. A current operating point of the engine is identified and a target operating point for the internal combustion engine in the second combustion mode is also determined. A predefined optimized transition operating point is selected from memory. While operating in the first combustion mode, one or more engine actuator settings are adjusted to cause the operating point of the internal combustion engine to approach the selected optimized transition operating point. When the engine is operating at the selected optimized transition operating point, the combustion mode is switched from the first combustion mode to the second combustion mode. While operating in the second combustion mode, one or more engine actuator settings are adjusted to cause the operating point of the internal combustion to approach the target operating point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/681499 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 13/02 (20130101) F02D 37/02 (20130101) F02D 41/307 (20130101) F02D 41/3035 (20130101) F02D 41/3041 (20130101) F02D 41/3076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02D 2041/1412 (20130101) F02D 2200/701 (20130101) F02D 2250/21 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/128 (20130101) |
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| US 09222512 | Sexton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy N. Sexton (Genola, Utah); Craig H. Cooley (Saratoga Springs, Utah); Cody W. Knuteson (Salem, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION (Orem, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy N. Sexton (Genola, Utah); Craig H. Cooley (Saratoga Springs, Utah); Cody W. Knuteson (Salem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the invention relate to bearing assemblies, apparatuses and motor assemblies that include geometric features configured to impart a selected amount of heat transfer and/or hydrodynamic film formation. In an embodiment, a bearing assembly may include a plurality of superhard bearing pads distributed circumferentially about an axis. At least some of the plurality of superhard bearing pads may include a plurality of sub-superhard bearing elements defining a bearing surface. At least some of the plurality of sub-superhard bearing elements may be spaced from one another by one or more voids to impart a selected amount of heat transfer and hydrodynamic film formation thereon during operation. The bearing assembly may also include a support ring that carries the plurality of superhard bearing pads. In addition, at least a portion of the sub-superhard bearing elements may extend beyond the support ring. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/550835 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 4/003 (20130101) Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 17/03 (20130101) F16C 17/028 (20130101) F16C 33/26 (20130101) F16C 33/043 (20130101) F16C 33/108 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16C 33/1065 (20130101) F16C 2206/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49636 (20150115) |
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| US 09222665 | Halas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter Nordlander (Houston, Texas); Oara Neumann (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy J. Halas (Houston, Texas); Peter Nordlander (Houston, Texas); Oara Neumann (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system including a steam generation system and a chamber. The steam generation system includes a complex and the steam generation system is configured to receive water, concentrate electromagnetic (EM) radiation received from an EM radiation source, apply the EM radiation to the complex, where the complex absorbs the EM radiation to generate heat, and transform, using the heat generated by the complex, the water to steam. The chamber is configured to receive the steam and an object, wherein the object is of medical waste, medical equipment, fabric, and fecal matter. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326482 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| 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 2/10 (20130101) A61L 11/00 (20130101) Disposal of Solid Waste B09B 3/0075 (20130101) B09B 3/0091 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 11/18 (20130101) C02F 2103/003 (20130101) C02F 2103/005 (20130101) C02F 2103/30 (20130101) C02F 2103/32 (20130101) C02F 2209/02 (20130101) C02F 2209/03 (20130101) C02F 2303/04 (20130101) Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 1/006 (20130101) F22B 1/281 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Producing or Use of Heat Not Otherwise Provided For F24J 2/07 (20130101) F24J 2/14 (20130101) F24J 2/42 (20130101) F24J 2/48 (20130101) F24J 2/485 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/187 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/41 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/37 (20150501) |
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| US 09222810 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Darwin K. Serkland (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bion J. Merchant (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor device is described herein, wherein the sensor device includes an optical measurement system, such as an interferometer. The sensor device further includes a low-power light source that is configured to emit an optical signal having a constant wavelength, wherein accuracy of a measurement output by the sensor device is dependent upon the optical signal having the constant wavelength. At least a portion of the optical signal is directed to a vapor cell, the vapor cell including an atomic species that absorbs light having the constant wavelength. A photodetector captures light that exits the vapor cell, and generates an electrical signal that is indicative of intensity of the light that exits the vapor cell. A control circuit controls operation of the light source based upon the electrical signal, such that the light source emits the optical signal with the constant wavelength. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/031863 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| 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 18/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222888 | Greenbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elias Greenbaum (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jie Wu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elias Greenbaum (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jie Wu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Chlorophyll fluorometry may be used for detecting toxins in a sample because of changes in micro algae. A portable lab on a chip (“LOAC”) based chlorophyll fluorometer may be used for toxin detection and environmental monitoring. In particular, the system may include a microfluidic pulse amplitude modulated (“PAM”) chlorophyll fluorometer. The LOAC PAM chlorophyll fluorometer may analyze microalgae and cyanobacteria that grow naturally in source drinking water. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/438562 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2201/0625 (20130101) |
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| US 09223039 | Vu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Kurt Nihei (Oakland, California); Paul A. Johnson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert Guyer (Reno, Nevada); James A. Ten Cate (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Carène S. Larmat (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (San Ramon, California); LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Kurt Nihei (Oakland, California); Paul A. Johnson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Robert Guyer (Reno, Nevada); James A. Ten Cate (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Carène S. Larmat (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system includes generating a first coded acoustic signal including pulses each having a modulated signal at a central frequency; and a second coded acoustic signal each pulse of which includes a modulated signal a central frequency of which is a fraction d of the central frequency of the modulated signal for the corresponding pulse in the first plurality of pulses. A receiver detects a third signal generated by a non-linear mixing process in the mixing zone and the signal is processed to extract the third signal to obtain an emulated micro-seismic event signal occurring at the mixing zone; and to characterize properties of the medium or creating a 3D image of the properties of the medium, or both, based on the emulated micro-seismic event signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/292948 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01V 1/44 (20130101) G01V 1/46 (20130101) G01V 1/50 (20130101) G01V 1/52 (20130101) G01V 2210/125 (20130101) G01V 2210/127 (20130101) G01V 2210/588 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 15/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09223728 | Attinella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Attinella (Rochester, Minnesota); Kristan D. Davis (Rochester, Minnesota); Roy G. Musselman (Rochester, Minnesota); David L. Satterfield (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for servicing a globally broadcast interrupt signal in a multi-threaded computer comprising a plurality of processor threads. Embodiments include an interrupt controller indicating in a plurality of local interrupt status locations that a globally broadcast interrupt signal has been received by the interrupt controller. Embodiments also include a thread determining that a local interrupt status location corresponding to the thread indicates that the globally broadcast interrupt signal has been received by the interrupt controller. Embodiments also include the thread processing one or more entries in a global interrupt status bit queue based on whether global interrupt status bits associated with the globally broadcast interrupt signal are locked. Each entry in the global interrupt status bit queue corresponds to a queued global interrupt. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795019 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09223729 | Attinella et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Attinella (Rochester, Minnesota); Kristan D. Davis (Rochester, Minnesota); Roy G. Musselman (Rochester, Minnesota); David L. Satterfield (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for servicing a globally broadcast interrupt signal in a multi-threaded computer comprising a plurality of processor threads. Embodiments include an interrupt controller indicating in a plurality of local interrupt status locations that a globally broadcast interrupt signal has been received by the interrupt controller. Embodiments also include a thread determining that a local interrupt status location corresponding to the thread indicates that the globally broadcast interrupt signal has been received by the interrupt controller. Embodiments also include the thread processing one or more entries in a global interrupt status bit queue based on whether global interrupt status bits associated with the globally broadcast interrupt signal are locked. Each entry in the global interrupt status bit queue corresponds to a queued global interrupt. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804223 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09224196 | Duerksen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ClearMark Systems, LLC (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ClearMark Systems, LLC (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Duerksen (Ward, Colorado); Seth A. Miller (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods and systems for determining authenticity. For example, the method may include providing an object of authentication, capturing characteristic data from the object of authentication, deriving authentication data from the characteristic data of the object of authentication, and comparing the authentication data with an electronic database comprising reference authentication data to provide an authenticity score for the object of authentication. The reference authentication data may correspond to one or more reference objects of authentication other than the object of authentication. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/656705 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/18 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 5/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09224507 | Heinold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Heinold (San Jose, California); John F. Berger (Wilmington, North Carolina); Milton H. Loper (San Jose, California); Gary A. Runkle (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods permit discriminate access to nuclear reactors. Systems provide penetration pathways to irradiation target loading and offloading systems, instrumentation systems, and other external systems at desired times, while limiting such access during undesired times. Systems use selection mechanisms that can be strategically positioned for space sharing to connect only desired systems to a reactor. Selection mechanisms include distinct paths, forks, diverters, turntables, and other types of selectors. Management methods with such systems permits use of the nuclear reactor and penetration pathways between different systems and functions, simultaneously and at only distinct desired times. Existing TIP drives and other known instrumentation and plant systems are useable with access management systems and methods, which can be used in any nuclear plant with access restrictions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/709524 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 19/32 (20130101) G21C 23/00 (20130101) Conversion of Chemical Elements; Radioactive Sources G21G 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09224532 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiuling Li (Champaign, Illinois); Wen Huang (Champaign, Illinois); Placid M. Ferreira (Champaign, Illinois); Xin Yu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A rolled-up inductor structure for a radiofrequency integrated circuit (RFIC) comprises a multilayer sheet in a rolled configuration comprising multiple turns about a longitudinal axis. The multilayer sheet comprises a conductive pattern layer on a strain-relieved layer, and the conductive pattern layer comprises at least one conductive strip having a length extending in a rolling direction. The at least one conductive strip thereby wraps around the longitudinal axis in the rolled configuration. The conductive pattern layer may also comprise two conductive feed lines connected to the conductive strip for passage of electrical current therethrough. The conductive strip serves as an inductor cell of the rolled-up inductor structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/051188 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 5/00 (20130101) H01F 5/02 (20130101) H01F 17/0013 (20130101) H01F 27/2804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 27/2847 (20130101) H01F 41/02 (20130101) H01F 41/041 (20130101) H01F 41/0604 (20130101) H01F 2017/006 (20130101) H01F 2027/2809 (20130101) H01F 2027/2857 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/4814 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 23/645 (20130101) H01L 23/5227 (20130101) H01L 28/10 (20130101) H01L 2223/6627 (20130101) H01L 2223/6677 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49071 (20150115) |
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| US 09224570 | Rao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Triveni Rao (Shoreham, New York); John Walsh (Sound Beach, New York); Elizabeth Gangone (New Hyde Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A vacuum encapsulated, hermetically sealed cathode capsule for generating an electron beam of secondary electrons, which generally includes a cathode element having a primary emission surface adapted to emit primary electrons, an annular insulating spacer, a diamond window element comprising a diamond material and having a secondary emission surface adapted to emit secondary electrons in response to primary electrons impinging on the diamond window element, a first high-temperature solder weld disposed between the diamond window element and the annular insulating spacer and a second high-temperature solder weld disposed between the annular insulating spacer and the cathode element. The cathode capsule is formed by a high temperature weld process under vacuum such that the first solder weld forms a hermetical seal between the diamond window element and the annular insulating spacer and the second solder weld forms a hermetical seal between the annular spacer and the cathode element whereby a vacuum encapsulated chamber is formed within the capsule. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896459 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 3/021 (20130101) H01J 5/26 (20130101) H01J 9/26 (20130101) H01J 9/125 (20130101) H01J 29/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 29/485 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/41 (20150115) |
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| US 09225011 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donghai Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Tianren Xu (State College, Pennsylvania); Jiangxuan Song (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | We report a heteroatom-doped carbon framework that acts both as conductive network and polysulfide immobilizer for lithium-sulfur cathodes. The doped carbon forms chemical bonding with elemental sulfur and/or sulfur compound. This can significantly inhibit the diffusion of lithium polysulfides in the electrolyte, leading to high capacity retention and high coulombic efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/938527 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09225325 | De Geronimo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gianluigi De Geronimo (Syosset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of comparator circuits are disclosed. A comparator circuit may include a differential input circuit, an output circuit, a positive feedback circuit operably coupled between the differential input circuit and the output circuit, and a hysteresis control circuit operably coupled with the positive feedback circuit. The hysteresis control circuit includes a switching device and a transistor. The comparator circuit provides sub-hysteresis discrimination and high speed discrimination. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/471617 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 5/2481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09221064 | Hersam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Wilmette, Illinois); Jung-Woo T. Seo (Evanston, Illinois); Joohoon Kang (Evanston, Illinois); Alexander A. Green (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present teachings provide, in part, methods of separating two-dimensional nanomaterials by atomic layer thickness. In certain embodiments, the present teachings provide methods of generating graphene nanomaterials having a controlled number of atomic layer(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528729 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/26 (20130101) Flotation; Differential Sedimentation B03D 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 21/0648 (20130101) C01B 31/04 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) C01B 31/0492 (20130101) C01B 2204/02 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/06 (20130101) C01B 2204/28 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 29/006 (20130101) C01G 39/06 (20130101) C01G 41/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09221091 | Beltran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); The Penn State Reasearch Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Beltran (Chicago, Illinois); Jian Cao (Wilmette, Illinois); John T. Roth (Erie, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a frame configured to hold a workpiece and first and second tool positioning assemblies configured to be opposed to each other on opposite sides of the workpiece. The first and second tool positioning assemblies each include a toolholder configured to secure a tool to the tool positioning assembly, a first axis assembly, a second axis assembly, and a third axis assembly. The first, second, and third axis assemblies are each configured to articulate the toolholder along a respective axis. Each axis assembly includes first and second guides extending generally parallel to the corresponding axis and disposed on opposing sides of the toolholder with respect to the corresponding axis. Each axis assembly includes first and second carriages articulable along the first and second guides of the axis assembly, respectively, in the direction of the corresponding axis. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/667846 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Working or Processing of Sheet Metal or Metal Tubes, Rods or Profiles Without Essentially Removing Material; Punching Metal B21D 31/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09221744 | Canary et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James Canary (New York, New York); Shahab Mortezaei (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Canary (New York, New York); Shahab Mortezaei (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to asymmetric catalysts, including redox-reconfigurable asymmetric catalysts. Methods of producing compounds having one or more stereocenters using the asymmetric catalysts of the present invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/407124 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/183 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 2231/30 (20130101) B01J 2231/32 (20130101) B01J 2531/16 (20130101) B01J 2531/0216 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 201/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 1/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09221780 | Toscano et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Toscano (Glen Arm, Maryland); Frederick Arthur Brookfield (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Andrew D. Cohen (Mamaroneck, New York); Stephen Martin Courtney (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Lisa Marie Frost (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Vincent Jacob Kalish (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to N-hydroxysulfonamide derivatives that donate nitroxyl (HNO) under physiological conditions and are useful in treating and/or preventing the onset and/or development of diseases or conditions that are responsive to nitroxyl therapy, including heart failure and ischemia/reperfusion injury. Novel N-hydroxysulfonamide derivatives release NHO at a controlled rate under physiological conditions, and the rate of HNO release is modulated by varying the nature and location of functional groups on the N-hydroxysulfonamide derivatives. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/280133 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/48 (20130101) C07C 323/67 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/74 (20130101) C07D 261/10 (20130101) C07D 263/58 (20130101) C07D 285/125 (20130101) C07D 295/096 (20130101) C07D 307/82 (20130101) C07D 309/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 317/14 (20130101) C07D 333/62 (20130101) |
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| US 09221863 | Schneider et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James W. Schneider (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Shane T. Grosser (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey M. Savard (McGaheysville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Schneider (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Shane T. Grosser (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey M. Savard (McGaheysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates transiently attaching drag-tags to molecules during electrophoresis. The invention includes running buffers having drag-tags that transiently attach to lipophilic moieties attached to the molecules. The lipophilic moieties can be covalently or ionically bonded to the molecules. One particular aspect of the invention is a nucleoside analog or a nucleic acid analog comprising a lipophilic moiety. The invention is also directed to methods of separating molecules that comprise a lipophilic moiety. The methods generally comprise transiently attaching a drag-tag to the lipophilic moiety during a separation modality. These methods can be used to separate the molecules by size or weight, to measure a hydrodynamic radius of a drag-tag, or to separate a plurality of drag-tag by their hydrodynamic radius. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/665994 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2030/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09221871 | Arora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paramjit Arora (Huntington, New York); Ross Chapman (Tuckahoe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for preparing a peptide having a stable, internally constrained alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region and a method of stabilizing an alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region within a peptide structure. The resulting peptides and methods of using them are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868959 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/113 (20130101) C07K 1/1072 (20130101) C07K 5/08 (20130101) C07K 5/12 (20130101) C07K 5/0215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09222114 | Gentry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Gentry (Lexington, Kentucky); Craig Vander Kooi (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter includes thermophilic glucan phosphatase polypeptides. In some embodiments the polypeptide includes non-native laforin polypeptides, or fragments and/or variants thereof, and in some instances the polypeptide can alter the biophysical properties of starch in vitro or in planta. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes isolated polynucleotides encoding the present polypeptides, methods for processing starch by exposing starch to the present polypeptides, and methods for making the present polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/282815 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/16 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09222558 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weidong Zhu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Xuefeng Wang (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A geared infinitely variable transmission (GIVT) to provide a continuous output-to-input speed ratio from zero to a certain value is designed, and its working principle is illustrated. Crank-slider systems are used in the GIVT; the output-to-input speed ratio is changed with the crank length. Racks and pinions, controlled by planetary gear sets, are used to change the crank length when the cranks are rotating. One-way bearings rectify the output speeds from different crank-slider systems to obtain the output speed of the GIVT. Noncircular gears are used to minimize variations since the crank-slider systems can introduce variations of the instantaneous speed ratio. A direction control system is provided using planetary gear sets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/071989 |
| ART UNIT | 3659 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 19/043 (20130101) F16H 21/14 (20130101) F16H 21/20 (20130101) F16H 29/04 (20130101) F16H 29/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/18408 (20150115) |
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| US 09222559 | Nishikawa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kiisa Nishikawa (Flagstaff, Arizona); Theodore A. Uyeno (Valdosta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, acting for and on behalf of Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiisa Nishikawa (Flagstaff, Arizona); Theodore A. Uyeno (Valdosta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuator according to one embodiment of the present invention may include a fixed member and a free member. The free member is operatively engaged with the fixed member so that the free member is moveable with respect to the fixed member. The actuator also includes means for moving the free member with respect to the fixed member. An elastic element operatively associated with the free member and the fixed member is operable to store energy without a change in an overall length of the actuator. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/203185 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 25/20 (20130101) F16H 25/2204 (20130101) F16H 33/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16H 2025/2059 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 7/00 (20130101) H02K 21/046 (20130101) H02K 41/031 (20130101) H02K 2201/18 (20130101) H02K 2207/03 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 74/18568 (20150115) Y10T 74/18576 (20150115) |
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| US 09222881 | Baiz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlos R. Baiz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kevin C. Jones (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos R. Baiz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kevin C. Jones (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for the determination of the secondary structure composition of proteins using coherent two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy of backbone amide I vibrations (1580-1720 cm−1). Fractions of α-helix, β-sheet, and unassigned regions in globular proteins were determined by singular value decomposition using basis spectra from sixteen commercially-available proteins with known crystal structures. Preferred methods included removing each protein from the set and comparing the predicted composition against the crystal structure. The root-mean-squared (RMS) errors of the predicted secondary structure compositions were found to be 7.9% for α-helix, 5.5% for β-sheet, and 7.6% for unassigned regions. The structure analysis can also be performed using one-dimensional absorption spectra and the RMS errors are compared with those obtained from 2DIR. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/404868 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/35 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/636 (20130101) G01N 21/3577 (20130101) G01N 2201/1293 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09223674 | Sridharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinath Sridharan (Madison, Wisconsin); Gurindar Singh Sohi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer system and method are provided to assess a proper degree of parallelism in executing programs to obtain efficiency objectives, including but not limited to increases in processing speed or reduction in computational resource usage. This assessment of proper degree of parallelism may be used to actively moderate the requests for threads by application processes to control parallelism when those efficiency objectives would be furthered by this control. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792846 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/485 (20130101) G06F 11/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09223717 | Sohi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gurindar S. Sohi (Madison, Wisconsin); Hongil Yoon (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer cache system delays cache coherence invalidation messages related to cache lines of a common memory region to collect these messages into a combined message that can be transmitted more efficiently. This delay may be coordinated with a detection of whether the processor is executing a data-race free portion of the program so that the delay system may be used for a variety of types of programs which may have data-race and data-race free sections. |
| FILED | Monday, October 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646838 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0815 (20130101) G06F 12/0891 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09223900 | Jebara 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) | Tony Jebara (New York, New York); Bert Huang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, computer program product and computer readable media for matching using degree distribution information are disclosed. An embodiment of the method can include performing b-matching on a graph data structure expanded using degree distribution information in order to identify neighbors of a selected input node. The b-matching can be performed using belief propagation. The belief propagation method is adapted to use a compressed message update rule and to be suitable for use with distributed processing systems. An embodiment can also include enhancing a matching result by applying degree distribution information to a first matching result to generate a second matching result. Embodiments for online advertisement/search term matching, product recommendation, dating service and social network matching, auction buyer/seller matching and resource allocation, among other, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/090062 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30958 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/02 (20130101) G06Q 10/04 (20130101) G06Q 30/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09224447 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minnesota); Jonathan D. Harms (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell array includes a logic connection line, a plurality of bit selection lines, and a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a memory element connected to a respective bit selection line and a logic switching element that selectively connects the memory element to the logic connection line. When logic switching elements of multiple separate cells connect their respective memory elements to the logic connection line, the memory elements connected to the logic connection line operate as a logic device with an output of the logic device stored in one of the memory elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/259568 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 5/08 (20130101) G11C 11/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09224532 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiuling Li (Champaign, Illinois); Wen Huang (Champaign, Illinois); Placid M. Ferreira (Champaign, Illinois); Xin Yu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A rolled-up inductor structure for a radiofrequency integrated circuit (RFIC) comprises a multilayer sheet in a rolled configuration comprising multiple turns about a longitudinal axis. The multilayer sheet comprises a conductive pattern layer on a strain-relieved layer, and the conductive pattern layer comprises at least one conductive strip having a length extending in a rolling direction. The at least one conductive strip thereby wraps around the longitudinal axis in the rolled configuration. The conductive pattern layer may also comprise two conductive feed lines connected to the conductive strip for passage of electrical current therethrough. The conductive strip serves as an inductor cell of the rolled-up inductor structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/051188 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 5/00 (20130101) H01F 5/02 (20130101) H01F 17/0013 (20130101) H01F 27/2804 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 27/2847 (20130101) H01F 41/02 (20130101) H01F 41/041 (20130101) H01F 41/0604 (20130101) H01F 2017/006 (20130101) H01F 2027/2809 (20130101) H01F 2027/2857 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/4814 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 23/645 (20130101) H01L 23/5227 (20130101) H01L 28/10 (20130101) H01L 2223/6627 (20130101) H01L 2223/6677 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49071 (20150115) |
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| US 09225137 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zenghu Chang (Oviedo, Florida); Yi Wu (Orlando, Florida); Eric Cunningham (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of a laser pulse has been shown to influence many physical processes such as pulse propagation through polar molecules, cross-phase modulation, ponderomotive surface-plasmon electron acceleration, photoemission from metallic surfaces, terahertz emission from the laser breakdown of air, above-threshold ionization, high harmonic generation, and attosecond pulse generation. Current technology does not allow for the CEP stabilization of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) systems operating at a repetition rate much lower than a kHz. The inventors disclose apparatus and methods that enable CEP control in CPA systems operating at arbitrarily-low repetition rates. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/583904 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/0057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/0085 (20130101) H01S 3/1307 (20130101) H01S 3/2316 (20130101) |
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| US 09225402 | Gollakota et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ching-Ju Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyamnath Gollakota (Seattle, Washington); Dina Katabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ching-Ju Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of techniques, which may be used together, provide distributed coordination of multiple stations so that concurrent transmissions and increased throughput are achieved on a shared radio medium. Each of the techniques provides a separate innovation that can be used alone or in combination with one or more of the other techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/562907 |
| ART UNIT | 2411 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 5/0018 (20130101) H04B 7/0452 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0002 (20130101) H04L 27/0006 (20130101) |
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| US 09225601 | Khurshid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Khurshid (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Chapman Caesar (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Philip Brighten Godfrey (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network-wide verification system may be adapted with a data plane verification layer positioned between a set of multiple network devices and a controller in network communication with the devices, where the controller is configured to transmit packet-forwarding rules to the devices. The data plane verification layer monitors network rule modifications, such as monitoring modifications initiated by the network devices and/or by the controller, and verifies the validity of invariants of the monitored network according to multiple stored network invariants. The verification may be executed on parts of the network taking actions that are capable of being influenced by a new rule modification. The network invariants include conditions expected to be upheld in valid network operation as related to packet routing and the packet-forwarding rules. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/919670 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/0866 (20130101) H04L 41/0869 (20130101) H04L 41/0873 (20130101) H04L 41/0893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09226049 | Grandhi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sukeshini A. Grandhi (Kearny, New Jersey); Quentin Jones (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Richard Schuler, III (East Rutherford, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sukeshini A. Grandhi (Kearny, New Jersey); Quentin Jones (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Richard Schuler, III (East Rutherford, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for previewing calls in communications system is provided. The system includes a first communications device operated by a sender, the first communications device executing first call preview code for allowing the sender to provide relational context information relating to a call, and a second communications device operated by a receiver, the second communications device executing second call preview code for receiving the relational context information from the sender and displaying the relational context information to the receiver. The receiver can decide how to respond to the call from the sender based upon the relational context information. A plurality of user interface screens can be generated for allowing the receiver to participate in a survey relating to the call. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/604770 |
| ART UNIT | 2651 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic Communication H04M 3/4365 (20130101) H04M 3/42042 (20130101) H04M 2203/2038 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 3/72 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09220427 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for reconstructing cardiac activation information, an analysis cardiac signal and a reference cardiac signal are processed to determine a first point of change in a derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a derivative of the reference cardiac signal. The analysis cardiac signal and the reference cardiac signal are processed to determine a second point of change in a different derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a different derivative of the reference cardiac signal. An activation onset time is assigned in the analysis cardiac signal at a point based on a mathematical association of the first point of change and the second point of change to define cardiac activation indicating a beat in the analysis cardiac signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/670300 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/0452 (20130101) A61B 5/0464 (20130101) A61B 5/04011 (20130101) A61B 5/04012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/7203 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) A61B 2562/046 (20130101) |
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| US 09220697 | Delgado-Escueta et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Kazuhiro Yamakawa (Saitama, Japan); Toshimitsu Suzuki (Saitama, Japan); Marco Tulio Medina-Hernandez (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); Maria Elisa Alonso Vilatela (Delegacion, Mexico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Kazuhiro Yamakawa (Saitama, Japan); Toshimitsu Suzuki (Saitama, Japan); Marco Tulio Medina-Hernandez (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); Maria Elisa Alonso Vilatela (Delegacion, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1, EFHC1 agonists, or EFHC1 analogs are provided. Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1a, EFHC1a agonists, or EFHC1a analogs are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914844 |
| 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 | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09220720 | Dudley, Jr. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia); THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel C. Dudley, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing arrhythmic risk associated with cardiomyopathy includes administering a composition containing NAD+ or a mitochondrial targeted antioxidant to an individual in need thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/551790 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/662 (20130101) A61K 31/7084 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | John J. Beck (Rocklin, California); Bradley S. Higbee (Bakersfield, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Wonderful Orchards LLC (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Beck (Rocklin, California); Bradley S. Higbee (Bakersfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to formulations of volatile organic compounds having effects on the navel orangeworm moth (NOW). In some embodiments, the blends of volatile organic compounds attract navel orangeworm moths. In other embodiments, the blends disrupt ovipositional activity of the female NOW. The invention also relates to traps baited with any one or more of the disclosed volatile blends, which are effective for controlling NOW. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/312981 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 37/14 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09222032 | Steele et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip H. Steele (Starkville, Mississippi); Sathishkumar Tanneru (Starkville, Mississippi); Sanjeev K. Gajjela (Andhra Pradesh, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the present invention are configured to produce boiler and transportation fuels. A first phase of the method may include oxidation and/or hyper-acidification of bio-oil to produce an intermediate product. A second phase of the method may include catalytic deoxygenation, esterification, or olefination/esterification of the intermediate product under pressurized syngas. The composition of the resulting product—e.g., a boiler fuel—produced by these methods may be used directly or further upgraded to a transportation fuel. Certain embodiments of the present invention also include catalytic compositions configured for use in the method embodiments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/875159 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/45 (20130101) C10G 3/47 (20130101) C10G 3/49 (20130101) C10G 3/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 65/12 (20130101) C10G 2300/1011 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/00 (20130101) C11C 3/003 (20130101) C11C 3/006 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09224882 | Na et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun-Chung Na (Hsinchu, Taiwan); Han-Din Liu (Santa Clara, California); Yimin Kang (San Jose, California); Shu-Lu Chen (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low voltage photodetector structure including a semiconductor device layer, which may be Ge, is disposed over a substrate semiconductor, which may be Si, for example within a portion of a waveguide extending laterally within a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip. In exemplary embodiments where the device layer is formed over an insulator layer, the insulator layer is removed to expose a surface of the semiconductor device layer and a passivation material formed as a replacement for the insulator layer within high field regions. In further embodiments, controlled avalanche gain is achieved by spacing electrodes in a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) architecture, or complementary doped regions in a p-i-n architecture, to provide a field strength sufficient for impact ionization over a distance not significantly more than an order of magnitude greater than the distance that a carrier must travel so as to acquire sufficient energy for impact ionization. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/129181 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/107 (20130101) H01L 31/1085 (20130101) H01L 31/1868 (20130101) H01L 31/1872 (20130101) H01L 31/02161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02327 (20130101) H01L 31/022408 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09225601 | Khurshid et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Khurshid (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Chapman Caesar (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Philip Brighten Godfrey (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network-wide verification system may be adapted with a data plane verification layer positioned between a set of multiple network devices and a controller in network communication with the devices, where the controller is configured to transmit packet-forwarding rules to the devices. The data plane verification layer monitors network rule modifications, such as monitoring modifications initiated by the network devices and/or by the controller, and verifies the validity of invariants of the monitored network according to multiple stored network invariants. The verification may be executed on parts of the network taking actions that are capable of being influenced by a new rule modification. The network invariants include conditions expected to be upheld in valid network operation as related to packet routing and the packet-forwarding rules. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/919670 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/0866 (20130101) H04L 41/0869 (20130101) H04L 41/0873 (20130101) H04L 41/0893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09221533 | Grady |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James P. Grady (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Grady (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A window system for a platform comprising a window pane, a retention frame, and a biasing system. The window pane may be configured to contact a sealing system. The retention frame may be configured to contact the sealing system and hold the window pane against the support frame. The biasing system may be configured to bias the retention frame toward the support frame while the support frame and the retention frame are in a configuration that holds the window pane. Removal of the biasing system may cause the retention frame and the window pane to be removable. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/279620 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 1/1484 (20130101) B64C 1/1492 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09221840 | Schwiebert |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erik M. Schwiebert (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DISCOVERYBIOMED INC. (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik M. Schwiebert (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel CFTR corrector compounds that are effective in rescuing halide efflux in a cell are provided. Also provided are methods for treating protein folding disorders (e.g., cystic fibrosis). The methods include administering a CFTR corrector compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof. Methods of screening for CFTR corrector compounds are also described herein. The methods of screening include contacting a cell that endogenously expresses a CFTR mutation with the compound to be screened and detecting a rescue of halide efflux from the cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/117705 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/513 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 223/04 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 239/95 (20130101) C07D 241/52 (20130101) C07D 251/46 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) C07D 473/06 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 513/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/84 (20130101) G01N 33/502 (20130101) G01N 2800/382 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09222907 | Prasad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shalini Prasad (Allen, Texas); Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy (Bend, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensors include nano-porous alumina membranes that are sensitized by immobilization of antibodies in the nano-pores. The nano-membranes can be sensitized to respond to a single target compound, or different portions of the nano-membrane can be differently sensitized. Capture of the target compound can be detected based on a spectral signature associated with electrical conductance in the nano-pores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/855146 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3278 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09223315 | Irwin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Irwin (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Nan K. McKenzie (Garrett Park, Maryland); William A. Tartal (Baltimore, Maryland); Victoria K. Stephen (Burke, Virginia); Michael J. Amato (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, apparatus, and method for use in delivery of items to a storage unit. The storage unit can include one or several storage receptacles and a control unit that controls and monitors the status of the one or several storage receptacles. The storage unit can be included in a storage unit system that can include one or several storage units and a central control unit. The central control unit can communicate with the one or several storage units, and can receive status and availability updates from the one or several storage units. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/706234 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 1/0485 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (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 10/0836 (20130101) Coin-freed or Like Apparatus G07F 7/08 (20130101) G07F 17/10 (20130101) G07F 17/12 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09220728 | Sadelain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michel Sadelain (New York, New York); Matthias Stephan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michel Sadelain (New York, New York); Matthias Stephan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides immunoresponsive cells, including T cells, cytotoxic T cells, regulatory T cells, and Natural Killer (NK) cells, expressing at least one of an antigen-recognizing receptor and a co-stimulatory ligand and methods of use therefore for the treatment of neoplasia and other pathologies where an increase in an antigen-specific immune response is desired. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/595440 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2501/25 (20130101) C12N 2501/51 (20130101) C12N 2501/599 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09221709 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Allen L. Kelly (Dallas, Texas); Christopher K. Solecki (Allen, Texas); Kevin M. Chapla (Melissa, Texas); William C. Strauss (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen L. Kelly (Dallas, Texas); Christopher K. Solecki (Allen, Texas); Kevin M. Chapla (Melissa, Texas); William C. Strauss (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing a layer of vitreous silica adjacent at least a portion of an inner surface of a fused silica body is described, comprising a heat source disposed to apply sufficient heat to at least a portion of the inner surface to cause a layer of said at least a portion of the inner surface to vitrify. In certain embodiments the heat source is configured to heat at one time a relatively small area of the inner surface, and the apparatus comprises a positioning mechanism for moving the heat source with respect to the inner surface. In certain embodiments the heat source is a hydrogen-oxygen surface-mix fueled torch that is moved helically with respect to the inner surface of the body under the control of a programmed CNC motion control system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/076938 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 29/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 3/06 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, December 29, 2015.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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