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| US 09232907 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vivian S. Lee (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry Rusinek (Great Neck, New York); Lei Zhang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivian S. Lee (Salt Lake City, Utah); Henry Rusinek (Great Neck, New York); Lei Zhang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments of method, system and computer-accessible medium according to the present disclosure can be provided for converting magnetic resonance (MR) arterial signal intensity versus time curves to arterial input functions (AIF) with less susceptibility to artifacts such as flow-related enhancement. Exemplary methods, systems and computer-accessible medium can be used to constrain AIF to satisfies the indicator dilution principle, according to which the area under an initial pass component of AIF can be equal to the injected dose divided by the cardiac output. For example, Monte Carlo simulations of MR renography and tumor perfusion protocols can be performed for comparison with conventional methods. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/262228 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/02 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/72 (20130101) A61B 5/0263 (20130101) A61B 5/02755 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/56308 (20130101) G01R 33/56366 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 2207/10096 (20130101) |
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| US 09233072 | Alexis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hosptial, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Alexis (Greenville, South Carolina); Matteo Iannacone (Milan, Italy); Jinjun Shi (Boston, Massachusetts); Pamela Basto (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elliott Ashley Moseman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Ulrich von Andrian (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Waban, Massachusetts); Elena Tonti (Riccione, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and systems for delivery of nanocarriers to cells of the immune system. The invention provides nanocarriers capable of stimulating an immune response in T cells and/or in B cells. The invention provides nanocarriers that comprise an immunofeature surface and an immunostimulatory moiety. In some embodiments, the immunostimulatory moiety is an adjuvant. The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising inventive nanocarriers. The present invention provides methods of designing, manufacturing, and using inventive nanocarriers and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651124 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/0002 (20130101) A61K 39/002 (20130101) A61K 39/05 (20130101) A61K 39/08 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09233085 | Price et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore J. Price (Plano, Texas); Gregory D. Dussor (Richardson, Texas); Dipti Tillu (Tucson, Arizona); Bo Lian (Millbrae, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A topical composition containing an adenosine monophosphate protein kinase (AMPK) activator and methods of administering the AMPK activator for treating acute pain or preventing the development of chronic pain in a subject. The AMPK activator is resveratrol. A second AMPK activator may also be used. The second AMPK activator is metformin. The topical composition may be administered as a gel, ointment, cream, lotion, suspension, liquid, or transdermal patch. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318245 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/155 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233089 | Nicolls et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Nicolls (Palo Alto, California); Wen Tian (Mountain View, California); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) can be prevented in persons susceptible to the diseases and PAH patients can be treated by administering an effective dose of a leukotriene inhibitor. Suitable inhibitors include leukotriene A4 hydrolase (LTA4H) inhibitors, leukotriene B4 receptor (BLT1/BLT2) antagonists, 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitors, and 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP) inhibitors. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/839321 |
| 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 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/197 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/222 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09233091 | Maeda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tadao Maeda (Mayfield Heights, Ohio); David Saperstein (Seattle, Washington); Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadao Maeda (Mayfield Heights, Ohio); David Saperstein (Seattle, Washington); Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating or preventing age-related retinal dysfunction involves administering to a patient a pharmaceutically effective amount of a synthetic retinal derivative repeatedly over a duration of at least about 3 months. Effective synthetic retinal derivatives include 9-cis-retinyl esters, 11-cis-retinyl esters, derivatives and congeners thereof, and combinations thereof. Suitable ester substituents include carboxylates of C1-C10 monocarboxylic acids and C2-C22 polycarboxylic acids. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/620303 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/07 (20130101) A61K 31/22 (20130101) A61K 31/215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4709 (20130101) |
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| US 09233095 | Dunman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul M. Dunman (Pittsford, New York); Patrick D. Olson (St. Louis, Missouri); Wayne Childers (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska); Temple University Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dunman (Pittsford, New York); Patrick D. Olson (St. Louis, Missouri); Wayne Childers (New Hope, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Small molecule inhibitors of bacterial ribonuclease (e.g., RnpA) and methods for their synthesis and use are described herein. The methods of using the compounds include treating and preventing microbial infections and inhibiting bacterial ribonuclease. Also described herein are methods of identifying compounds for treating or preventing a microbial infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/981015 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/341 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/402 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/337 (20130101) C07D 307/56 (20130101) C07D 307/68 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 417/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09233097 | Tyavanagimatt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shanthakumar R. Tyavanagimatt (Corvallis, Oregon); Melialani A. C. L. Stone (Corvallis, Oregon); William C. Weimers (Corvallis, Oregon); Gopi Krishna Kasi (Corvallis, Oregon); Peter N. K. Samuel (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanthakumar R. Tyavanagimatt (Corvallis, Oregon); Melialani A. C. L. Stone (Corvallis, Oregon); William C. Weimers (Corvallis, Oregon); Gopi Krishna Kasi (Corvallis, Oregon); Peter N. K. Samuel (Corvallis, Oregon); Tove Bolken (Keizer, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a novel liquid formulation for solubilizing poorly soluble ST-246 in cyclodextrins and a novel process of making the formulation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/814102 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/08 (20130101) A61K 9/0014 (20130101) A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 31/724 (20130101) A61K 31/724 (20130101) A61K 31/724 (20130101) A61K 31/4035 (20130101) A61K 31/4035 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 47/10 (20130101) A61K 47/40 (20130101) A61K 47/48969 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09233101 | Anderson, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Anthony Anderson, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois); Calvin J. Chany, II (Asbury, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rush University Medical Center (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Anthony Anderson, Jr. (Chicago, Illinois); Calvin J. Chany, II (Asbury, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of anti-microbial agents and methods for preventing or reducing the risk of sexually transmitted infections and/or diseases is provided. Preferably, these anti-microbial agents are also contraceptive and, thus, also prevent or reduce the risk of unplanned pregnancies. The anti-microbial agents comprise a delivery vector having anti-microbial activity (and preferably contraceptive activity) coupled with a nitric oxide donor moiety. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/063996 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0034 (20130101) A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/21 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/215 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/4245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233102 | Copland, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Copland, III (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida); Laura Ann Marlow (Jacksonville, Florida); Christina Von Roemeling (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials for treating cancers including renal cancer (e.g., renal cell carcinoma) as well as ovarian, breast, prostate, colon, pancreatic, bladder, liver, lung, and thyroid cancers and melanoma. For example, methods and material for using one or more inhibitors of an SCD1 polypeptide to treat renal cell carcinoma (e.g., clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)) or to increase the efficacy of a renal cell carcinoma treatment are provided. In addition, this document provides methods and materials for using elevated SCD1 expression levels in diseased tissues as an indication that an SCD1 inhibitor can be used as an appropriate therapeutic to ameliorate the disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/383385 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/4375 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) G01N 33/57438 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09233106 | Hess et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George P. Hess (Ithica, New York); Moataz M. Gadalla (Ithica, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hess (Ithica, New York); Moataz M. Gadalla (Ithica, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of using cocaine-binding-site ligands and cocaine-binding-site RNA aptamers to treat or prevent Alzheimer's Disease and to reduce or prevent aggregation of beta-amyloid peptides in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/373456 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09233109 | Papke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger Lee Papke (Gainesville, Florida); Adriaan Willem Bruijnzeel (Gainesville, Florida); Sara Jo Nixon (Gainesville, Florida); William Kem (Gainesville, Florida); Ferenc Soti (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Lee Papke (Gainesville, Florida); Adriaan Willem Bruijnzeel (Gainesville, Florida); Sara Jo Nixon (Gainesville, Florida); William Kem (Gainesville, Florida); Ferenc Soti (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure, among others, include compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating nicotine dependence, methods of treating a subject who smokes and has a risk for depression or other neuropsychiatric disorder, method of treating a subject who smokes and has a risk for depression or other neuropsychiatric disorders, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/642907 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/444 (20130101) A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/445 (20130101) A61K 31/4995 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09233119 | Kennedy |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MIAMI UNIVERSITY (Oxford, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Kennedy (Oxford, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Elevated high mobility group A (HMGA) protein expression in human cancer cells, and especially human pancreatic cancer cells, is correlated with resistance to the chemotherapy agent gemcitabine. The present invention uses HMGA-targeted AT-rich phosphorothioate DNA (AT-sDNA) aptamers to suppress HMGA carcinogenic activity. Cell growth of human pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC-1 and Miapaca-2) transfected with AT-sDNA were monitored after treatment with gemcitabine. Significant increases in cell death in AT-sDNA transfected cells compared to non AT-rich sDNA treated cells were observed in both cell lines. The data indicates the potential use of HMGA targeted DNA aptamers to enhance chemotherapy efficacy in human cancer treatment, and in particular human pancreatic cancer treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/037554 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7125 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) |
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| US 09233125 | Davila et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eduardo Davila (Cockeysville, Maryland); Koji Tamada (Ube, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eduardo Davila (Cockeysville, Maryland); Koji Tamada (Ube, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a universal, yet adaptable, anti-tag chimeric antigen receptor (AT-CAR) system which provides T cells with the ability and specificity to recognize and kill target cells, such as tumor cells, that have been marked by tagged antibodies. As an example, αFITC-CAR-expressing T cells have been developed that specifically recognize various human cancer cells when those cells are bound by cancer-reactive FITC-labeled antibodies. The activation of αFITC-CAR-expressing T cells is shown to induce efficient target lysis, T cell proliferation, and cytokine/chemokine production. The system can be used to treating subjects having cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/993396 |
| 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 2039/5156 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 2501/515 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09233127 | Laughlin 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) | Mary J. Laughlin (Charlottesville, Virginia); Mariusz Z. Ratajczak (Charlottesville, Virginia); Claudio Brunstein (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for enhancing engraftment by co-infusing at least two partially HLA matched umbilical cord blood (“UCB”) units. The invention further provides for positive C3a mediated priming on responsiveness to doses of SDF-1 and C3a induced incorporation of CXCR4 in membranes in HSC and progenitors. The invention further provides for enhancing the homing of UCB HSC and progenitors via the SDF-1/CXCR4 pathway and that C3a and LL-37 are useful for this method. It is also disclosed herein that fragments of C3a (e.g., des-Arg) are effective in the methods of the invention, including enhancing homing of HSPCs to BM. The invention further encompasses the disclosure herein of NFAT1 regulation post-transcriptionally by both mir-184 and IFN-γ. The present invention further provides for measuring and using differences between UCB and adult CD4+/45RA+ T-cells as a means of defining strategies to enhance optimal allogeneic stem cell transplantation outcomes. The present invention further provides methods for maintaining IL-2 production in the absence of NFAT1 normal protein levels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779092 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 35/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09233137 | de Muinck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ebo D. de Muinck (Hanover, New Hampshire); Jose R. Conejo-Garcia (East Thetford, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Celdara Medical, LLC (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ebo D. de Muinck (Hanover, New Hampshire); Jose R. Conejo-Garcia (East Thetford, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods useful for targeted depletion or modulation of dendritic cells are provided. The compositions and methods can be used to promote healing of ischemia-related injury, including ischemia-reperfusion injury. Disclosed are a variety of dendritic cell-targeted toxins, bone morphogenetic protein 7 (BMP7) agonists, and dendritic cell-targeted transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-β1) antagonists, all useful in practicing methods of the invention. The inventive compositions and methods can be used in the treatment of various conditions including myocardial infarction, stroke, and critical limb ischemia. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/128004 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/47 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/168 (20130101) |
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| US 09233138 | Abrams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron Frank Abrams (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Irwin M. Chaiken (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Mark R. Contarino (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bibek Parajuli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Adel Ahmed Rashad Ahmed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compounds that are useful for treating or preventing a HIV-1 infection in a mammal. In certain embodiments, the compounds cause cell-free virolysis of an HIV-1 virus. The presented invention further includes a method of causing virolysis of a virus using the compounds described therein. The presented invention further includes a method of treating or preventing an HIV-1 infection in a mammal in need thereof using the compositions described therein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520995 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/162 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16033 (20130101) |
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| US 09233162 | Kodadek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Kodadek (Dallas, Texas); D. Gomika Udugamasooriya (Coppell, Texas); Rolf Brekken (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kodadek (Dallas, Texas); D. Gomika Udugamasooriya (Coppell, Texas); Rolf Brekken (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell-based screen is reported can be used to identify specific receptor-binding compounds in a combinatorial library of peptoids (N-alkylglycine oligomers) displayed on beads. This strategy was applied to the isolation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2 (VEGFR2)-binding peptoids, which were optimized to create lead compounds with high affinity for VEGFR2. One of these peptoids was shown to be an antagonist of VEGF-VEGFR2 interaction and receptor function. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/950425 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09233164 | Kabanov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alexander V. Kabanov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jing Tong (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander V. Kabanov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jing Tong (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides water soluble fullerene formulations and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/976245 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/19 (20130101) A61K 8/84 (20130101) A61K 8/817 (20130101) A61K 9/5138 (20130101) A61K 31/015 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2800/10 (20130101) A61K 2800/522 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 1/02 (20130101) A61Q 13/00 (20130101) A61Q 17/04 (20130101) A61Q 19/00 (20130101) A61Q 19/06 (20130101) A61Q 19/007 (20130101) A61Q 19/08 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/0233 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 7/24 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 79/02 (20130101) C08L 79/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09233166 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongjie Dai (Cupertino, California); Zhuang Liu (Stanford, California); Xiaolin Li (Menlo Park, California); Xiaoming Sun (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nanoparticles, such as carbon nanotubes or other graphitic sheet materials having extended aromatic surfaces, which are used to deliver active agents such as drugs, labels or dyes (termed for convenience a “drug”) to the interior of cells. The nanoparticles are functionalized by a hydrophilic polymer or adsorption of an amphiphilic molecule to render them stable in suspension. The drug is therefore capable of release in the cell exterior. The drug is more rapidly released at lower pH, as found e.g., in tumor cells. The drug may also be linked to a branched chain hydrophilic polymer, so that each polymer molecule carries more than one drug bound by a cleavable linker. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/028353 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0092 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48369 (20130101) A61K 47/48869 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) A61K 47/48961 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09233174 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi-Ying Chen (Shenzhen, China PRC); Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides minicircle nucleic acid vector formulations for use in administering to a subject, wherein the minicircle nucleic acid vectors include a polynucleotide of interest, a product hybrid sequence of a unidirectional site-specific recombinase, and are devoid of plasmid backbone bacterial DNA sequences. Also provided are methods of producing the subject formulations as well as methods for administering the minicircle nucleic acid vector formulations to a subject. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including both research and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/612208 |
| 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 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 2800/24 (20130101) C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2800/80 (20130101) C12N 2800/108 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) C12N 2830/55 (20130101) |
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| US 09233368 | Bau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haim H. Bau (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Changchun Liu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael G. Mauk (Wilmington, Delaware); Robert W. Hart (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Xianbo Qiu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haim H. Bau (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Changchun Liu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael G. Mauk (Wilmington, Delaware); Robert W. Hart (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Xianbo Qiu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are disposable, moisture-activated, self-heating cartridges useful for, e.g., isothermal nucleic acid amplification, incubation, and thermal actuation, and visual fluorescent detection of the amplification products. These devices may be self-contained and do not require any special instruments to operate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/477332 |
| 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 3/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 7/525 (20130101) B01L 2200/148 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (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 1/6806 (20130101) |
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| US 09233921 | Ricciardi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Ricciardi (East Marlborough, Pennsylvania); Manunya Nuth (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compounds of formulas (I), (II), (III), and (IV) as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and methods of inhibiting, treating, or abrogating a poxvirus infection in a subject using the compounds or compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202078 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/12 (20130101) C07D 209/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 209/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09233926 | Mercola et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Mercola (La Jolla, California); John Cashman (San Diego, California); Marion Lanier (San Diego, California); Erik Willems (San Diego, California); Dennis Schade (Dorum, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Human Biomolecular Research Institute (San Diego, California); ChemRegen, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Mercola (La Jolla, California); John Cashman (San Diego, California); Marion Lanier (San Diego, California); Erik Willems (San Diego, California); Dennis Schade (Dorum, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Small molecule compounds and methods for stem cell differentiation are provided herein. An example of a class of compounds that may be used to practice the methods disclosed herein is represented by enantiomerically pure isomers of compounds of Formula I: or a chirally pure stereoisomer, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or solvate thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R5′, R6, R6′, R7, R7′ are as described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/428647 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233941 | Uesugi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for reducing body weight in an animal in need thereof via administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a compound having a general tripartite structure A-B-C. In the tripartite structure A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures, for example, but not limited to, heterocyclic, phenyl or benzyl ring structures with or without substitutions and are described in detail herein. The methods may utilize particular compounds, for example, having a piperidinyl, a pyrrolinyl or pyridinyl A ring, a thiazole B ring, and a phenyl C ring which may be further substituted independently. Also provided are methods for increasing thermogenesis without reducing lean body mass during weight loss in an animal by administering of a therapeutically effective amount of the compounds described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270130 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fodder A23K 1/1628 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/30 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4418 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/06 (20130101) C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 213/76 (20130101) C07D 235/14 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09233949 | Brown et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Milton L. Brown (Brookeville, Maryland); Yali Kong (Centreville, Virginia); Christopher Stuart Wilcox (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton L. Brown (Brookeville, Maryland); Yali Kong (Centreville, Virginia); Christopher Stuart Wilcox (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention relates to compounds, compositions and methods for treating oxidative stress and/or hypertension. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to a mixture of tempol and an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) and the use of said mixture to treat oxidative stress and/or hypertension. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to a tempol/ARB adduct and the use of said adduct to treat oxidative stress and/or hypertension. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/395764 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/45 (20130101) A61K 31/45 (20130101) A61K 31/416 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233960 | Hergenrother et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); David A. Boothman (Dallas, Texas); Joseph S. Bair (Albany, California); Rahul Palchaudhuri (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elizabeth I. Parkinson (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); David A. Boothman (Dallas, Texas); Joseph S. Bair (Albany, California); Rahul Palchaudhuri (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elizabeth I. Parkinson (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of Formula (I) can be selectively lethal toward a variety of different cancer cell types. The compounds are useful for the management, treatment, control, or adjunct treatment of diseases, where the selective lethality is beneficial in chemotherapeutic therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/351861 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/6561 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09233973 | Neckers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (El Paso, Texas); The Regents of the University of California, a California Corporation (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California, a California Corporation (Oakland, California); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (El Paso, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard M. Neckers (Bethesda, Maryland); Marc B. Cox (El Paso, Texas); Jane B. Neckers (Bethesda, Massachusetts); Yeong Sang Kim (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Aki Iwai (Toride, Japan); Yangmin Ning (Silver Spring, Maryland); Johanny Kugelman-Tonos (Frederick, Maryland); Heather A. Balsiger (El Paso, Texas); Robert Fletterick (Hillsborough, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Pharmaceutical compositions that bind to a predicted FK506 Binding Protein 52 (FKBP52) interaction surface on the androgen receptor hormone binding domain, otherwise known as FKBP52 Targeting Agents (FTAs) are provided. These compositions of the present invention are found to specifically recognize the FKBP52 regulatory surface on the androgen receptor and inhibit FKBP52 from functionally interacting with the androgen receptor. Compositions comprising the pharmaceutical composition, as well as methods of use, treatment and screening are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/336075 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/165 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/167 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/195 (20130101) A61K 31/4355 (20130101) A61K 31/4355 (20130101) A61K 31/4741 (20130101) A61K 31/4741 (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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 233/66 (20130101) C07C 235/84 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234018 | An et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Woojin An (Los Angeles, California); Nouri Neamati (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyunghwan Kim (Los Angeles, California); Wange Lu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Woojin An (Los Angeles, California); Nouri Neamati (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyunghwan Kim (Los Angeles, California); Wange Lu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods and compositions to inhibit or suppress tumor growth or to treat cancer by inhibiting VprBP kinase activity. Also provided are methods of determining the effectiveness of the methods and compositions to inhibit or suppress tumor growth or to treat cancer by inhibiting VprBP kinase activity, methods for detecting a cancer, and methods for screening potential agents that inhibit VprBP kinase activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/514223 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 495/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (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) 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 1/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 2500/04 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09234026 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tianyi Wang (Harrisonburg, Virginia); Shufeng Liu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fan Daping (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianyi Wang (Harrisonburg, Virginia); Shufeng Liu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fan Daping (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are several apoplipoprotein E (ApoE) polypeptides, and nucleic acids encoding these polypeptides, that can be used to treat or prevent a hepatitis infection in a subject, such as a hepatitis C virus infection. These ApoE polypeptides can inhibit the entry of hepatitis C virus into cells, and inhibit viral replication. Nucleic acids encoding these polypeptides are also disclosed, as well as methods for their preparation. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/232603 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/775 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234040 | Zurawski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Jacques F. Banchereau (Montclair, New Jersey); Eynav Klechevsky (Haifa, Israel); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Anne-Laure Flamar (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for increasing the effectiveness of antigen presentation using a DCIR-specific antibody or fragment thereof to which an antigen is attached that forms an antibody-antigen complex, wherein the antigen is processed and presented by a dendritic cell that has been contacted with the antibody-antigen complex. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/045454 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 47/48746 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/6056 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0639 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09234048 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Gregory Ellis (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Palte (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Gregory Ellis (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael Palte (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for enhancing cellular uptake of cargo molecules by boronating the cargo molecule, particularly with one or more phenylboronic acid groups. Cellular uptake includes at least partial uptake into the cytosol. Boronation includes ligating, crosslinking or otherwise bonding one or more phenylboronic acids substituted to contain a reactive group to a cargo molecule. Boronation also includes ligating, crosslinking or otherwise bonding a phenylboronated oligopeptide to a cargo molecule. The phenylboronate groups are optionally conjugated to the cargo molecule via linking moieties that can be selectively cleaved, such cleavable linkers can allow the phenylboronate groups to be removed from the cargo molecule after the boronated cargo molecule is introduced into the cell. The invention includes certain phenylboronates which are boronation reagents, certain boronated oligopeptides and certain boronated peptides and proteins. The invention also includes kits for enhancing cellular uptake of cargo molecules by boronation with one or more phenylboronates or boronated oligopeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/745737 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48023 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Peptides C07K 19/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234078 | Sun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); IMRA of America, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); IMRA of America, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duxin Sun (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hongwei Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wei Qian (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yong Che (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Masayuki Ito (Cupertino, California); Hayley Paholak (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kanokwan Sansanaphongpricha (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods, compositions, and kits for generating conjugated gold nanoparticles. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides methods of generating unsaturated conjugated gold nanoparticles by mixing naked gold nanoparticles with a first type of attachment molecules at a molar ratio such that the attachment molecules attach to the naked gold particles at a density level below the saturation level of the naked gold particles (e.g., at a saturation level of 1-99%). In some embodiments, a second type of attachment molecules (e.g., with the opposite charge as the first type of attachment molecules) are mixed with the unsaturated conjugated gold nanoparticles to generate double-conjugated gold nanoparticles (e.g., that are zwitterionic). |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/212594 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 41/0052 (20130101) A61K 47/48 (20130101) A61K 47/48215 (20130101) A61K 49/0065 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 65/3344 (20130101) |
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| US 09234170 | Snoeck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hans-Willem Snoeck (Brooklyn, New York); Michael Green (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans-Willem Snoeck (Brooklyn, New York); Michael Green (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to in vitro methods of inducing differentiation of anterior foregut endoderm and the enriched populations of anterior foregut endoderm produced by such methods. Such enriched populations are useful for studies of the molecular events that occur during differentiation and for generating cells for cell replacement therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/643032 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0607 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0617 (20130101) C12N 5/0688 (20130101) C12N 2501/15 (20130101) C12N 2501/41 (20130101) C12N 2501/117 (20130101) C12N 2501/119 (20130101) C12N 2501/155 (20130101) C12N 2501/385 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09234171 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ki-Bum Lee (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Shreyas Shah (Dayton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ki-Bum Lee (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Shreyas Shah (Dayton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This application discloses a light-responsive hydrogel-based platform that can modulate multiple microenvironmental signals to direct the differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells (hiPSC-NPCs) into neuronal cells. The invention provides novel methods for directing differentiation of neural stem cells into neurons useful for treatment of degenerative diseases or disorders, including but not limited to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or spinal cord injury (SCI). |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/314891 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0618 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2506/45 (20130101) C12N 2529/10 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) C12N 2533/50 (20130101) C12N 2535/10 (20130101) C12N 2537/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09234175 | Mule |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James J. Mule (Odessa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Mule (Odessa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods of treating various conditions, including tumors, with compositions comprising dendritic cells expressing exogenous chemokines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/508305 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/521 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0639 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234176 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wu (Stanford, California); Robert C. Robbins (Stanford, California); Paul W. Burridge (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for producing a cardiomyocyte population from a mammalian pluripotent stem cell population. Aspects of the methods include using a Wnt signaling agonist and antagonist, each in minimal media, to modulate Wnt signaling. Also provided are kits for practicing the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/079312 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2501/415 (20130101) C12N 2501/727 (20130101) C12N 2506/02 (20130101) C12N 2506/45 (20130101) |
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| US 09234181 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zequn Tang (Corning, New York); Jan zur Megede (San Francicso, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis AG (, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zequn Tang (Corning, New York); Jan zur Megede (San Francicso, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Strategies for increasing the productivity of alphavirus packaging cell lines and of reducing the possibility that replication competent virus may be generated during large scale production of recombinant alphavirus particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/744878 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/36143 (20130101) C12N 2770/36152 (20130101) |
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| US 09234191 | Raines et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); George N. Phillips, Jr. (Madison, Wisconsin); R. Jeremy Johnson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jason G. McCoy (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Cytotoxic variants of human ribonuclease 1 (RNase 1) identified through analysis of the interaction between RNase 1 and the human ribonuclease inhibitor (hRI) as defined by the three dimensional (3-D) atomic structure of the RNase1 hRI complex are disclosed. Also disclosed is the 3-D structure of the hRI.RNase 1 complex and methods for designing and using the RNase 1 variants. |
| FILED | Friday, October 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/046671 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234197 | Chaput et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Ariz (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Chaput (Phoenix, Arizona); Bertram Jacobs (Tempe, Arizona); Brian Wellensiek (Glendale, Arizona); Julia Flores (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polynucleotides that can serve as translation enhancing elements and their use in protein expression reagents and methods. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/349835 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2830/30 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/105 (20130101) |
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| US 09234210 | Famili et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Imandokht Famili (San Diego, California); Renata Usaite Black (San Diego, California); Christophe H. Schilling (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intrexon CEU, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Imandokht Famili (San Diego, California); Renata Usaite Black (San Diego, California); Christophe H. Schilling (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to newly identified selectable marker systems, cells for use in a selectable marker system, and methods for using the selectable marker systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/218342 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0071 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 114/16001 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peixuan Guo (Mason, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Peixuan Guo (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are disclosed that exploit the unprecedented modification of double-stranded DNA virus DNA-packaging motor protein connector polypeptides to render them capable of stable incorporation into lipid membranes as a self-assembled homodocamer that forms an aperture through which conductance can occur when an electrical potential is applied across the membrane. The aperture permits use of the modified protein as a biosensor, for dsDNA sequencing, SNP detection and highly sensitive affinity capture and fingerprinting of analytes, and also finds use in electropotential-driven solute translocation, such as for liposomal loading to form therapeutic nanoparticles (e.g., gene delivery) and bioreactors, and for other uses. The aperture can further be used in optical detection of dsDNA or other acceptor labeled analytes in a fluorophore donor labeled single pore channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/094698 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) C07K 2319/10 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) C07K 2319/22 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/447 (20130101) G01N 33/48721 (20130101) |
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| US 09234241 | Barany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); George Barany (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Maria Kempe (Malmo, Sweden); Herman Blok (Wemeldinge, Netherlands); Monib Zirvi (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a method for identifying one or more of a plurality of sequences differing by one or more single base changes, insertions, deletions, or translocations in a plurality of target nucleotide sequences. The method includes a ligation phase, a capture phase, and a detection phase. The ligation phase utilizes a ligation detection reaction between one oligonucleotide probe, which has a target sequence-specific portion and an addressable array-specific portion, and a second oligonucleotide probe, having a target sequence-specific portion and a detectable label. After the ligation phase, the capture phase is carried out by hybridizing the ligated oligonucleotide probes to a solid support with an array of immobilized capture oligonucleotides at least some of which are complementary to the addressable array-specific portion. Following completion of the capture phase, a detection phase is carried out to detect the labels of ligated oligonucleotide probes hybridized to the solid support. |
| FILED | Monday, December 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/101067 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/0059 (20130101) B01J 2219/0061 (20130101) B01J 2219/00432 (20130101) B01J 2219/00527 (20130101) B01J 2219/00529 (20130101) B01J 2219/00536 (20130101) B01J 2219/00585 (20130101) B01J 2219/00596 (20130101) B01J 2219/00605 (20130101) B01J 2219/00608 (20130101) B01J 2219/00612 (20130101) B01J 2219/00621 (20130101) B01J 2219/00626 (20130101) B01J 2219/00637 (20130101) B01J 2219/00659 (20130101) B01J 2219/00711 (20130101) B01J 2219/00722 (20130101) B01J 2219/00729 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6827 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2537/143 (20130101) C12Q 2561/125 (20130101) C12Q 2561/125 (20130101) C12Q 2565/501 (20130101) C12Q 2565/514 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/06 (20130101) C40B 60/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09234242 | Akil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Huda Akil (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stanley J. Watson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cortney Turner (Belleville, Michigan); William E. Bunny (Laguna Hill, California); Edward G. Jones (Winters, California); Richard M. Myers (Stanford, California); Alan F. Schatzberg (Los Altos, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huda Akil (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Stanley J. Watson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cortney Turner (Belleville, Michigan); William E. Bunny (Laguna Hill, California); Edward G. Jones (Winters, California); Richard M. Myers (Stanford, California); Alan F. Schatzberg (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to the treatment and diagnosis of mood disorders, including bipolar disorder, major depression disorder and schizophrenia. The invention provides novel diagnostic markers and assays, as well as research tools for the development and discovery of agents and compounds which are useful for treating patients who suffer from mental illness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/431893 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/03 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 38/1825 (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 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5023 (20130101) G01N 2800/304 (20130101) |
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| US 09234244 | Zeiger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martha Allen Zeiger (Bethesda, Maryland); Nijaguna B. Prasad (Columbia, Maryland); Steven K. Libutti (Potomac, Maryland); Christopher B. Umbricht (Towson, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha Allen Zeiger (Bethesda, Maryland); Nijaguna B. Prasad (Columbia, Maryland); Steven K. Libutti (Potomac, Maryland); Christopher B. Umbricht (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of genes differentially expressed in benign thyroid lesions and malignant thyroid lesions for the diagnosis and staging of thyroid cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/675209 |
| 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 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) |
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| US 09234841 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lihong Wang (St. Louis, Missouri); Xiao Xu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lihong Wang (St. Louis, Missouri); Xiao Xu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Generating an optical-phase conjugation of ultrasonically-modulated diffuse light emitted by a scattering medium includes illuminating the medium with a light beam from a coherent light source, modulating the diffuse light transmitted through the medium with an ultrasonic wave focused on a region of interest within the medium, and retro-reflectively illuminating the medium using a phase-conjugated copy of the diffuse light that was ultrasonically modulated. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/574994 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/1717 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 2021/1708 (20130101) G01N 2021/1785 (20130101) |
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| US 09234885 | Chandran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kartik Chandran (Brooklyn, New York); Sean Whelan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thijn Brummelkamp (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Jan Carette (Palo Alto, California); Matthijs Raaben (De Belt, Netherlands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kartik Chandran (Brooklyn, New York); Sean Whelan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thijn Brummelkamp (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Jan Carette (Palo Alto, California); Matthijs Raaben (De Belt, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and assays for treating a subject with a filovirus infection using an agent that inhibits Niemann-Pick CI (NPCI), VPSII, VPSI6, VPSI8, VPS33A, VPS39, VPS41, BLOCISI, BLOCIS2, GNPTAB, PIKFYVE, ARHGAP23 or FIG4. Methods for screening for an agent that treats and/or prevents infection of a subject with a filovirus, where the methods comprise determining whether the agent inhibits one or more of Niemann-Pick CI (NPCI), VPSII, VPSI6, VPSI8, VPS33A, VPS39, VPS41. BLOCISI, BLOCIS2, GNPTAB, PIKFYVE, ARHGAP23 or FIG4, wherein an agent that inhibits one or more of NPCI, VPSII, VPSI6, VPSI8, VPS33A, VPS39, VPS41, BLOCISI, BLOCIS2, GNPTAB, PIKFYVE, ARHGAP23 or FIG4 is a candidate for treating and/or preventing an infection with a filovirus and wherein an agent that does not inhibit NPCI, VPSII, VPSI6, VPSI8, VPS33A. VPS39, VPS41, BLOCISI, BLOCIS2, GNPTAB, PIKFYVE, ARHGAP23 or FIG4 is not a candidate for treating and/or preventing an infection with a filovirus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/979179 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/566 (20130101) A61K 31/5685 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/14034 (20130101) C12N 2760/14111 (20130101) C12N 2760/14211 (20130101) C12N 2760/20243 (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 1/70 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/56983 (20130101) |
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| US 09234895 | Hood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington); Biaoyang Lin (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington); Biaoyang Lin (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying organ-specific secreted proteins and for identifying organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints therefrom. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising such proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels, and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/570096 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00127 (20130101) |
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| US 09234898 | Devarajan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prasad Devarajan (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the detection of an early biomarker for assessing a change in renal status in a mammalian subject following a renal event. The method typically includes the steps of (a) providing a body fluid sample obtained from a mammalian subject; (b) analyzing the molecular weight of the proteins in the sample using proteome analysis; and (c) identifying the presence of a protein in the sample selected from the group consisting of a 6.4 kDa protein, a 28.5 kDa protein, a 33 kDa protein, a 44 kDa protein, a 67 kDa protein, and combinations thereof. The presence of one of these proteins can serve as an early biomarker for assessing a change in renal status. The levels of these proteins can be compared to predetermined levels, and thus provide a determination of the subject's renal status. The invention also includes a method of assessing the administration of aprotinin during cardio-pulmonary bypass surgery and provides for methods where the level of the 6.4 kDa biomarker in the subject's urine directs a caregiver's therapeutic decision regarding the intra-operative administration of aprotinin. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/874629 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6851 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2570/00 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09234899 | Horwitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Horwitz (Larchmont, New York); Suzan Chao (Bronx, New York); Yihong Wang (Wayland, Massachusetts); Pascal Verdier-Pinard (Marseilles, France); Hayley Maria McDaid (Riverdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies to human βV-tubulin, fragments thereof, and compositions comprising such are provided. Diagnostic, prognostic and identification methods employing such antibodies or fragments thereof are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912266 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57415 (20130101) G01N 33/57419 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09234952 | Koay |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheng Guan Koay (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described here are a system and method for generating uniform antipodally symmetric point sets that define diffusion-weighting directions or three-dimensional radial k-space trajectories for magnetic resonance imaging. The point sets are generated robustly and efficiently using a constrained centroidal Voronoi tessellation endowed with a pseudometric. This pseudometric is derived from a measure of the electrostatic energy of points distributed on a hemispherical surface. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792663 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4826 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56341 (20130101) |
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| US 09235887 | Buckler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | vascuVis Inc. (Wenham, Massachusetts); Rutgers, The state University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); The Trustees Of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elucid Bioimaging, Inc. (Wenham, Massachusetts); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Buckler (Wenham, Massachusetts); Anant Madabhushi (Beachwood, Ohio); James Hamilton (Boston, Massachusetts); Shannon Agner (Cherry Hlll, New Jersey); Mark Rosen (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for classifying possibly vulnerable plaques from sets of DCE-MRI images includes receiving a set of MRI slice images obtained at respectively different times, where each slice image includes voxels representative of at least one region of interest (ROI). The images are processed to determine the boundaries of the ROIs and the voxels within the identified boundaries in corresponding regions of the images from each time period are processed to extract kinetic texture features. The kinetic texture features are then used in a classification process which classifies the ROIs as vulnerable or stable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/732674 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0083 (20130101) G06T 7/0087 (20130101) G06T 7/0089 (20130101) G06T 2207/10096 (20130101) G06T 2207/20116 (20130101) G06T 2207/30068 (20130101) |
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| US 09235902 | Jahanshahi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contact-less remote-sensing crack detection and/quantification methodologies are described, which are based on three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction, image processing, and pattern recognition. The systems and methodologies can utilize depth perception for detecting and/or quantifying cracks. These methodologies can provide the ability to analyze images captured from any distance and using any focal length or resolution. This adaptive feature may be especially useful for incorporation into mobile systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or mobile autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic systems such as wheel-based or track-based radio controlled robots, as utilizing such structural inspection methods onto those mobile platforms may allow inaccessible regions to be properly inspected for cracks. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567969 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00624 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0091 (20130101) G06T 2207/20036 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30132 (20130101) |
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| US 09236556 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingming Ma (Boston, Massachusetts); Liang Guo (Columbus, Ohio); Daniel G. Anderson (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Waban, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Water-responsive composite materials are provided containing a polymeric matrix and a water-responsive gel integrated into the polymeric matrix. The water-responsive gel can include a polyol or an alkoxylated polyol crosslinked by reversibly hydrolysable bonds, such as borate ester bonds. The polymeric matrix can include conjugated polymers such as poly(pyrrole) containing polymers. The composite material is capable of rapid actuation in the presence of a water gradient and can exhibit power densities greater than 1 W/kg. Methods of making water-responsive composite materials are provided, including by electropolymerization. Devices containing water-responsive composite materials are provided for sensing, locomotion, and power generation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/071482 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2210/00 (20130101) C08G 2261/44 (20130101) C08G 2261/3221 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 2371/02 (20130101) C08J 2465/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 5/053 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/37 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233087 | Allen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert D. Allen (Corvallis, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); James R. Burgeson (Albany, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Allen (Corvallis, Oregon); Sean M. Amberg (Corvallis, Oregon); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); James R. Burgeson (Albany, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating viral and bacterial infections, by administering certain thiourea compounds, specifically acylthiourea, carboximidoylthiourea and S-alkyl isothiourea derivatives and analogs, in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/578413 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4409 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 335/20 (20130101) C07C 335/26 (20130101) C07C 335/38 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/81 (20130101) C07D 213/82 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09233158 | Lipp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pulmatrix, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pulmatrix, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Lipp (Framingham, Massachusetts); Jean C. Sung (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert W. Clarke (Medfield, Massachusetts); David L. Hava (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward respirable dry particles for delivery of divalent metal cation salts and/or monovalent cation salts to the respiratory tract and methods for treating a subject having a respiratory disease and/or infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/717243 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0073 (20130101) A61K 9/0075 (20130101) A61K 31/137 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 33/06 (20130101) A61K 33/14 (20130101) A61K 33/14 (20130101) A61K 47/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/12 (20130101) A61K 47/183 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 15/00 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/1125 (20130101) B22F 5/10 (20130101) Alloys C22C 21/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09233492 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mei Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Hang Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Ben Wang (Tallahassee, Florida); Richard Liang (Tallahassee, Florida); Chuck Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Hang Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida); Ben Wang (Tallahassee, Florida); Richard Liang (Tallahassee, Florida); Chuck Zhang (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite materials are provided that include one or more CNT yarns embedded in a matrix material. The composite materials may be transparent. Methods for making the composite materials are also provided. The composite materials may be made by arranging at least one CNT yarn into a desired pattern and embedding the at least one CNT yarn into a matrix material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271947 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 45/0005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 70/10 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2105/167 (20130101) B29K 2995/0026 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) 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 14/002 (20130101) C03C 2214/06 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/80 (20130101) C04B 2235/5288 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/02 (20130101) D02G 3/441 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09233749 | Joo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Joo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A fixed compliant wing system is provided that is coupled to a rigid spar and a rigid stopper. The fixed compliant wing system includes an actuator and at least two compliant rib structures coupled to the rigid spar. The compliant rib structures include an outer compliant contoured structure, a drive member coupled to the outer compliant contoured structure where the drive member is in a sliding arrangement with the rigid stopper. The drive member is further connected to the actuator. The outer compliant contoured structure of the compliant rib structures is configured to deform when force is applied from the actuator to the drive member. The fixed complaint wing system further includes a skin encompassing the compliant rib structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096134 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 3/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233816 | Mendez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edgar G Mendez (California City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rigging device includes an eccentric sleeve having a generally cylindrical shape and an eccentric bore disposed at an offset distance from a centerline of the eccentric sleeve. A pin has a shaft and a head disposed at a first end of the shaft and a retaining feature disposed at a second end of the shaft. The shaft is disposed within the eccentric bore. A lifting lug is realeasably mated to the shaft and disposed between the eccentric sleeve and the retaining feature. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/479468 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Cranes; Load-engaging Elements or Devices for Cranes, Capstans, Winches, or Tackles B66C 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233883 | Rauscher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Rauscher (Beavercreek, Ohio); Emily A. Frake (Kettering, Ohio); Michael J. Fisher (Springboro, Ohio); Brian E. Henslee (Galloway, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite having a substrate and a plurality of core-shell nanoparticles. The substrate has microporosity, nanoporosity, or free volume and is a polymer matrix, a metal-organic framework, a micro-porous structure, or a nano-porous structure. The plurality of core-shell nanoparticles each has a core and at least one shell layer. The core is made from a decomposed product of a first precursor disposed in the microporosity, nanoporosity, or free volume of the substrate. The at least one shell layer is made from a decomposed product of a second precursor and is disposed on the core. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/189301 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 23/005 (20130101) C06B 33/00 (20130101) C06B 45/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233941 | Uesugi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motonari Uesugi (Osaka, Japan); Salih J. Wakil (Houston, Texas); Lutfi Abu-Elheiga (Houston, Texas); Mizuki Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for reducing body weight in an animal in need thereof via administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a compound having a general tripartite structure A-B-C. In the tripartite structure A, B, and C are identical or non-identical structures, for example, but not limited to, heterocyclic, phenyl or benzyl ring structures with or without substitutions and are described in detail herein. The methods may utilize particular compounds, for example, having a piperidinyl, a pyrrolinyl or pyridinyl A ring, a thiazole B ring, and a phenyl C ring which may be further substituted independently. Also provided are methods for increasing thermogenesis without reducing lean body mass during weight loss in an animal by administering of a therapeutically effective amount of the compounds described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270130 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fodder A23K 1/1628 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/30 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4418 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) A61K 31/5025 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/06 (20130101) C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 213/76 (20130101) C07D 235/14 (20130101) C07D 277/22 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) C07D 417/14 (20130101) C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09234168 | Daly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Daly (Washington, District of Columbia); Elena K. Gaidamakova (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Daly (Washington, District of Columbia); Elena K. Gaidamakova (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of producing vaccines directed against microorganisms, with the methods comprising culturing, harvesting and/or suspending the microorganism in the presence of a radiation-protective composition and irradiating the bacteria or viruses with a dose of radiation sufficient to render the microorganism replication-deficient and/or non-infective. The radiation-protective compositions used in the methods of the present invention comprise at least one nucleoside, at least one antioxidant and at least one small peptide. The invention also provides methods of rendering bacteria in culture resistant to ionizing radiation (IR), with these methods comprising culturing the bacteria in the presence of a radiation-protective composition. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/643794 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2795/10334 (20130101) |
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| US 09234732 | Cummings, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Deward L. Cummings, III (Niceville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deward L. Cummings, III (Niceville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosives storage system including a container having an opening extending from a top end of the container along a center axis of the container, a sidewall formed between an outer perimeter of the container and an inner perimeter of the opening, and a base portion formed at a bottom end of the container to enclose a bottom of the opening, the bottom of the opening having a hemispherical shape. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169587 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 39/10 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29C, Relating to Particular Articles B29L 2031/712 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 39/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234796 | Paulec et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mason David Paulec (Camarillo, California); Jeffrey Brian Dieterich (Newbury Park, California); Kenneth Howard Parker (Camarillo, California); Kevin Michael Young (Camarillo, California); Jack Ronald White (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-radiance infrared airborne calibration reference is an infrared imaging and calibration method. The method includes positioning a mirror perpendicular to an optical axis of a focal plane array in both an open-face position and a mirror-reading position. Temperatures of a lens, window, and the mirror are determined. In-band radiance and offset is calculated to generate an adjusted calibration curve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/294443 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0297 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234872 | Homyk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Homyk (South Pasadena, California); Michael D. Henry (Altadena, California); Axel Scherer (Barnard, Vermont); Sameer Walavalkar (Studio City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating silicon nanowire chemical sensing devices, devices thus obtained, and methods for utilizing devices for sensing and measuring chemical concentration of selected species in a fluid are described. Devices may comprise a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) structure. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/673700 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4146 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 29/775 (20130101) H01L 29/66666 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RESCON LTD (Farnborough, United Kingdom) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RESCON LTD (Farnborough, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Andrew Dawson (Aldershot, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-resistive contact sensor assembly includes an electric field sensor device, a cover, and a biasing structure. The electric field sensor devices has a dry electrode component for receiving an electrical signal from an object of interest by capacitively coupling with the entity. The signal processing component is surrounded or embedded in the cover. The biasing structure is disposed on the outside of the cover and is adapted to press the dry electrode component against a surface of the object interest when biased by an external structure. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/846306 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0408 (20130101) A61B 5/0416 (20130101) A61B 5/04085 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 27/2605 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 29/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09235378 | Soles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander M. Soles (Bloomington, Indiana); Matthew R. Walsh (Westfield, Indiana); Eric B. Scott (Heltonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An impact detection and remediation system includes a sensing device for detecting damage events related to a structure of interest. Such damage events may include impact from a ballistic object, a tamper event, a physical impact, or other events that may affect structural integrity or cause failure. Illustratively, the sensing device is in communication with a measurement system to determine impact criteria, and a processing system which is configured to use the impact criteria to determine a direction of the initiation point of a ballistic causing the damage event. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/186640 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 23/56 (20130101) Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/007 (20130101) F41H 5/24 (20130101) F41H 7/02 (20130101) Targets; Target Ranges; Bullet Catchers F41J 5/041 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 5/0033 (20130101) G01M 5/0066 (20130101) G01M 5/0091 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/20 (20130101) G01N 29/04 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/126 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) |
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| US 09235529 | Koka et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); David A. Munday (Santa Cruz, California); Michael O. McCracken (San Diego, California); Herbert D. Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranay Koka (Austin, Texas); David A. Munday (Santa Cruz, California); Michael O. McCracken (San Diego, California); Herbert D. Schwetman, Jr. (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed embodiments provide a system that uses broadcast-based TLB sharing to reduce address-translation latency in a shared-memory multiprocessor system with two or more nodes that are connected by an optical interconnect. During operation, a first node receives a memory operation that includes a virtual address. Upon determining that one or more TLB levels of the first node will miss for the virtual address, the first node uses the optical interconnect to broadcast a TLB request to one or more additional nodes of the shared-memory multiprocessor in parallel with scheduling a speculative page-table walk for the virtual address. If the first node receives a TLB entry from another node of the shared-memory multiprocessor via the optical interconnect in response to the TLB request, the first node cancels the speculative page-table walk. Otherwise, if no response is received, the first node instead waits for the completion of the page-table walk. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565476 |
| ART UNIT | 2133 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/10 (20130101) G06F 12/1027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2212/682 (20130101) G06F 2212/1024 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 2011/0052 (20130101) |
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| US 09235658 | Nelaturi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saigopal Nelaturi (Palo Alto, California); Arvind Rangarajan (Santa Clara, California); Tolga Kurtoglu (Freemont, California); Christian Fritz (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Automated fixture layout is approached in two distinct stages. First, the spatial locations of clamping points on the work piece are determined to ensure immobility of the fixtured part under any infinitesimal perturbation. Second, spatial locations are matched against a user-specified library of reconfigurable clamps to synthesize a valid fixture layout or configuration that includes clamps that are accessible and collision free. The spatial locations matching during the second stage can be the same spatial locations chosen in the first stage to ensure immobility, or a different set of spatial locations. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843025 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/4097 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09235684 | Prior et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven David Prior (Reston, Virginia); Kenneth A. De Jong (Annandale, Virginia); Jayshree Sarma (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven David Prior (Reston, Virginia); Kenneth A. De Jong (Annandale, Virginia); Jayshree Sarma (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Using an in silico testing environment, host-pathogen interactions can be modeled and simulated by, in any effective order, identifying a plurality of biological events associated with a pathogen's invasion of a host; identifying for each biological event, at least one agent associated with the event; describing the state for each agent and/or identifying at least one action for each agent; identifying at least one interaction between agents; simulating a temporal course of the host-pathogen interaction using the plurality of biological events; and displaying the results of the simulation phase. The simulation phase may be accomplished using an agent-based simulation system that includes a feedback loop. The feedback loop is configured for continuously using output of at least one simulation as input for at least another simulation until an end is met. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900352 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 19/3493 (20130101) |
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| US 09236197 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hongjie Dai (Cupertino, California); Hailiang Wang (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongjie Dai (Cupertino, California); Hailiang Wang (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphene based materials are provided in connection with various devices and methods of manufacturing. As consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a graphene sheet and a single-crystal structure grown on the graphene sheet, with the graphene sheet and single-crystalline structure functioning as an electrode terminal. In various embodiments, the single-crystalline structure is grown on a graphene sheet, such as by using precursor particles to form nanoparticles at the distributed locations, and diffusing and recrystallizing the nanoparticles to form the single-crystal structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/401655 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/136 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/54 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/261 (20150115) |
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| US 09236250 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos (Baldwin Place, New York); Marcus O. Freitag (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alfred Grill (White Plains, New York); Timothy J. McArdle (Mahopac, New York); Robert L. Wisnieff (Ridgefield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A single crystalline silicon carbide layer can be grown on a single crystalline sapphire substrate. Subsequently, a graphene layer can be formed by conversion of a surface layer of the single crystalline silicon layer during an anneal at an elevated temperature in an ultrahigh vacuum environment. Alternately, a graphene layer can be deposited on an exposed surface of the single crystalline silicon carbide layer. A graphene layer can also be formed directly on a surface of a sapphire substrate or directly on a surface of a silicon carbide substrate. Still alternately, a graphene layer can be formed on a silicon carbide layer on a semiconductor substrate. The commercial availability of sapphire substrates and semiconductor substrates with a diameter of six inches or more allows formation of a graphene layer on a commercially scalable substrate for low cost manufacturing of devices employing a graphene layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/924064 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02447 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02612 (20130101) H01L 21/02656 (20130101) H01L 29/267 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) |
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| US 09236432 | Kub et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew D. Koehler (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Travis J. Anderson (Alexandria, Virginia); Andrew D. Koehler (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A graphene base transistor with reduced collector area comprising an electron injection region, an electron collection region, and a base region wherein the base region comprises one or more sheets of graphene and wherein the base region is intermediate the electron injection region and the electron collection region and forms electrical interfaces therewith. A method of making a graphene base transistor with reduced collector area comprising forming an electron injection region, forming an electron collection region, and forming a base region wherein the base region comprises one or more sheets of graphene and wherein the base region is intermediate the electron injection region and the electron collection region and forms electrical interfaces therewith. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/178375 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/165 (20130101) H01L 29/267 (20130101) H01L 29/732 (20130101) H01L 29/0817 (20130101) H01L 29/0821 (20130101) H01L 29/1606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7371 (20130101) H01L 29/7606 (20130101) H01L 29/66037 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101) H01L 29/66242 (20130101) H01L 29/66318 (20130101) H01L 29/66931 (20130101) H01L 29/66939 (20130101) H01L 29/66969 (20130101) |
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| US 09236443 | Ren et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fan Ren (Gainesville, Florida); Stephen John Pearton (Gainesville, Florida); Jihyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | High electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) having improved I-V characteristics and reliability are provided. According to one embodiment, a selective implantation is performed to form a damage region in a gate-to-drain region of, for example, an IηAΓN/GaN HEMT. The selective implantation can be performed by irradiating some or all of a gate-to-drain region of an InAlN/GaN HEMT on a substrate with protons or other ions such as Ge ions, He ions, N ions, or O ions. The damage region can extend in a region below a 2DEG interface of the HEMT. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/420496 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/266 (20130101) H01L 21/2654 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09236556 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingming Ma (Boston, Massachusetts); Liang Guo (Columbus, Ohio); Daniel G. Anderson (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Waban, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Water-responsive composite materials are provided containing a polymeric matrix and a water-responsive gel integrated into the polymeric matrix. The water-responsive gel can include a polyol or an alkoxylated polyol crosslinked by reversibly hydrolysable bonds, such as borate ester bonds. The polymeric matrix can include conjugated polymers such as poly(pyrrole) containing polymers. The composite material is capable of rapid actuation in the presence of a water gradient and can exhibit power densities greater than 1 W/kg. Methods of making water-responsive composite materials are provided, including by electropolymerization. Devices containing water-responsive composite materials are provided for sensing, locomotion, and power generation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/071482 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2210/00 (20130101) C08G 2261/44 (20130101) C08G 2261/3221 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 2371/02 (20130101) C08J 2465/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 3/38 (20130101) C08K 5/053 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 71/02 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/37 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09236561 | Krounbi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohamad Towfik Krounbi (San Jose, California); Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California); Vladimir Nikitin (Campbell, California); Alexander A. G. Driskill-Smith (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohamad Towfik Krounbi (San Jose, California); Dmytro Apalkov (San Jose, California); Vladimir Nikitin (Campbell, California); Alexander A. G. Driskill-Smith (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic device including memory cells is provided. Each memory cell can store multiple bits corresponding to multiple data storage layers. Desired spacing(s) and desired junction angle(s) for the data storage layers are determined in each memory cell. The desired junction angle(s) and the desired spacing(s) correspond to spin transfer switching currents for the data storage layers having. A magnetoresistive stack including plurality of layers for each of the memory cells is deposited. The memory cells include the data storage layers. A data storage layer layers is spaced apart from nearest data storage layer(s) by a distance corresponding to the desired spacing(s). A mask corresponding to the memory cells is provided on the layers. The memory cells are defined such that each memory cell has the desired junction angle(s) and the desired spacing(s) and such that the data storage layers for each of the memory cells is self-aligned. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/604182 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/5607 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/228 (20130101) H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) H01L 43/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09236883 | Guha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saikat Guha (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer device may receive a codebook, and generate a unitary transformation operator for the codebook. Furthermore, the computer device may decompose the unitary transformation operator into representations of two or more devices, and cause a generating of a layout of a photonic circuit that includes the two or more devices. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/872857 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 10/70 (20130101) H04B 10/1121 (20130101) |
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| US 09236939 | Wayne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Wayne (San Diego, California); Colin N. Reinhardt (Santee, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involve detecting a modulated optical signal from an atmospheric propagation channel, wherein the modulated optical signal comprises an optical signal from an optical source modulated with a periodic signal at a modulation frequency greater than the bandwidth of the turbulence within the atmospheric propagation channel, and converting the detected modulated optical signal into a digitized electrical signal. The method also includes determining the root mean square signal power of an AC component of the digitized electrical signal at the modulation frequency. The method further includes determining the power spectral density of the digitized electrical signal, determining the magnitude of the peak component at the modulation frequency, and determining the effective optical depth of the atmospheric propagation channel using the magnitude of the peak component at the modulation frequency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296261 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/0795 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/07955 (20130101) |
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| US 09237027 | Ellard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Joseph Ellard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Alden Warren Jackson (Brookline, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Josh Forrest Karlin (Stow, Massachusetts); Victoria Ursula Manfredi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Patrick Mankins (Cambridge, Massachusetts); William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for protecting a network including preventing data traffic from exiting the network unless a domain name request has been performed by a device attempting to transmit the data traffic. In an embodiment, a device within the protected network attempting to send data outside the protected network requests an address for a destination outside the protected network from a domain name server (DNS). In response, the DNS provides an address of the destination to the device and a gateway. In response to receiving the address, the gateway temporarily allows access to the address. In an embodiment, a DNS is coupled to a protected network and the gateway, the DNS provides an external address to a device in response to a request; and a mapping to the gateway; the gateway, coupled to a protected network and an external network, allows traffic according to the mapping. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/828546 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09237059 | Dean |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Anthony Dean (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VERIZON CORPORATE SERVICES GROUP INC. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Anthony Dean (Liberty Lake, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for mapping and translating address information in a network is provided. The system includes a client-side address translator (120) and a server-side address translator (140). The client-side address translator (120) is configured to receive a data packet from a client (110). The data packet includes a first destination address representing the real destination address. The client-side address translator (120) maps the first destination address to another address using a mapping algorithm and transmits the data packet with the via the network (160). The server-side address translator (140) receives the data packet, translates the mapped address information back to the real destination address and forwards the data packet using the real destination address. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832300 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 29/12396 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 61/2525 (20130101) H04L 63/0435 (20130101) |
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| US 09237192 | Gedik 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) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive in-operator load shedding includes receiving at least two data streams (each comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into respective sliding windows of memory. A throttling fraction is then calculated based on input rates associated with the data streams and on currently available processing resources. Tuples are then selected for processing from the data streams in accordance with the throttling fraction, where the selected tuples represent a subset of all tuples contained within the sliding window. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896709 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/14 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/10 (20130101) H04L 47/41 (20130101) H04L 47/225 (20130101) H04L 49/90 (20130101) H04L 49/901 (20130101) H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/33 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 20/224 (20130101) |
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| US 09237422 | Bhat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Automation, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Automation, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arvind Satyanarayan Bhat (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Zhitong Guo (Rockville, Maryland); Eric van Doorn (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting wireless signals and locating the place of origin in a building is provided that includes a transmitter system using a cellular protocol; a plurality of antennae that receive wireless Radio Frequency (RF) signals, each antenna having a port; a receiving system connected to the antennae ports with a plurality of cables, converting the RF signal to voltage waveform; a processing system in communication with the receiving system, detecting the strength of the received signals and Time Difference of Arrival of the RF signals with respect to antennae and determining the location where the wireless signals are being emitted by using classification algorithms; and a human machine interface. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/215652 |
| ART UNIT | 2642 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic Communication H04M 1/72519 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 64/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09237658 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongjie Dai (Cupertino, California); Hailiang Wang (Stanford, California); Ming Gong (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanocarbon-based materials are provided in connection with various devices and methods of manufacturing. As consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a nanocarbon structure having inorganic particles covalently bonded thereto. The resulting hybrid structure functions as a circuit node such as an electrode terminal. In various embodiments, the hybrid structure includes two or more electrodes, at least one of which including the nanocarbon structure with inorganic particles covalently bonded thereto. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/768810 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/08 (20130101) Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/36 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/131 (20130101) H01M 4/133 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/13 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/748 (20130101) Y10S 977/847 (20130101) Y10S 977/932 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4913 (20150115) |
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| US 09233339 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Suk Lee (Seocho Gu Seoul, South Korea); William J. Koros (Atlanta, Georgia); Nitesh Bhuwania (Atlanta, Georgia); Patrick C. Hillesheim (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite structure for capturing a gaseous electrophilic species, the composite structure comprising mesoporous refractory sorbent particles on which an ionic liquid is covalently attached, wherein said ionic liquid includes an accessible functional group that is capable of binding to said gaseous electrophilic species. In particular embodiments, the mesoporous sorbent particles are contained within refractory hollow fibers. Also described is a method for capturing a gaseous electrophilic species by use of the above-described composite structure, wherein the gaseous electrophilic species is contacted with the composite structure. In particular embodiments thereof, cooling water is passed through the refractory hollow fibers containing the IL-functionalized sorbent particles in order to facilitate capture of the gaseous electrophilic species, and then steam is passed through the refractory hollow fibers to facilitate release of the gaseous electrophilic species such that the composite structure can be re-used to capture additional gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/868600 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 53/62 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 53/508 (20130101) B01D 2252/30 (20130101) B01D 2257/302 (20130101) B01D 2257/502 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/223 (20130101) B01J 20/3204 (20130101) B01J 20/3263 (20130101) B01J 20/28028 (20130101) B01J 20/28083 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2927 (20150115) Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marvin Olson (North Aurora, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin Olson (North Aurora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and apparatus for installing channel nuts includes a shank, a handle formed on a first end of a shank, and an end piece with a threaded shaft configured to receive a channel nut formed on the second end of the shaft. The tool can be used to insert or remove a channel nut in a channel framing system and then removed from the channel nut. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/746563 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 31/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Structural Elements; Building Materials E04C 2003/0473 (20130101) Devices for Fastening or Securing Constructional Elements or Machine Parts Together, e.g Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips, Wedges, Joints or Jointing F16B 37/045 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 29/53909 (20150115) |
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| US 09233583 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheng-Hsiung Lin (Hudson, Ohio); Michael Joseph Durr (Strongsville, Ohio); Arun Kumar Byatarayanapura Gopala (Copley, Ohio); Dale Roy Norton (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A tire support apparatus includes a support plate for receiving a tire includes an optional inflatable inner tube for insertion into the tire cavity, and an upper plate having a hole for receiving a support member, the upper plate further includes a ring having an inner lip that seats against the bead region of the tire and a radially outer surface that seats against the lower sidewall region of the tire T. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103190 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 30/0061 (20130101) B29D 30/72 (20130101) B29D 2030/0077 (20130101) B29D 2030/0083 (20130101) B29D 2030/0094 (20130101) Vehicle Tyres Tyre Inflation; Tyre Changing or Repairing; Repairing, or Connecting Valves To, Inflatable Elastic Bodies in General; Devices or Arrangements Related to Tyres B60C 23/12 (20130101) B60C 25/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4998 (20150115) Y10T 29/49538 (20150115) Y10T 29/49885 (20150115) |
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| US 09233850 | Jang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nano-scaled graphene article comprising a non-woven aggregate of nano-scaled graphene platelets wherein each of the platelets comprises a graphene sheet or multiple graphene sheets and the platelets have a thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably smaller than 10 nm) and platelets contact other platelets to define a plurality of conductive pathways along the article. The article has an exceptional thermal conductivity (typically greater than 500 Wm−1K−1) and excellent electrical conductivity (typically greater than 1,000 S/cm). Thin-film articles of the present invention can be used for thermal management in micro-electronic devices and for current-dissipating on an aircraft skin against lightning strikes. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784606 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) C01B 31/0492 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/22 (20130101) C01B 2204/24 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/521 (20130101) C04B 35/522 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09233859 | Gelis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Artem Gelis (Naperville, Illinois); Candido Pereira (Naperville, Illinois); Kevin Paul Flood Nichols (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Artem Gelis (Naperville, Illinois); Candido Pereira (Naperville, Illinois); Kevin Paul Flood Nichols (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system for solvent extraction utilizing a first electrode with a raised area formed on its surface, which defines a portion of a microfluidic channel; a second electrode with a flat surface, defining another portion of the microfluidic channel that opposes the raised area of the first electrode; a reversibly deformable substrate disposed between the first electrode and second electrode, adapted to accommodate the raised area of the first electrode and having a portion that extends beyond the raised area of the first electrode, that portion defining the remaining portions of the microfluidic channel; and an electrolyte of at least two immiscible liquids that flows through the microfluidic channel. Also provided is a system for performing multiple solvent extractions utilizing several microfluidic chips or unit operations connected in series. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067560 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/4672 (20130101) C02F 1/46104 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2101/006 (20130101) C02F 2101/20 (20130101) C02F 2201/4611 (20130101) C02F 2201/46105 (20130101) |
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| US 09234003 | Tovar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Tovar (Baltimore, Maryland); Allix M. Sanders (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to synthesize self-assembling peptides embedded with complex organic electronic subunits are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/524845 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/02 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 331/00 (20130101) C07D 333/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/10 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234168 | Daly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael J. Daly (Washington, District of Columbia); Elena K. Gaidamakova (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Daly (Washington, District of Columbia); Elena K. Gaidamakova (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of producing vaccines directed against microorganisms, with the methods comprising culturing, harvesting and/or suspending the microorganism in the presence of a radiation-protective composition and irradiating the bacteria or viruses with a dose of radiation sufficient to render the microorganism replication-deficient and/or non-infective. The radiation-protective compositions used in the methods of the present invention comprise at least one nucleoside, at least one antioxidant and at least one small peptide. The invention also provides methods of rendering bacteria in culture resistant to ionizing radiation (IR), with these methods comprising culturing the bacteria in the presence of a radiation-protective composition. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/643794 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) A61K 39/02 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/085 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/5252 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2795/10334 (20130101) |
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| US 09234228 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); 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 glycosylating and/or post-translationally modifying proteins using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380450 |
| 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 9/1048 (20130101) C12N 9/1051 (20130101) C12N 9/1288 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/005 (20130101) |
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| US 09234258 | Tunison |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harmon M. Tunison (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an exemplary method of purifying lead which includes the steps of placing lead and a fluoride salt blend in a container; forming a first fluid of molten lead at a first temperature; forming a second fluid of the molten fluoride salt blend at a second temperature higher than the first temperature; mixing the first fluid and the second fluid together; separating the two fluids; solidifying the molten fluoride salt blend at a temperature above a melting point of the lead; and removing the molten lead from the container. In certain exemplary methods the molten lead is removed from the container by decanting. In still other exemplary methods the molten salt blend is a Lewis base fluoride eutectic salt blend, and in yet other exemplary methods the molten salt blend contains sodium fluoride, lithium fluoride, and potassium fluoride. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/182788 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 9/10 (20130101) C22B 9/103 (20130101) C22B 9/106 (20130101) C22B 13/02 (20130101) C22B 13/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C22B 13/025 (20130101) Protection Against X-radiation, Gamma Radiation, Corpuscular Radiation or Particle Bombardment; Treating Radioactively Contaminated Material; Decontamination Arrangements Therefor G21F 9/308 (20130101) |
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| US 09234288 | Powell, IV et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam Clayton Powell, IV (Newton, Massachusetts); Soobhankar Pati (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Joseph Derezinski (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Garrett Lau (Palmetto Bay, Florida); Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts); Xiaofei Guan (Boston, Massachusetts); Srikanth Gopalan (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinium, Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Clayton Powell, IV (Newton, Massachusetts); Soobhankar Pati (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Joseph Derezinski (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Garrett Lau (Palmetto Bay, Florida); Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts); Xiaofei Guan (Boston, Massachusetts); Srikanth Gopalan (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention is directed to apparatuses for and methods of conducting electrical current in an oxygen and liquid metal environment. In another aspect, the invention relates to methods for production of metals from their oxides comprising providing a cathode in electrical contact with a molten electrolyte, providing a liquid metal anode separated from the cathode and the molten electrolyte by a solid oxygen ion conducting membrane, providing a current collector at the anode, and establishing a potential between the cathode and the anode. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600761 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 7/00 (20130101) C25C 7/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 3/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) |
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| US 09234430 | Cairo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC CORPORATION (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Ralph Cairo (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Paul Stephen DiMascio (Greer, South Carolina); Jason Robert Parolini (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic matrix composite article and a process of fabricating a ceramic matrix composite are disclosed. The ceramic matrix composite article includes a matrix distribution pattern formed by a manifold and ceramic matrix composite plies laid up on the matrix distribution pattern, includes the manifold, or a combination thereof. The manifold includes one or more matrix distribution channels operably connected to a delivery interface, the delivery interface configured for providing matrix material to one or more of the ceramic matrix composite plies. The process includes providing the manifold, forming the matrix distribution pattern by transporting the matrix material through the manifold, and contacting the ceramic matrix composite plies with the matrix material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/741565 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/28 (20130101) F01D 5/282 (20130101) F01D 5/284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1317 (20150115) |
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| US 09234626 | Simmons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kevin L. Simmons (Kennewick, Washington); Kenneth I. Johnson (Richland, Washington); Curt A. Lavender (Richland, Washington); Norman L. Newhouse (Lincoln, Nebraska); Brian C. Yeggy (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Simmons (Kennewick, Washington); Kenneth I. Johnson (Richland, Washington); Curt A. Lavender (Richland, Washington); Norman L. Newhouse (Lincoln, Nebraska); Brian C. Yeggy (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-cylindrical pressure vessel storage tank is disclosed. The storage tank includes an internal structure. The internal structure is coupled to at least one wall of the storage tank. The internal structure shapes and internally supports the storage tank. The pressure vessel storage tank has a conformability of about 0.8 to about 1.0. The internal structure can be, but is not limited to, a Schwarz-P structure, an egg-crate shaped structure, or carbon fiber ligament structure. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/517028 |
| ART UNIT | 3781 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Working or Processing of Sheet Metal or Metal Tubes, Rods or Profiles Without Essentially Removing Material; Punching Metal B21D 26/021 (20130101) B21D 51/18 (20130101) Vessels for Containing or Storing Compressed, Liquefied or Solidified Gases; Fixed-capacity Gas-holders; Filling Vessels With, or Discharging From Vessels, Compressed, Liquefied, or Solidified Gases F17C 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F17C 2201/0152 (20130101) F17C 2201/0161 (20130101) F17C 2203/013 (20130101) F17C 2209/2127 (20130101) F17C 2221/033 (20130101) |
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| US 09234779 | Sinha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for down hole gas separation from the multiphase fluid flowing in a wellbore or a pipe, for determining the quantities of the individual components of the liquid and the flow rate of the liquid, and for remixing the component parts of the fluid after which the gas volume may be measured, without affecting the flow stream, are described. Acoustic radiation force is employed to separate gas from the liquid, thereby permitting measurements to be separately made for these two components; the liquid (oil/water) composition is determined from ultrasonic resonances; and the gas volume is determined from capacitance measurements. Since the fluid flows around and through the component parts of the apparatus, there is little pressure difference, and no protection is required from high pressure differentials. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/142489 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 19/0078 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 47/101 (20130101) Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/66 (20130101) G01F 1/74 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01F 1/667 (20130101) G01F 1/668 (20130101) G01F 1/712 (20130101) G01F 15/02 (20130101) G01F 15/024 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/024 (20130101) G01N 29/032 (20130101) G01N 29/036 (20130101) G01N 2291/024 (20130101) |
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| US 09234794 | Bond et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livewrmore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiziana C. Bond (Livermore, California); Mihail Bora (Livermore, California); Michael A. Engel (Ripon, California); James F. McCarrick (Dublin, California); Bryan D. Moran (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method directs a gas of interest into a minicell and uses an emitting laser to produce laser emission light that is directed into the minicell and onto the gas of interest. The laser emission light is reflected within the cell to make multipasses through the gas of interest. After the multipasses through the gas of interest the laser light is analyzed to produces gas spectroscopy data. The minicell receives the gas of interest and a transmitting optic connected to the minicell that directs a beam into the minicell and onto the gas of interest. A receiving optic connected to the minicell receives the beam from the gas of interest and directs the beam to an analyzer that produces gas spectroscopy data. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/311616 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/42 (20130101) G01J 3/0218 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2003/421 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/03 (20130101) |
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| US 09234843 | Sopori et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bhushan Sopori (Denver, Colorado); Przemyslaw Rupnowski (Golden, Colorado); Michael Ulsh (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhushan Sopori (Denver, Colorado); Przemyslaw Rupnowski (Golden, Colorado); Michael Ulsh (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A monitoring system 100 comprising a material transport system 104 providing for the transportation of a substantially planar material 102, 107 through the monitoring zone 103 of the monitoring system 100. The system 100 also includes a line camera 106 positioned to obtain multiple line images across a width of the material 102, 107 as it is transported through the monitoring zone 103. The system 100 further includes an illumination source 108 providing for the illumination of the material 102, 107 transported through the monitoring zone 103 such that light reflected in a direction normal to the substantially planar surface of the material 102, 107 is detected by the line camera 106. A data processing system 110 is also provided in digital communication with the line camera 106. The data processing system 110 is configured to receive data output from the line camera 106 and further configured to calculate and provide substantially contemporaneous information relating to a quality parameter of the material 102, 107. Also disclosed are methods of monitoring a quality parameter of a material. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 14/238918 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/27 (20130101) G01N 21/55 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/898 (20130101) G01N 21/8901 (20130101) G01N 21/9501 (20130101) |
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| US 09234968 | Cherepy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nerine Cherepy (Piedmont, California); Robert Dean Sanner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a material includes at least one metal compound incorporated into a polymeric matrix, where the metal compound includes a metal and one or more carboxylate ligands, where at least one of the one or more carboxylate ligands includes a tertiary butyl group, and where the material is optically transparent. In another embodiment, a method includes: processing pulse traces corresponding to light pulses from a scintillator material; and outputting a result of the processing, where the scintillator material comprises at least one metal compound incorporated into a polymeric matrix, the at least one metal compound including a metal and one or more carboxylate ligands, where at least one of the one or more carboxylate ligands has a tertiary butyl group, and where the scintillator material is optically transparent and has an energy resolution at 662 keV of less than about 20%. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/512210 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/208 (20130101) G01T 1/2033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 3/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09235065 | Zortman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Zortman (Corrales, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for optical modulation is provided. The apparatus includes a modulator structure and a heater structure. The modulator structure comprises a ring or disk optical resonator having a closed curvilinear periphery and a pair of oppositely doped semiconductor regions within and/or adjacent to the optical resonator and conformed to modify the optical length of the optical resonator upon application of a bias voltage. The heater structure comprises a relatively resistive annulus of semiconductor material enclosed between an inner disk and an outer annulus of relatively conductive semiconductor material. The inner disk and the outer annulus are adapted as contact regions for a heater activation current. The heater structure is situated within the periphery of the optical resonator such that in operation, at least a portion of the resonator is heated by radial conductive heat flow from the heater structure. The apparatus further includes a substantially annular isolation region of dielectric or relatively resistive semiconductor material interposed between the heater structure and the modulator structure. The isolation region is effective to electrically isolate the bias voltage from the heater activation current. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/151637 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 2006/12142 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/025 (20130101) G02F 1/0115 (20130101) G02F 1/0136 (20130101) G02F 1/0147 (20130101) G02F 1/218 (20130101) G02F 1/0311 (20130101) |
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| US 09235563 | Rose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J. Rose (Richland, Washington); Wendy E. Cowley (Richland, Washington); Vernon L. Crow (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and computer-implemented processes for identification of features and determination of feature associations in a group of documents can involve providing a plurality of keywords identified among the terms of at least some of the documents. A value measure can be calculated for each keyword. High-value keywords are defined as those keywords having value measures that exceed a threshold. For each high-value keyword, term-document associations (TDA) are accessed. The TDA characterize measures of association between each term and at least some documents in the group. A processor quantifies similarities between unique pairs of high-value keywords based on the TDA for each respective high-value keyword and generates a similarity matrix that indicates one or more sets that each comprise highly associated high-value keywords. |
| FILED | Monday, February 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769629 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/277 (20130101) G06F 17/30705 (20130101) |
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| US 09236194 | Hupp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois); Ho-Jin Son (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Dye-sensitized semiconducting metal oxide films for photoanodes, photoanodes incorporating the films and DSCs incorporating the photoanodes are provided. Also provided are methods for making the dye sensitized semiconducting metal oxide films. The methods of making the films are based on the deposition of an encapsulating layer of a semiconducting metal oxide around the molecular anchoring groups of photosensitizing dye molecules adsorbed to a porous film of the semiconducting metal oxide. The encapsulating layer of semiconducting metal oxide is formed in such a way that it is not coated over the chromophores of the adsorbed dye molecules and, therefore, allows the dye molecules to remain electrochemically addressable. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/767270 |
| ART UNIT | 1757 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 9/0029 (20130101) H01G 9/2031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01G 9/2036 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0061 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/542 (20130101) |
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| US 09236511 | Bhattacharya |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raghu Nath Bhattacharya (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor thin-film and method for producing a semiconductor thin-films comprising a metallic salt, an ionic compound in a non-aqueous solution mixed with a solvent and processing the stacked layer in chalcogen that results in a CZTS/CZTSS thin films that may be deposited on a substrate is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/323651 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 3/22 (20130101) C25D 3/30 (20130101) C25D 3/38 (20130101) C25D 3/665 (20130101) C25D 5/10 (20130101) C25D 5/50 (20130101) C25D 7/12 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02422 (20130101) H01L 21/02491 (20130101) H01L 21/02551 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02614 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) H01L 31/072 (20130101) H01L 31/0326 (20130101) H01L 31/03923 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/03925 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09236615 | Jacobson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J. Jacobson (Houston, Texas); Shuangyan Wang (Pearland, Texas); Gun Tae Kim (Ulsn, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods using novel cathode, electrolyte and oxygen separation materials operating at intermediate temperatures for use in solid oxide fuel cells and ion transport membranes include oxides with perovskite related structures and an ordered arrangement of A site cations. The materials have significantly faster oxygen kinetics than in corresponding disordered perovskites. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/152697 |
| 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 4/9033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/1246 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09236620 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Li (Richland, Washington); Xiaoliang Wei (Richland, Washington); Qingtao Luo (Richland, Washington); Zimin Nie (Richland, Washington); Wei Wang (Kennewick, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite separators having a porous structure and including acid-stable, hydrophilic, inorganic particles enmeshed in a substantially fully fluorinated polyolefin matrix can be utilized in a number of applications. The inorganic particles can provide hydrophilic characteristics. The pores of the separator result in good selectivity and electrical conductivity. The fluorinated polymeric backbone can result in high chemical stability. Accordingly, one application of the composite separators is in redox flow batteries as low cost membranes. In such applications, the composite separator can also enable additional property-enhancing features compared to ion-exchange membranes. For example, simple capacity control can be achieved through hydraulic pressure by balancing the volumes of electrolyte on each side of the separator. While a porous separator can also allow for volume and pressure regulation, in RFBs that utilize corrosive and/or oxidizing compounds, the composite separators described herein are preferable for their robustness in the presence of such compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/668604 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) H01M 8/0243 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0291 (20130101) H01M 8/04186 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09236643 | Friesen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Jose Antonio Bautista Martinez (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided in one embodiment is an electrochemical cell, comprising: (i) a plurality of electrodes, comprising a fuel electrode that comprises aluminum and an air electrode that absorbs gaseous oxygen, the electrodes being operable in a discharge mode wherein the aluminum is oxidized at the fuel electrode and oxygen is reduced at the air electrode, and (ii) an ionically conductive medium, comprising an organic solvent; wherein during non-use of the cell, the organic solvent promotes formation of a protective interface between the aluminum of the fuel electrode and the ionically conductive medium, and wherein at an onset of the discharge mode, at least some of the protective interface is removed from the aluminum to thereafter permit oxidation of the aluminum during the discharge mode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653830 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 12/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0002 (20130101) H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49108 (20150115) |
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| US 09236709 | Taubman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew S. Taubman (West Richland, Washington); Mark C. Phillips (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Taubman (West Richland, Washington); Mark C. Phillips (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed that provide a direct indication of the presence and concentration of an analyte within the external cavity of a laser device that employ the compliance voltage across the laser device. The systems can provide stabilization of the laser wavelength. The systems and methods can obviate the need for an external optical detector, an external gas cell, or other sensing region and reduce the complexity and size of the sensing configuration. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153853 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/031 (20130101) G01N 21/39 (20130101) G01N 2021/399 (20130101) G01N 2021/7776 (20130101) G01N 2201/0612 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/0028 (20130101) H01S 5/141 (20130101) H01S 5/143 (20130101) H01S 5/0617 (20130101) H01S 5/0687 (20130101) H01S 5/3401 (20130101) H01S 5/3402 (20130101) H01S 5/06808 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233138 | Abrams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron Frank Abrams (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Irwin M. Chaiken (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania); Mark R. Contarino (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bibek Parajuli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Adel Ahmed Rashad Ahmed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compounds that are useful for treating or preventing a HIV-1 infection in a mammal. In certain embodiments, the compounds cause cell-free virolysis of an HIV-1 virus. The presented invention further includes a method of causing virolysis of a virus using the compounds described therein. The presented invention further includes a method of treating or preventing an HIV-1 infection in a mammal in need thereof using the compositions described therein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520995 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/162 (20130101) A61K 38/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/48246 (20130101) A61K 47/48338 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16033 (20130101) |
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| US 09233365 | Nolan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MATERIA, INC. (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MATERIA, INC. (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Nolan (St. Andrews, United Kingdom); Jinkun Huang (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalytic complexes including a metal atom having anionic ligands, at least one nucleophilic carbene ligand, and an alkylidene, vinylidene, or allenylidene ligand. The complexes are highly stable to air, moisture and thermal degradation. The complexes are designed to efficiently carry out a variety of olefin metathesis reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/674405 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2265 (20130101) B01J 31/2273 (20130101) B01J 31/2278 (20130101) B01J 31/2295 (20130101) B01J 31/2404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 2231/10 (20130101) B01J 2231/54 (20130101) B01J 2231/543 (20130101) B01J 2231/4205 (20130101) B01J 2531/821 (20130101) B01J 2531/825 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 67/30 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/46 (20130101) C07D 223/04 (20130101) C07D 225/02 (20130101) C07D 313/00 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/00 (20130101) C07F 15/002 (20130101) C07F 15/0046 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin G. Bakker (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Franchessa Maddox Sayler (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Kevin Shaughnessy (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are hierarchically porous carbon materials with a plurality of discreet nanoparticles dispersed on their carbon phase. The materials possess a continuous network of pores that spans the porous material, permitting the flow of fluids into and through the material. The porous materials can be used as heterogeneous catalysts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/055268 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/185 (20130101) B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 23/462 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) B01J 35/002 (20130101) B01J 35/006 (20130101) B01J 35/0053 (20130101) B01J 35/1061 (20130101) B01J 35/1066 (20130101) B01J 35/1076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 37/08 (20130101) B01J 37/16 (20130101) B01J 37/18 (20130101) B01J 37/0201 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 2/861 (20130101) C07C 2/861 (20130101) C07C 15/52 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 69/618 (20130101) C07C 209/36 (20130101) C07C 209/36 (20130101) C07C 211/46 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 253/30 (20130101) C07C 255/50 (20130101) C07C 255/57 (20130101) C07C 2521/18 (20130101) C07C 2523/44 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Situ Studio (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Situ Studio (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley Samuels (Brooklyn, New York); Kenneth W. Kellerson (Caledonia, New York); Basar Girit (Ridgewood, New York); Aleksey Lukyanov (Brooklyn, New York); Adam Maloof (Hopewell, New Jersey); Westley Rozen (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises: a stage moveable on first and second axes; a material removal tool moveable on a third axis; a linear slide and a guide parallel to the third axis; a mount for an imaging device coupled to the linear slide using carriages; an armature coupled to the material removal tool and the guide that moves the guide along the third axis with the tool; a locking device for fixing the mount along the guide; and a processor that: (a) move a sample to a material removal position; (b) cause the tool to remove a first thickness of the sample along the third axis; (c) move the sample to an imaging position located at a predetermined location with respect to the mounting block; and repeating (a) through (c) until a second thickness of the sample has been removed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/841933 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines, Devices, or Processes for Grinding or Polishing; Dressing or Conditioning of Abrading Surfaces; Feeding of Grinding, Polishing, or Lapping Agents B24B 49/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234012 | Saito et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Makoto Saito (Falmouth, Massachusetts); Erin Marie Bertrand (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a cobalamin acquisition protein, compositions containing the cobalamin acquisition protein, and the use of such compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/874437 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/43504 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/82 (20130101) |
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| US 09234248 | Sarma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aartik Sarma (Brookline, Massachusetts); Anubhav Tripathi (Northboro, Massachusetts); Leonard Mermel (Barrington, Rhode Island); Aleksey Novikov (Providence, Rhode Island); Leah Seward (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Jennifer Fieber (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aartik Sarma (Brookline, Massachusetts); Anubhav Tripathi (Northboro, Massachusetts); Leonard Mermel (Barrington, Rhode Island); Aleksey Novikov (Providence, Rhode Island); Leah Seward (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Jennifer Fieber (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises a multiplex-capable oligonucleotide which is capable of hybridizing to at least one of the C. difficile tcdB, tcdC, or cdtB genes, wherein, wherein said primer consists of a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS: 1 through 9, or a sequence that exhibits no more than one substitution of a base to a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS: 1 through 9 and method for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) determining of the presence of a toxigenic strain of C. difficile in a biological sample utilizing said probes. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/384446 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/689 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09234285 | Rose-Petruck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Rose-Petruck (Barrington, Rhode Island); G. Tayhas R. Palmore (Providence, Rhode Island); Daniel DeCiccio (Providence, Rhode Island); Steven Ahn (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using clathrate hydrates (including ammonia clathrates), in electrochemical transformations. Noted are converting clathrate guest molecules such as CO2, CH4, alkanes, and alkenes; and, optionally, the use of clathrates-promoting molecules such as tetra hydro furan, to produce higher value carbon molecules including propane and formic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/595407 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09234288 | Powell, IV et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam Clayton Powell, IV (Newton, Massachusetts); Soobhankar Pati (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Joseph Derezinski (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Garrett Lau (Palmetto Bay, Florida); Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts); Xiaofei Guan (Boston, Massachusetts); Srikanth Gopalan (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinium, Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts); The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Clayton Powell, IV (Newton, Massachusetts); Soobhankar Pati (Boston, Massachusetts); Stephen Joseph Derezinski (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Garrett Lau (Palmetto Bay, Florida); Uday B. Pal (Dover, Massachusetts); Xiaofei Guan (Boston, Massachusetts); Srikanth Gopalan (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention is directed to apparatuses for and methods of conducting electrical current in an oxygen and liquid metal environment. In another aspect, the invention relates to methods for production of metals from their oxides comprising providing a cathode in electrical contact with a molten electrolyte, providing a liquid metal anode separated from the cathode and the molten electrolyte by a solid oxygen ion conducting membrane, providing a current collector at the anode, and establishing a potential between the cathode and the anode. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600761 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 7/00 (20130101) C25C 7/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrically-conductive Connections; Structural Associations of a Plurality of Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting Elements; Coupling Devices; Current Collectors H01R 3/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) |
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| US 09234847 | Daugherty et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Patrick Sean Daugherty (Santa Barbara, California); Kevin Todd Boulware (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Sean Daugherty (Santa Barbara, California); Kevin Todd Boulware (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions including peptide display scaffolds that present at least one candidate peptide and at least one detectable moiety in at least one of the N-terminal and C-terminal candidate peptide presenting domains that when expressed in a cell are accessible at a surface of the cell outermembrane. In addition, the present invention also provides kits and methods for screening a library of cells presenting the candidate peptides in peptide display scaffolds to identify a ligand for an enzyme. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646323 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1037 (20130101) C12N 15/1044 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6486 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09235048 | Farr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman Erwin Farr (Woods Hole, Massachusetts); Clifford Thomas Pontbriand (North Falmouth, Massachusetts); Timothy Goodwin Peters (Falmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for reducing fouling of a surface of an optically transparent element with a light source. According to one aspect, the invention is a system including an LED for emitting UV-C radiation, a mount for directing emitted UV-C radiation toward the optically transparent element, and control circuitry for driving the LED. The system may be used to remove a desired amount of biofilm. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940814 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 7/0057 (20130101) Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 59/04 (20130101) B63B 59/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 23/22 (20130101) G02B 27/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09235461 | Palframan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David John Palframan (Madison, Wisconsin); Nam Sung Kim (Middleton, Wisconsin); Mikko Lipasti (Lake Mills, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Hardening of an integrated circuit such as a GPU processor to soft errors caused by particle strikes is applied selectively to the set of devices according to the magnitude of error resulting from this soft error for the particular device. This approach differs from approaches that protect all devices, all devices likely to produce an output error, or all devices that are vulnerable. |
| FILED | Friday, February 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/180750 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/0721 (20130101) G06F 11/0751 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 1/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09235902 | Jahanshahi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad R. Jahanshahi (Pasadena, California); Sami Masri (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contact-less remote-sensing crack detection and/quantification methodologies are described, which are based on three-dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction, image processing, and pattern recognition. The systems and methodologies can utilize depth perception for detecting and/or quantifying cracks. These methodologies can provide the ability to analyze images captured from any distance and using any focal length or resolution. This adaptive feature may be especially useful for incorporation into mobile systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or mobile autonomous or semi-autonomous robotic systems such as wheel-based or track-based radio controlled robots, as utilizing such structural inspection methods onto those mobile platforms may allow inaccessible regions to be properly inspected for cracks. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567969 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00624 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0004 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0091 (20130101) G06T 2207/20036 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30132 (20130101) |
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| US 09236118 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | I-Wei Chen (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Soo Gil Kim (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Albert Chen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yudi Wang (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | I-Wei Chen (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Soo Gil Kim (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Albert Chen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yudi Wang (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a resistive switching device having an amorphous layer comprised of an insulating silicon-containing material and a conducting material. The amorphous layer may be disposed between two or more electrodes and be capable of switching between at least two resistance states. Circuits and memory devices including resistive switching devices are also disclosed, and a composition of matter involving an insulating silicon-containing material and a conducting material comprising between 5 and 40 percent by molar percentage of the composition is disclosed herein as well. Also disclosed herein are methods for switching the resistance of an amorphous material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/060514 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 13/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 13/0009 (20130101) G11C 2213/33 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 45/10 (20130101) H01L 45/14 (20130101) H01L 45/1226 (20130101) H01L 45/1233 (20130101) |
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| US 09236160 | Aiyar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avishek Aiyar (Atlanta, Georgia); Rakesh Nambiar (Wilmington, Delaware); David M. Collard (Atlanta, Georgia); Elsa Reichmanis (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are improved methods of forming polymer films, the polymer films formed thereby, and electronic devices formed form the polymer films. The methods generally include contacting a polymer with a solvent to at least partially solvate the polymer in the solvent, exposing the at least partially solvated polymer and solvent to ultrasonic energy for a duration effective to form a plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer in the solvent, and forming a solid film of the polymer, wherein the solid film comprises the plurality of ordered assemblies of the polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/962608 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/126 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/2256 (20130101) C08J 2353/02 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/007 (20130101) H01L 51/0037 (20130101) |
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| US 09236572 | Tilyou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teresa E. Tilyou (Nashville, Tennessee); James R. McBride (Nashville, Tennessee); Sandra J. Rosenthal (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa E. Tilyou (Nashville, Tennessee); James R. McBride (Nashville, Tennessee); Sandra J. Rosenthal (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Inorganic photoluminescent nanoparticles comprising a solid assembly comprising a first plurality of atoms from group II crystallized with a second plurality of atoms from group VI; at least one dimension of the assembly less than about 3.0 nm; and one or more organocarboxylate agents coupled to a surface that bounds the assembly, wherein the nanocrystal exhibits nanocrystal photoluminescence quantum yield of at least about 10%. Coupling to such surface comprises coating at least a portion of the nanocrystal being coated with the organocarboxylate agent, wherein the organocarboxylate agent is a carboxylic acid or the conjugate base of a carboxylic acid. The carboxylic acid can be is selected from formic acid, acetic acid, hexanoic acid, octanoic acid, oleic acid, and benzoic acid. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/985749 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — 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 5/16 (20130101) B32B 2307/40 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 19/007 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 11/883 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/502 (20130101) |
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| US 09236633 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junhong Chen (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Marija Gajdardziska-Josifovska (Fox Point, Wisconsin); Carol Hirschmugl (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Eric Mattson (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Haihui Pu (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Michael Weinert (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition of graphene-based nanomaterials and a method of preparing the composition are provided. A carbon-based precursor is dissolved in water to form a precursor suspension. The precursor suspension is placed onto a substrate, thereby forming a precursor assembly. The precursor assembly is annealed, thereby forming the graphene-based nanomaterials. The graphene-based nanomaterials are crystallographically ordered at least in part and configured to form a plurality of diffraction rings when probed by an incident electron beam. In one aspect, the graphene-based nanomaterials are semiconducting. In one aspect, a method of engineering an energy bandgap of graphene monoxide generally includes providing at least one atomic layer of graphene monoxide having a first energy bandgap, and applying a substantially planar strain is applied to the graphene monoxide, thereby tuning the first energy band gap to a second energy bandgap. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/916033 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/00 (20130101) C30B 19/00 (20130101) C30B 29/02 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/00 (20130101) G01N 27/127 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 10/0525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/734 (20130101) Y10S 977/892 (20130101) Y10S 977/932 (20130101) Y10S 977/948 (20130101) Y10S 977/957 (20130101) |
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| US 09236955 | Bahl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohit Bahl (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Nikhil Gulati (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Kapil R. Dandekar (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Dwight L. Jaggard (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | By using reconfigurable antenna based pattern diversity, an optimal channel can be realized in order to maximize the distance between two subspaces, thereby increasing sum-rate. The inventors show the benefits of pattern reconfigurability using real-world channels, measured in a MIMO-OFDM interference network. The results are quantified with two different reconfigurable antenna architectures. An additional 47% gain in choral distance and 45% gain in sum capacity were achieved by exploiting pattern diversity with IA. Due to optimal channel selection, the performance of IA can also be improved in a low SNR regime. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/408807 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/0452 (20130101) H04B 7/0456 (20130101) H04B 7/0617 (20130101) H04B 15/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/2601 (20130101) |
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| US 09237347 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liang Cheng (Irvine, California); Magda El Zarki (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Cheng (Irvine, California); Magda El Zarki (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention relates to system and methods for video compression, and more particularly to systems and methods for video compression for low bit rate and low latency video communications. In one embodiment, a video communication system includes a first electronic device enabled to receive and display video data and a second electronic device configured to transmit video data to the first electronic device and be communicatively accessible by the first electronic device. The video data includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of macroblocks. The second electronic device includes a video encoder having a sub-system configured to progressively refresh the macroblocks of the frames in substantially uniform segments, determine whether there are macroblocks encoded with data from an unrefreshed macroblock in the segment last refreshed, and refresh the macroblocks encoded with data from an unrefreshed macroblock in the segment last refreshed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087080 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 19/15 (20141101) H04N 19/107 (20141101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09233394 | Calle et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Luz M. Calle (Merritt Island, Florida); Wenyan Li (Orlando, Florida); Jerry W. Buhrow (Viera, Florida); Scott T. Jolley (Titusville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luz M. Calle (Merritt Island, Florida); Wenyan Li (Orlando, Florida); Jerry W. Buhrow (Viera, Florida); Scott T. Jolley (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrophobic-core microcapsules and methods of their formation are provided. A hydrophobic-core microcapsule may include a shell that encapsulates a hydrophobic substance with a core substance, such as dye, corrosion indicator, corrosion inhibitor, and/or healing agent, dissolved or dispersed therein. The hydrophobic-core microcapsules may be formed from an emulsion having hydrophobic-phase droplets, e.g., containing the core substance and shell-forming compound, dispersed in a hydrophilic phase. The shells of the microcapsules may be capable of being broken down in response to being contacted by an alkali, e.g., produced during corrosion, contacting the shell. |
| FILED | Friday, August 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/855791 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B05D 5/06 (20130101) B05D 2202/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 9/10 (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 5/29 (20130101) C09D 5/082 (20130101) C09D 7/1291 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2984 (20150115) Y10T 428/2985 (20150115) Y10T 428/2987 (20150115) Y10T 428/2989 (20150115) Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) Y10T 428/2998 (20150115) |
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| US 09233765 | Gibson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tracy L. Gibson (Melbourne, Florida); Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Mark E. Lewis (Merritt Island, Florida); Luke B. Roberson (Titusville, Florida); Sarah J. Snyder (Terre Haute, Indiana); Pedro J. Medelius (Merritt Island, Florida); Steven L. Parks (Rockledge, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy L. Gibson (Melbourne, Florida); Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Mark E. Lewis (Merritt Island, Florida); Luke B. Roberson (Titusville, Florida); Sarah J. Snyder (Terre Haute, Indiana); Pedro J. Medelius (Merritt Island, Florida); Steven L. Parks (Rockledge, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems may provide for a structure having a plurality of interconnected panels, wherein each panel has a plurality of detection layers separated from one another by one or more non-detection layers. The plurality of detection layers may form a grid of conductive traces. Additionally, a monitor may be coupled to each grid of conductive traces, wherein the monitor is configured to detect damage to the plurality of interconnected panels in response to an electrical property change with respect to one or more of the conductive traces. In one example, the structure is part of an inflatable space platform such as a spacecraft or habitat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/495862 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 2001/224 (20130101) |
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| US 09234884 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Siyang Zheng (Pasadena, California); Jeffrey Chun-Hui Lin (Pasadena, California); Harvey L. Kasdan (Chatsworth, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are particular embodiments relating to a microfluidic device that may be utilized for cell sensing, counting, and/or sorting. Particular aspects relate to a microfabricated device that is capable of differentiating single cell types from dense cell populations. One particular embodiment relates a device and methods of using the same for sensing, counting, and/or sorting leukocytes from whole, undiluted blood samples. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/685480 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09236527 | Ray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc. (Tempe, Arizona); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark D. Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Tempe, Arizona); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos Hills, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (North Port, Florida); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device comprised of light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating apparatus comprising photovoltaic diodes, which may be created through a printing process, using a semiconductor or other substrate particle ink or suspension and using a lens particle ink or suspension. An exemplary apparatus comprises a base; at least one first conductor; a plurality of diodes coupled to the at least one first conductor; at least one second conductor coupled to the plurality of diodes; and a plurality of lenses suspended in a polymer deposited or attached over the diodes. The lenses and the suspending polymer have different indices of refraction. In some embodiments, the lenses and diodes are substantially spherical, and have a ratio of mean diameters or lengths between about 10:1 and 2:1. The diodes may be LEDs or photovoltaic diodes, and in some embodiments, have a junction formed at least partially as a hemispherical shell or cap. |
| FILED | Monday, January 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/746191 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/32 (20130101) H01L 27/3281 (20130101) H01L 31/068 (20130101) H01L 31/0232 (20130101) H01L 31/0475 (20141201) H01L 31/0504 (20130101) H01L 31/0508 (20130101) H01L 31/0512 (20130101) H01L 31/0543 (20141201) H01L 31/0547 (20141201) H01L 31/035281 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) H01L 33/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/52 (20130101) H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/0096 (20130101) H01L 51/447 (20130101) H01L 51/5265 (20130101) H01L 51/5275 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09236528 | Ray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc. (Tempe, Arizona); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark D. Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Tempe, Arizona); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos Hills, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (North Port, Florida); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device comprised of light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating apparatus comprising photovoltaic diodes, which may be created through a printing process, using a semiconductor or other substrate particle ink or suspension and using a lens particle ink or suspension. An exemplary apparatus comprises a base; at least one first conductor; a plurality of substantially spherical or optically resonant diodes coupled to the at least one first conductor; at least one second conductor coupled to the plurality of diodes; and a plurality of substantially spherical lenses suspended in a polymer attached or deposited over the diodes. The lenses and the suspending polymer have different indices of refraction. In some embodiments, the lenses and diodes have a ratio of mean diameters or lengths between about 10:1 and 2:1. The diodes may be LEDs or photovoltaic diodes, and in some embodiments, have a junction formed at least partially as a hemispherical shell or cap. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/763642 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/32 (20130101) H01L 27/3281 (20130101) H01L 31/068 (20130101) H01L 31/0232 (20130101) H01L 31/0475 (20141201) H01L 31/0504 (20130101) H01L 31/0508 (20130101) H01L 31/0512 (20130101) H01L 31/0543 (20141201) H01L 31/0547 (20141201) H01L 31/035281 (20130101) H01L 33/08 (20130101) H01L 33/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/52 (20130101) H01L 51/56 (20130101) H01L 51/0096 (20130101) H01L 51/447 (20130101) H01L 51/5265 (20130101) H01L 51/5275 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09236703 | Filgas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Filgas (Newbury Park, California); N. Peter Davis (Redondo Beach, California); Matthew J. Klotz (Pasadena, California); Victor Leyva (Pasadena, California); Robert Stultz (Cypress, California); Juan Carlos Sotelo (Hawthorne, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Filgas (Newbury Park, California); N. Peter Davis (Redondo Beach, California); Matthew J. Klotz (Pasadena, California); Victor Leyva (Pasadena, California); Robert Stultz (Cypress, California); Juan Carlos Sotelo (Hawthorne, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser system comprises a pump diode, fiber, relay optics, and a microchip laser crystal. The pump diode produces light at a first wavelength. The fiber receives the light from the pump diode and produces a round, homogeneous light spot at an output of the fiber. The relay optics receives the light from the fiber. The microchip laser crystal receives the light from the relay optics and produces a linearly polarized single frequency output at a second wavelength. The microchip laser crystal includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer absorbs the light at the first wavelength and emits light at the second wavelength. The second layer receives the light at the second wavelength and either provides a polarization dependent loss at the second wavelength or maintains a polarization of the light at the second wavelength. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/290853 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/113 (20130101) H01S 3/0627 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 3/1061 (20130101) H01S 3/1611 (20130101) H01S 3/1643 (20130101) H01S 3/08031 (20130101) H01S 3/09415 (20130101) H01S 3/10061 (20130101) H01S 3/094053 (20130101) H01S 3/094084 (20130101) |
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| US 09236786 | Geng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven M. Geng (Parma, Ohio); Janis M. Niedra (North Ridgeville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, methods, and other embodiments associated with mitigation of magnetic fields are described herein. In an embodiment, a method for mitigating an electromagnetic field includes positioning a mitigating coil around a linear alternator of linear motor so that the mitigating coil is coaxially located with an alternator coil; arranging the mitigating coil to generate a field to mitigate an electromagnetic field generated by the alternator coil; and passing an induced current from the alternator coil through the mitigating coil. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/859179 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 33/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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U.S. State Government
| US 09234197 | Chaput et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Ariz (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Chaput (Phoenix, Arizona); Bertram Jacobs (Tempe, Arizona); Brian Wellensiek (Glendale, Arizona); Julia Flores (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polynucleotides that can serve as translation enhancing elements and their use in protein expression reagents and methods. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/349835 |
| 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 | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2830/30 (20130101) C12N 2830/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/85 (20130101) C12N 2840/105 (20130101) |
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| US 09235218 | Levien et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elwha LLC, a limited liability corporation of the State of Delaware (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elwha LLC (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Royce A. Levien (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert W. Lord (Seattle, Washington); Richard T. Lord (Tacoma, Washington); Mark A. Malamud (Seattle, Washington); John D. Rinaldo, Jr. (Bellevue, Washington); Lowell L. Wood, Jr. (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are example embodiments for collision targeting for an unoccupied flying vehicle (UFV). For certain example embodiments, at least one machine, such as a UFV, may: (i) ascertain at least one target for at least one collision to include a UFV; or (ii) execute at least one maneuver to divert a UFV at least toward at least one target to induce at least one collision to include the UFV and the at least one target. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731450 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 39/024 (20130101) Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 7/2206 (20130101) F41G 7/2233 (20130101) F41G 9/00 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09237422 | Bhat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intelligent Automation, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Automation, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arvind Satyanarayan Bhat (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Zhitong Guo (Rockville, Maryland); Eric van Doorn (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting wireless signals and locating the place of origin in a building is provided that includes a transmitter system using a cellular protocol; a plurality of antennae that receive wireless Radio Frequency (RF) signals, each antenna having a port; a receiving system connected to the antennae ports with a plurality of cables, converting the RF signal to voltage waveform; a processing system in communication with the receiving system, detecting the strength of the received signals and Time Difference of Arrival of the RF signals with respect to antennae and determining the location where the wireless signals are being emitted by using classification algorithms; and a human machine interface. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/215652 |
| ART UNIT | 2642 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic Communication H04M 1/72519 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 64/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09237192 | Gedik 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) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive in-operator load shedding includes receiving at least two data streams (each comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into respective sliding windows of memory. A throttling fraction is then calculated based on input rates associated with the data streams and on currently available processing resources. Tuples are then selected for processing from the data streams in accordance with the throttling fraction, where the selected tuples represent a subset of all tuples contained within the sliding window. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/896709 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 3/14 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/10 (20130101) H04L 47/41 (20130101) H04L 47/225 (20130101) H04L 49/90 (20130101) H04L 49/901 (20130101) H04L 67/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/33 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 20/224 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09233850 | Jang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nano-scaled graphene article comprising a non-woven aggregate of nano-scaled graphene platelets wherein each of the platelets comprises a graphene sheet or multiple graphene sheets and the platelets have a thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably smaller than 10 nm) and platelets contact other platelets to define a plurality of conductive pathways along the article. The article has an exceptional thermal conductivity (typically greater than 500 Wm−1K−1) and excellent electrical conductivity (typically greater than 1,000 S/cm). Thin-film articles of the present invention can be used for thermal management in micro-electronic devices and for current-dissipating on an aircraft skin against lightning strikes. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784606 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0423 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 31/0469 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) C01B 31/0492 (20130101) C01B 2204/04 (20130101) C01B 2204/22 (20130101) C01B 2204/24 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/521 (20130101) C04B 35/522 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09236433 | Pala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vipindas Pala (Morrisville, North Carolina); Edward Robert Van Brunt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner (Raleigh, North Carolina); Lin Cheng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Anant Kumar Agarwal (Arlington, Virginia); John Williams Palmour (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductor device having back-side contacts to a P-type region and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, an SiC semiconductor device includes an N-type substrate and an epitaxial structure on a front-side of the N-type substrate. The epitaxial substrate includes a P-type layer adjacent to the N-type substrate and one or more additional SiC layers on the P-type layer opposite the N-type substrate. The semiconductor device also includes one or more openings through the N-type substrate that extend from a back-side of the N-type substrate to the P-type layer and a back-side contact on the back-side of the N-type substrate and within the one or more openings such that the back-side contact is in physical and electrical contact with the P-type layer. The semiconductor device further includes front-side contacts on the epitaxial structure opposite the N-type substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/050727 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/0619 (20130101) H01L 29/0696 (20130101) H01L 29/732 (20130101) H01L 29/744 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/7395 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101) H01L 29/66333 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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