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| US 09237740 | Wiles et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Wiles (Mount Desert, Maine); Robert Taft (Southwest Harbor, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for producing selected non-human mammalian germ cells and gametes and for making non-human animals using the produced germ cells and gametes are provided by the present invention. Methods of generating a non-human embryo and/or animal derived from donor stem cells, methods of generating chimeric non-human animals having substantially all gametes and/or germ cells derived from the donor stem cells, methods of producing a non-human host embryo lacking functional endogenous germ cells and non-human host embryos incapable of developing endogenous gametes of the present invention are described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941014 |
| 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 | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01K 67/0271 (20130101) A01K 67/0275 (20130101) A01K 2207/12 (20130101) A01K 2217/15 (20130101) A01K 2217/30 (20130101) A01K 2217/058 (20130101) A01K 2217/203 (20130101) A01K 2217/206 (20130101) A01K 2227/10 (20130101) A01K 2267/02 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/873 (20130101) C12N 15/877 (20130101) C12N 15/8775 (20130101) |
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| US 09237761 | Longo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valter D. Longo (Playa del Rey, California); Sebastian Brandhorst (Los Angeles, California); Morgan Elyse Levine (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving longevity and/or alleviating a symptom of aging or preventing age related diseases is provided. The method includes a step in which the subject's average and type of daily protein intake, IGF-I, and IGFBP1 levels, and risk factors for overall mortality, cancer and diabetes are determined. With respect to protein consumption, the relative amounts of protein calories from animal and plant sources are determined. A periodic normal calorie or low calorie but low protein fasting mimicking diet with frequencies of every 2 weeks to 2 months is provided to the subject if the subject's average daily protein intake level and type and/or IGF-I levels, and/or IGFBP1 levels is identified as being greater or lower than a predetermined cutoff intake/level and if the subject is younger than a predetermined age. The method is also shown to alleviate symptoms of chemotoxicity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/178953 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/293 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A23L 1/305 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/23 (20130101) A61K 31/205 (20130101) A61K 31/401 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/4172 (20130101) |
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| US 09237878 | Chen 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) | Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Heng Zhao (Rochester, Minnesota); Carolina Amador Carrascal (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generation and analysis of shear waves in a subject with an ultrasound system. Multiple short ultrasound push pulses are applied, as a set and optionally more than once, to one or more push origins at the subject to produce first and second shear waves of large amplitudes and desired spatial distributions, which are separated in space and time and which have opposite polarity such that initial movements of the subject tissue, respectively caused by the first and second shear waves, occur in opposite directions. At least one mechanical property of the subject (including that represented by shear wave group velocity, phase velocity, and attenuation of a shear wave) is determined based at least in part on a distance between wavefronts of the first and second shear waves. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/027476 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/48 (20130101) A61B 8/085 (20130101) A61B 8/483 (20130101) A61B 8/485 (20130101) A61B 8/0825 (20130101) A61B 8/0858 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/52022 (20130101) G01S 7/52042 (20130101) |
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| US 09237898 | Hossack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John A. Hossack (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brian R. Wamhoff (Charlottesville, Virginia); Alexander L. Klibanov (Charlottesville, Virginia); Johnny Chen (Chantilly, Virginia); Brent A. French (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Hossack (Charlottesville, Virginia); Brian R. Wamhoff (Charlottesville, Virginia); Alexander L. Klibanov (Charlottesville, Virginia); Johnny Chen (Chantilly, Virginia); Brent A. French (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter system including an elongate tubular member having a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and a lumen extending through at least a portion of a length of the elongate tubular member. The distal end portion of the elongate member is dimensioned and adapted to advance to or in proximity to a treatment site of a subject. A microbubble device is in fluid communication with the lumen. The microbubble device includes at least one input port for receiving a flow of material into the device and an output port configured to output microbubbles from the microbubble device. A second tubular member is in fluid communication with one of the at least one input ports. A pressure fitting arrangement is adapted to maintain a seal between the second tubular member and the input port. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/386391 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/7285 (20130101) A61B 6/503 (20130101) A61B 6/504 (20130101) A61B 6/541 (20130101) A61B 8/06 (20130101) A61B 8/12 (20130101) A61B 8/445 (20130101) A61B 8/481 (20130101) A61B 8/543 (20130101) A61B 8/0891 (20130101) A61B 17/2202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/22004 (20130101) A61B 2017/00893 (20130101) A61B 2017/22021 (20130101) A61B 2017/22054 (20130101) A61B 2017/22067 (20130101) A61B 2017/22088 (20130101) A61B 2017/22089 (20130101) A61B 2019/528 (20130101) A61B 2019/5234 (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 25/10 (20130101) A61M 25/0082 (20130101) A61M 37/0092 (20130101) A61M 2025/0073 (20130101) A61M 2025/1052 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 7/00 (20130101) A61N 2007/0039 (20130101) A61N 2007/0043 (20130101) |
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| US 09237945 | El-Kurdl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mohammed S. El-Kurdl (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Lorenzo Soletti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John J. Stankus (Campbell, California); David A. Vorp (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William R. Wagner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed S. El-Kurdl (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Lorenzo Soletti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John J. Stankus (Campbell, California); David A. Vorp (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William R. Wagner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A tubular tissue graft device is provided comprising a tubular tissue and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the tubular tissue. The matrix may be electrospun onto the tubular tissue. In one embodiment, the tubular tissue is from a vein, such as a saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided is method of preparing a tubular graft comprising depositing a fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a perimeter of a tubular tissue to produce a tubular tissue graft device. A cardiac bypass method comprising bypassing a coronary artery with a tubular tissue graft device comprising a vein and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the vein also is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/022430 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2210/0004 (20130101) A61F 2240/001 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 27/507 (20130101) A61L 27/3625 (20130101) A61L 27/3683 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2300/604 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 2533/40 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (20130101) D01D 5/0076 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2331/10 (20130101) D10B 2401/12 (20130101) D10B 2509/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09238010 | Hammer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Kevin Vargo (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ranganath Parthasarathy (Glenmoore, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Kevin Vargo (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ranganath Parthasarathy (Glenmoore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a composition comprising at least one oleosin-like protein. The present invention also includes a composition comprising a vesicle comprising at least one oleosin-like protein. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/976796 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 9/5169 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/168 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/488 (20130101) A61K 51/1251 (20130101) |
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| US 09238034 | Tran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nhan Tran (Phoenix, Arizona); Nathalie Meurice (Scottsdale, Arizona); Harshil Dhruv (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to methods of using fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 (Fn14) antagonists to modulate activity at a TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) binding site on a cysteine-rich domain (CRD) of Fn14. The present disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising synergistic combinations Fn14 antagonists and chemotherapeutic agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/327448 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) A61K 31/541 (20130101) A61K 31/542 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/542 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4188 (20130101) A61K 31/4192 (20130101) A61K 31/4704 (20130101) A61K 31/4704 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (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) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09238038 | Schoenfisch et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novan, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Novan, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Schoenfisch (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Yuan Lu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Nathan Stasko (Durham, North Carolina); Jian Bao (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided here are nitric oxide-releasing compounds that include at least two different NO donor functional groups of the same class. In some embodiments, such nitric oxide-releasing compounds are macromolecules such as dendrimer and co-condensed silica. Pharmaceutical compositions, wound dressings, kits and methods of treatments are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/184156 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/655 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 247/10 (20130101) C07C 281/20 (20130101) C07C 291/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09238041 | Teitell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California); Carla M. Koehler (Los Angeles, California); Geng Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California); Carla M. Koehler (Los Angeles, California); Geng Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of manipulating the processing, targeting, and/or internalization of a nucleic acid molecule. Also disclosed are recombinant and/or isolated nucleic acid molecules having a first nucleic acid sequence, which is a wild-type sequence or an altered sequence, directly or indirectly linked to a second nucleic acid sequence which is a mitochondria localization sequence, an RNA import sequence, or a combination thereof, and methods of using thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/413842 |
| 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 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/11 (20130101) C12N 15/87 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07008 (20130101) |
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| US 09238046 | Gorman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Liam P. Ryan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Liam P. Ryan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and kits for safe and effective therapy that can be administered early after a heart attack in order to prevent progressive heart dilatation and resultant loss of function. The therapy includes the administration of particulate compositions to a region comprising an infarct or a portion thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/679147 |
| 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 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 33/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/10 (20130101) A61L 27/12 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2430/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09238053 | Toll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nocicepta LLC (Wlmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nocicepta LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence R. Toll (Redwood City, California); David C. Yeomans (Sunnyvale, California); Martin S. Angst (Palo Alto, California); Daniel I. Jacobs (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for methods and compositions for treatment of pain via craniofacial mucosal administration of an analgesic compound (e.g. a non-opioid analgesic peptide, an NOP agonist or N/OFQ). Intranasal administration of certain analgesic peptides such as N/OFQ results in global analgesic effects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/802075 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0043 (20130101) A61K 31/485 (20130101) A61K 31/485 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09238060 | Stafford et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrel W. Stafford (Carrboro, North Carolina); Dengmin Feng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric Factor VII polypeptides and methods of using the same. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/176330 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/4846 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/644 (20130101) C12N 9/6437 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/21021 (20130101) C12Y 304/21022 (20130101) |
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| US 09238064 | Podack et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Miami (Miami, Florida); Nozomi Yamazaki (Sapporo, Japan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eckhard R. Podack (Coconut Grove, Florida); Joseph D. Rosenblatt (Hollywood, Florida); Koichi Yamazaki (Sapporo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Cell-based immunotherapy (e.g., immunization or vaccination) may be improved by frequent administration to a human subject of allogeneic cancer cells secreting a modified heat shock protein (e.g., gp96), depletion of B cells in the subject, or both. Antigen (e.g., epitope derived from neoantigen or tumor antigen of allogeneic or syngeneic cancer cells) may induce a specific immune response in the subject. For example, the epitope bound in an immunogenic complex with the secreted heat shock protein may be obtained from allogeneic cancer cells coexpressing both secreted gp96 and antigen, or from syngeneic cancer cells of the subject expressing only antigen. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/930818 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/5152 (20130101) A61K 2039/5156 (20130101) |
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| US 09238069 | Sayers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Joseph Sayers (Boonsboro, Maryland); Nancy Lynn Booth (Bethesda, Maryland); Curtis J. Henrich (Rockville, Maryland); Alan David Brooks (Frederick, Maryland); Kirk R. Gustafson (Frederick, Maryland); Karen L. Erickson (North Oxford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Joseph Sayers (Boonsboro, Maryland); Nancy Lynn Booth (Bethesda, Maryland); Curtis J. Henrich (Rockville, Maryland); Alan David Brooks (Frederick, Maryland); Kirk R. Gustafson (Frederick, Maryland); Karen L. Erickson (North Oxford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of enhancing the response of cancer cells in a mammal to treatment with a death receptor ligand, which method comprises contacting the cancer cells with a death receptor ligand in conjunction with an effective amount of a compound described herein, for example, a cucurbitacin (I) or a withanolide (II). Also disclosed is a method of inducing apoptosis in cancer cells in a mammal, comprising contacting the cancer cells with a compound described herein, for example, a cucurbitacin (I) or a withanolide (II) and also contacting the cancer cells with a death receptor ligand, whereby apoptosis is induced in the cancer cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/516514 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/16 (20130101) A61K 31/16 (20130101) A61K 31/047 (20130101) A61K 31/047 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09238081 | Gold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David V. Gold (Metuchen, New Jersey); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods of use of anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies or fragments thereof, such as murine, chimeric, humanized or human PAM4 antibodies. The subject antibodies show a number of novel and useful diagnostic characteristics, such as binding with high specificity to pancreatic and other cancers, but not to normal pancreatic tissues and binding to a high percentage of early stage pancreatic cancers. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies bind to pancreatic cancer mucins. The antibodies and fragments are of use for the detection and diagnosis of early stage pancreatic cancer. In preferred embodiments, the anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies can be used for immunoassay of serum samples, wherein the immunoassay can detect a marker for early stage pancreatic cancer in serum. More preferably, the serum is extracted with an organic phase, such as butanol, before immunoassay. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010129 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48746 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 51/08 (20130101) A61K 51/088 (20130101) A61K 51/109 (20130101) A61K 51/0406 (20130101) A61K 51/0491 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 16/303 (20130101) C07K 16/3092 (20130101) C07K 2317/24 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/54 (20130101) C07K 2317/55 (20130101) C07K 2317/565 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57438 (20130101) G01N 33/57488 (20130101) |
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| US 09238115 | Homuth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ResQSystems, Inc. (Roseville, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RESQSYSTEMS, INC. (Roseville, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Homuth (Corcoran, Minnesota); Greg Voss (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Keith Lurie (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Anja Metzger (Stillwater, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for delivering respiratory treatment to a patient. For example, a treatment system may include a mechanism for delivering a positive pressure breath to a patient, and one or more limb flow control assemblies which modulate gas flow to and from the patient. Exemplary treatment techniques are embodied in anesthesia machines, mechanical ventilators, and manual ventilators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/720858 |
| ART UNIT | 3778 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/087 (20130101) A61B 5/4836 (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 16/00 (20130101) A61M 16/01 (20130101) A61M 16/0009 (20140204) A61M 16/12 (20130101) A61M 16/18 (20130101) A61M 16/22 (20130101) A61M 16/0063 (20140204) A61M 16/0066 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 16/0069 (20140204) A61M 16/0072 (20130101) A61M 16/0078 (20130101) A61M 16/0081 (20140204) A61M 16/204 (20140204) A61M 16/208 (20130101) A61M 16/0816 (20130101) A61M 16/0875 (20130101) A61M 16/0891 (20140204) A61M 16/1055 (20130101) A61M 16/1065 (20140204) A61M 2016/0027 (20130101) A61M 2016/0036 (20130101) A61M 2016/0042 (20130101) |
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| US 09238149 | Arendash et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary W. Arendash (Prescott, Arizona); Chuanhai Cao (Temple Terrace, Florida); Jun Tan (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Arendash (Prescott, Arizona); Chuanhai Cao (Temple Terrace, Florida); Jun Tan (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a method of treating and preventing a neurological disorder, such as Alzheimer's Disease, in a subject in need thereof by positioning an electromagnetic field emitting source proximal to the subject and exposing the subject to an electromagnetic field having a predetermined frequency for a predetermined absorption period. Preferably, each individual treatment (comprising exposure to the predetermined frequency for the predetermined absorption period) is continued at a predetermined schedule (preferably daily) for a predetermined treatment period. The predetermined frequency, according to a preferred embodiment, is about 918 MHz with a specific absorption rate (SAR) of about 0.25 W/kg+/−2 dB. The predetermined absorption period of this preferred embodiment is about one hour. The treatment period is long-term, being greater than about 6 months and preferably between about 7 and 9 months. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/230415 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238150 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Palo Alto, California); Alexander Aravanis (San Diego, California); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); M. Bret Schneider (Portola Valley, California); Jaimie M. Henderson (Stanford, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Palo Alto, California); Alexander Aravanis (San Diego, California); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); M. Bret Schneider (Portola Valley, California); Jaimie M. Henderson (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one example, a system electrically stimulates target cells of a living animal using an elongated structure, a modulation circuit and a light pathway such as provided by an optical fiber arrangement. The elongated structure is for insertion into a narrow passageway in the animal such that an end of the elongated structure is sufficiently near the target cells to deliver stimulation thereto. The modulation circuit is for modulating the target cells while the elongated structure is in the narrow passageway, where the modulation circuit is adapted to deliver viral vectors through the elongated structure for expressing light responsive proteins in the target cells. The light pathway is used for stimulating the target cells by delivering light to the light-responsive proteins in the target cells. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185624 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) A61K 48/0083 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/062 (20130101) A61N 5/0601 (20130101) A61N 5/0622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 2005/0651 (20130101) |
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| US 09238597 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut); Steven G. Ballmer (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut); Steven G. Ballmer (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for purifying N-methyliminodiacetic acid (MIDA) boronates from solution. Also provided are methods for deprotection of boronic acids from their MIDA ligands. The purification and deprotection methods can be used in conjunction with methods for coupling or otherwise reacting boronic acids. Iterative cycles of deprotection, coupling, and purification can be performed to synthesize chemical compounds of interest. The methods are suitable for use in an automated chemical synthesis process. Also provided is an automated small molecule synthesizer apparatus for performing automated synthesis of small molecules using iterative cycles of deprotection, coupling, and purification in accordance with methods of the invention. Coupling and other reactions embraced by the invention include, without limitation, Suzuki-Miyaura coupling, oxidation, Swern oxidation, “Jones reagents” oxidation, reduction, Evans' aldol reaction, HWE olefination, Takai olefination, alcohol silylation, desilylation, p-methoxybenzylation, iodination, Negishi cross-coupling, Heck coupling, Miyaura borylation, Stille coupling, and Sonogashira coupling. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/811527 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | General Methods of Organic Chemistry; Apparatus Therefor C07B 61/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) C07F 5/025 (20130101) |
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| US 09238653 | Rathod et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pradipsinh K. Rathod (Seattle, Washington); David Floyd (Pennington, New Jersey); Jeremy Burrows (Geneva, Switzerland); Alka Marwaha (Seattle, Washington); Ramesh Gujjar (Seattle, Washington); Jose Coteron-Lopez (Madrid, Spain); Margaret Phillips (Dallas, Texas); Susan A. Charman (Victoria, Australia); David Matthews (Encinitas, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas); MMV MEDICINES FOR MALARIA VENTURE (Geneva, Switzerland); UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradipsinh K. Rathod (Seattle, Washington); David Floyd (Pennington, New Jersey); Jeremy Burrows (Geneva, Switzerland); Alka Marwaha (Seattle, Washington); Ramesh Gujjar (Seattle, Washington); Jose Coteron-Lopez (Madrid, Spain); Margaret Phillips (Dallas, Texas); Susan A. Charman (Victoria, Australia); David Matthews (Encinitas, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of parasitic dihydroorotate dehydrogenase enzyme (DHOD) are candidate therapeutics for treating malaria. Illustrative of such therapeutic agents include the compound: and a triazolopyrimidine class of compounds that conform to Formula IX: and their solvates, stereoisomers, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/499031 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238654 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California); Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Chen (Arcadia, California); Yi-Jia Li (Duarte, California); Daniela Divlianska (Orlando, Florida); Ekaterina Bobkova (Orlando, Florida); Greg Roth (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the embodiments described herein, a SUMOylation inhibitor compound comprising a singleton scaffold is provided. In some embodiments, a method for inhibiting a SUMOylation enzyme in a cell is provided. Such a method may include administering a SUMOylation inhibitor compound to the cell. In some aspects, the SUMOylation enzyme is SUMO E1 or SUMO E2. In some aspects, the method may be used to inhibit a cancer cell in vitro (e.g., grown in culture) or in vivo (e.g., as part of a tumor in a subject). In other embodiments, a method for treating a cancer, degenerative diseases and viral infection is provided. Such a method may include administering an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition to a subject having the cancer. The pharmaceutical composition may include a singleton SUMOylation inhibitor compound. In some embodiments, the method for treating a cancer may further comprise administering one or more DNA-damaging therapy in combination with administration of the pharmaceutical composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/891067 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/34 (20130101) A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 31/555 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 41/00 (20130101) A61K 41/00 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 493/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09238661 | Blum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne A. Blum (Irvine, California); Joshua J. Hirner (Irvine, California); Darius J. Faizi (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods of making an organoboron compound, organoboron compounds, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/303684 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) C07F 5/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238670 | Ricci et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Ricci (Stanford, California); Robert J. Greenhouse (Newark, California); Alan G. Cheng (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates generally to aminoglycoside derivatives of Formula (I) as described herein. The present disclosure also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating bacterial infections by administering these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to subjects in need thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/212964 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 407/12 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 15/236 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238683 | Zhu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoping Zhu (Clarksville, Maryland); Lilin Ye (Hyattsville, Maryland); Li Lu (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoping Zhu (Clarksville, Maryland); Lilin Ye (Hyattsville, Maryland); Li Lu (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for enhancing delivery of vaccine antigens to the mucosal epithelium, the composition comprising an antigen from an infectious agent fused with an Fc fragment of an immunoglobulin recognized by the neonatal receptors (FcRn). The composition is effective in eliciting a protective long-term memory T cell immune response against infection at a distant mucosal site. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/932310 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/245 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/6056 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/35 (20130101) C07K 14/3156 (20130101) C07K 14/4713 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/30 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/16634 (20130101) C12N 2740/16234 (20130101) |
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| US 09238684 | Arya et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bira Arya (Ellicott City, Maryland); Vladimir L. Larionov (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | It is disclosed herein that SPANX-B is uniquely expressed in a number of human tumors and that SPANX-B is an immunogenic antigen that is recognized by human T cells inducing helper CD4+ and cytolytic CD8+ T cell responses. Specific SPANX-B polypeptides and polynucleotides are disclosed that can be used to generate an immune response. In several embodiments, these polypeptides can be used for the treatment of a variety of cancers, including melanoma, colon carcinoma, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, myeloma, lung carcinoma and renal cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/155230 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/82 (20130101) C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238709 | Ung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MATERIA, INC. (Pasadena, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MATERIA, INC. (Pasadena, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thay Ung (Los Angeles, California); Yann Schrodi (Pasadena, California); Mark S. Trimmer (Monrovia, California); Andrew Hejl (Pasadena, California); Daniel Sanders (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel organometallic complexes useful as olefin metathesis catalysts. The complexes have an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand and a chelating carbene ligand associated with a Group 8 transition metal center. The molecular structure of the complexes can be altered so as to provide a substantial latency period. The complexes are particularly useful in catalyzing ring closing metathesis of acyclic olefins and ring opening metathesis polymerization of cyclic olefins. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497387 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/333 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/10 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 132/08 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 61/06 (20130101) C08G 2261/11 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (20130101) C08G 2261/3325 (20130101) |
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| US 09238799 | Pletnev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander G. Pletnev (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Amber R. Engel (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are chimeric TBEV/DEN4 flaviviruses including a first nucleic acid molecule including a 5′ non-coding region (NCR) from a DEN4 virus, a nucleic acid encoding a C protein and non-structural proteins from a DEN4 virus, and a 3′ NCR from a DEN4 virus, wherein nonstructural protein NS4B includes a phenylalanine at amino acid position 112, nonstructural protein NS5 includes an alanine at amino acid position 654 and an alanine at amino acid position 655, and the 3′ NCR includes a deletion of nucleotides 10478-10507. The chimeric construct also includes a second nucleic acid molecule, which is operably linked to the first nucleic acid molecule, encoding a prM protein and an E protein from a TBEV, wherein the E protein includes an amino acid substitution that differs from the wild type TBEV at amino acid position 315 and a tryptophan at amino acid position 240. Also disclosed are methods of eliciting an immune response using the disclosed TBEV/DEN4 chimeric flaviviruses and immunogenic compositions including the disclosed chimeric flaviviruses and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/014920 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20131010) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2770/24134 (20130101) C12N 2770/24151 (20130101) |
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| US 09238800 | Bossis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ioannis Bossis (Columbia, Maryland); John A. Chiorini (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an Avian adeno-associated vims (AAAV) vims and vectors and particles derived therefrom. In addition, the present invention provides methods of delivering a nucleic acid to a cell using the AAAV vectors and particles. Methods of isolating the AAAV are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/554728 |
| 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 48/0091 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10251 (20130101) C12N 2750/14121 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) |
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| US 09238813 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi-Tao Yu (Pittsford, New York); Xinliang Zhao (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Tao Yu (Pittsford, New York); Xinliang Zhao (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for affecting mRNA expression or translation through the modification of pre-mRNA or mRNA transcripts are described. In one embodiment of the methods of the present invention, the branch point adenosine of a pre-mRNA transcript is 2′-0-methylated to block splicing and subsequent expression of the protein encoded by the transcript. In another embodiment, a uridine residue in a nonsense stop codon may be modified to pseudouridine, causing the translation machinery to read through the nonsense stop codon and translate a full length protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/056309 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 48/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238815 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Megan Shaw (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Silke Stertz (Zurich, Switzerland); John Young (San Diego, California); Renate König (San Diego, California); Sumit Chanda (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mounta Sinai (New York, New York); Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California); Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Megan Shaw (New York, New York); Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Silke Stertz (Zurich, Switzerland); John Young (San Diego, California); Renate König (San Diego, California); Sumit Chanda (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to the modulation of host cell factors required for influenza virus replication. The application relates to compounds, including nucleic acid compounds (such as, e.g., small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)) and small molecules, that target human host cell factors involved in influenza virus replication, and the use of such compounds for modulating influenza virus replication and as antiviral agents. The application also relates to methods of treating an influenza virus infection and methods of treating or preventing a symptom or disease associated with influenza virus infection, comprising administering to a subject a composition comprising a compound, such as a nucleic acid compound (e.g., an siRNA) or small molecule, that targets a human host cell factor involved in influenza virus replication. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/514783 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/18 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1131 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238841 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hector R. Wong (Cincinnati, Ohio); Christopher John Lindsell (Cincinnati, Ohio); Shelia Salisbury (Lewisburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides multi-biomarker based methods to stratify pediatric septic shock patients into high and low risk groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/377137 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 1/6888 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 2800/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09238869 | Superfine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Superfine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard Chasen Spero (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Adam Richard Shields (Springfield, Virginia); Benjamin Aaron Evans (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Briana Lee Fiser (High Point, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for using actuated surface-attached posts for assessing biofluid rheology are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for testing properties of a biofluid specimen includes placing the specimen onto a micropost array having a plurality of microposts extending outwards from a substrate, wherein each micropost includes a proximal end attached to the substrate and a distal end opposite the proximal end, and generating an actuation force in proximity to the micropost array to actuate the microposts, thereby compelling at least some of the microposts to exhibit motion. The method further includes measuring the motion of at least one of the microposts in response to the actuation force and determining a property of the specimen based on the measured motion of the at least one micropost. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/016007 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5085 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0851 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 11/16 (20130101) G01N 29/022 (20130101) G01N 33/4905 (20130101) G01N 2291/0255 (20130101) G01N 2291/0256 (20130101) G01N 2291/02827 (20130101) |
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| US 09239319 | Sims et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl W. Sims (Santa Rosa, California); Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Marcelo Roberto Filgueira (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Klaus Witt (Keltern, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl W. Sims (Santa Rosa, California); Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Marcelo Roberto Filgueira (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Klaus Witt (Keltern, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-dimensional liquid analysis system includes a flow splitter for separating mobile phase outflow from a first dimension liquid analysis system into first and second liquid split outlet flows. Volumetric flow rate control of the split outlet flows is provided by a flow control pump which withdraws one of the split outlet flows from the flow splitter at a controlled withdrawal flow rate to define the other split outlet flow rate as the difference between the outflow rate from the first dimension system and the withdrawal flow rate. In this manner, accurate and consistent flow division can be accomplished, which is particularly useful for multi-dimensional liquid analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422168 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/10 (20130101) G01N 30/32 (20130101) G01N 30/463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 30/465 (20130101) G01N 30/7233 (20130101) G01N 2030/324 (20130101) |
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| US 09239332 | Heath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Arundhati Nag (Pasadena, California); Samir Das (Pasadena, California); Kaycie M. Deyle (Sylmar, California); Steven Wesley Millward (Monrovia, California); Paul Edward Kearney (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INDI MOLECULAR, INC. (Culver City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Arundhati Nag (Pasadena, California); Samir Das (Pasadena, California); Kaycie M. Deyle (Sylmar, California); Steven Wesley Millward (Monrovia, California); Paul Edward Kearney (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides stable peptide-based Akt capture agents and the use thereof as detection, diagnosis, and treatment agents. The application further provides novel methods of developing stable peptide-based capture agents, including Akt capture agents, using iterative on-bead in situ click chemistry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546575 |
| 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 38/08 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1058 (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) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/5748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/91215 (20130101) |
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| US 09239334 | Cao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haiming Cao (Bethesda, Maryland); Gokhan S. Hotamisligil (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haiming Cao (Bethesda, Maryland); Gokhan S. Hotamisligil (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a novel lipokine, C16:1n7-palmitoleate, which also serves as a biomarker for metabolic status. More specifically, a low concentration of C16:1n7-palmitoleate in the free fatty acid component of the serum indicates a risk of metabolic disease, and that de novo lipogenesis should be stimulated. Additionally, administering C16:1n7-palmitoleate to a subject (via nutraceutical or other means), positively impacts lipid metabolism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/062527 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/3008 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/20 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/92 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09240310 | Krutchinsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew N. Krutchinsky (New York, New York); Julio Padovan (New York, New York); Herbert Cohen (New York, New York); Brian T. Chait (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion transfer device for transferring ions emerging from an electrospray ion source at atmosphere to a vacuum chamber includes an inner surface in the shape of a diverging conical duct. The ion transfer device has an entrance aperture for positioning proximate the exit port of the electrospray ion source emitter, the entrance aperture receiving the electrosprayed ions from the exit port of the electrospray ion source emitter at atmosphere, the diverging conical duct being an electrode toward which the ions migrate and having an exit aperture with an inner diameter larger than an inner diameter of its entrance aperture, the exit aperture enclosed in the vacuum chamber, the diverging conical duct transporting the ions from atmosphere to vacuum. The vacuum chamber can be a chamber of a vacuum housing enclosing a mass analyzer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/698364 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 49/4225 (20130101) |
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| US 09237976 | Sunday et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew B. Sunday (Demossville, Kentucky); Joseph H. Althaus (Yellow Springs, Ohio); Brian E. Henslee (Galloway, Ohio); Benjamin C. MacMurray (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a fluid absorption and distribution enhancement (FADE) product comprises at least one flow media layer, and at least one superabsorbent polymer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/834239 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 13/534 (20130101) A61F 13/536 (20130101) A61F 13/537 (20130101) A61F 13/5323 (20130101) A61F 13/49001 (20130101) A61F 2013/53062 (20130101) A61F 2013/530554 (20130101) Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0318 (20150401) |
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| US 09238068 | Dresios et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dresios (Carlsbad, California); Richard Griffey (Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods for identifying proteins or peptide motifs of intracellular, extracellular, or extracellular matrix proteins specifically exposed in wound sites, as well as compositions for treating wounds, and methods for their use. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/158775 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1777 (20130101) A61K 39/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48376 (20130101) A61K 47/48384 (20130101) A61K 47/48415 (20130101) A61K 47/48553 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/567 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) |
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| US 09238185 | Lean 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) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Jeonggi Seo (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Trapping structures are provided for particle separation devices that make use of traveling wave fluid flow. These trapping structures are operative to capture and collect separated particles and present them for extraction. The extraction can be accomplished in conventional manners, such as through the use of suitable sized pipettes. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/188018 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 21/006 (20130101) B01D 21/0042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 21/2488 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0668 (20130101) B01L 2400/0424 (20130101) B01L 2400/0496 (20130101) Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids or Using Pneumatic Tables or Jigs B03B 5/00 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/028 (20130101) |
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| US 09238284 | Swinford |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Douglas Swinford (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNISON INDUSTRIES, LLC (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Douglas Swinford (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming a heat exchanger from a metal body made from a material having a melting temperature greater than 660° C. with the metal body having opposing first and second surfaces and at least one fluid passageway formed in the metal body so that fluid may be passed through the fluid passageway and heat from the fluid may be dissipated through a plurality of fins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/331179 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Working of Metal by the Action of a High Concentration of Electric Current on a Workpiece Using an Electrode Which Takes the Place of a Tool; Such Working Combined With Other Forms of Working of Metal B23H 7/02 (20130101) B23H 9/00 (20130101) B23H 9/14 (20130101) Metal-working Not Otherwise Provided For; Combined Operations; Universal Machine Tools B23P 15/26 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B23P 2700/10 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/115 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 1/0246 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 3/048 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/671 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4935 (20150115) |
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| US 09238349 | Shaw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan L. Shaw (Springfield, Virginia); Jeremy Hanna (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Shaw (Springfield, Virginia); Jeremy Hanna (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure concerns bonding a thin film of diamond to a second thick diamond substrate in a way that does not cause the exposed (un-bonded) diamond surface to become contaminated by the bonding process or when the bonded diamond is held at high temperature for many hours in vacuum. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/306062 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 9/007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B32B 9/041 (20130101) B32B 15/043 (20130101) B32B 37/12 (20130101) B32B 37/24 (20130101) B32B 38/0036 (20130101) B32B 38/1858 (20130101) B32B 2037/246 (20130101) B32B 2038/0052 (20130101) B32B 2250/05 (20130101) B32B 2309/68 (20130101) B32B 2311/00 (20130101) B32B 2311/09 (20130101) B32B 2311/16 (20130101) B32B 2313/04 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12542 (20150115) |
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| US 09238501 | Shen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Young T. Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael J. Hughes (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young T. Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael J. Hughes (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A bilge keel design for improved ship roll damping performance. The bilge keel has a porous region substantially at a forward end, and is designed to alleviate and mitigate added drag from flow misalignment due to scale effects and variation in vessel speed and loading conditions. The bilge keel design is use on both port and starboard sides of the vessel hull. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109515 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 3/38 (20130101) B63B 39/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B63B 2003/385 (20130101) B63B 2039/067 (20130101) |
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| US 09238586 | Haun, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald W. Haun, Jr. (McLean, Virginia); Wayne Adamson (McLean, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alion Science and Technology (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Haun, Jr. (McLean, Virginia); Wayne Adamson (McLean, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method cleans a plurality of filters in parallel, each filter having an inlet side and an outlet side separated by a filter barrier. In an operational phase, water is filtered using a plurality of the filters, by passing the water through the filter. In a cleaning phase, at least one of the filters is cleaned while the other filters are filtering water in the operational phase. Each filter is cleaned by supplying sodium hypochlorite to an inlet side of the filter when the filter is off-line. The inlet side of the filter is allowed to soak in the sodium hypochlorite for at least 30 seconds without the sodium hypochlorite being pressurized through the filter barrier during the soaking process. The filters are cycled through the cleaning phase such that each filter is repeatedly cleaned while other filters are filtering in the operational phase. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/591504 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/22 (20130101) B01D 61/147 (20130101) B01D 65/02 (20130101) B01D 2321/162 (20130101) B01D 2321/168 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 1/441 (20130101) C02F 1/444 (20130101) C02F 2103/08 (20130101) C02F 2209/03 (20130101) C02F 2303/16 (20130101) C02F 2303/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09238617 | Verborgt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Arthur A. Webb (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Arthur A. Webb (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the formula below, where R is —H or —CH2—CH3; n, x, y, and z are nonnegative integers; R2 is an aliphatic group or oxyaliphatic group; and R3 is an aliphatic group. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/700365 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238781 | Du et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yanhai Du (Irmo, South Carolina); Ken Reifsnider (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanhai Du (Irmo, South Carolina); Ken Reifsnider (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present subject matter is directed to a system for removing sulfur from liquid hydrocarbon fuel. The system includes a reactor having a fuel inlet and fuel outlet. The fuel inlet and fuel outlet are in fluid communication with a fuel path passing through the reactor. The fuel path is defined by an inner helical thread portion and an outer helical thread portion. The inner helical thread portion is complimentary with and has a smaller diameter than the outer helical thread portion. The inner helical thread portion surrounds a heating element and the outer helical thread portion is surrounded by an outer cover. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/603834 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/0235 (20130101) B01J 8/0271 (20130101) B01J 19/243 (20130101) B01J 2208/0084 (20130101) B01J 2208/00398 (20130101) B01J 2219/00772 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 25/003 (20130101) C10G 31/06 (20130101) C10G 53/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 2300/202 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09238973 | Klusman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Arlen Klusman (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ROLLS-ROYCE CORPORATION (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Arlen Klusman (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine including a compressor, a turbine and a static structure is disclosed herein. The gas turbine engine further includes a foil bearing system operative to transmit rotor loads from at least one of the compressor and the turbine to the static structure. The foil bearing system includes a foil bearing and a self-aligning foil bearing mount to align the foil bearing with an axis of rotation of the compressor and the turbine. A snubber operative to transmit rotor loads to the static structure in parallel with the foil bearing is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/974961 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 25/166 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2240/50 (20130101) F05D 2240/53 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09239004 | Kupratis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Bernard Kupratis (Wallingford, Connecticut); Francis R. Moon (Granby, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Bernard Kupratis (Wallingford, Connecticut); Francis R. Moon (Granby, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine has a fan at an axially outer location. The fan rotates about an axis of rotation. The fan delivers air into an outer bypass duct, and across a booster fan positioned radially inwardly of the outer bypass duct. The booster fan delivers air into a radially middle duct, and across a cold turbine into a radially inner core duct being directed into a compressor. From the compressor, air flows axially in a direction back toward the fan through a combustor section, and across an exhaust of the turbine section as directed into the middle duct. A gear reduction drives the fan from a fan drive turbine section. A method is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/431048 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 3/10 (20130101) F02C 3/107 (20130101) F02C 6/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 7/36 (20130101) Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09239258 | Swanson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul David Swanson (Santee, California); Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul David Swanson (Santee, California); Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoelectric cell comprising: a cathode layer configured to eject electrons in response to receiving photons from a light source; a substantially-photon-transparent anode configured to receive the ejected electrons; first and second, substantially-photon-transparent, dielectric layers, wherein the first dielectric layer is disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer and wherein the anode layer is disposed between the first and second dielectric layers such that the cathode layer, the first dielectric layer, the anode layer, and the second dielectric layer form a layered stack; and wherein at least a first portion of the layered stack overlaps a second portion of the layered stack. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/631340 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09239332 | Heath et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Arundhati Nag (Pasadena, California); Samir Das (Pasadena, California); Kaycie M. Deyle (Sylmar, California); Steven Wesley Millward (Monrovia, California); Paul Edward Kearney (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INDI MOLECULAR, INC. (Culver City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Heath (South Pasadena, California); Arundhati Nag (Pasadena, California); Samir Das (Pasadena, California); Kaycie M. Deyle (Sylmar, California); Steven Wesley Millward (Monrovia, California); Paul Edward Kearney (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides stable peptide-based Akt capture agents and the use thereof as detection, diagnosis, and treatment agents. The application further provides novel methods of developing stable peptide-based capture agents, including Akt capture agents, using iterative on-bead in situ click chemistry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546575 |
| 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 38/08 (20130101) A61K 49/0043 (20130101) A61K 49/0056 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 14/001 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1058 (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) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/573 (20130101) G01N 33/5748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/91215 (20130101) |
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| US 09239347 | Dawson |
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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, including a dry electrode component for receiving an electrical signal from an object of interest and a signal processing component for processing the electrical signal, and a casing in which the signal processing component is surrounded or embedded. The processing component may include communications capabilities. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/834918 |
| 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 09239372 | Maalouli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ghassan C. Maalouli (Scottsdale, Arizona); Brett J. Young (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ghassan C. Maalouli (Scottsdale, Arizona); Brett J. Young (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectral feature extracting engine, chirp detecting engine, and target classifying engine with corresponding method, system, and computer product are provided. Given a “noisy” signal having multiplicative and additive noise, the spectral feature extracting engine extracts spectral features from the noisy signal in the form of a spectral detection density. The extraction includes identifying an initial detection by comparing the spectral content of a subject time-frequency slice with an initial detection threshold calculated from a set of time-frequency slices, and determining the spectral detection density as a function of a number of identified initial detections and number of compared time-frequency slices. Based on the spectral detection density of the noisy signal, the chirp detecting engine detects multiple channel-induced and target-induced chirps present in the noisy signal and the target classifying engine classifies a target from the noisy signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/613870 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 7/41 (20130101) G01S 7/414 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 7/4004 (20130101) G01S 13/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09239383 | Jin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael Yih-Hwa Jin (Arcadia, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Yih-Hwa Jin (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An algorithm for deriving improved navigation data from the autofocus results obtained from selected image blocks in a wide-beam synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image. In one embodiment the navigation error may be approximated with a vector of low-order polynomials, and a set of polynomial coefficients found which results in a good phase error match with the autofocus results. In another embodiment, a least squares solution may be found for the system of equations relating the phase errors at a point in time for selected image blocks to the navigation error vector at that point in time. An approach using low sample rate backprojection (150) initially to select suitable image blocks, and full sample rate backprojection (156) for the selected image blocks, followed by full sample rate backprojection (164) for the image, using the improved navigation solution, may be used to reduce the computational load of employing the algorithm. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/536731 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/9035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harel Frish (Moshav Sede Moshe, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure for coupling an optical signal between an integrated circuit photonic structure and an external optical fiber is disclosed as in a method of formation. The coupling structure is sloped relative to a horizontal surface of the photonic structure such that light entering or leaving the photonic structure is substantially normal to its upper surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/829893 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00663 (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 3/04 (20130101) C03C 15/00 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/1857 (20130101) G02B 6/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/34 (20130101) G02B 6/124 (20130101) G02B 6/3628 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0005 (20130101) |
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| US 09239455 | Brueck et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yuliya Kuznetsova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yuliya Kuznetsova (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the aspects of the present disclosure, a method and apparatus is disclosed for imaging interferometric microscopy (IIM), which can use an immersion medium to enhance resolution up to a resolution of linear systems resolution limit of λ/4n, where λ is the wavelength in free space and n is the index of refraction of a transmission medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629598 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2021/653 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/0056 (20130101) G02B 21/365 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4061 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Jiang (Highland Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, resonator and method for modulating light including a mechanism to compensate for parameter deviations. The apparatus may be capable of phase shift keying and quadrature amplitude modulation, and includes a waveguide, a plurality of micro-resonators, and an electronic structure. The plurality of micro-resonators are positioned adjacent to the waveguide and have a parameter deviation in at least one resonator characteristic. The electronic structure is electrically biased so as to cause electro-optic modulation of amplitude and a phase of the light output by the apparatus, each bias voltage comprising a numerical offset that is determined based upon the parameter deviation, thereby reducing any overall effect caused by the material or manufacturing imperfections. An electronic encoder may provide driving voltage levels for phase shift keying or quadrature amplitude modulation. The number of output amplitude and phase states of light depends on the number of output voltage levels of the encoder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944341 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/3133 (20130101) G02F 2203/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09239619 | Keesling |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APPLIED MINDS, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | APPLIED INVENTION, LLC (Glendale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Keesling (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods of using light transmission thought compressed living tissue to detect force. Transmission of light through living tissue such as a finger is affected by how much the tissue is compressed, for example by the finger being pressing on a surface. Light is introduced into the tissue, passes through the tissue, and a sensor receives the light exiting the tissue. The compression of the tissue can be determined using various characteristics of the received light, such as the light intensity, as determined based at least partly on sensor readings. |
| FILED | Friday, November 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/076162 |
| ART UNIT | 2623 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/014 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/017 (20130101) G06F 3/0325 (20130101) |
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| US 09239984 | Arthur et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); Bernard V. Brezzo (Somers, New York); Leland Chang (New York, New York); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Robert K. Montoye (Rochester, Minnesota); Jae-sun Seo (White Plains, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to a time-division multiplexed neurosynaptic module with implicit memory addressing for implementing a neural network. One embodiment comprises maintaining neuron attributes for multiple neurons and maintaining incoming firing events for different time steps. For each time step, incoming firing events for said time step are integrated in a time-division multiplexing manner. Incoming firing events are integrated based on the neuron attributes maintained. For each time step, the neuron attributes maintained are updated in parallel based on the integrated incoming firing events for said time step. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/725476 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 3/063 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09239997 | Bobo 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) | Jerry Lee Bobo (Camarillo, California); Regina Lee Powell (Ventura, California); Patricia Louise Johnson (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for environmental and condition monitoring of containerized assets. One illustrative system includes containers that are configured to enclose assets that are potentially hazardous and/or potentially sensitive to electromagnetic (EM)/radio frequency (RF) radiation or emissions. The assets may also be sensitive to various environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, shock and vibration. An exemplary system uses sensors to measure and track these environmental conditions inside a container for up to multiple years. An illustrative system may also use sensors to measure attributes of the asset. An illustrative system is configured to archive and report on the collected data. An illustrative system includes the ability to issue a warning when an asset may have been compromised. Additionally, the collected data may be used in predictive life analyses. More particularly, the collected data may be analyzed and compared to thresholds for container assets to reach deductive or inductive conclusions about the probability of damage, maintenance needs, or replacement needs. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/216442 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 10/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09240328 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mingqiang Yi (San Pablo, California); Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco, California); Gabriel Alejandro Matus (San Francisco, California); Dawn L. Hilken (Pleasant Hill, California); Chii Guang Lee (Fremont, California); Sylvain Muckenhirn (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alphabet Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingqiang Yi (San Pablo, California); Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco, California); Gabriel Alejandro Matus (San Francisco, California); Dawn L. Hilken (Pleasant Hill, California); Chii Guang Lee (Fremont, California); Sylvain Muckenhirn (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of nanowires and method thereof. The array of nanowires includes a plurality of nanowires. The plurality of nanowires includes a plurality of first ends and a plurality of second ends respectively. For each of the plurality of nanowires, a corresponding first end selected from the plurality of first ends and a corresponding second end selected from the plurality of second ends are separated by a distance of at least 200 μm. All nanowires of the plurality of nanowires are substantially parallel to each other. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299179 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/3081 (20130101) H01L 21/3085 (20130101) H01L 21/3086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 31/035227 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2913 (20150115) Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) Y10T 428/249924 (20150401) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sten Heikman (Goleta, California); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CREE, INC. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sten Heikman (Goleta, California); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A transistor device capable of high performance at high temperatures. The transistor comprises a gate having a contact layer that contacts the active region. The gate contact layer is made of a material that has a high Schottky barrier when used in conjunction with a particular semiconductor system (e.g., Group-III nitrides) and exhibits decreased degradation when operating at high temperatures. The device may also incorporate a field plate to further increase the operating lifetime of the device. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/480328 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/402 (20130101) H01L 29/404 (20130101) H01L 29/475 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/66462 (20130101) |
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| US 09240508 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APPLIED MATERIALS, INC. (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daoying Song (San Jose, California); Chong Jiang (Cupertino, California); Byung-Sung Leo Kwak (Portland, Oregon); Joseph G. Gordon, II (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective removal of specified layers of thin film structures and devices, such as solar cells, electrochromics, and thin film batteries, by laser direct patterning is achieved by including heat and light blocking layers in the device/structure stack immediately adjacent to the specified layers which are to be removed by laser ablation. The light blocking layer is a layer of metal that absorbs or reflects a portion of the laser energy penetrating through the dielectric/semiconductor layers and the heat blocking layer is a conductive layer with thermal diffusivity low enough to reduce heat flow into underlying metal layer(s), such that the temperature of the underlying metal layer(s) does not reach the melting temperature, Tm, or in some embodiments does not reach (Tm)/3, of the underlying metal layer(s) during laser direct patterning. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/673151 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/024 (20130101) H01L 31/0463 (20141201) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02164 (20130101) H01L 31/02167 (20130101) |
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| US 09240605 | Hartvigsen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CERAMATEC, INC. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J Hartvigsen (Kaysville, Utah); Elangovan (South Jordan, Utah); Piotr Czernichowski (Layton, Utah); Michele Hollist (South Jordan, Utah); Michael Boettcher (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A reformer is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a channel to convey a preheated plurality of reactants containing both a feedstock fuel and an oxidant. A plasma generator is provided to apply an electrical potential to the reactants sufficient to ionize one or more of the reactants. These ionized reactants are then conveyed to a reaction zone where they are chemically transformed into synthesis gas containing a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. A heat transfer mechanism is used to transfer heat from an external heat source to the reformer to provide the heat of reformation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/242421 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/342 (20130101) C01B 3/384 (20130101) C01B 2203/062 (20130101) C01B 2203/066 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0445 (20130101) C01B 2203/0805 (20130101) C01B 2203/0861 (20130101) C01B 2203/0866 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/12 (20130101) H01M 8/086 (20130101) H01M 8/145 (20130101) H01M 8/0618 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0643 (20130101) H01M 2008/147 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) H01M 2250/405 (20130101) H01M 2300/0051 (20130101) H01M 2300/0074 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 90/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09240789 | Friedman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Yong Liu (Rye, New York); Jose A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A receiver is adapted to receive an input signal having a first voltage swing and to generate an output signal having a second voltage swing, the output signal being indicative of the input signal, the second voltage swing being greater than the first voltage swing. The receiver includes a first sub-rate receiver block and at least a second sub-rate receiver block. A receiver clock is divided into a first sub-rate clock phase and at least a second sub-rate clock phase, the first sub-rate clock phase being used to drive the first sub-rate receiver block and the second sub-rate clock phase being used to drive the second sub-rate receiver block. Each of the first sub-rate receiver block and the second sub-rate receiver block includes at least one gated-diode sense amplifier. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600534 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse Technique H03K 19/018521 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09240799 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minnesota); Yang Lv (New Brighton, Minnesota); Yanfeng Jiang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Mahdi Jamali (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A device including a conductive layer configured to output a spin-current based on an analog input value, a plurality of magnetoresistive devices, and an encoder configured to output a digital value. Each of the magnetoresistive devices may be configured to receive a different reference voltage on a first side and the spin-current on a second side. The magnetization state of each of the magnetoresistive devices is set by respective reference voltages and the spin-current. The encoder may include a plurality of digital bits that is a digital representation of the analog input value based on the magnetization states of the magnetoresistive devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/532746 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/66984 (20130101) Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/26 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/124 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 1/142 (20130101) |
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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) | Preetpaul S Devgan (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for isolating an RF signal are provided. A first RF signal is received and passed to an input of a 90 degree hybrid. An output of the 90 degree hybrid is connected to a first waveguide and a second output is connected to a second waveguide of an optical modulator. A second RF signal is received and passed to an input of a second 90 degree hybrid. An output of the second 90 degree hybrid is connected to the second waveguide and a second output is connected to the first waveguide of the optical modulator. The optical modulator is biased to produce single side band optical outputs of the RF signals. The single side band optical outputs are passed to an optical notch filter to remove one of the side band outputs. The other of the side band optical outputs is converted to an electrical signal. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/223035 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/5563 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09240930 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LiveAction, Inc. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LiveAction, Inc. (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kei Smith (Honolulu, Hawaii); Robert Pierce (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A network device includes internal interfaces and operates to receive a network flow at an ingress interface and route the network flow within the network device. A computer in communication with the network device executes instructions for rendering a graphical user interface including an object representing the network device. The computer also renders interface objects respectively corresponding to each of the internal interfaces of the network device. The computer operates to acquire a network flow record for the network flow through the network device. The network flow record identifies the ingress interface of the network device for the network flow and identifies switching information for the network flow within the network device. The computer also renders a graphical representation of a transmission path of the network flow within the network device from the ingress interface. The transmission path is defined by the switching information identified by the network flow record. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/774879 |
| ART UNIT | 2179 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 12/2697 (20130101) H04L 41/12 (20130101) H04L 41/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 43/50 (20130101) H04L 43/087 (20130101) H04L 43/0829 (20130101) H04L 43/0852 (20130101) |
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| US 09241432 | Tam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel Wing Shum Tam (San Diego, California); Diana Arceo (San Diego, California); Lu Xu (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Wing Shum Tam (San Diego, California); Diana Arceo (San Diego, California); Lu Xu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for deploying a lightweight, flexible Faraday cage around a device can include the step of directing the conductive fluid flow in a manner that causes a shroud to form over the device. In some embodiments, a flexible material such as canvas can be deployed over the device and the conductive fluid can be sprayed onto the flexible material to form the shroud. In other embodiments, a plurality of nozzles can be placed around the perimeter of the device, and the nozzles can be directed at a predetermined point over the device. The streams can meet at the predetermined point, collide and thereby provide the conductive shroud for the device. The shroud can have a thickness, which can be chosen according to the desired frequency of electromagnetic radiation to be blocked, typically from one to one hundred millimeters (1-100 mm). |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/038942 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 9/0081 (20130101) H05K 9/0083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238201 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Brian R. Kromer (Buffalo, New York); Michael M. Litwin (Cheektowaga, New York); Lee J. Rosen (Buffalo, New York); Gervase Maxwell Christie (Amherst, New York); Jamie R. Wilson (Maynard, Massachusetts); Lawrence W. Kosowski (West Falls, New York); Charles Robinson (Lawtons, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRAXAIR TECHNOLOGY, INC. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Brian R. Kromer (Buffalo, New York); Michael M. Litwin (Cheektowaga, New York); Lee J. Rosen (Buffalo, New York); Gervase Maxwell Christie (Amherst, New York); Jamie R. Wilson (Maynard, Massachusetts); Lawrence W. Kosowski (West Falls, New York); Charles Robinson (Lawtons, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing heat used in a synthesis gas production process is provided. The disclosed method and apparatus include a plurality of tubular oxygen transport membrane elements adapted to separate oxygen from an oxygen containing stream contacting the retentate side of the membrane elements. The permeated oxygen is combusted with a hydrogen containing synthesis gas stream contacting the permeate side of the tubular oxygen transport membrane elements thereby generating a reaction product stream and radiant heat. The present method and apparatus also includes at least one catalytic reactor containing a catalyst to promote the steam reforming reaction wherein the catalytic reactor is surrounded by the plurality of tubular oxygen transport membrane elements. The view factor between the catalytic reactor and the plurality of tubular oxygen transport membrane elements radiating heat to the catalytic reactor is greater than or equal to 0.5. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/068375 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 8/0285 (20130101) B01J 19/2475 (20130101) B01J 19/2485 (20130101) B01J 2208/00309 (20130101) B01J 2208/00504 (20130101) B01J 2208/00902 (20130101) B01J 2219/00117 (20130101) B01J 2219/00157 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/384 (20130101) C01B 13/0251 (20130101) C01B 2203/062 (20130101) C01B 2203/0233 (20130101) C01B 2203/0238 (20130101) C01B 2203/0822 (20130101) C01B 2203/0827 (20130101) C01B 2203/0883 (20130101) C01B 2203/1058 (20130101) C01B 2203/1241 (20130101) |
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| US 09238773 | Seeley 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) | Zachary Seeley (Livermore, California); Nerine Cherepy (Oakland, California); Joshua Kuntz (Livermore, California); Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a transparent ceramic of sintered nanoparticles includes gadolinium lutetium oxide doped with europium having a chemical composition (Lu1-xGdx)2-YEuYO3, where X is any value within a range from about 0.05 to about 0.45 and Y is any value within a range from about 0.01 to about 0.2, and where the transparent ceramic exhibits a transparency characterized by a scatter coefficient of less than about 10%/cm. In another embodiment, a transparent ceramic scintillator of sintered nanoparticles, includes a body of sintered nanoparticles including gadolinium lutetium oxide doped with a rare earth activator (RE) having a chemical composition (Lu1-xGdx)2-YREYO3, where RE is selected from the group consisting of: Sm, Eu, Tb, and Dy, where the transparent ceramic exhibits a transparency characterized by a scatter coefficient of less than about 10%/cm. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/623811 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/50 (20130101) C04B 35/6455 (20130101) C04B 35/62665 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/80 (20130101) C04B 2235/95 (20130101) C04B 2235/608 (20130101) C04B 2235/762 (20130101) C04B 2235/3224 (20130101) C04B 2235/5409 (20130101) C04B 2235/5454 (20130101) C04B 2235/6581 (20130101) C04B 2235/9653 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7787 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09238828 | McElvain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jessica McElvain (Wilmington, Delaware); Daniel P O'Keefe (Ridley Park, Pennsylvania); Brian James Paul (Wilmington, Delaware); Mark S Payne (Wilmington, Delaware); Steven Cary Rothman (Wilmington, Delaware); Hongxian He (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica McElvain (Wilmington, Delaware); Daniel P O'Keefe (Ridley Park, Pennsylvania); Brian James Paul (Wilmington, Delaware); Mark S Payne (Wilmington, Delaware); Steven Cary Rothman (Wilmington, Delaware); Hongxian He (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides which have ketoisovalerate decarboxylase activity. Also provided are recombinant host cells comprising such polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/560147 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0006 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/24 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel Cowgill (White Lake, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Cowgill (White Lake, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine control system for a vehicle includes a pressure determination module, an adjustment determination module, a target determination module, and a pump control module. The pressure determination module determines a first pressure for a hydraulic fluid provided to fully flexible intake and exhaust valve actuators of an engine. The adjustment determination module determines a pressure adjustment for the first pressure based on a pressure within a cylinder. The target determination module determines a target pressure for the hydraulic fluid based on the first pressure and the pressure adjustment. Based on the target pressure, the pump control module controls a hydraulic fluid pump for an opening timing of an exhaust valve of the cylinder. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571872 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cyclically Operating Valves for Machines or Engines F01L 9/02 (20130101) F01L 2820/043 (20130101) Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 13/0207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02D 13/0253 (20130101) F02D 35/023 (20130101) F02D 2041/001 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09239277 | Erdman, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald L. Erdman, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vlastimil Kunc (Knoxville, Tennessee); Srdjan Simunovic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yanli Wang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Erdman, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vlastimil Kunc (Knoxville, Tennessee); Srdjan Simunovic (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yanli Wang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A specimen for measuring a material under multiple strains and strain rates. The specimen including a body having first and second ends and a gage region disposed between the first and second ends, wherein the body has a central, longitudinal axis passing through the first and second ends. The gage region includes a first gage section and a second gage section, wherein the first gage section defines a first cross-sectional area that is defined by a first plane that extends through the first gage section and is perpendicular to the central, longitudinal axis. The second gage section defines a second cross-sectional area that is defined by a second plane that extends through the second gage section and is perpendicular to the central, longitudinal axis and wherein the first cross-sectional area is different in size than the second cross-sectional area. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/469525 |
| ART UNIT | 2488 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 3/068 (20130101) G01N 2203/0298 (20130101) G01N 2203/0647 (20130101) |
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| US 09239382 | Paglieroni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Paglieroni (Pleasanton, California); N. Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that applies attribute and topology based change detection to networks of objects that were detected on previous scans of a structure, roadway, or area of interest. The attributes capture properties or characteristics of the previously detected objects, such as location, time of detection, size, elongation, orientation, etc. The topology of the network of previously detected objects is maintained in a constellation database that stores attributes of previously detected objects and implicitly captures the geometrical structure of the network. A change detection system detects change by comparing the attributes and topology of new objects detected on the latest scan to the constellation database of previously detected objects. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/219425 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/003 (20130101) G01S 13/89 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 13/90 (20130101) G01S 13/885 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/12 (20130101) G01V 3/15 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09239384 | Chow et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuqerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Chow (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Mark W. Koch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The various technologies presented herein relate to identifying manmade and/or natural features in a radar image. Two radar images (e.g., single polarization SAR images) can be captured for a common scene. The first image is captured at a first instance and the second image is captured at a second instance, whereby the duration between the captures are of sufficient time such that temporal decorrelation occurs for natural surfaces in the scene, and only manmade surfaces, e.g., a road, produce correlated pixels. A LCCD image comprising the correlated and decorrelated pixels can be generated from the two radar images. A median image can be generated from a plurality of radar images, whereby any features in the median image can be identified. A superpixel operation can be performed on the LCCD image and the median image, thereby enabling a feature(s) in the LCCD image to be classified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/519278 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 13/9035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/46 (20130101) G06K 9/0055 (20130101) G06K 9/00476 (20130101) G06K 9/00536 (20130101) G06K 2009/4666 (20130101) |
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| US 09239431 | Rakich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter T. Rakich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anthony L. Lentine (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. Rakich (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anthony L. Lentine (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A passively athermal photonic system including a photonic circuit having a substrate and an optical cavity defined on the substrate, and passive temperature-responsive provisions for inducing strain in the optical cavity of the photonic circuit to compensate for a thermo-optic effect resulting from a temperature change in the optical cavity of the photonic circuit. Also disclosed is a method of passively compensating for a temperature dependent thermo-optic effect resulting on an optical cavity of a photonic circuit including the step of passively inducing strain in the optical cavity as a function of a temperature change of the optical cavity thereby producing an elasto-optic effect in the optical cavity to compensate for the thermo-optic effect resulting on an optical cavity due to the temperature change. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/306453 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12026 (20130101) G02B 6/29338 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29398 (20130101) |
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| US 09240255 | McMorran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin McMorran (Eugene, Oregon); Martin Linck (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin McMorran (Eugene, Oregon); Martin Linck (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Electron beam phase gratings have phase profiles that produce a diffracted beam having a Gaussian or other selected intensity profile. Phase profiles can also be selected to correct or compensate electron lens aberrations. Typically, a low diffraction order produces a suitable phase profile, and other orders are discarded. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199947 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/263 (20130101) H01J 2237/2614 (20130101) |
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| US 09240270 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Utah State University Research Foundation (North Logan, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utah State University (North Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hunter Wu (Logan, Utah); Aaron Gilchrist (Logan, Utah); Kylee Sealy (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic coupler is disclosed for wireless power transfer systems. A ferrimagnetic component is capable of guiding a magnetic field. A wire coil is wrapped around at least a portion of the ferrimagnetic component. A screen is capable of blocking leakage magnetic fields. The screen may be positioned to cover at least one side of the ferrimagnetic component and the coil. A distance across the screen may be at least six times an air gap distance between the ferrimagnetic component and a receiving magnetic coupler. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/648201 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 3/08 (20130101) H01F 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 27/36 (20130101) H01F 27/255 (20130101) H01F 38/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09240506 | Werne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roger W. Werne (San Ramon, California); James S. Sullivan (Livermore, California); Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger W. Werne (San Ramon, California); James S. Sullivan (Livermore, California); Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoconductive semiconductor switch according to one embodiment includes a structure of sintered nanoparticles of a high band gap material exhibiting a lower electrical resistance when excited by light relative to an electrical resistance thereof when not exposed to the light. A method according to one embodiment includes creating a mixture comprising particles, at least one dopant, and at least one solvent; adding the mixture to a mold; forming a green structure in the mold; and sintering the green structure to form a transparent ceramic. Additional system, methods and products are also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633671 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/58 (20130101) C04B 35/581 (20130101) C04B 35/645 (20130101) C04B 35/5755 (20130101) C04B 35/6263 (20130101) C04B 35/6269 (20130101) C04B 35/62635 (20130101) C04B 35/62665 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/666 (20130101) C04B 2235/3239 (20130101) C04B 2235/3262 (20130101) C04B 2235/3272 (20130101) C04B 2235/3895 (20130101) C04B 2235/5445 (20130101) C04B 2235/6023 (20130101) C04B 2235/9653 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/08 (20130101) H01L 31/1812 (20130101) H01L 31/1848 (20130101) H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/035209 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| US 09240556 | Marks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Pierre-Luc Boudreault (Evanston, Illinois); Hiroyuki Miyauchi (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are molecular and polymeric compounds having desirable properties as semiconducting materials. Such compounds can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability. Organic transistor and photovoltaic devices incorporating the present compounds as the active layer exhibit good device performance. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/298523 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 519/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0036 (20130101) H01L 51/0047 (20130101) H01L 51/0068 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0072 (20130101) H01L 51/0074 (20130101) H01L 51/0541 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09240597 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guoliang Xiao (Columbia, South Carolina); Fanglin Chen (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoliang Xiao (Columbia, South Carolina); Fanglin Chen (Irmo, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for fabricating a solid oxide fuel cell is described. The method includes synthesizing a composition having a perovskite present therein. The method further includes applying the composition on an electrolyte support to form an anode and applying Ni to the composition on the anode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/271559 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 49/0036 (20130101) C01G 53/04 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/34 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/01 (20130101) C04B 35/495 (20130101) C04B 35/6267 (20130101) C04B 2235/616 (20130101) C04B 2235/768 (20130101) C04B 2235/3206 (20130101) C04B 2235/3213 (20130101) C04B 2235/3227 (20130101) C04B 2235/3272 (20130101) C04B 2235/3275 (20130101) C04B 2235/3286 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/8621 (20130101) H01M 4/8889 (20130101) H01M 4/9033 (20130101) H01M 8/1213 (20130101) H01M 8/1253 (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 09240612 | Doe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Ellis Doe (Norwood, Massachusetts); Craig Michael Downie (Waltham, Massachusetts); Christopher Fischer (Somerville, Massachusetts); George Hamilton Lane (St. Helens, Australia); Dane Morgan (Middleton, Wisconsin); Josh Nevin (Belmont, Massachusetts); Gerbrand Ceder (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kristin Aslaug Persson (Orinda, California); David Eaglesham (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PELLION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Ellis Doe (Norwood, Massachusetts); Craig Michael Downie (Waltham, Massachusetts); Christopher Fischer (Somerville, Massachusetts); George Hamilton Lane (St. Helens, Australia); Dane Morgan (Middleton, Wisconsin); Josh Nevin (Belmont, Massachusetts); Gerbrand Ceder (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Kristin Aslaug Persson (Orinda, California); David Eaglesham (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrochemical devices which incorporate cathode materials that include layered crystalline compounds for which a structural modification has been achieved which increases the diffusion rate of multi-valent ions into and out of the cathode materials. Examples in which the layer spacing of the layered electrode materials is modified to have a specific spacing range such that the spacing is optimal for diffusion of magnesium ions are presented. An electrochemical cell comprised of a positive intercalation electrode, a negative metal electrode, and a separator impregnated with a nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing multi-valent ions and arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode active material is described. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/794440 |
| 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 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/381 (20130101) H01M 4/583 (20130101) H01M 10/054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09240681 | Rajput-Ghoshal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renuka Rajput-Ghoshal (Niskayuna, New York); James Humphrie Rochford (Troy, New York); Probir Kumar Ghoshal (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting magnet apparatus is provided. The superconducting magnet apparatus includes a power source configured to generate a current; a first switch coupled in parallel to the power source; a second switch coupled in series to the power source; a coil coupled in parallel to the first switch and the second switch; and a passive quench protection device coupled to the coil and configured to by-pass the current around the coil and to decouple the coil from the power source when the coil experiences a quench. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/727740 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 6/02 (20130101) Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 7/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02H 9/023 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 40/68 (20130101) Y02E 40/69 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49014 (20150115) |
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| US 09238010 | Hammer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Kevin Vargo (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ranganath Parthasarathy (Glenmoore, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Kevin Vargo (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ranganath Parthasarathy (Glenmoore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a composition comprising at least one oleosin-like protein. The present invention also includes a composition comprising a vesicle comprising at least one oleosin-like protein. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/976796 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 9/1273 (20130101) A61K 9/5169 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/168 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/488 (20130101) A61K 51/1251 (20130101) |
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| US 09238011 | Mathiowitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island); The Children's Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edith Mathiowitz (Brookline, Massachusetts); Danya Lavin (Providence, Rhode Island); Richard Hopkins (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions, systems, devices and kits are provided for preparing and using a multi-layer polymeric microstructure composition for delivering a therapeutic agent to a subject. In various embodiments, the therapeutic agent includes at least one selected from the group of: a drug, a protein, a sugar, a carbohydrate, and a nucleotide sequence. In related embodiments, the composition is a fiber, a suture, a sphere, an implant, or a scaffold. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/836560 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/34 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 17/04 (20130101) A61L 17/04 (20130101) A61L 17/005 (20130101) A61L 17/12 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/26 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2300/43 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 39/06 (20130101) C08L 39/06 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09238102 | Banister et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark Banister (Tucson, Arizona); William G. Bloom (Encinitas, California); Yordan M. Geronov (Tucson, Arizona); Mark D. McWilliams (San Diego, California); David Swenson (Tucson, Arizona); Mark A. Van Veen (Cardiff by the Sea, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MEDIPACS, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Banister (Tucson, Arizona); William G. Bloom (Encinitas, California); Yordan M. Geronov (Tucson, Arizona); Mark D. McWilliams (San Diego, California); David Swenson (Tucson, Arizona); Mark A. Van Veen (Cardiff by the Sea, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer actuator, power supply and method of using the activation are described. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/395627 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/148 (20130101) A61M 5/1723 (20130101) A61M 5/14244 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2205/0272 (20130101) A61M 2205/0277 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09238608 | Subramaniam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bala Subramaniam (Lawrence, Kansas); Daryle H. Busch (Lawrence, Kansas); Fenghul Niu (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bala Subramaniam (Lawrence, Kansas); Daryle H. Busch (Lawrence, Kansas); Fenghul Niu (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Oxidation process can include: introducing small droplets of liquid reaction mixture having oxidizable reactant, catalyst, and solvent into a reaction zone containing oxygen and diluent gas; and oxidizing the reactant with the oxygen at a suitable reaction temperature and a suitable reaction pressure to produce an oxidized product. The liquid reaction mixture can have an aromatic feedstock having an oxidizable substituent as the oxidizable reactant. The oxidized product can include an aromatic compound having at least one carboxylic acid. For example, the aromatic feedstock can include a benzene ring having at least one oxidizable alkyl substituent, furan hetero-ring having at least one oxidizable alkyl substituent, a naphthalene poly-ring having at least one oxidizable alkyl substituent, derivatives thereof, and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/258159 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 4/002 (20130101) B01J 10/007 (20130101) B01J 2219/00006 (20130101) B01J 2219/00063 (20130101) B01J 2219/00065 (20130101) B01J 2219/00162 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 51/255 (20130101) C07C 51/265 (20130101) C07C 51/265 (20130101) C07C 63/00 (20130101) C07C 63/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09238668 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Li (Phoenix, Arizona); Eric Turner (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (Phoenix, Arizona); Eric Turner (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Platinum and palladium complexes are disclosed that can be useful as narrow band phosphorescent emitters. Also disclosed are methods for preparing and using the platinum and palladium complexes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/479921 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09238709 | Ung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MATERIA, INC. (Pasadena, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MATERIA, INC. (Pasadena, California); CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thay Ung (Los Angeles, California); Yann Schrodi (Pasadena, California); Mark S. Trimmer (Monrovia, California); Andrew Hejl (Pasadena, California); Daniel Sanders (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel organometallic complexes useful as olefin metathesis catalysts. The complexes have an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand and a chelating carbene ligand associated with a Group 8 transition metal center. The molecular structure of the complexes can be altered so as to provide a substantial latency period. The complexes are particularly useful in catalyzing ring closing metathesis of acyclic olefins and ring opening metathesis polymerization of cyclic olefins. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/497387 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/333 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/10 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 132/08 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 61/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 61/06 (20130101) C08G 2261/11 (20130101) C08G 2261/418 (20130101) C08G 2261/3325 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09238869 | Superfine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Superfine (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard Chasen Spero (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Adam Richard Shields (Springfield, Virginia); Benjamin Aaron Evans (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Briana Lee Fiser (High Point, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer readable media for using actuated surface-attached posts for assessing biofluid rheology are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for testing properties of a biofluid specimen includes placing the specimen onto a micropost array having a plurality of microposts extending outwards from a substrate, wherein each micropost includes a proximal end attached to the substrate and a distal end opposite the proximal end, and generating an actuation force in proximity to the micropost array to actuate the microposts, thereby compelling at least some of the microposts to exhibit motion. The method further includes measuring the motion of at least one of the microposts in response to the actuation force and determining a property of the specimen based on the measured motion of the at least one micropost. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/016007 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5085 (20130101) B01L 2300/0636 (20130101) B01L 2300/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0851 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Non-mechanical Removal of Metallic Material From Surface; Inhibiting Corrosion of Metallic Material or Incrustation in General; Multi-step Processes for Surface Treatment of Metallic Material Involving at Least One Process Provided for in Class C23 and at Least One Process Covered by Subclass C21D or C22F or Class C25 C23F 1/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 11/16 (20130101) G01N 29/022 (20130101) G01N 33/4905 (20130101) G01N 2291/0255 (20130101) G01N 2291/0256 (20130101) G01N 2291/02827 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09239319 | Sims et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carl W. Sims (Santa Rosa, California); Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Marcelo Roberto Filgueira (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Klaus Witt (Keltern, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl W. Sims (Santa Rosa, California); Peter W. Carr (St. Paul, Minnesota); Marcelo Roberto Filgueira (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Klaus Witt (Keltern, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-dimensional liquid analysis system includes a flow splitter for separating mobile phase outflow from a first dimension liquid analysis system into first and second liquid split outlet flows. Volumetric flow rate control of the split outlet flows is provided by a flow control pump which withdraws one of the split outlet flows from the flow splitter at a controlled withdrawal flow rate to define the other split outlet flow rate as the difference between the outflow rate from the first dimension system and the withdrawal flow rate. In this manner, accurate and consistent flow division can be accomplished, which is particularly useful for multi-dimensional liquid analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/422168 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/10 (20130101) G01N 30/32 (20130101) G01N 30/463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 30/465 (20130101) G01N 30/7233 (20130101) G01N 2030/324 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09239453 | Cheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dewen Cheng (Beijing, China PRC); Hong Hua (Tucson, Arizona); Yongtian Wang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (, China PRC); THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dewen Cheng (Beijing, China PRC); Hong Hua (Tucson, Arizona); Yongtian Wang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A see-through free-form head-mounted display including a wedge-shaped prism-lens having free-form surfaces and low F-number is provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/010956 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 21/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09240255 | McMorran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin McMorran (Eugene, Oregon); Martin Linck (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin McMorran (Eugene, Oregon); Martin Linck (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Electron beam phase gratings have phase profiles that produce a diffracted beam having a Gaussian or other selected intensity profile. Phase profiles can also be selected to correct or compensate electron lens aberrations. Typically, a low diffraction order produces a suitable phase profile, and other orders are discarded. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199947 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/263 (20130101) H01J 2237/2614 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09240539 | Nam et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sae Woo Nam (Boulder, Colorado); Burm Baek (Lafayette, Colorado); Francesco Marsilli (Pasadena, California); Varun Verma (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sae Woo Nam (Boulder, Colorado); Burm Baek (Lafayette, Colorado); Francesco Marsilli (Pasadena, California); Varun Verma (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SN-SPD) microelectronic circuit is described which has higher quantum efficiency and signal-to-noise than any SN-SPD's known in the art. The material and configuration of the microelectronic circuit eliminates the polarization dependence and shows improved signal-to-noise over SN-SPD microelectronic circuits known in the art. The higher efficiency, polarization independence, and high signal-to-noise is achieved by vertically stacking two tungsten-silicide (TS) SN-SPDs and electrically connecting them in parallel. This structure forms a multilayer superconducting nanowire avalanche photo-detector (SNAP). A single photon detection device employing the multilayer (SNAP) microelectronic circuit demonstrates a peak system detection efficiency of 87.7% and a polarization dependence of less than 2%. This represents nearly an order of magnitude improvement in both system detection efficiency and reduction of polarization dependence compared to conventional SNSPDs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/869802 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/42 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 39/10 (20130101) H01L 39/12 (20130101) H01L 39/24 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09238091 | Kentner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ACell, Inc. (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ACell, Inc. (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberly A. Kentner (Columbia, Maryland); Katherine A. Stuart (Columbia, Maryland); Abram D. Janis (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of manufacturing bioactive gels from ECM material, i.e., gels which retain bioactivity, and can serve as scaffolds for preclinical and clinical tissue engineering and regenerative medicine approaches to tissue reconstruction. The manufacturing methods take advantage of a new recognition that bioactive gels from ECM material can be created by digesting particularized ECM material in an alkaline environment and neutralizing to provide bioactive gels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/811993 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/3633 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 2300/412 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09238572 | Hoyt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Hoyt (Bothell, Washington); Jeffrey T. Slostad (Lynnwood, Washington); Scott Frank (Seattle, Washington); Ian M. Barnes (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TETHERS UNLIMITED Inc. (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Hoyt (Bothell, Washington); Jeffrey T. Slostad (Lynnwood, Washington); Scott Frank (Seattle, Washington); Ian M. Barnes (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Orbital winch having: lower and upper frames; spool having upper and lower flanges with lower flange attached to lower frame; axial tether guide mounted to upper frame; secondary slewing ring coaxial with spool and rotatably mounted to upper frame, wherein secondary slewing ring's outer surface has gearing; upper tether guide mounted to inner surface of secondary slewing ring; linear translation means having upper end mounted to upper frame and lower end mounted on lower frame; primary slewing ring rotatably mounted within linear translation means allowing translation axially between flanges, wherein primary slewing ring's outer surface has gearing; lower tether guide mounted on primary slewing ring's inner surface; pinion rod having upper end mounted to upper frame and lower end mounted to lower frame, wherein pinion rod's teeth engage primary and secondary slewing rings' outer surface teeth; and tether passing through axial, upper, and lower tether guides and winding around spool. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/217434 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Capstans; Winches; Tackles, e.g Pulley Blocks; Hoists B66D 1/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09238680 | Hua et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jian Hua (Ithaca, New York); Ying Zhu (Hangzhou, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Hua (Ithaca, New York); Ying Zhu (Hangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules which encode heat-stable plant resistance polypeptides having NB-LRR structural motifs, where the polypeptide confers heat-stability to a plant defense response. The invention further involves transgenic plants and transformed host cells that express these nucleic acid molecules and exhibit enhanced disease resistance over a wide range of temperatures. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/140779 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/8279 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 09241152 | Hassebrook et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Henry G. Dietz (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence G. Hassebrook (Lexington, Kentucky); Daniel L. Lau (Lexington, Kentucky); Henry G. Dietz (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A biometrics system captures and processes a handprint image using a structured light illumination to create a 2D representation equivalent of a rolled inked handprint. A processing unit calculates 3D coordinates of the hand from the plurality of images and maps the 3D coordinates to a 2D flat surface to create a 2D representation equivalent of a rolled inked handprint. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/543724 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/254 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/0253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 09238046 | Gorman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Liam P. Ryan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Gorman (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Joseph H. Gorman, III (Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania); Liam P. Ryan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and kits for safe and effective therapy that can be administered early after a heart attack in order to prevent progressive heart dilatation and resultant loss of function. The therapy includes the administration of particulate compositions to a region comprising an infarct or a portion thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/679147 |
| 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 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 33/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/10 (20130101) A61L 27/12 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2430/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09240328 | Yi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mingqiang Yi (San Pablo, California); Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco, California); Gabriel Alejandro Matus (San Francisco, California); Dawn L. Hilken (Pleasant Hill, California); Chii Guang Lee (Fremont, California); Sylvain Muckenhirn (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alphabet Energy, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingqiang Yi (San Pablo, California); Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco, California); Gabriel Alejandro Matus (San Francisco, California); Dawn L. Hilken (Pleasant Hill, California); Chii Guang Lee (Fremont, California); Sylvain Muckenhirn (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of nanowires and method thereof. The array of nanowires includes a plurality of nanowires. The plurality of nanowires includes a plurality of first ends and a plurality of second ends respectively. For each of the plurality of nanowires, a corresponding first end selected from the plurality of first ends and a corresponding second end selected from the plurality of second ends are separated by a distance of at least 200 μm. All nanowires of the plurality of nanowires are substantially parallel to each other. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/299179 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/3081 (20130101) H01L 21/3085 (20130101) H01L 21/3086 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0676 (20130101) H01L 31/035227 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2913 (20150115) Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) Y10T 428/249924 (20150401) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09237741 | Barrera et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roberto Barrera (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Andrew J. Mackay (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Manuel Amador (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Barrera (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico); Andrew J. Mackay (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Manuel Amador (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved devices for the capture, detection, or quantification of insect vectors such as gravid female insects, are provided. The devices include surface coloration, design, and dimension that improved their ability to attract and/or capture target insect vectors. The traps are used in process for detection or control of insect vectors in indoor and outdoor environments. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/822598 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Catching, Trapping or Scaring of Animals; Apparatus for the Destruction of Noxious Animals or Noxious Plants A01M 1/00 (20130101) A01M 1/02 (20130101) A01M 1/04 (20130101) A01M 1/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01M 1/14 (20130101) A01M 1/026 (20130101) A01M 1/106 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, January 19, 2016.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2016/fedinvent-patents-20160119.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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