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| US 09247910 | Klueh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Molecular Tissue Technologies (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrike W Klueh (New Britain, Connecticut); David I Dorsky (Avon, Connecticut); Donald L Kreutzer (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An implant system and a method for controlling the natural and artificial microenvironments surrounding an implanted device using an artificial tissue system (ATS) and includes methods of diagnostic and testing related thereto. The ATS, among other things, induce better integration, function, and extended lifespan of the devices at the site of implantation. The ATS includes cells, such as naturally occurring, engineered, and/or artificial cells; matrices such as natural, engineered, artificial and/or hybrid matrices; tissue response modifiers (TRM); and/or cell response modifiers (CRM). The specific composition of the ATS is based on the nature of the tissue in which ATS-device combination is implanted and the nature of the implant device, as well as the required function and lifespan of the implanted device. Additionally, the ATS, as well as ATS-device combinations can be utilized in vitro to aid in the design of improved ATS, devices and ATS-device combinations for in vivo uses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787188 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14503 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (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 27/38 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) |
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| US 09247921 | Provost et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean Provost (Paris, France); Elisa E. Konofagou (New York, New York); Gary Yi Hou (Campbell, California); Jiangang Chen (He Bei Province, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and techniques of treatment monitoring include acquiring channel data from each of a plurality of channels of a signal array over a plurality of frames, determining a reconstruction matrix based on a reconstruction operation to be performed on the channel data, applying the reconstruction matrix to the channel data to obtain reconstructed channel data, estimating displacement data representing displacement of an object over the frames from the reconstructed channel data; determining a conversion matrix based on a conversion operation to be performed on the reconstructed channel data, and applying the conversion matrix to the reconstructed channel data to obtain a displacement map. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/300106 |
| ART UNIT | 2667 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 8/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09248104 | Valia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kirti H Valia (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Vatsala S Ramaraju (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Core Tech Solutions, Inc. (East Windsor, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirti H Valia (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Vatsala S Ramaraju (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Transdermal delivery systems for delivery of Alzheimer's pharmaceuticals, particularly donepezil, over one to seven days are disclosed which deliver the free-base form of the Alzheimer's pharmaceutical at a skin permeation rate such that blood levels of the Alzheimer's pharmaceuticals are comparable to the approved oral dosage forms. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/505956 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/7053 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/7069 (20130101) A61K 9/7084 (20130101) A61K 31/13 (20130101) |
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| US 09248120 | Penny et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hweixian Leong Penny (Singapore, Singapore); Edgar G. Engleman (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hweixian Leong Penny (Singapore, Singapore); Edgar G. Engleman (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An agent that increases local concentration of retinoic acid (RA) in the intestine through modifying enzymatic pathways involved in RA metabolism is administered in a dose effective to inhibit or reverse production of inflammatory mediators by intestinal dendritic cells and thereby reduce intestinal inflammation and tumor growth associated with intestinal inflammation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/592180 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4184 (20130101) |
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| US 09248131 | Flynn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Flynn (Oro Valley, Arizona); Andrea J. Yool (South Australia, Australia); Elton Rodrigues Migliati (Queen Creek, Arizona); Leslie S. Ritter (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, including 3-carboxy aryl sulfonamide compounds, which agonize or antagonize aquaporin channels and methods of using them to treat disorders or diseases mediated by aquaporins. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/678818 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/24 (20130101) A61K 31/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/196 (20130101) A61K 31/341 (20130101) A61K 31/443 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/4402 (20130101) A61K 31/4406 (20130101) A61K 31/4409 (20130101) A61K 31/5375 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 311/16 (20130101) C07C 311/39 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/16 (20130101) C07D 213/40 (20130101) C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 239/91 (20130101) C07D 241/04 (20130101) C07D 265/30 (20130101) C07D 279/12 (20130101) C07D 307/36 (20130101) C07D 307/52 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09248147 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board Of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Yang (University Park, Pennsylvania); Minh-Tuan Richard Tran (Fort Worth, Texas); Michael W Palmer (Arlington, Texas); Shou-Jiang Tang (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods for separating biological tissue are described herein. In some embodiments, a method for separating tissue comprises providing a first composition comprising a polymerizable material, providing a second composition comprising a polymerization initiator, disposing the first composition at a first site beneath a first tissue layer, disposing the second composition at the first site, polymerizing the polymerizable material at the first site, and separating the first tissue layer from a second tissue layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/084935 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5088 (20130101) |
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| US 09248150 | Ramkumar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Springfield, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Southern Illinois University (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vickram Ramkumar (Springfield, Illinois); Debashree Mukherjea (Springfield, Illinois); Len Rybak (Springfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for treating and preventing toxic side effects of platinum-based chemotherapy agents are disclosed, in which transplatin is administered to a subject. Transplatin is shown to have protective effects against cisplatin-induced ototoxicity, nephotoxicity and neurotoxicity. Anti-inflammatory activity of transplatin is demonstrated and methods and compositions for treating and preventing inflammatory pain are described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/094864 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 9/0046 (20130101) A61K 33/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/24 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09248161 | Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Schepens Eye Research Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Sullivan (San Diego, California); Tannin A. Schmidt (Calgary, Canada); David A. Sullivan (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition, and methods of use thereof, for treating ocular boundary deficiency, symptoms associated therewith, or undesired condition that is associated with or causes ocular boundary deficiency at the ocular surface. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention comprises a human PRG4 protein, a lubricant fragment, homolog, or isoform thereof, suspended in an ophthalmically acceptable balanced salt solution. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention may also comprise one or more ophthalmically acceptable agents selected from the group consisting of an ophthalmically acceptable demulcent, excipient, astringent, vasoconstrictor, emollient, sodium hyaluronate, hyaluronic acid, and surface active phospholipids, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for topical administration. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/272634 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 9/0051 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/568 (20130101) A61K 31/715 (20130101) A61K 31/728 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/13 (20130101) A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09248163 | Green et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Green (Boylston, Mississippi); Narendra Wajapeyee (Hamden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating a tumor in a subject include identifying a subject having, at risk for, or suspected of having a tumor, and administering to the subject an effective amount of an IGFBP7 agent if the tumor has increased Ras-BRAF-MEK-Erk signaling, is dependent for growth and/or survival upon the Ras-BRAF-MEK-Erk signaling pathway, and/or expresses an activated or oncogenic BRAF or RAS. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/094042 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1754 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5743 (20130101) |
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| US 09248169 | Siddiqui et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Afzal A. Siddiqui (Wolfforth, Texas); Gul Ahmad (Lubbock, Texas); Weidong Zhang (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Afzal A. Siddiqui (Wolfforth, Texas); Gul Ahmad (Lubbock, Texas); Weidong Zhang (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | No effective vaccine exists for the devastating parasitic disease of Schistosomiasis. The present invention focuses on Sm-p80, a functionally important antigen of Schistosoma mansoni that plays a pivotal role in the schistosome immune evasion process. When used in a novel vaccine formulation, Sm-p80 demonstrates consistent immunogenicity, protective potential, and antifecundity effects. Two novel DNA constructs were made for immunization purposes. Sm-p80 coding sequence was cloned into VR 1020. Additionally, Sm-p80 coding sequence was cloned into pcDNA3.1 with flanking CpG motifs on each end of the Sm-p80 sequence. When used in different vaccine formulations, both of the constructs demonstrate the superior antifecundity and anti-worm effects of Sm-p80, which has great potential as an important vaccine candidate for the reduction of the morbidity associated with schistosome infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/821544 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/55511 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43559 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/6402 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 304/22052 (20130101) |
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| US 09248174 | Carlyon |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason A. Carlyon (Richmond, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Anaplasma phagocytophilum surface proteins Asp14 and OmpA and homologous genes from Anaplasmatacaea family members are used in compositions suitable for vaccines to treat or prevent infections caused by tick-born bacteria of the Anaplasmatacaea family. Asp14 and/or OmpA proteins or peptide fragments may be used in combination with other Anaplasmatacaea surface proteins to elicit an immune response. Furthermore, antibodies to Asp14 and/or OmpA proteins can be used in diagnostic methods to determine whether an individual has contracted an Anaplasmatacaea infection. Because of the conserved invasin domains in the surface proteins, a wide range of Anaplasmatacaea infections may be diagnosed, treated or prevented using compositions of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/408760 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0233 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) A61K 2039/6081 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1246 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/29 (20130101) |
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| US 09248175 | Klumpp et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Klumpp (Chicago, Illinois); Anthony Schaeffer (Hinsdale, Illinois); Benjamin Billips (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for disease treatment and prevention through administration of a live attenuated composition. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of urinary tract infection by administration of a live attenuated compositions lacking O-antigen ligase activity. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/263276 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/74 (20130101) A61K 35/744 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09248176 | Ficht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Allison R. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Renee Tsolis (Davis, California); Leslie Garry Adams (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Allison R. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Renee Tsolis (Davis, California); Leslie Garry Adams (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the treatment of Brucella induced diseases and disorders are disclosed herein. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to vaccines. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to formulations capable of releasing said vaccines at a controlled rate of release in vivo. In further embodiments, the invention relates to modified strains of the bacteria Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus. In still further embodiments, the invention relates to compositions that do not induce clinical symptoms or splenomegaly in a subject receiving said compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269382 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/098 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/622 (20130101) |
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| US 09248177 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | De-Chu C. Tang (Birmingham, Alabama); Zhongkai Shi (Birmingham, Alabama); Kent Rigby van Kampen (Hoover, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed is a method of non-invasive immunization in an animal and/or a method of inducing a systemic immune response or systemic therapeutic response to a gene product. The skin of the animal is contacted with a non-replicative vector chosen from the group of bacterium, virus, and fungus, wherein the vector comprises and expresses a nucleic acid molecule encoding the gene product, in an amount effective to induce the response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961439 |
| 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 38/27 (20130101) A61K 38/27 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/08 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) A61K 2039/541 (20130101) A61K 2039/542 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2799/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09248179 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xianfu Wu (Atlanta, Georgia); Charles E. Rupprecht (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Ivan V. Kuzmin (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xianfu Wu (Atlanta, Georgia); Charles E. Rupprecht (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Ivan V. Kuzmin (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are recombinant rabies viruses encoding rabies virus glycoprotein and at least one heterologous glycoprotein from another lyssavirus, such as Mokola virus, Lagos bat virus and/or West Caucasian bat virus. In particular embodiments, the recombinant rabies virus includes two or three heterologous lyssavirus glycoproteins. The disclosed recombinant rabies viruses can be used as pan-lyssavirus vaccines to provide protection against lyssaviruses that cause rabies. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/806622 |
| 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 39/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/70 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2760/20122 (20130101) C12N 2760/20134 (20130101) C12N 2760/20143 (20130101) C12N 2760/20152 (20130101) C12N 2800/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09248217 | Hoerr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Hoerr (Shoreview, Minnesota); John V. Carlson (St. Michael, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanocopocia, LLC (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Hoerr (Shoreview, Minnesota); John V. Carlson (St. Michael, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoparticle coated hydrogel may be formed by a method of electrospraying nanoparticles on to a hydrogel surface includes providing a drug and polymer combination in solvent to an inner capillary of a coaxial capillary spray nozzle. A coating with a drug that releases over time may be provided. Open and closed matrixes may be selectively formed to help modify time release periods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669937 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| 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 2/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/41 (20130101) A61L 2300/45 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2300/416 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) A61L 2300/624 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 5/03 (20130101) B05B 5/08 (20130101) B05B 5/025 (20130101) B05B 7/061 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/04 (20130101) B05D 1/06 (20130101) B05D 2258/00 (20130101) B05D 2401/32 (20130101) B05D 2451/00 (20130101) B05D 2451/00 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09248273 | Guvanasen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Axion Biosystems, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia); Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Axion Biosystems, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth S. Guvanasen (Herndon, Virginia); Swaminathan Rajaraman (Atlanta, Georgia); Ricardo Aguilar, Jr. (Lillburn, Georgia); Liang Guo (Cambridge, Massachusetts); T. Richard Nichols (Atlanta, Georgia); Stephen P. DeWeerth (Mendota, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D microelectrode device includes a flexible substrate containing poly-dimethyl siloxane (PDMS). The device may be fabricated in a miniature form factor suitable for attachment to a small organ such as a lateral gastrocnemius muscle of a live rat. In addition to providing a miniaturized, conformable attachment, the device provides an anchoring action via one or more microelectrodes, each having an insertable tip particularly shaped to provide the anchoring action. Furthermore, a base portion of each of the microelectrodes is embedded inside conductive poly-dimethyl siloxane (cPDMS). The cPDMS is contained in a pad that is coupled to a conductive track embedded in the flexible substrate. Embedding of the base portion inside the cPDMS material not only allows the microelectrode to bend in various directions, but also provides good electrical conductivity while eliminating the need for attachment processes using solder or epoxy adhesives. |
| FILED | Monday, June 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/919013 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0492 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) A61B 2562/125 (20130101) A61B 2562/164 (20130101) A61B 2562/0209 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0502 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/0551 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/095 (20130101) H05K 1/0283 (20130101) H05K 2201/0245 (20130101) H05K 2201/10318 (20130101) |
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| US 09248415 | Osborn |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Scott Osborn (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); BlueInGreen, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Scott Osborn (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for maximizing the dissolved concentration of ozone in a liquid. The apparatus includes a dissolution tank having a pressure vessel configured to contain a treated fluid and at least one gas in a head space above the treated fluid, an inlet configured to permit passage of an untreated fluid into the head space, and an outlet configured to permit passage of the treated fluid out of the vessel; a gas supply system configured to transport the at least one gas to the head space; a fluid supply system configured to provide the untreated fluid to the tank; a bleed-off system for removing gas from the head space so as to maximize the dissolved concentration of the ozone gas in the liquid; and a discharge device configured to pass the treated fluid from the tank into the target liquid. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600950 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 3/0876 (20130101) B01F 5/0463 (20130101) B01F 5/0498 (20130101) B01F 2003/04886 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/78 (20130101) C02F 7/00 (20130101) C02F 2209/02 (20130101) C02F 2209/005 (20130101) C02F 2209/40 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09248441 | Pinkhassik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eugene Pinkhassik (Clayton, Missouri); Sergey Shamakov (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Pinkhassik (Clayton, Missouri); Sergey Shamakov (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal nanoparticles entrapped or encapsulated in a polymer nanocapsule disclosed. Methods of making and using the metal nanoparticles entrapped or encapsulated in a polymer nanocapsule are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/820085 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/50 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/14 (20130101) B01J 35/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09248448 | McDevitt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John McDevitt (Houston, Texas); Nicolaos Christodoulidies (Houston, Texas); Pierre N. Floriano (Houston, Texas); Tim Abram (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A bionanochip cartridge for analysis of multiple samples or analytes is provided herein, and the cartridge is dimensioned to take advantage of existing robotic microtiter plate handling equipment. Fluidics are specially designed to provide a small footprint and to prevent cross contamination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/258770 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/0605 (20130101) B01L 2300/069 (20130101) B01L 2300/087 (20130101) B01L 2300/0654 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0829 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/0883 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0683 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57407 (20130101) |
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| US 09249087 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Jay H. Kalin (Baltimore, Maryland); Kyle V. Butler (Stanford, California); Joel Bergman (Chicago, Illinois); Wayne W. Hancock (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Illinois); THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Jay H. Kalin (Baltimore, Maryland); Kyle V. Butler (Stanford, California); Joel Bergman (Chicago, Illinois); Wayne W. Hancock (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Histone deacetylases inhibitors (HDACIs) and compositions containing the same are disclosed. Methods of treating diseases and conditions wherein inhibition of HDAC provides a benefit, like a cancer, a neurodegenerative disorder, a peripheral neuropathy, a neurological disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, hypertension, malaria, an autoimmune disease, autism, autism spectrum disorders, and inflammation, also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/985760 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0002 (20130101) A61K 51/04 (20130101) A61K 51/0446 (20130101) A61K 51/0453 (20130101) A61K 51/0455 (20130101) A61K 51/0459 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 259/10 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/323 (20130101) C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/14 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 231/12 (20130101) C07D 235/06 (20130101) C07D 473/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09249095 | Malladi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Venkata L. Malladi (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); Lisa Schneper (Lititz, Pennsylvania); Adam J. Sobczak (Easley, South Carolina); Kalai Mathee (Miami, Florida); Stanislaw F. Wnuk (Miami, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkata L. Malladi (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); Lisa Schneper (Lititz, Pennsylvania); Adam J. Sobczak (Easley, South Carolina); Kalai Mathee (Miami, Florida); Stanislaw F. Wnuk (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of Formula (I) are disclosed herein and their use in inhibiting quorum sensing in bacteria. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/125597 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/4025 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/12 (20130101) C07D 207/267 (20130101) C07D 207/273 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249100 | Quinn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Quinn (Iowa City, Iowa); Joseph John Topczewski (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Organophosphate (OP) nerve agents and pesticides are potent inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). Though oxime nucleophiles can reactivate an AChE-phosphyl adduct, the adduct can undergo a reaction called aging, leading to an aged-AChE adduct. The invention provides compounds and methods that can be used to reactivate an aged-AChE adduct. Such compounds and methods are useful to counteract organophosphorus poisoning. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/163859 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/46 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249103 | Riscoe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Riscoe (Tualatin, Oregon); Rolf W. Winter (Portland, Oregon); Sovitj Pou (Beaverton, Oregon); David J. Hinrichs (Sherwood, Oregon); Jane Xu Kelly (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Yuexin Li (Vancouver, Washington); Aaron Nilsen (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods useful for treating infectious diseases are provided. In particular, 3-aryl quinoline compounds, their synthesis, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of treating infectious diseases such as malaria, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371870 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09249128 | Cravatt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Benjamin Cravatt (La Jolla, California); Daniel Nomura (San Diego, California); Jae W. Chang (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Cravatt (La Jolla, California); Daniel Nomura (San Diego, California); Jae W. Chang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Serine hydrolases are implicated in malconditions such as cancer, central nervous system disorders, cardiovascular disorders, obesity, and metabolic disorders. Many serine hydrolases expressed in proteomic libraries are of unknown function in vivo. Compounds identified through library versus library screening can be used for treatment of malconditions associated with the specific serine hydrolase KIAA1363 (also known as AADACL1). A library of inhibitors of KIAA1363 was prepared and candidate compounds were identified as a potent inhibitors having submicromolar IC50 values. An exemplary compound of the invention was shown to be an effective inhibitor of prostate cancer pathogenesis. Other inhibitory compounds of the invention comprising fluorophore groups are shown to be effective in spatial and temporal localization of the serine hydrolase in cells and tissues. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/881884 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 69/017 (20130101) C07C 271/44 (20130101) C07C 271/46 (20130101) C07C 271/48 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 207/327 (20130101) C07D 207/337 (20130101) C07D 307/86 (20130101) C07D 307/87 (20130101) C07D 317/16 (20130101) C07D 333/24 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249170 | Marx et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanessa M. Marx (Pasadena, California); Mohand-Ameziane Melaimi (San Diego, California); Scott C. Virgil (Pasadena, California); Benjamin K. Keitz (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Guy Bertrand (Solana Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vanessa M. Marx (Pasadena, California); Mohand-Ameziane Melaimi (San Diego, California); Scott C. Virgil (Pasadena, California); Benjamin K. Keitz (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Guy Bertrand (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and methods of catalyzing ethenolysis reactions, optionally on an industrial scale. In certain embodiments, the catalysts bear cyclic alkyl amino carbene (CAAC) ligands with an ortho substituent, such as a methyl substituent, on an N-aryl ring. When used to catalyze ethenolysis reactions, certain such compounds produce a turnover number greater than 50,000. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/249704 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/2078 (20130101) C07C 1/2078 (20130101) C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/22 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249175 | Damha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Masad Damha (St-Hubert, Canada); Jeremy Lackey (San Jose, California); Debbie Mitra (Ottawa, Canada); Marvin Wickens (Madison, Wisconsin); Franco Cerrina (Niskayuna, New York); Saima A. Akhtar (Niskayuna, New York); Mark Somoza (Weidling, Austria) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Royal Institute for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University (Montreal, Canada); Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masad Damha (St-Hubert, Canada); Jeremy Lackey (San Jose, California); Debbie Mitra (Ottawa, Canada); Marvin Wickens (Madison, Wisconsin); Franco Cerrina (Niskayuna, New York); Mark Somoza (Weidling, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to RNA monomers comprising O-acetal levulinyl protecting groups at the 2′ and/or the 5′-hydroxy functionalities of the ribose moiety. Said monomers may be incorporated into oligoribonucleotides or RNA polynucleotides. Furthermore, the invention is directed to methods for the synthesis of said RNA monomers, oligoribonucleotides and RNA polynucleotides, as well as methods for their deprotection and methods for the use of said compounds and compositions comprising said compounds. In particular, such compounds and compositions comprising them are used in methods for light-directed synthesis of RNA microarrays. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/061022 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 19/167 (20130101) C07H 21/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09249183 | Lin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hening Lin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hening Lin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for identifying a modulator of Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 deacylase activity, wherein a fatty-acylated substrate containing an acyl-lysine moiety and an indicator moiety is contacted with Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 in the presence of a candidate compound under conditions for Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 to deacylate the substrate, wherein the acyl is a hydrophobic fatty acyl group containing a hydrocarbon group having at least three carbon atoms connected by carbon-carbon bonds; contacting the deacylated substrate with a cleavage agent that cleaves the linkage between the lysine and indicator moiety to generate a detectable signal; and correlating a quantified Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 deacylase activity therefrom. Modulating compounds of Sirt6, PfSir2a, or Sirt7 deacylase activity are also described, as are pharmaceutical compositions thereof, methods of treatment by administration of the modulating compounds, and kits for practicing the method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/996297 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 327/42 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/1019 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/06 (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 1/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/98 (20130101) |
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| US 09249189 | Andersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Leroy Joseph (Albany, New York); Alberto Bryan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Leroy Joseph (Albany, New York); Alberto Bryan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds that are analogs of a cyclic peptide, cyclo[EKTOVNOGN] (SEQ ID NO: 13), AFPep, that has anti-estrotrophic activity. The analogs of the invention include peptides and peptidomimetics that inhibit estrogen receptor-dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522882 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/64 (20130101) |
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| US 09249190 | Zhou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ming-ming Zhou (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Shiraz Mujtaba (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming-ming Zhou (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Shiraz Mujtaba (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of suppressing the transcriptional expression of one or more genes by methylating the chromatin histone proteins of the one or more genes. Specifically, a viral SET domain histone lysine methyltransferase (vSET or vSET-like protein) methylates lysine 27 of a gene's histone protein 3 (H3-K27) thereby suppressing the transcription of the gene. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/896510 |
| 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 48/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/09 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1007 (20130101) C12N 2710/00022 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2740/15043 (20130101) |
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| US 09249195 | Dermody et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Terence S. Dermody (Brentwood, Tennessee); Karl W. Boehme (Little Rock, Arkansas); Mine Ikizler (Nashville, Tennessee); Gregory J. Wilson (Nashville, Tennessee); James D. Chappell (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terence S. Dermody (Brentwood, Tennessee); Karl W. Boehme (Little Rock, Arkansas); Mine Ikizler (Nashville, Tennessee); Gregory J. Wilson (Nashville, Tennessee); James D. Chappell (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for modified reoviruses that carry α-helical epitopes from a variety of pathogens, as well as methods of using such modified reoviruses to generate immune responses against those epitopes in hosts. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/639564 |
| 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 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) C07K 14/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/40 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2720/12222 (20130101) C12N 2720/12243 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) |
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| US 09249199 | El Kasmi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karim C. El Kasmi (Denver, Colorado); Brad Jordan (Thousand Oaks, California); Richard Kriwacki (Memphis, Tennessee); Beth Mann (Brownsville, Tennessee); Carlos J. Orihuela (San Antonio, Texas); Elaine Tuomanen (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for preventing and treating pneumococcal infections are provided. Compositions include novel polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence corresponding to the R21 or R22 domain of CbpA or a consensus sequence of one of these domains, and variants and fragments thereof, wherein the polypeptide is stabilized in a desired conformation, particularly a loop conformation. The polypeptides of the invention may be engineered to comprise a first and a second cysteine residue, thereby resulting in the formation of a disulfide bond that stabilizes the polypeptide in the desired conformation. Alternatively, a polypeptide of the invention may be modified to create a synthetic linkage between a first and second amino acid residue present within the polypeptide, wherein the synthetic linkage stabilizes the polypeptide in the desired conformation. The polypeptides of the invention may further comprise an amino acid sequence for a T cell epitope. Compositions further include isolated nucleic acid molecules that encode the polypeptides of the invention, immunogenic compositions and vaccines comprising the disclosed polypeptides, and antibodies specific for these polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/220947 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/3156 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249211 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan Geething (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to binding fusion protein compositions comprising targeting moieties linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), binding fusion protein-drug conjugate compositions, and XTEN-drug conjugate compositions, isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of using such compositions in treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/631361 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/8125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/241 (20130101) C07K 16/244 (20130101) |
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| US 09249217 | Bigner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darell D. Bigner (Mebane, North Carolina); Chien-Tsun Kuan (Cary, North Carolina); John H. Sampson (Durham, North Carolina); Mingqing Cai (Danbury, Connecticut); Bryan D. Choi (Durham, North Carolina); Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Secretary, DHHS (Rockville, Maryland); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darell D. Bigner (Mebane, North Carolina); Chien-Tsun Kuan (Cary, North Carolina); John H. Sampson (Durham, North Carolina); Mingqing Cai (Danbury, Connecticut); Bryan D. Choi (Durham, North Carolina); Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | We have constructed bispecific antibody engaging molecules which have one arm that specifically engages a tumor cell which expresses the human EGFRvIII mutant protein on its surface, and a second arm that specifically engages T cell activation ligand CD3. The engaging molecules are highly cytotoxic and antigen-specific. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/296809 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2809 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
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| US 09249306 | Bruchez et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcel P. Bruchez (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Lauren A. Ernst (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); James Fitzpatrick (La Jolla, California); Chris Szent-Gyorgyi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brigitte F. Schmidt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alan Waggoner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcel P. Bruchez (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Lauren A. Ernst (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); James Fitzpatrick (La Jolla, California); Chris Szent-Gyorgyi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brigitte F. Schmidt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alan Waggoner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents designs for high extinction quenched “dyedrons” that can be activated by conversion of a single acceptor/quencher in the molecular assembly to a fluorescent state. The quencher is activated by noncovalent binding to a unique complementary expressible fluorogen activating peptide (FAP). In this way, the quencher serves as the homogeneous switch, receiving energy efficiently from each of the donor molecules of the dendronic antenna, and releasing it as fluorescence only when activated by binding. The sum of the extinction of the multiple dyes on the antenna will provide dramatic enhancements in the effective brightness of the probe in standard imaging systems. This approach provides a set of probes with exceptional brightness, specifically targeted to an expressed tag that activates the fluorescence of the dyedron. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/201226 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 11/02 (20130101) C09B 11/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09B 23/06 (20130101) C09B 23/083 (20130101) C09B 23/086 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) |
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| US 09249382 | Gavrish et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ekaterina Gavrish (Boston, Massachusetts); Kim Lewis (Newton, Massachusetts); Slava S. Epstein (Dedham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ekaterina Gavrish (Boston, Massachusetts); Kim Lewis (Newton, Massachusetts); Slava S. Epstein (Dedham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for isolating and/or culturing microorganisms are provided. The devices comprise one or more semi-permeable membranes and may additionally include a growth medium for the microorganism. The devices and methods described herein can be used to isolate and culture both known and novel microorganisms from any environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732346 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 1/16 (20130101) C12M 23/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12M 25/14 (20130101) C12M 29/04 (20130101) C12M 33/14 (20130101) C12M 47/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09249389 | Isacson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ole Isacson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jan Pruszak (Freiburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventions disclosed herein are based on the identification of novel cell populations derived from human embryonic stem cells and other pluripotent cells. The inventive cell populations may be used for cell therapies for the treatment of various neurological diseases and as substrates in pharmacological assays. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/037475 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) A61K 35/54 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0619 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249392 | Marbán et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eduardo Marbán (Beverly Hills, California); Tao-Sheng Li (Nanchang, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eduardo Marbán (Beverly Hills, California); Tao-Sheng Li (Nanchang, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to methods and compositions for the generation of therapeutic cells having reduced incidence of karyotypic abnormalities. In several embodiments cardiac stem cells are cultured in an antioxidant-supplemented media that reduces levels of reactive oxygen species, but does not down regulate DNA repair mechanisms. In several embodiments, physiological oxygen concentrations are used during culture in order to increase the proliferation of stem cells, decrease the senescence of the cells, decrease genomic instability, and/or augment the functionality of such cells for cellular therapies. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/096931 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0657 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0662 (20130101) C12N 2500/02 (20130101) C12N 2500/38 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) |
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| US 09249398 | Ojha et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil Kumar Ojha (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Yong Yang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peijun Zhang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed herein for treating an infection with a Mycobacterium infection. Methods are also disclosed for treating a Mycobacterium biofilm. The method include the use of trehalose dimycolate hydrolase, a variant thereof, or a nucleic acid encoding trehalose dimycolate hydrolase or a variant thereof Methods are also disclosed for detecting a Mycobacterium in a sample from a subject. The methods include treating the sample with trehalose dimycolate hydrolase or a variant thereof, and detecting a Mycobacterium nucleic acid in the sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/904821 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/465 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/18 (20130101) C12N 9/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249401 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Pete Heinzelman (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Pete Heinzelman (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to CBH II chimera fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, and host cells for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755328 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
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| US 09249408 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chang Liu (San Diego, California); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Vaughn Smider (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (San Diego, California); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Vaughn Smider (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for screening polypeptide libraries that include variants comprising unnatural amino acids. In addition, the invention provides vector packaging systems and methods for packaging a nucleic acid in a vector. Compositions of vectors produced by the methods and systems are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/734416 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1058 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/08 (20130101) C40B 40/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09249410 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Blake Hill (Baltimore, Maryland); Cara Marie Manlandro (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Blake Hill (Baltimore, Maryland); Cara Marie Manlandro (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based, at least in part, on the development of a mating-based yeast two-hybrid screen that allows simultaneous screening for mutations that disrupt yeast two-hybrid interactions between a protein and multiple interacting partners. By coupling PCR mutagenesis and homologous recombination/gapped plasmid repair with a mating-based assay, the present invention allows screening for unique mutations that disrupt interaction with one partner, but not others. It also allows identification of specific mutations that may lie at protein-protein interfaces common to two or more partners, without employing multiple rounds of screening. In addition to screening against multiple interacting partners, the present invention removes the need for a two-step selection because truncations, frameshifts, or any mutations that affect folding are eliminated as disruptions that affect all protein partners. The methods of the present invention are named “Hotspot” because of its ability to identify “hotspot residues” in protein-protein interfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/326788 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249423 | Rabinovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter M. Rabinovich (Madison, Connecticut); Sherman M. Weissman (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Rabinovich (Madison, Connecticut); Sherman M. Weissman (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | RNA prepared by in vitro transcription using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-generated template can be introduced into a cell to modulate cell activity. This method is useful in de-differentiating somatic cells to pluripotent, multipotent, or unipotent cells; re-differentiating stem cells into differentiated cells; or reprogramming of somatic cells to modulate cell activities such as metabolism. Cells can also be transfected with inhibitory RNAs, such as small interfering RNA (siRNA) or micro RNA (miRNA), or combinations thereof to induce reprogramming of somatic cells. For example, target cells are isolated from a donor, contacted with one or more RNA's causing the cells to be de-differentiated, re-differentiated, or reprogrammed in vitro, and administered to a patient in need thereof. The resulting cells are useful for treating one or more symptoms of a variety of diseases and disorders, for organ regeneration, and for restoration of the immune system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/019829 |
| 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) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/602 (20130101) C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/604 (20130101) C12N 2501/606 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09249427 | Picker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | OREGON HEALTH and SCIENCE UNIVERSITY (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis Picker (Portland, Oregon); Jay A. Nelson (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Klaus Frueh (Portland, Oregon); Michael A. Jarvis (Portland, Oregon); Scott G. Hansen (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to recombinant rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) vectors encoding heterologous antigens, such as pathogen-specific antigens or tumor antigens, which may be used, for example, for the treatment or prevention of infectious disease or cancer. The recombinant RhCMV or HCMV vectors elicit and maintain high level cellular immune responses specific for the heterologous antigen while including deletions in one or more genes essential or augmenting for CMV replication, dissemination or spread. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/694280 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/08 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/13 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 39/275 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/16 (20130101) C07K 14/045 (20130101) C07K 14/161 (20130101) C07K 14/162 (20130101) C07K 14/163 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 15/869 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2710/16111 (20130101) C12N 2710/16134 (20130101) C12N 2710/16141 (20130101) C12N 2710/16143 (20130101) C12N 2710/16162 (20130101) C12N 2710/24134 (20130101) C12N 2740/15022 (20130101) C12N 2740/15034 (20130101) C12N 2760/14134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/32634 (20130101) |
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| US 09249444 | Lindquist et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan L. Lindquist (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aaron D. Gitler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are genes that, when overexpressed in cells expressing alpha-synuclein, either suppress or enhance alpha-synuclein mediated cellular toxicity. Compounds that modulate expression of these genes or activity of the encoded proteins can be used to inhibit alpha-synuclein mediated toxicity and used to treat or prevent synucleinopathies such as Parkinson's disease. Also disclosed are methods of identifying inhibitors of alpha-synuclein mediated toxicity. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/931004 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — 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 1/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/68 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09249454 | Woolf et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods and compositions useful for treating and diseases caused by a dysregulation of the BMP/GDF branch of the TGF-β signaling pathway. Also disclosed are methods for identifying compounds useful for such therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/206950 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| 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 1/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/53 (20130101) G01N 33/74 (20130101) G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/495 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09249460 | Pushkarev et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmitry Pushkarev (Stanford, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Ayelet Voskoboynik (Aptos, California); Michael Kertesz (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitry Pushkarev (Stanford, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Ayelet Voskoboynik (Aptos, California); Michael Kertesz (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to methods for obtaining a sequence, such as a consensus sequence or a haplotype sequence. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve determining an amount of amplifiable nucleic acid present in a sample, partitioning the nucleic acid based upon results of the determining step such that each partitioned portion includes, on average, a subset of unique sequences, sequencing the nucleic acid to obtain sequence reads, and assembling a consensus sequence from the reads. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/608778 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6806 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6874 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2527/146 (20130101) C12Q 2535/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09249468 | Croce et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Andrea Vecchione (Rome, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are methods for diagnosing ovarian cancer. In particular, certain microRNAs are useful to the response to chemotherapy of ovarian cancer patients. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651679 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/178 (20130101) |
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| US 09250060 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Ung Kang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yong Huang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Ung Kang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yong Huang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical coherence tomography system having real-time artifact and saturation correction includes an optical coherence tomography unit, and a signal processing and display system adapted to communicate with the optical coherence tomography unit to receive imaging signals therefrom. The optical coherence tomography system is a Fourier Domain optical coherence tomography system. The signal processing and display system includes a parallel processor configured to correct the imaging signals, in real time, to at least partially remove image artifacts and saturation based on a subset of image data within an image frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586586 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02044 (20130101) G01B 9/02083 (20130101) G01B 9/02089 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09250233 | Kipps et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas J. Kipps (San Diego, California); Bradley T. Messmer (San Diego, California); Ana B. Sanchez (Encinitas, California); Andrew C. Kummel (San Diego, California); Manuel Ruidiaz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Kipps (San Diego, California); Bradley T. Messmer (San Diego, California); Ana B. Sanchez (Encinitas, California); Andrew C. Kummel (San Diego, California); Manuel Ruidiaz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detection of any antibody utilizing a standardized approach applicable to any antibody which provides highly specific assays specific for individual or multiple antibodies. The methods enable improved pharmacokinetic analysis during development and clinical use of antibody-based therapies as well as determination of diagnostic and/or prognostic factors. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/934624 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/94 (20130101) G01N 33/537 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 33/54326 (20130101) |
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| US 09250237 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jun O. Liu (Clarkesville, Maryland); Jingxin Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Zufeng Guo (Baltimore, Maryland); Wei Li (Xiangtan, China PRC); Shridhar Bhat (Cockeysville, Maryland); Manisha Das (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun O. Liu (Clarkesville, Maryland); Jingxin Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Zufeng Guo (Baltimore, Maryland); Wei Li (Xiangtan, China PRC); Shridhar Bhat (Cockeysville, Maryland); Manisha Das (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are novel types of hybrid cyclic libraries that contain a known protein binding domain of a natural product. Also provided are synthetic methods to make such libraries and methods for the deconvolution of hits using partially split-pooled library compounds. Such methods are applicable for use with the entire human proteome to screen such libraries that bind and for the identification of hits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990396 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 31/4353 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) C07D 498/04 (20130101) C07D 498/14 (20130101) C07D 515/04 (20130101) C07D 515/14 (20130101) Peptides C07K 17/08 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09250238 | Low et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald G. Reifenberger (Lafayette, Indiana); Youngsoon Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Avijit Kumar Adak (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Lyvers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kulbhushan Durugkar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Doorneweerd (Lockport, Illinois); Rajendra P. Bandari (Warangal, Indiana); Rajesh Kumar Pandey (New Haven, Connecticut); Alexei Leonov (Lafayette, Indiana); Walter A. Henne (Frankfort, Illinois); Yeong E. Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald G. Reifenberger (Lafayette, Indiana); Youngsoon Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Avijit Kumar Adak (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Lyvers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kulbhushan Durugkar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Doorneweerd (Lockport, Illinois); Rajendra P. Bandari (Warangal, Indiana); Rajesh Kumar Pandey (New Haven, Connecticut); Alexei Leonov (Lafayette, Indiana); Walter A. Henne (Frankfort, Illinois); Yeong E. Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Pathogens are detected through the use of mutation-resistant ligands. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805770 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5302 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101) G01N 33/56905 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56961 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2035/00158 (20130101) |
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| US 09250239 | Garg |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nisha J. Garg (League City, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nisha J. Garg (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are vaccine compositions for control of Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease. The compositions comprise plasmids encoding o GPI-anchored genes ASP-2, TcG-1, TcG2 and TcG4 from Trypanosoma cruzi; plasmids encoding cytokines IL12 and GM-CSF; and plasmids encoding a gene expression system. Certain vaccine compositions comprise recombinant proteins, selected from TcG-1, TcG2 and TcG4 from Trypanosoma cruzi. In another vaccination strategy, the recombinant proteins are replaced by lysates comprising Trypanosoma rangeli cells. Further provided herein are diagnosis compositions comprising 1) recombinant proteins, selected from TcG-1, TcG2 and TcG4 from Trypanosoma cruzi; 2) antibodies that specifically binds the TcG-1, TcG2 and TcG4 proteins; 3) sense and antisense polynucleotide sequences that encode the TcG-1, TcG2 and TcG4 proteins. Said compositions can be used in diagnosing and/or evaluating efficacy of treatments against Trypanosoma cruzi infection. A diagnosis kit, and methods of diagnosing and/or treating Trypanosoma cruzi infection are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/175001 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/005 (20130101) A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55538 (20130101) A61K 2039/55577 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56905 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09250240 | McBride et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jere W. McBride (League City, Texas); Tian Luo (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are immunoreactive peptides which can selectively bind Ehrlichia-specific anti-p120 or anti-p140 antibodies. Methods and kits utilizing the immunoreactive peptides are also provided. The immunoreactive peptides may be utilized, e.g., for determining whether or not a subject is infected with Ehrlichia chaffeensis or Ehrlichia canis. In certain embodiments, the immunoreactive peptides may be utilized in an ELISA or lateral flow assay. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516828 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/29 (20130101) C07K 14/195 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/29 (20130101) G01N 2469/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09250246 | Strongin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Michael Strongin (Portland, Oregon); Martha Sibrian-Vazquez (Portland, Oregon); Jorge Omar Escobedo-Cordova (Portland, Oregon); Mark Allen Lowry (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Michael Strongin (Portland, Oregon); Martha Sibrian-Vazquez (Portland, Oregon); Jorge Omar Escobedo-Cordova (Portland, Oregon); Mark Allen Lowry (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of near-infrared (NIR) dyes are disclosed, along with methods and kits for detecting analytes with the NIR dyes. The NIR dyes have a structure according to the general structure At least one of R1/R2, R2/R3, R3/R4, R5/R6, R6/R7, and/or R7/R8 together forms a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl or aryl. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/129223 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 311/82 (20130101) C07D 493/10 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 11/12 (20130101) C09B 11/22 (20130101) C09B 11/24 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/49 (20130101) G01N 33/493 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/141111 (20150115) |
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| US 09251527 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Vivek Francis Farias (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Srikanth Jagabathula (New York, New York); Ammar Tawfiq Ammar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Vivek Francis Farias (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Srikanth Jagabathula (New York, New York); Ammar Tawfiq Ammar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing a personalized recommendation from a series of partial preferences is presented. A preference distribution of a population including a plurality of weighted ranked lists is identified. A revealed preference of a user is compared to the plurality of ranked lists. An affinity weight between the user and each of the plurality of ranked lists is assigned, and a weighted average of each of the affinity weights is taken. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/598124 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| 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 30/0201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 30/0204 (20130101) |
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| US 09252175 | Savoy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steve M. Savoy (Austin, Texas); Daniel R. Mitchell (Austin, Texas); Jeremy J. John (Austin, Texas); Byron G. Zollars (Georgetown, Texas); George L. Murphy (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve M. Savoy (Austin, Texas); Daniel R. Mitchell (Austin, Texas); Jeremy J. John (Austin, Texas); Byron G. Zollars (Georgetown, Texas); George L. Murphy (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectroscopic filter arrays and methods for making spectroscopic filter arrays are provided. The arrays are formed using a dispersion of filter particles having selected moieties attached to the surface of the particles and a microarray having complementary moieties formed in an array on a substrate, such that each filter particle is attached to a selected region of the microarray. The moiety on the substrate may be RNA or DNA or other molecule. The substrate may be a surface of a photodetector array, a transparent plate that may be placed in registration with the photodetector or a stamp used to transfer the filter array to a photodetector array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069928 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14625 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14685 (20130101) |
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| US 09253719 | Ansari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirwan Ansari (Montville, New Jersey); Tao Han (North Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies are generally described to provide a distributed scheme that enables a Green-energy Aware and the Latency Aware (GALA) user-base station (BS) associations in wireless networks, whose BSs are powered by both on-grid energy and green energy. According to some examples, the GALA approach may consider traffic delivery latency and green energy generation rate in BSs to determine the user-BS association. The GALA approach may converge to a particular solution, which may reduce the summation of the weighted latency ratios of BSs, while enabling a trade-off between the on-grid power consumption and the average traffic delivery latency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/364656 |
| ART UNIT | 2645 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/04 (20130101) H04W 24/08 (20130101) H04W 48/10 (20130101) H04W 48/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/0206 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Molecular Tissue Technologies (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrike W Klueh (New Britain, Connecticut); David I Dorsky (Avon, Connecticut); Donald L Kreutzer (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An implant system and a method for controlling the natural and artificial microenvironments surrounding an implanted device using an artificial tissue system (ATS) and includes methods of diagnostic and testing related thereto. The ATS, among other things, induce better integration, function, and extended lifespan of the devices at the site of implantation. The ATS includes cells, such as naturally occurring, engineered, and/or artificial cells; matrices such as natural, engineered, artificial and/or hybrid matrices; tissue response modifiers (TRM); and/or cell response modifiers (CRM). The specific composition of the ATS is based on the nature of the tissue in which ATS-device combination is implanted and the nature of the implant device, as well as the required function and lifespan of the implanted device. Additionally, the ATS, as well as ATS-device combinations can be utilized in vitro to aid in the design of improved ATS, devices and ATS-device combinations for in vivo uses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/787188 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/686 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/14503 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (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 27/38 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) |
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| US 09248176 | Ficht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Allison R. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Renee Tsolis (Davis, California); Leslie Garry Adams (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Allison R. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Renee Tsolis (Davis, California); Leslie Garry Adams (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the treatment of Brucella induced diseases and disorders are disclosed herein. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to vaccines. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to formulations capable of releasing said vaccines at a controlled rate of release in vivo. In further embodiments, the invention relates to modified strains of the bacteria Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus. In still further embodiments, the invention relates to compositions that do not induce clinical symptoms or splenomegaly in a subject receiving said compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269382 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/098 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/622 (20130101) |
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| US 09248177 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | De-Chu C. Tang (Birmingham, Alabama); Zhongkai Shi (Birmingham, Alabama); Kent Rigby van Kampen (Hoover, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed is a method of non-invasive immunization in an animal and/or a method of inducing a systemic immune response or systemic therapeutic response to a gene product. The skin of the animal is contacted with a non-replicative vector chosen from the group of bacterium, virus, and fungus, wherein the vector comprises and expresses a nucleic acid molecule encoding the gene product, in an amount effective to induce the response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/961439 |
| 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 38/27 (20130101) A61K 38/27 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/193 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 38/1774 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/08 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/39 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/54 (20130101) A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) A61K 2039/541 (20130101) A61K 2039/542 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) A61K 2039/55516 (20130101) A61K 2039/55522 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2799/022 (20130101) |
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09248501 — Method for additive manufacturing using pH and potential controlled powder solidification
| US 09248501 | Johannes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrew C. Johannes (Pebble Beach, California); Sebastian Osswald (Monterey, California); Luke N. Brewer (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew C. Johannes (Pebble Beach, California); Sebastian Osswald (Monterey, California); Luke N. Brewer (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A powder consolidation method and apparatus make use of corrosion processes occurring on surfaces of metal particles to consolidate a metal-containing powder into a formed body. The method includes contacting metal particles with an acidic or basic liquid at a pH and potential at which dissolution of metal from the particles and reduction of soluble metal-containing ions to metal on surfaces of the particles can co-occur, such that the metal powder agglomerates to form a body. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/041852 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 3/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09248874 | Won |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chikyung Won (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chikyung Won (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An articulated vehicle including a main frame, a drive system disposed on the main frame, and at least one arm having a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end of the at least one arm being pivotally coupled to the main frame and the distal end being pivotable above the surface. The vehicle also including an articulator motor disposed on the main frame and coupled to the at least one arm for pivoting the at least one arm above the surface and about the transverse axis, and a slip clutch coupled between the articulator motor and the at least one front arm for enabling rotation of the at least one front arm without rotation of the articulator drive motor when a torque between the at least one front arm and the main frame exceeds a threshold torque. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/347406 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 5/005 (20130101) Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 55/12 (20130101) B62D 55/14 (20130101) B62D 55/065 (20130101) B62D 55/075 (20130101) B62D 55/244 (20130101) B62D 55/0655 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 180/901 (20130101) Y10S 280/901 (20130101) |
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| US 09248894 | Jacquemin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph W. Jacquemin (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Jacquemin (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled corrosion release system for a payload is provided. The payload is submerged in a conductive medium, such as seawater. The system includes clips which restrain the payload against a housing. A circuit is established to allow electrical current to flow from a power source contained within the housing, through the clips which serve as anodes, through the seawater, into the housing which serves as a cathode, and back to the power source. Accordingly, the clips corrode and weaken structurally. The clips eventually fail and the payload is released. The time for release is proportional to the power supplied, such that the release time can be controlled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944383 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 2213/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09249184 | Robbins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul David Robbins (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Maliha Zahid (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul David Robbins (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Maliha Zahid (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to Cardiac Targeting Peptides or CTPs that are able to transduce cardiomyocytes specifically in culture and in vivo, and to methods for using such peptides and their derivatives to deliver peptides, proteins or nucleic acids specifically to the heart. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that the peptide APWHLSSQYSRT (SEQ ID NO:1) functioned as a cardiac-specific protein targeting peptide and was successful in delivering a number of different cargoes to cardiac muscle cells in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/273976 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) C07K 2319/33 (20130101) |
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| US 09249189 | Andersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Leroy Joseph (Albany, New York); Alberto Bryan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Leroy Joseph (Albany, New York); Alberto Bryan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds that are analogs of a cyclic peptide, cyclo[EKTOVNOGN] (SEQ ID NO: 13), AFPep, that has anti-estrotrophic activity. The analogs of the invention include peptides and peptidomimetics that inhibit estrogen receptor-dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522882 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/64 (20130101) |
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| US 09249313 | Haddad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy S. Haddad (Lancaster, California); Joseph M. Mabry (Lancaster, California); Sean Ramirez (Lancaster, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy S. Haddad (Lancaster, California); Joseph M. Mabry (Lancaster, California); Sean Ramirez (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A functional fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (“F-POSS”). The F-POSS, has a chemical structure: where Rf represents a nonreactive organic group and at least one of R1 and R2 represents a chain comprising at least three carbon atoms. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/624151 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/083 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/21 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/1662 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249333 | Kissel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Kissel (Andover, Minnesota); Charles Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Kissel (Andover, Minnesota); Charles Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are polymer-aerogel composite coatings, devices and articles including polymer-aerogel composite coatings, and methods for preparing the polymer-aerogel composite. The exemplary article can include a surface, wherein the surface includes at least one region and a polymer-aerogel composite coating disposed over the at least one region, wherein the polymer-aerogel composite coating has a water contact angle of at least about 140° and a contact angle hysteresis of less than about 1°. The polymer-aerogel composite coating can include a polymer and an ultra high water content catalyzed polysilicate aerogel, the polysilicate aerogel including a three dimensional network of silica particles having surface functional groups derivatized with a silylating agent and a plurality of pores. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157918 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 55/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/36 (20130101) C08K 9/06 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/006 (20130101) C09D 5/14 (20130101) C09D 5/165 (20130101) C09D 5/1681 (20130101) C09D 7/1225 (20130101) C09D 133/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24999 (20150401) Y10T 428/249953 (20150401) Y10T 428/249972 (20150401) Y10T 428/249991 (20150401) Y10T 442/20 (20150401) |
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| US 09249387 | Cuiffi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Massachusettes Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Cuiffi (Fort Myers, Florida); Mark Joseph Mescher (West Newton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Robert Coppeta (Windham, New Hampshire); Samuel Walker Inman (Boston, Massachusetts); Abigail June Spencer (Boston, Massachusetts); Transon Van Nguyen (San Diego, California); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The systems and methods disclosed herein are generally related to a cell culture system. More particularly, the systems and methods enable the culturing and interconnecting of a plurality of tissue types in a biomimetic environment. By culturing organ specific tissue types within a biomimetic environment and interconnecting each of the organ systems in a physiologically meaningful way, experiments can be conducted on in vitro cells that substantially mimic the responses of in vivo cell populations. In some implementations, the organ systems are fluidically connected with a constant-volume pump. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/167590 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 21/08 (20130101) C12M 23/12 (20130101) C12M 23/44 (20130101) C12M 29/00 (20130101) C12M 29/12 (20130101) C12M 41/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0602 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249401 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Pete Heinzelman (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Pete Heinzelman (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to CBH II chimera fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, and host cells for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755328 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
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| US 09249458 | Benner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Albert Benner (Gainesville, Florida) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Albert Benner (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention combines artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) with self-avoiding molecular recognition systems (SAMRS), in processes that involve template-directed primer extension in highly multiplexed form in mixtures containing large numbers of primers. This process yields extension products, or in its PCR format, amplicons, that have AEGIS tags that can be cleanly captured in highly complex mixtures. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/524227 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 21/04 (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 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/6876 (20130101) C12Q 2525/117 (20130101) C12Q 2600/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09249520 | Withers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Withers (Tucson, Arizona); Raouf O. Loutfy (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MATERIALS and ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CORP. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Withers (Tucson, Arizona); Raouf O. Loutfy (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for purification of high value metals comprises an electrolytic cell in which an anode formed of a composite of a metal oxide of the metal of interest with carbon is electrochemically reduced in a molten salt electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427984 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 34/129 (20130101) C22B 34/1281 (20130101) C22B 34/1295 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic Production, Recovery or Refining of Metals; Apparatus Therefor C25C 3/26 (20130101) C25C 3/28 (20130101) C25C 3/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25C 3/34 (20130101) C25C 3/36 (20130101) C25C 5/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09249759 | Einstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandor I. Einstein (Denville, New Jersey); Donald S. Chiu (Fresh Meadows, New York); Alexander Colletti (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandor I. Einstein (Denville, New Jersey); Donald S. Chiu (Fresh Meadows, New York); Alexander Colletti (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mortar system includes a launch unit that comprises a mortar ignition cartridge provided with a flashtube. The flashtube incorporates a ring-like nozzle that is positioned within the flashtube, which acts to restrain the motion of the black powder pellets as well as to choke the flow of the resultant combustion products. The nozzle separates the flashtube into two compartments: a flashtube venting chamber and a pellet combustion chamber. The mortar ignition cartridge combustion chamber acts as the product-gas venting area of the flashtube. The combustion of the black powder pellets essentially takes place in the pellet combustion chamber. The present design modification improves the overall performance of the mortar system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/599261 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 9/97 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 19/02 (20130101) F42C 19/0807 (20130101) F42C 19/0819 (20130101) F42C 19/0826 (20130101) |
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| US 09249851 | Gill, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Joseph Gill, III (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania); Russell Eddy Fay (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reducing a vibratory response in a structure using a tuning object. A selected mass may be identified for the tuning object. A plurality of channels may be formed in a workpiece having a mass greater than the selected mass to form the tuning object having the selected mass. The tuning object may be bonded to the structure using an adhesive bond to reduce the vibratory response of the structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676503 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/008 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 7/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/1064 (20150115) |
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| US 09250040 | Bird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James R. Bird (Succasunna, New Jersey); Aaron Barton (Oswego, New York); Michael Pottratz (Hopatcong, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Bird (Succasunna, New Jersey); Aaron Barton (Oswego, New York); Michael Pottratz (Hopatcong, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to remotely controlling a number of devices on an instrument mounted on a rotating assembly without physical contact to the assembly. A series of infrared light-emitting diodes mounted in a stationary ring configuration are placed around (but not directly touching) the rotating assembly to send control signals to infrared receiver devices located on the assembly. The rotating assembly might be the turret of a conventional Common Remotely Operated Weapons Station (CROWS), the invention to replace convention internal slip-ring providing power and control to a gun on the CROWS. The infrared data links of this invention do not inhibit the movement of the rotating assembly, and further are not susceptible to radio-jamming by electronic warfare countermeasures. Additionally, the invention includes a mount that allows auxiliary devices with Picatinny Rails™ to also be attached to such a CROWS turret. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/984749 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09250051 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Harris Smith (Placentia, California); Son T. Vo (Huntington Beach, California); Randall Wayne Watkins (Chino Hills, California); William L. Moon (LaHabra, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Harris Smith (Placentia, California); Son T. Vo (Huntington Beach, California); Randall Wayne Watkins (Chino Hills, California); William L. Moon (LaHabra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies for sequentially initiating squibs in one or more release mechanisms in order to reduce delay between successive squibs are provided. A squib initiation sequencer is configured to initiate squibs of one or more release mechanisms in a pre-programmed sequence. The squib initiation sequencer is further configured to detect when the initiation of each squib in the sequence is complete, and immediately move to the next sequential step without waiting the entire maximum initiation time per the squib manufacturer's specifications. |
| FILED | Friday, March 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/072079 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Blasting F42D 1/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09250159 | Deshpande 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) | Nishkamraj U. Deshpande (Novi, Michigan); James E. Schwabe (Bedford, Indiana); H Fred Barsun (Bloomington, Indiana); Nancey J Maegerlein (Williams, Indiana); Norris J Caldwell (Bloomington, Indiana); William W Fultz (Carmel, Indiana); Lloyd W Zilch (Bloomington, Indiana); Samuel G Stuart (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An invention for making productive uses of normally undesirable whiskers is provided. Embodiments of the invention include a variety of apparatuses and methods associated with forming and using whiskers as well as forming whisker compounds is disclosed. For example, whisker detection modules can be created which provide a whisker surveillance capability. The whisker detection modules can further be coupled with a whisker response system such as an alarm or insulating material dispersing system. Another aspect of the invention is providing a variety of environments or microenvironments with regard to a whisker forming structure to affect whisker creation such as maximizing whisker formation. Another example includes provision of a variety of embodiments for manufacturing compounds of whiskers of various metal and metal alloys, including structures and methods is provided. Whisker compounds produced using various embodiments of the invention can be used for various applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710027 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 8/06 (20130101) C23C 8/12 (20130101) C23C 8/28 (20130101) C23C 28/04 (20130101) C23C 28/321 (20130101) C23C 28/322 (20130101) C23C 28/345 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 3/30 (20130101) C25D 5/48 (20130101) C25D 21/12 (20130101) Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 9/00 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 99/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/95 (20130101) G01N 2201/088 (20130101) |
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| US 09250195 | Deshpande 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) | Nishkamraj U. Deshpande (Novi, Michigan); James E Schwabe (Bedford, Indiana); H Fred Barsun (Bloomington, Indiana); Nancey J Maegerlein (Williams, Indiana); Norris J Caldwell (Bloomington, Indiana); William W Fultz (Carmel, Indiana); Lloyd W Zilch (Bloomington, Indiana); Samuel G Stuart (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An invention for making productive uses of normally undesirable whiskers is provided. Embodiments of the invention include a variety of apparatuses and methods associated with forming and using whiskers as well as forming whisker compounds is disclosed. For example, whisker detection modules can be created which provide a whisker surveillance capability. The whisker detection modules can further be coupled with a whisker response system such as an alarm or insulating material dispersing system. Another aspect of the invention is providing a variety of environments or microenvironments with regard to a whisker forming structure to affect whisker creation such as maximizing whisker formation. Another example includes provision of a variety of embodiments for manufacturing compounds of whiskers of various metal and metal alloys, including structures and methods is provided. Whisker compounds produced using various embodiments of the invention can be used for various applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/710032 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/95 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09250200 | Grubsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Grubsky (Porter Ranch, California); Volodymyr Romanoov (Torrance, California); Keith Shoemaker (Harbor City, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Grubsky (Porter Ranch, California); Volodymyr Romanoov (Torrance, California); Keith Shoemaker (Harbor City, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Compton tomography system comprises an x-ray source configured to produce a planar x-ray beam. The beam irradiates a slice of an object to be imaged, producing Compton-scattered x-rays. The Compton-scattered x-rays are imaged by an x-ray camera. Translation of the object with respect to the source and camera or vice versa allows three-dimensional object imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586682 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09250238 | Low et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald G. Reifenberger (Lafayette, Indiana); Youngsoon Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Avijit Kumar Adak (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Lyvers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kulbhushan Durugkar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Doorneweerd (Lockport, Illinois); Rajendra P. Bandari (Warangal, Indiana); Rajesh Kumar Pandey (New Haven, Connecticut); Alexei Leonov (Lafayette, Indiana); Walter A. Henne (Frankfort, Illinois); Yeong E. Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald G. Reifenberger (Lafayette, Indiana); Youngsoon Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Avijit Kumar Adak (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Lyvers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kulbhushan Durugkar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Doorneweerd (Lockport, Illinois); Rajendra P. Bandari (Warangal, Indiana); Rajesh Kumar Pandey (New Haven, Connecticut); Alexei Leonov (Lafayette, Indiana); Walter A. Henne (Frankfort, Illinois); Yeong E. Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Pathogens are detected through the use of mutation-resistant ligands. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805770 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5302 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101) G01N 33/56905 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56961 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2035/00158 (20130101) |
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| US 09250323 | Ranney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kenneth I. Ranney (Rockville, Maryland); Anthony F. Martone (Ellicott City, Maryland); Roberto Innocenti (Clarksville, Maryland); Lam H. Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth I. Ranney (Rockville, Maryland); Anthony F. Martone (Ellicott City, Maryland); Roberto Innocenti (Clarksville, Maryland); Lam H. Nguyen (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for forming an image comprising at least one processor for performing the following: initializing an N by P image array IO by setting all values to a large number; inputting at least one image frame; randomly selecting and removing a subset of pixel locations from the total number of available pixel locations to form a preliminary image array IC; for each pixel location comparing the complex magnitude of each pixel in the image array IO with the magnitude of the corresponding pixel in image array IC, and if the pixel value in the image array IC is smaller than the corresponding pixel in the image array IO or if the IC value equals 0, then the current pixel value in image array IO is replaced by the pixel value in the image array IC; and repeating for a number of iterations to form an image. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/480420 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — 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 7/414 (20130101) G01S 13/888 (20130101) G01S 13/9029 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09250496 | Thaniyavarn |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Suwat Thaniyavarn (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EOSpace Inc. (Redmond, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suwat Thaniyavarn (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Wide band phase modulators used with high power laser carriers convert high-frequency RF signals to phase-modulated optical signals. Higher laser optical power to the modulator produces larger RF signal sidebands. A carrier attenuation filter passes the attenuated carrier and non-attenuated RF modulation sidebands. Carrier attenuation leaves the larger RF signal sidebands. A demodulation filter used with a photodetector or a balanced photodetector pair converts the phase-modulated optical signal back to an electrical signal. Carrier-only attenuation allows high power laser use, avoids photodetector damage or saturation, and provides increased RF link gain, low noise figure (NF) and high spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR). Filtered-out carrier power fed back to the laser source increases to overall system efficiency. An additional optical delay filter with dual outputs used with a polarization multiplexer or a coherent combiner coupler combines signal power to a single photodetector to further increase electro-optic signal conversion efficiency. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/623951 |
| 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 1/0356 (20130101) G02F 1/2255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission H04B 10/2575 (20130101) |
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| US 09250629 | Litwinowicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Litwinowicz (Derby, Connecticut); Vineet Sahasrabudhe (Cheshire, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A helicopter is provided and includes an air frame formed to accommodate a pilot, flight control elements disposed on the airframe to generate lift and thrust in accordance with control commands issued by the pilot and a current control mode, a sensor disposed on the airframe to sense helicopter proximity to terrain and obstacles and a flight computer configured to change the current control mode based on sensed helicopter proximity to the terrain and the obstacles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243582 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/04 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09250682 | Hasenplaugh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Tryggve Fossum (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing distributed power control in a processor comprising an array of cores enables each core to regulate power at least partially independently. Global power management settings are made accessible to all cores and communication between cores propagates power consumption information between nearest neighbors in the array. Each core attempts to best regulate its own power consumption in accordance with global power consumption information and/or specific instructions from a global power manager. In this manner local opportunistic load balancing may be achieved in a scalable manner suitable for a large array of cores. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/732289 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/324 (20130101) G06F 1/3203 (20130101) G06F 1/3206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3234 (20130101) G06F 1/3243 (20130101) G06F 1/3275 (20130101) G06F 1/3287 (20130101) G06F 1/3296 (20130101) G06F 9/3885 (20130101) G06F 9/5094 (20130101) |
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| US 09250937 | Franz 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) | Michael Franz (Irvine, California); Andrei Homescu (Irvine, California); Stefan Brunthaler (Irvine, California); Per Larsen (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system-wide service can simultaneously harden multiple running JITs, for example by hooking into the memory protections of a target operating system and randomizing newly generated code on the fly when marked as executable. Some embodiments preserve the contents of the calling stack, presenting each JIT with the illusion that it is executing its own generated code. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/535319 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/45516 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 21/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09251073 | Steely et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon C. Steely (Hudson, New Hampshire); William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi core processor implements a cash coherency protocol in which probe messages are address-ordered on a probe channel while responses are un-ordered on a response channel. When a first core generates a read of an address that misses in the first core's cache, a line fill is initiated. If a second core is writing the same address, the second core generates an update on the addressed ordered probe channel. The second core's update may arrive before or after the first core's line fill returns. If the update arrived before the fill returned, a mask is maintained to indicate which portions of the line were modified by the update so that the late arriving line fill only modifies portions of the line that were unaffected by the earlier-arriving update. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/732242 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0811 (20130101) G06F 12/0828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0886 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09251191 — System and method for indexing of geospatial data using three-dimensional Cartesian space
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew L. Urquhart (Wylie, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a system and method for indexing of geospatial data using three-dimensional Cartesian space are generally described herein. In an aspect, such example methods may include calculating endpoints of a segment, wherein the endpoints are specified in Cartesian coordinates and are located on a substantially spherical surface, defining a boundary of a polygon according to the segment, computing one or more normals corresponding to one or more planes, wherein each of the one or more planes contain a test point and a boundary point associated with the boundary, obtaining a boundary sine value of an angle defined by an arc subtended by the endpoints, summing each of a group of angle values derived from the boundary sine value to obtain an angle sum, wherein the group contains the boundary sine value, and determining whether the test point is inside the polygon based on the angle sum. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791275 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/3033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30241 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09251417 | Xu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiejun Xu (Chino, California); Deepak Khosla (Camarillo, California); Kyungnam Kim (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for open doorway detection for autonomous robot exploration, the system includes an onboard range sensor that is operable for constructing a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of a scene. One or more processors that receive the 3D point cloud from the range sensor. The 3D point cloud is then filtered and downsampled to remove cloud points outside of a predefined range and reduce a size of the point cloud and, in doing so, generate a filtered and downsampled 3D point cloud. Vertical planes are extracted from the filtered and downsampled 3D point cloud. Finally, open doorways are identified from each extracted vertical plane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/515414 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00624 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/4604 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4023 (20130101) G06T 2210/21 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09251424 | Thornton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Thornton (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Daniel J. Butler (Rochester, New York); Jeanette T. Baran-Gale (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and media are described for computer-assisted video surveillance. Methods may support detection of moving persons in video frames, extraction of features of the detected moving persons and identification of which detected moving persons are likely matches to a person of interest. Identification of the likely matches may be determined using an attribute-based search, and/or using a specific person-based search. The method may include using likely matches confirmed as images of the person of interest to reconstruct a path of the person of interest. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/745401 |
| ART UNIT | 2422 — Cable and Television |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00771 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00805 (20130101) G06K 9/3241 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/18 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09251475 | Chen 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) | Jilin Chen (Mountain View, California); Kyumin Lee (College Station, Texas); Jalal U. Mahmud (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for selecting strangers for information spreading on a social network. For the strangers who are users of the social network and not related to each other, information spreading probabilities based on features, information reach, and information spreading probabilities based on a wait time are computed. Fitness scores of the strangers are computed; the fitness scores are a function of the information spreading probabilities, the information reach, and the information spreading probabilities. The strangers are ranked, based on the fitness scores, in a sorted set. One or more of the strangers for the information spreading are selected from the sorted set. The one or more of the strangers for the information spreading are selected by determining an interval in the sorted set, and the interval satisfies an optimization objective of minimizing time for the information spreading within a confidence probability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/874800 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09251884 | Elmegreen 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) | Bruce G. Elmegreen (Goldens Bridge, New York); Glenn J. Martyna (Croton on Hudson, New York); Dennis M. Newns (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alejandro G. Schrott (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonvolatile memory storage device includes a ferroelectric (FE) material coupled with a piezoresistive (PR) material through an inherent piezoelectric response of the FE material, wherein an electrical resistance of the PR material is dependent on a compressive stress applied thereto, the compressive stress caused by a remanent strain of the FE material resulting from a polarization of the FE material, such that a polarized state of the FE material results in a first resistance value of the PR material, and a depolarized state of the FE material results in a second resistance value of the PR material. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222813 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 13/00 (20130101) G11C 13/0002 (20130101) G11C 13/0004 (20130101) G11C 2013/0095 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252005 | Ramsey 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) | J. Michael Ramsey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kevin Schultze (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature electrode apparatus is disclosed for trapping charged particles, the apparatus including, along a longitudinal direction: a first end cap electrode; a central electrode having an aperture; and a second end cap electrode. The aperture is elongated in the lateral plane and extends through the central electrode along the longitudinal direction and the central electrode surrounds the aperture in a lateral plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to define a transverse cavity for trapping charged particles. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/456686 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/02 (20130101) H01J 49/06 (20130101) H01J 49/0013 (20130101) H01J 49/0031 (20130101) H01J 49/062 (20130101) H01J 49/424 (20130101) H01J 49/4235 (20130101) H01J 49/4245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252069 | Bhunia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Avijit Bhunia (Agoura Hills, California); Alex P. Moffatt (Thousand Oaks, California); Mark R. Gardner (Oxnard, California); Chung-Lung Chen (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avijit Bhunia (Agoura Hills, California); Alex P. Moffatt (Thousand Oaks, California); Mark R. Gardner (Oxnard, California); Chung-Lung Chen (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling apparatus includes a direct-bonded copper (“DBC”) substrate, the DBC substrate having a plurality of micro-structure tabs formed on a fluid impingement side of the DBC substrate, and a jet head in complementary opposition to the fluid impingement side. The jet head has a first plurality of micro-jets facing the fluid impingement side, each of the first plurality of micro-jets having a nozzle, and a second plurality of micro-jets facing the fluid impingement side so the jet head is configured to deliver a fluid to the plurality of micro-structure tabs through the first and second plurality of micro-jets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873226 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/3735 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 23/4735 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48091 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00014 (20130101) H01L 2924/19107 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252118 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siddharth Jain (Santa Barbara, California); John Bowers (Santa Barbara, California); Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, California); John Heck (Berkeley, California); Ran Feldesh (Gan Yavne, Israel); Richard Jones (San Mateo, California); Yoel Shetrit (Kfar Ben-Nun, Israel); Michael Geva (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddharth Jain (Santa Barbara, California); John Bowers (Santa Barbara, California); Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, California); John Heck (Berkeley, California); Ran Feldesh (Gan Yavne, Israel); Richard Jones (San Mateo, California); Yoel Shetrit (Kfar Ben-Nun, Israel); Michael Geva (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor metallurgy includes a ratio of germanium and palladium that provides low contact resistance to both n-type material and p-type material. The metallurgy allows for a contact that does not include gold and is compatible with mass-production CMOS techniques. The ratio of germanium and palladium can be achieved by stacking layers of the materials and annealing the stack, or simultaneously depositing the germanium and palladium on the material where the contact is to be manufactured. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/995689 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/8258 (20130101) H01L 21/28575 (20130101) H01L 21/823814 (20130101) H01L 21/823871 (20130101) H01L 24/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/1203 (20130101) H01L 29/20 (20130101) H01L 29/452 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00011 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01015 (20130101) H01L 2924/01015 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/021 (20130101) H01S 5/0425 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252175 | Savoy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steve M. Savoy (Austin, Texas); Daniel R. Mitchell (Austin, Texas); Jeremy J. John (Austin, Texas); Byron G. Zollars (Georgetown, Texas); George L. Murphy (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve M. Savoy (Austin, Texas); Daniel R. Mitchell (Austin, Texas); Jeremy J. John (Austin, Texas); Byron G. Zollars (Georgetown, Texas); George L. Murphy (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectroscopic filter arrays and methods for making spectroscopic filter arrays are provided. The arrays are formed using a dispersion of filter particles having selected moieties attached to the surface of the particles and a microarray having complementary moieties formed in an array on a substrate, such that each filter particle is attached to a selected region of the microarray. The moiety on the substrate may be RNA or DNA or other molecule. The substrate may be a surface of a photodetector array, a transparent plate that may be placed in registration with the photodetector or a stamp used to transfer the filter array to a photodetector array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069928 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14625 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/14685 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252308 | 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 | 14/673345 |
| 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 09252320 | 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 | 14/673249 |
| 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) H01L 31/1876 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02164 (20130101) |
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| US 09252329 | Northrup et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John E. Northrup (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chua (San Jose, California); Michael Kneissl (Berlin, Germany); Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Northrup (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Chua (San Jose, California); Michael Kneissl (Berlin, Germany); Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Light emitting devices having an enhanced degree of polarization, PD, and methods for fabricating such devices are described. A light emitting device may include a light emitting region that is configured to emit light having a central wavelength, λ, and a degree of polarization, PD, where PD>0.006λ−b for 200 nm≦λ≦400 nm, wherein b≦1.5. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/328783 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252391 | Mandlik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant Mandlik (Princeton, New Jersey); Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey A. Silvernail (Ewing, New Jersey); Ruiqing Ma (Ewing, New Jersey); Julia J. Brown (Ewing, New Jersey); Lin Han (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for protecting an electronic device comprising an organic device body. The method involves the use of a hybrid layer deposited by chemical vapor deposition. The hybrid layer comprises a mixture of a polymeric material and a non-polymeric material, wherein the weight ratio of polymeric to non-polymeric material is in the range of 95:5 to 5:95, and wherein the polymeric material and the non-polymeric material are created from the same source of precursor material. Also disclosed are techniques for impeding the lateral diffusion of environmental contaminants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/065877 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/02 (20130101) C23C 16/04 (20130101) C23C 16/22 (20130101) C23C 16/30 (20130101) C23C 16/40 (20130101) C23C 16/52 (20130101) C23C 16/0272 (20130101) C23C 16/505 (20130101) C23C 16/517 (20130101) C23C 16/45523 (20130101) C23C 30/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/5203 (20130101) H01L 51/5253 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2251/566 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas O. Jones, III (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna is adapted for operation over a broadband frequency. The antenna includes a conical portion and a tapered portion. The conical portion may have a bicone structure, where each cone has a tapered portion. The tapered portion tapers asymptotically with an exponential. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/042197 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/02 (20130101) H01Q 13/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252501 | Franzon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul D. Franzon (New Hill, North Carolina); Peter Gadfort (Raleigh, North Carolina); Wallace Shepherd Pitts (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Franzon (New Hill, North Carolina); Peter Gadfort (Raleigh, North Carolina); Wallace Shepherd Pitts (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Millimeter scale three dimensional antenna structures and methods for fabricating such structures are disclosed. According to one method, a first substantially planar die having a first antenna structure is placed on a first surface. A second substantially planar die having at least one conductive element is placed on a second surface that forms an oblique angle with the first surface. The first and second dies are mechanically coupled to each other such that the first die and the first antenna structure extend at the oblique angle to the second die. |
| FILED | Monday, May 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/481928 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) H01Q 7/00 (20130101) H01Q 21/24 (20130101) H01Q 21/205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
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| US 09252559 | Narayanan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chellappan Narayanan (Morristown, New Jersey); Glen A. Sanders (Morristown, New Jersey); Lee K. Strandjord (Morristown, New Jersey); Jianfeng Wu (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chellappan Narayanan (Morristown, New Jersey); Glen A. Sanders (Morristown, New Jersey); Lee K. Strandjord (Morristown, New Jersey); Jianfeng Wu (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical-fiber filter system to narrow a linewidth and to reduce noise fluctuations of an optical beam is provided. The optical-fiber filter system includes an optical fiber having a first end-face and an opposing second end-face, the first end-face and the second end-face setting a fiber length; a fiber Bragg grating having a first reflectivity positioned at the first end-face; and a reflector having a second reflectivity positioned at the second end-face. When the optical beam at a first frequency is coupled from a laser into one of the first end-face or the second end-face, a resonant cavity is established at the first frequency between the fiber Bragg grating and the reflector while Brillouin scattered light shifted from the first frequency within the optical fiber is transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/545497 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/721 (20130101) G01C 19/727 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/10023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09252640 | Gillett et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cummins Power Generation IP, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CUMMINS POWER GENERATION IP, INC. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel D. Gillett (Mounds View, Minnesota); Shawn J. Kipka (Saint Francis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a housing having a ventilation opening. A component such as a generator set can be disposed within an interior space of the housing. A baffle can be disposed within the interior space of the housing at a location that obstructs an acoustic line of sight between the ventilation opening and the component to eliminate or otherwise reduce a sound signature of the component. The baffle can also be configured to accumulate water from the ventilation opening. A drain can also be provided to aid in the removal of water accumulated by the baffle and route the water outside the housing. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/536377 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Cooling of Machines or Engines in General; Cooling of Internal-combustion Engines F01P 7/16 (20130101) F01P 7/167 (20130101) F01P 2007/146 (20130101) F01P 2025/62 (20130101) F01P 2060/08 (20130101) Internal-combustion Piston Engines; Combustion Engines in General F02B 63/044 (20130101) Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 5/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09252658 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunghyuk Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hae-Seung Lee (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A level-crossing based circuit with offset voltage cancellation includes a first level-crossing detector section having a first output capacitor, wherein the first level-crossing section is configured to charge the first output capacitor to a first voltage corresponding to an input signal. The first voltage includes a first offset voltage. The level-crossing based circuit also includes a second level-crossing detector section having a second output capacitor, wherein the second level-crossing detector section is configured to discharge the second output capacitor to a second voltage corresponding to the input signal such that the second voltage includes a second offset voltage that is substantially equal in magnitude to the first offset voltage and opposite in polarity to the first offset voltage relative to an average of the first voltage and the second voltage. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651065 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Conversion Between AC and AC, Between AC and DC, or Between DC and DC, and for Use With Mains or Similar Power Supply Systems; Conversion of DC or AC Input Power into Surge Output Power; Control or Regulation Thereof H02M 3/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09252688 | Diez Garias |
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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) | Francisco Javier Diez Garias (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrokinetic actuator for a propulsion system is described. The actuator includes an array of channels, with each channel having an inlet and an outlet. A reservoir is included that contains an ionic solution of particles. A first electrode proximate to (or deposited at) the inlet and a second electrode proximate to (or deposited at) the outlet are connected to a voltage source. The voltage source and electrodes apply a voltage across the length of the channels to generate an electric field parallel to each channel. The electric field causes an electro-osmotic flow of ions from the reservoir to the outlet producing electrokinetic thrust at the outlet. By varying the concentration of the ionic solution and the magnitude of the electric field, the electro-osmotic flow of ions is controlled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/024043 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Offensive or Defensive Arrangements on Vessels; Mine-laying; Mine-sweeping; Submarines; Aircraft Carriers B63G 8/08 (20130101) Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 1/00 (20130101) Producing a Reactive Propulsive Thrust, Not Otherwise Provided for F03H 1/0012 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 11/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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09252704 — Voltage tunable oscillator using bilayer graphene and a lead zirconate titanate capacitor
| US 09252704 | Nayfeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Osama M. Nayfeh (Adelphi, Maryland); Stephen James Kilpatrick (Olney, Maryland); James Wilson (Washington, District of Columbia); Madam Dubey (South River, New Jersey); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Osama M. Nayfeh (Adelphi, Maryland); Stephen James Kilpatrick (Olney, Maryland); James Wilson (Washington, District of Columbia); Madam Dubey (South River, New Jersey); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A voltage controlled oscillator comprising a substrate and a bilayer graphene transistor formed on the substrate. The transistor has two signal terminals and a gate terminal positioned in between the signal terminals. A voltage controlled PZT or MEMS capacitor is also formed on the substrate. The capacitor is electrically connected to the transistor gate terminal. At least one component is connected to the transistor and capacitor to form a resonant circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/471490 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 28/55 (20130101) H01L 51/0045 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) H01L 2924/13088 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 5/00 (20130101) H03B 5/12 (20130101) H03B 5/124 (20130101) H03B 5/1203 (20130101) H03B 5/1228 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03B 2200/0012 (20130101) |
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| US 09252712 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhipeng Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yehuda Avniel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexandre Megretski (Concord, Massachusetts); Vladimir Marko Stojanovic (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhipeng Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yehuda Avniel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alexandre Megretski (Concord, Massachusetts); Vladimir Marko Stojanovic (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a fixed-point piece-wise linear (FP PWL) approximation technique for computations of nonlinear functions. The technique results in circuit designs having relatively few and simple arithmetic operations, short arithmetic operands and small-sized look-up tables and the circuits resultant there from can be efficiently pipelined to run at multi-GSamples/s throughputs. In one exemplary embodiment, the FP PWL approximation technique was used in the design of an energy-efficient high-throughput and high-precision signal component separator (SCS) for use with in an asymmetric-multilevel-outphasing (AMO) power amplifier. The FP PWL approximation technique is appropriate for use in any application requiring high-throughput, area and power constrained hardware implementations of nonlinear functions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/400061 |
| ART UNIT | 2631 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5068 (20130101) Amplifiers H03F 1/0205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 1/0294 (20130101) H03F 3/19 (20130101) H03F 3/245 (20130101) H03F 2200/336 (20130101) H03F 2200/451 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03 (20130101) H04L 27/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09252731 | Kenig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eyal Kenig (Los Angeles, California); Michael C. Cross (Arroyo Grande, California); Ron Lifshitz (Kfar Saba, Israel); Rassul Karabalin (Los Angeles, California); Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo (Naerum, Denmark); Matthew Matheny (Diamond Bar, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive electro-mechanical device that reduces phase noise in oscillators, thereby improving their frequency precision. The noise reduction device can consist of a pair of coupled nonlinear resonators that are driven parametrically—by modulating their natural frequency in time, through the output signal of a conventional oscillator at a frequency close to the sum of the linear mode frequencies. Above the threshold for parametric response, the coupled resonators can exhibit oscillation at an inherent frequency. The novel possibility for noise elimination is realized by tuning the system to operating points for which this periodic signal is immune to frequency noise in the drive signal, providing a way to clean the phase noise of the driving oscillator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/155018 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09252823 | Weiner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Weiner (West Lafayette, Indiana); Amir Dezfooliyan (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication system is disclosed. The system includes a transmitter which includes a data source configured to provide data to be transmitted, a modulator configured to modulate the data, a pre-filter configured to apply a filter to the modulated data generating pre-filtered data, and a transmitter antenna configured to receive the pre-filtered data and to transmit the pre-filtered data, the pre-filter based on a phase compensation topology that is based on channel characteristics between the transmitter and a receiver, the frequency response of the pre-filter based on spectral phase information of the channel such that the frequency response at the receiver is proportional to the magnitude of the channel frequency response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/453573 |
| ART UNIT | 2648 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/0475 (20130101) H04B 1/1081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09253077 | Chang 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) | Yuan-Chi Chang (Armonk, New York); Mustafa Canim (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for searching the top-K simple shortest paths between a specified source node and a specified target node in a graph, with graph data partitioned and distributed across a plurality of computing servers, the method including a parallel path search initialized from either one or both of the source and target nodes and traversing the graph by building likely path sequences for a match. Each computing server determines and forwards a path sequence as discovery progresses until the top-K paths are discovered. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690282 |
| ART UNIT | 2449 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09253201 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yingbo Song (Hazlet, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yingbo Song (Hazlet, New Jersey); Angelos D. Keromytis (New York, New York); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and media for detecting network anomalies are provided. In some embodiments, a training dataset of communication protocol messages having argument strings is received. The content and structure associated with each of the argument strings is determined and a probabilistic model is trained using the determined content and structure of each of the argument strings. A communication protocol message having an argument string that is transmitted from a first processor to a second processor across a computer network is received. The received communication protocol message is compared to the probabilistic model and then it is determined whether the communication protocol message is anomalous. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/476142 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1416 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/1466 (20130101) H04L 67/02 (20130101) H04L 69/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09253286 | Bell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Blaine A. Bell (New York, New York); Steven K. Feiner (New York, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Blaine A. Bell (New York, New York); Steven K. Feiner (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of data programming involves a computer generating a tabular storage structure that includes data and code. The code is defined by a column of the tabular storage structure. The computer can then execute a program using the tabular storage structure. The code of the tabular storage structure governs an operation of the program. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/567728 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/542 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09253608 | Medard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Xiaomeng Shi (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Marie-Jose Montpetit (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Surat Teerapittayanon (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kerim Fouli (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Xiaomeng Shi (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Marie-Jose Montpetit (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Surat Teerapittayanon (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kerim Fouli (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Network-coding-enabled reliability architectures and techniques are provided that are capable of enhancing data transfer reliability and efficiency in next generation wireless networks. In some embodiments, the techniques and architectures utilize a flexible thread-based coding approach to implement network coding. The techniques and architectures may also, or alternatively, utilize systematic intra-session random linear network coding as a packet erasure code to support reliable data transfer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/013324 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0011 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 28/04 (20130101) H04W 40/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Roscosky (Irwin, Pennsylvania); Shane M. Essay (Greenock, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Roscosky (Irwin, Pennsylvania); Shane M. Essay (Greenock, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a tool having a tapered first portion configured to translate a rotational force to the stuck member, a second portion connecting with the first portion and configured to translate the rotational force to the tapered first portion, a planar tip at an end of the first portion and perpendicular to a central axis passing through the first portion and the second portion, a plurality of left-handed splines extending helically around the central axis from the tip toward the second portion, a driver engaged with the second portion and configured to receive a third rotational force from a mechanical manipulator, and a leak seal connected to the driver and configured to form a seal around the stuck member and at least a portion of the driver and prevent gases opposite the stuck member from escaping. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/107820 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools or Bench Devices Not Otherwise Provided For, for Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging or Holding B25B 15/005 (20130101) B25B 27/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49822 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09248970 | Schneider et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Natel Energy, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Natel Energy, Inc. (Alameda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abraham D. Schneider (San Francisco, California); Erick M. Davidson (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a belt assembly including a flexible belt with an improved belt attachment. The belt attachment includes two crossbars spaced along the length of the belt. The crossbars retain bearings that allow predetermined movement in six degrees of freedom. The crossbars are connected by a rigid body that attaches to the bearings. Implements that are attached to the rigid body are simply supported but restrained in pitching rotation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/661659 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 17/12 (20130101) B65G 17/42 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249166 | Nyman |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | May D. Nyman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrothermal synthesis method of making a delaminated titanate is disclosed. The delaminated titanate has a unique structure or morphology. The delaminated titanate is first formed by forming at a low temperature a layered sodium nonatitanate (SNT), which may be referred to as layered sodium titanate. The layered SNT has a unique morphology. The layered SNT is then synthesized into a delaminated titanate having a unique morphology. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313819 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/001 (20130101) C01G 23/005 (20130101) C01G 23/006 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 7/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09249241 | Dai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Joanna Gorka (Knoxville, Tennessee); Richard T. Mayes (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A functionalized mesoporous carbon composition comprising a mesoporous carbon scaffold having mesopores in which polyvinyl polymer grafts are covalently attached, wherein said mesopores have a size of at least 2 nm and up to 50 nm. Also described is a method for producing the functionalized mesoporous composition, wherein a reaction medium comprising a precursor mesoporous carbon, vinyl monomer, initiator, and solvent is subjected to sonication of sufficient power to result in grafting and polymerization of the vinyl monomer into mesopores of the precursor mesoporous carbon. Also described are methods for using the functionalized mesoporous carbon, particularly in extracting metal ions from metal-containing solutions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/851523 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 20/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08F 220/32 (20130101) Production and Refining of Metals; Pretreatment of Raw Materials C22B 3/24 (20130101) C22B 59/00 (20130101) C22B 60/0217 (20130101) |
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| US 09249333 | Kissel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Kissel (Andover, Minnesota); Charles Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Kissel (Andover, Minnesota); Charles Jeffrey Brinker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are polymer-aerogel composite coatings, devices and articles including polymer-aerogel composite coatings, and methods for preparing the polymer-aerogel composite. The exemplary article can include a surface, wherein the surface includes at least one region and a polymer-aerogel composite coating disposed over the at least one region, wherein the polymer-aerogel composite coating has a water contact angle of at least about 140° and a contact angle hysteresis of less than about 1°. The polymer-aerogel composite coating can include a polymer and an ultra high water content catalyzed polysilicate aerogel, the polysilicate aerogel including a three dimensional network of silica particles having surface functional groups derivatized with a silylating agent and a plurality of pores. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157918 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 55/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/36 (20130101) C08K 9/06 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/006 (20130101) C09D 5/14 (20130101) C09D 5/165 (20130101) C09D 5/1681 (20130101) C09D 7/1225 (20130101) C09D 133/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24999 (20150401) Y10T 428/249953 (20150401) Y10T 428/249972 (20150401) Y10T 428/249991 (20150401) Y10T 442/20 (20150401) |
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| US 09249432 | Brunecky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roman Brunecky (Arvada, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are enzymes and combinations of the enzymes useful for the hydrolysis of cellulose and the conversion of biomass. Methods of degrading cellulose and biomass using enzymes and cocktails of enzymes are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/941754 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09249440 | Adams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. W. Adams (Athens, Georgia); Robert C. Hopkins (Athens, Georgia); Francis E. Jenney, Jr. (Athens, Georgia); Junsong Sun (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are polypeptides having hydrogenase activity. The polypeptide may be multimeric, and may have hydrogenase activity of at least 0.05 micromoles H2 produced min−1 mg protein−1. Also provided herein are polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, genetically modified microbes that include polynucleotides encoding one or more subunits of the multimeric polypeptide, and methods for making and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/204802 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0004 (20130101) C12N 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 15/62 (20130101) C12N 15/74 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249442 | Mielenz |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Richard Mielenz (Rockwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of converting biomass to biofuel, and particularly to a consolidated bioprocessing method using a co-culture of thermophilic and extremely thermophilic microorganisms which collectively can ferment the hexose and pentose sugars produced by degradation of cellulose and hemicelluloses at high substrate conversion rates. A culture medium therefor is also provided as well as use of the methods to produce and recover cellulosic ethanol. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/762619 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — 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 1/20 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 7/54 (20130101) C12P 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09249474 | Raab et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Michael Raab (Arlington, Massachusetts); Dongcheng Zhang (Newton, Massachusetts); Oleg Bougri (Boise, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agrivida, Inc. (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Michael Raab (Arlington, Massachusetts); Dongcheng Zhang (Newton, Massachusetts); Oleg Bougri (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for consolidated pretreatment and hydrolysis of genetically engineered plants expressing cell wall degrading enzymes are provided. Expression cassettes and vectors for making transgenic plants are described. Plants engineered to express one or more cell wall degrading enzymes using expression cassettes and vectors of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/414627 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 15/8216 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09249506 | Forrest et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory McGraw (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A first device is provided. The first device includes a print head, and a first gas source hermetically sealed to the print head. The print head further includes a first layer further comprising a plurality of apertures, each aperture having a smallest dimension of 0.5 to 500 microns. A second layer is bonded to the first layer. The second layer includes a first via in fluid communication with the first gas source and at least one of the apertures. The second layer is made of an insulating material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/864783 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05C 5/0291 (20130101) Typewriters; Selective Printing Mechanisms,, i.e Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From a Forme; Correction of Typographical Errors B41J 2/005 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 14/12 (20130101) C23C 14/24 (20130101) C23C 16/54 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249549 | Warner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (Batavia, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arden A. Warner (Oswego, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for efficient oil spill cleanup are disclosed. Inserting magnetic filings in the oil magnetizes the spilled oil. An electromagnetic boom associated with an oil spill cleanup apparatus are used to create a magnetic field proximate to the electromagnetic boom. The magnetic field draws the magnetized oil toward the boom. The magnetic field is periodically switched on and off to create a pumping effect and draws the magnetized oil to a collection apparatus. The electromagnetic boom is directed through the effected environment using a thruster on the distal end of the boom. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/325489 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/484 (20130101) C02F 1/488 (20130101) C02F 1/681 (20130101) C02F 2101/32 (20130101) C02F 2103/007 (20130101) C02F 2201/48 (20130101) Hydraulic Engineering E02B 15/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249669 | Garcia-Crespo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andres Garcia-Crespo (Greenville, South Carolina); Jerome Walter Goike (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres Garcia-Crespo (Greenville, South Carolina); Jerome Walter Goike (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic matrix composite blade for use in a gas turbine engine having an airfoil with leading and trailing edges and pressure and suction side surfaces, a blade shank secured to the lower end of each airfoil, one or more interior fluid cavities within the airfoil having inlet flow passages at the lower end which are in fluid communication with the blade shank, one or more passageways in the blade shank corresponding to each one of the interior fluid cavities and a fluid pump (or compressor) that provides pressurized fluid (nominally cool, dry air) to each one of the interior fluid cavities in each airfoil. The fluid (e.g., air) is sufficient in pressure and volume to maintain a minimum fluid flow to each of the interior fluid cavities in the event of a breach due to foreign object damage. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/439892 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/18 (20130101) F01D 5/147 (20130101) F01D 5/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01D 5/187 (20130101) F01D 21/003 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/6033 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) Y02T 50/676 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49337 (20150115) |
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| US 09250007 | Kuehl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven John Kuehl (Stevensville, Michigan); John J. Vonderhaar (St. Joseph, Michigan); Guolian Wu (St. Joseph, Michigan); Mianxue Wu (St. Joseh, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An appliance that includes a cabinet having an exterior surface; a refrigeration compartment located within the cabinet; and a hydrophilic structure disposed on the exterior surface. The hydrophilic structure is configured to spread condensation. The appliance further includes a wicking structure located in proximity to the hydrophilic structure, and the wicking structure is configured to receive the condensation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/493399 |
| ART UNIT | 3637 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigerators; Cold Rooms; Ice-boxes; Cooling or Freezing Apparatus Not Otherwise Provided for F25D 21/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F25D 23/065 (20130101) F25D 2321/147 (20130101) F25D 2323/021 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Albert Challener (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wavelength assignment system in one embodiment includes an upstream port, a sensor port, and a downstream port. The upstream port is configured to receive a transmitted signal including a drive component and a read component comprising individual read channel components at corresponding individual read wavelengths. The sensor port is configured to provide a sensor component of the transmitted signal including a sensor portion of the drive component and substantially all of an individual read channel component to a sensor. The downstream port is configured to provide a downstream component including a downstream portion of the drive component and at least one additional read channel component of the transmitted signal to at least one additional sensor disposed downstream of the sensor. The wavelength assignment system is configured to receive the transmitted signal and separate the transmitted signal into the sensor component and the downstream component. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/226062 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 7/02 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 11/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 11/025 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 8/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09250162 | Braden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason D. Braden (Clinton, Tennessee); Andrew G. Harter (Knoxville, Tennessee); Brad J. Stinson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nicholas M. Sullivan (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides apparatuses for collecting aerosol samples by ionizing an air sample at different degrees. An air flow is generated through a cavity in which at least one corona wire is disposed and electrically charged to form a corona therearound. At least one grounded sample collection plate is provided downstream of the at least one corona wire so that aerosol ions generated within the corona are deposited on the at least one grounded sample collection plate. A plurality of aerosol samples ionized to different degrees can be generated. The at least one corona wire may be perpendicular to the direction of the flow, or may be parallel to the direction of the flow. The apparatus can include a serial connection of a plurality of stages such that each stage is capable of generating at least one aerosol sample, and the air flow passes through the plurality of stages serially. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/963331 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 3/09 (20130101) B03C 3/12 (20130101) B03C 3/32 (20130101) B03C 3/41 (20130101) B03C 3/47 (20130101) B03C 3/82 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/2202 (20130101) G01N 1/2208 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 15/0266 (20130101) G01N 2001/2223 (20130101) G01N 2015/0046 (20130101) |
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| US 09250200 | Grubsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Grubsky (Porter Ranch, California); Volodymyr Romanoov (Torrance, California); Keith Shoemaker (Harbor City, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Grubsky (Porter Ranch, California); Volodymyr Romanoov (Torrance, California); Keith Shoemaker (Harbor City, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Compton tomography system comprises an x-ray source configured to produce a planar x-ray beam. The beam irradiates a slice of an object to be imaged, producing Compton-scattered x-rays. The Compton-scattered x-rays are imaged by an x-ray camera. Translation of the object with respect to the source and camera or vice versa allows three-dimensional object imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586682 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09250351 | Aldridge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CARBO Ceramics Inc. (Houston, Texas); SANDIA CORPORATION (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CARBO Ceramics Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Aldridge (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lewis C. Bartel (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Born Scattering Inversion (BSI) systems and methods are disclosed. A BSI system may be incorporated in a well system for accessing natural gas, oil and geothermal reserves in a geologic formation beneath the surface of the Earth. The BSI system may be used to generate a three-dimensional image of a proppant-filled hydraulically-induced fracture in the geologic formation. The BSI system may include computing equipment and sensors for measuring electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the fracture before and after the fracture is generated, adjusting the parameters of a first Born approximation model of a scattered component of the surface electromagnetic fields using the measured electromagnetic fields, and generating the image of the proppant-filled fracture using the adjusted parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/592225 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 3/26 (20130101) G01V 3/30 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01V 3/38 (20130101) G01V 99/00 (20130101) G01V 99/005 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond P. Mariella, Jr. (Danville, California); Yves M. Dardenne (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods for nuclear radiation cleanup and uranium prospecting include the steps of identifying an area; collecting samples; sample preparation; identification, assay, and analysis; and relating the samples to the area. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/589150 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2001/021 (20130101) G01N 2001/028 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 7/02 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 5/02 (20130101) G01V 5/0091 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Milnes P. David (Fishkill, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Robert E. Simons (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Milnes P. David (Fishkill, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Woodstock, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Robert E. Simons (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Cooling control methods include measuring a temperature of air provided to a plurality of nodes by an air-to-liquid heat exchanger, measuring a temperature of at least one component of the plurality of nodes and finding a maximum component temperature across all such nodes, comparing the maximum component temperature to a first and second component threshold and comparing the air temperature to a first and second air threshold, and controlling a proportion of coolant flow and a coolant flow rate to the air-to-liquid heat exchanger and the plurality of nodes based on the comparisons. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/439471 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 23/1932 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/206 (20130101) G06F 2200/201 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20836 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1275 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota); Hanhong Xue (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota); Hanhong Xue (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel computer executes a number of tasks, each task includes a number of endpoints and the endpoints are configured to support collective operations. In such a parallel computer, establishing a group of endpoints receiving a user specification of a set of endpoints included in a global collection of endpoints, where the user specification defines the set in accordance with a predefined virtual representation of the endpoints, the predefined virtual representation is a data structure setting forth an organization of tasks and endpoints included in the global collection of endpoints and the user specification defines the set of endpoints without a user specification of a particular endpoint; and defining a group of endpoints in dependence upon the predefined virtual representation of the endpoints and the user specification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/231326 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/546 (20130101) |
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| US 09250949 | Archer 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) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Seattle, Washington); Brian E. Smith (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hanghong Xue (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel computer executes a number of tasks, each task includes a number of endpoints and the endpoints are configured to support collective operations. In such a parallel computer, establishing a group of endpoints receiving a user specification of a set of endpoints included in a global collection of endpoints, where the user specification defines the set in accordance with a predefined virtual representation of the endpoints, the predefined virtual representation is a data structure setting forth an organization of tasks and endpoints included in the global collection of endpoints and the user specification defines the set of endpoints without a user specification of a particular endpoint; and defining a group of endpoints in dependence upon the predefined virtual representation of the endpoints and the user specification. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690474 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/546 (20130101) |
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| US 09251678 | Baumann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Baumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michal Kuca (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mona L. Aragon (Bernalillo, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A security system includes a structure having a structural surface. The structure is sized to contain an asset therein and configured to provide a forceful breaching delay. The structure has an opening formed therein to permit predetermined access to the asset contained within the structure. The structure includes intrusion detection features within or associated with the structure that are activated in response to at least a partial breach of the structure. |
| FILED | Monday, October 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/053217 |
| ART UNIT | 2684 — Telemetry and Code Generation Vehicles and System Alarms |
| CURRENT CPC | Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/08 (20130101) G08B 13/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09251938 | Kandapallil et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Binil Itty Ipe Kandapallil (Mechanicville, New York); Robert Edgar Colborn (Niskayuna, New York); Peter John Bonitatibus, Jr. (Saratoga Springs, New York); Francis Johnson (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synthesizing magnetic nanoparticles comprising soft magnetic phases is provided, wherein the method comprises degassing a first mixture at a temperature in a range from about 80° C. to 130° C. The first mixture comprises a solvent, a compound comprising iron, cobalt, or combinations thereof dissolved in the solvent, and an organic component comprising a fatty acid or an amine. Degassing the first mixture is followed by adding a capping ligand to the first mixture under inert atmosphere to form a second mixture; adding a reducing agent to the second mixture at a temperature in a processing temperature range from about 250° C. to about 350° C. to form a third mixture; and incubating the third mixture at a temperature within the processing temperature range to form nanoparticles comprising a soft magnetic phase. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/788218 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0054 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09252421 | Erickson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | A123 Systems LLC (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | A123 Systems LLC (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Erickson (Plano, Texas); Konstantin Tikhonov (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of processing electrode active material structures for use in electrochemical cells or, more specifically, methods of forming surface layers on these structures. The structures are combined with a liquid to form a mixture. The mixture includes a surface reagent that chemically reacts and forms a surface layer covalently bound to the structures. The surface reagent may be a part of the initial liquid or added to the mixture after the liquid is combined with the structures. In some embodiments, the mixture may be processed to form a powder containing the structures with the surface layer thereon. Alternatively, the mixture may be deposited onto a current collecting substrate and dried to form an electrode layer. Furthermore, the liquid may be an electrolyte containing the surface reagent and a salt. The liquid soaks the previously arranged electrodes in order to contact the structures with the surface reagent. |
| FILED | Friday, October 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/057931 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 5/12 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/139 (20130101) H01M 4/0404 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/0492 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2004/027 (20130101) |
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| US 09252445 | Pintauro et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter N. Pintauro (Brentwood, Tennessee); Jason Ballengee (Nashville, Tennessee); Matthew Brodt (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect of the present invention, a fuel cell membrane-electrode-assembly (MEA) has an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a membrane disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. At least one of the anode electrode, the cathode electrode and the membrane is formed of electrospun nanofibers. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/872953 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/1004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/521 (20130101) |
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| US 09252461 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaochuan Lu (Richland, Washington); Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Guosheng Li (Richland, Washington); John P. Lemmon (Kennewick, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Sodium energy storage devices employing aspects of both ZEBRA batteries and traditional Na—S batteries can perform better than either battery alone. The hybrid energy storage devices described herein can include a sodium anode, a molten sodium salt catholyte, and a positive electrode that has active species containing sulfur. Additional active species can include a transition metal source and NaCl. As a product of the energy discharge process, Na2Sx forms in which x is less than three. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/948857 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — 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 10/399 (20130101) H01M 10/3909 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09252472 | Ives et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | R. Lawrence Ives (San Mateo, California); Yosuke M. Mizuhara (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Calabazas Creek Research, Inc. (San Mateo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Lawrence Ives (San Mateo, California); Yosuke M. Mizuhara (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A load for traveling microwave energy has an absorptive volume defined by cylindrical body enclosed by a first end cap and a second end cap. The first end cap has an aperture for the passage of an input waveguide with a rotating part that is coupled to a reflective mirror. The inner surfaces of the absorptive volume consist of a resistive material or are coated with a coating which absorbs a fraction of incident RF energy, and the remainder of the RF energy reflects. The angle of the reflector and end caps is selected such that reflected RF energy dissipates an increasing percentage of the remaining RF energy at each reflection, and the reflected RF energy which returns to the rotating mirror is directed to the back surface of the rotating reflector, and is not coupled to the input waveguide. Additionally, the reflector may have a surface which generates a more uniform power distribution function axially and laterally, to increase the power handling capability of the RF load. The input waveguide may be corrugated for HE11 mode input energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/172911 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09252814 | Gara 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) | Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are disclosed for providing combined error code protection and subgroup parity protection for a given group of n bits. The method comprises the steps of identifying a number, m, of redundant bits for said error protection; and constructing a matrix P, wherein multiplying said given group of n bits with P produces m redundant error correction code (ECC) protection bits, and two columns of P provide parity protection for subgroups of said given group of n bits. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the matrix P is constructed by generating permutations of m bit wide vectors with three or more, but an odd number of, elements with value one and the other elements with value zero; and assigning said vectors to rows of the matrix P. |
| FILED | Friday, June 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/918127 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/1064 (20130110) G06F 2212/403 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/0687 (20130101) H03M 13/13 (20130101) H03M 13/29 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03M 13/271 (20130101) H03M 13/2707 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Edward Bakken (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes, in part, a system management component for use in a power grid data network to systematically adjust the quality of service of data published by publishers and subscribed to by subscribers within the network. In one implementation, subscribers may identify a desired data rate, a minimum acceptable data rate, desired latency, minimum acceptable latency and a priority for each subscription and the system management component may adjust the data rates in real-time to ensure that the power grid data network does not become overloaded and/or fail. In one example, subscriptions with lower priorities may have their quality of service adjusted before subscriptions with higher priorities. In each instance, the quality of service may be maintained, even if reduced, to meet or exceed the minimum acceptable quality of service for the subscription. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/967015 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 31/08 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 50/06 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09253935 | Morris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Morris (Pflugerville, Texas); Phillip Charles Gilchrist (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Morris (Pflugerville, Texas); Phillip Charles Gilchrist (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes, systems, devices, and articles of manufacture are provided. Each may include adapting micro-inverters initially configured for frame-mounting to mounting on a frameless solar panel. This securement may include using an adaptive clamp or several adaptive clamps secured to a micro-inverter or its components, and using compressive forces applied directly to the solar panel to secure the adaptive clamp and the components to the solar panel. The clamps can also include compressive spacers and safeties for managing the compressive forces exerted on the solar panels. Friction zones may also be used for managing slipping between the clamp and the solar panel during or after installation. Adjustments to the clamps may be carried out through various means and by changing the physical size of the clamps themselves. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/751376 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generation of Electric Power by Conversion of Infra-red Radiation, Visible Light or Ultraviolet Light, e.g Using Photovoltaic [PV] Modules H02S 40/32 (20141201) H02S 40/34 (20141201) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49117 (20150115) |
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| US 09247889 | Yoon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Euisik Yoon (Superior Township, Michigan); Il-Joo Cho (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Euisik Yoon (Superior Township, Michigan); Il-Joo Cho (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A neural probe is disclosed for optically stimulating or silencing neurons and recording electrical responses to the stimulus. Using patterning techniques, an integral optical waveguide may be fabricated on the probe for transmitting neuron-affecting light from a light source to a probe tip. The probe tip may include one or more electrodes to receive electrical responses from stimulated neurons for recording or further processing. According to various embodiments, the disclosed neural probes may utilize multiple light sources simultaneously, switch between multiple light sources, or utilize a single light source to stimulate or silence multiple neuron locations simultaneously via multiple probe tips or via multiple light-emitting sites located along the length of the probe. Neural probes are thereby provided that have sufficient spatial resolution to accurately target, stimulate, and record the reaction of neurons, or as few as a single neuron, utilizing a slim, compact structure. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/510822 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0048 (20130101) A61B 5/04001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0529 (20130101) A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 5/0601 (20130101) A61N 5/0622 (20130101) A61N 2005/063 (20130101) A61N 2005/0612 (20130101) A61N 2005/0651 (20130101) A61N 2005/0653 (20130101) |
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| US 09248147 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board Of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Yang (University Park, Pennsylvania); Minh-Tuan Richard Tran (Fort Worth, Texas); Michael W Palmer (Arlington, Texas); Shou-Jiang Tang (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, methods for separating biological tissue are described herein. In some embodiments, a method for separating tissue comprises providing a first composition comprising a polymerizable material, providing a second composition comprising a polymerization initiator, disposing the first composition at a first site beneath a first tissue layer, disposing the second composition at the first site, polymerizing the polymerizable material at the first site, and separating the first tissue layer from a second tissue layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/084935 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/765 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5088 (20130101) |
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| US 09248217 | Hoerr et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Hoerr (Shoreview, Minnesota); John V. Carlson (St. Michael, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanocopocia, LLC (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Hoerr (Shoreview, Minnesota); John V. Carlson (St. Michael, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoparticle coated hydrogel may be formed by a method of electrospraying nanoparticles on to a hydrogel surface includes providing a drug and polymer combination in solvent to an inner capillary of a coaxial capillary spray nozzle. A coating with a drug that releases over time may be provided. Open and closed matrixes may be selectively formed to help modify time release periods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669937 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| 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 2/00 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 29/16 (20130101) A61L 29/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 31/10 (20130101) A61L 31/16 (20130101) A61L 2300/41 (20130101) A61L 2300/45 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2300/416 (20130101) A61L 2300/602 (20130101) A61L 2300/624 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 5/03 (20130101) B05B 5/08 (20130101) B05B 5/025 (20130101) B05B 7/061 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/04 (20130101) B05D 1/06 (20130101) B05D 2258/00 (20130101) B05D 2401/32 (20130101) B05D 2451/00 (20130101) B05D 2451/00 (20130101) Spectacles; Sunglasses or Goggles Insofar as They Have the Same Features as Spectacles; Contact Lenses G02C 7/04 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Scott Osborn (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); BlueInGreen, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Scott Osborn (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for maximizing the dissolved concentration of ozone in a liquid. The apparatus includes a dissolution tank having a pressure vessel configured to contain a treated fluid and at least one gas in a head space above the treated fluid, an inlet configured to permit passage of an untreated fluid into the head space, and an outlet configured to permit passage of the treated fluid out of the vessel; a gas supply system configured to transport the at least one gas to the head space; a fluid supply system configured to provide the untreated fluid to the tank; a bleed-off system for removing gas from the head space so as to maximize the dissolved concentration of the ozone gas in the liquid; and a discharge device configured to pass the treated fluid from the tank into the target liquid. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600950 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 3/0876 (20130101) B01F 5/0463 (20130101) B01F 5/0498 (20130101) B01F 2003/04886 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/78 (20130101) C02F 7/00 (20130101) C02F 2209/02 (20130101) C02F 2209/005 (20130101) C02F 2209/40 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09248428 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prashant Jain (Urbana, Illinois); Mayank Behl (Urbana, Illinois); Mark Shannon (, None); Junghoon Yeom (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A zinc titanate reactive adsorbent comprising multiphase, polycrystalline nanofibers comprising ZnTiO3, ZnO, TiO2, and Zn2TiO4. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067836 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/48 (20130101) B01D 53/52 (20130101) B01D 53/96 (20130101) B01D 2251/602 (20130101) B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/304 (20130101) B01D 2253/1124 (20130101) B01D 2257/308 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/28023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 20/28038 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 9/02 (20130101) C01G 23/003 (20130101) C01G 23/047 (20130101) Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 1/728 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/298 (20150115) Y10T 428/2913 (20150115) Y10T 442/60 (20150401) |
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| US 09248441 | Pinkhassik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eugene Pinkhassik (Clayton, Missouri); Sergey Shamakov (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Pinkhassik (Clayton, Missouri); Sergey Shamakov (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal nanoparticles entrapped or encapsulated in a polymer nanocapsule disclosed. Methods of making and using the metal nanoparticles entrapped or encapsulated in a polymer nanocapsule are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/820085 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/50 (20130101) A61K 9/127 (20130101) A61K 33/00 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/14 (20130101) B01J 35/026 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09248467 | Advincula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rigoberto Advincula (Friendswood, Texas); Roderick B. Pernites (Houston, Tennessee) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rigoberto Advincula (Friendswood, Texas); Roderick B. Pernites (Houston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel coatings are disclosed prepared by electropolymerization of non-fluorinated conducting pre-grafted hydrophobic electropolymerizable monomers onto a conducting layer of a substrate, where the electropolymerized coating exhibit both unique reversible wettability and electro-optical properties. The coating may also include one or more layers of polymer particles upon which the non-fluorinated conducting pre-grafted hydrophobic electropolymerizable monomers are polymerized imparting a submicron structure to the coating. Methods for making and using the coatings are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/179515 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B05D 3/14 (20130101) B05D 3/105 (20130101) B05D 7/14 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/254 (20150115) Y10T 428/24405 (20150115) Y10T 428/31533 (20150401) |
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| US 09249061 | Harman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Harman (Geneva, New York); Xingen Lei (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a fertilizer comprising at least one microbe selected from the group consisting of Trichoderma viride (NRRL B-50520), Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (NRRL B-50521), Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (NRRL B-50522), and combinations thereof, and a substrate which is acted upon by the at least one microbe to release nitrogen. The invention also relates to a fertilizer comprising at least one microbe selected from a keratin degrading microorganism and a keratin substrate which is acted upon by the at least one microbe to release nitrogen. The invention further relates to a method for enhancing growth of plants with the fertilizer, and methods of making a fertilizer. The invention further relates to an isolated Trichoderma viride strain (NRRL B-50520) and two isolated Scopulariopsis brevicaulis strains (NRRL B-50521, NRRL B-50522). |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/360520 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Phosphatic Fertilisers C05B 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C05B 17/00 (20130101) Nitrogenous Fertilisers C05C 3/00 (20130101) C05C 5/00 (20130101) C05C 9/00 (20130101) C05C 9/00 (20130101) C05C 11/00 (20130101) Inorganic Fertilisers Not Covered by Subclasses C05B, C05C; Fertilisers Producing Carbon Dioxide C05D 1/02 (20130101) C05D 3/00 (20130101) C05D 5/00 (20130101) C05D 9/02 (20130101) C05D 9/02 (20130101) Organic Fertilisers Not Covered by Subclasses C05B, C05C, e.g Fertilisers From Waste or Refuse C05F 1/005 (20130101) C05F 1/005 (20130101) C05F 11/02 (20130101) C05F 11/02 (20130101) C05F 11/08 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/06 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12C - C12Q, Relating to Microorganisms C12R 1/645 (20130101) C12R 1/885 (20130101) |
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| US 09249071 | Strauss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven H. Strauss (Fort Collins, Colorado); Olga V. Boltalina (Fort Collins, Colorado); Igor V. Kuvychko (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for substituting polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polyheterocyclic compounds with perfluoroalkyl groups. The methods can include heating a polyaromatic hydrocarbon substrate or a polyheterocyclic compound substrate in the presence of a perfluoroalkyl iodide, typically in a closed system, wherein the heating is sufficient to bring both the polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polyheterocyclic compound, and the perfluoroalkyl iodide, into the gas phase, thereby allowing the substrate to react with the perfluoroalkyl iodide in the gas phase to form polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polyheterocyclic compounds having one or more perfluoroalkyl substituents. The methods allow for the creation of versatile libraries of novel perfluoroalkyl-containing derivatives that can serve as important building blocks and active components in biomedical, electronic, and materials applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174780 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 17/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 17/32 (20130101) C07C 22/02 (20130101) C07C 22/08 (20130101) C07C 22/08 (20130101) C07C 2102/30 (20130101) C07C 2103/24 (20130101) C07C 2103/26 (20130101) C07C 2103/42 (20130101) C07C 2103/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09249170 | Marx et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanessa M. Marx (Pasadena, California); Mohand-Ameziane Melaimi (San Diego, California); Scott C. Virgil (Pasadena, California); Benjamin K. Keitz (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Guy Bertrand (Solana Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vanessa M. Marx (Pasadena, California); Mohand-Ameziane Melaimi (San Diego, California); Scott C. Virgil (Pasadena, California); Benjamin K. Keitz (Pasadena, California); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Guy Bertrand (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and methods of catalyzing ethenolysis reactions, optionally on an industrial scale. In certain embodiments, the catalysts bear cyclic alkyl amino carbene (CAAC) ligands with an ortho substituent, such as a methyl substituent, on an N-aryl ring. When used to catalyze ethenolysis reactions, certain such compounds produce a turnover number greater than 50,000. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/249704 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 1/2078 (20130101) C07C 1/2078 (20130101) C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 6/04 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 11/02 (20130101) C07C 2531/22 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 15/0046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249189 | Andersen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Leroy Joseph (Albany, New York); Alberto Bryan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); Herbert I. Jacobson (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Leroy Joseph (Albany, New York); Alberto Bryan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds that are analogs of a cyclic peptide, cyclo[EKTOVNOGN] (SEQ ID NO: 13), AFPep, that has anti-estrotrophic activity. The analogs of the invention include peptides and peptidomimetics that inhibit estrogen receptor-dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/522882 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 7/64 (20130101) |
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| US 09249261 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jared L. Anderson (Toledo, Ohio); Fei Zhao (Foster City, California); Yunjing Meng (Toledo, Ohio); Qichao Zhao (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jared L. Anderson (Toledo, Ohio); Fei Zhao (Foster City, California); Yunjing Meng (Toledo, Ohio); Qichao Zhao (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric ionic liquids, methods of making and methods of using the same are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/058088 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/323 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09249408 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chang Liu (San Diego, California); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Vaughn Smider (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (San Diego, California); Meng-Lin Tsao (Merced, California); Vaughn Smider (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for screening polypeptide libraries that include variants comprising unnatural amino acids. In addition, the invention provides vector packaging systems and methods for packaging a nucleic acid in a vector. Compositions of vectors produced by the methods and systems are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/734416 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/67 (20130101) C12N 15/1037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1058 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/08 (20130101) C40B 40/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09249847 | Barth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric J. Barth (Nashville, Tennessee); John M. Tucker (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Barth (Nashville, Tennessee); John M. Tucker (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a distributed piston elastomeric accumulator which stores energy when its elastomeric member stretches from its original length in response to the flow of a pressurized fluid. The stored energy is returned when the fluid flow is reversed and the accumulator discharges the fluid as its elastomeric member returns to its original length and moves the piston to its initial position. At least one part of the novelty of the invention is that the accumulator is not subject to radial strain gradients and the accumulator allows for precise pressure and linear position measurements. Accordingly, the invention allows for optimization of the energy strain storage capacity of a given elastomer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/328182 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Vehicle Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof; Brake Control Systems or Parts Thereof, in General; Arrangement of Braking Elements on Vehicles in General; Portable Devices for Preventing Unwanted Movement of Vehicles; Vehicle Modifications to Facilitate Cooling of Brakes B60T 1/10 (20130101) B60T 7/042 (20130101) B60T 8/42 (20130101) Systems Acting by Means of Fluids in General; Fluid-pressure Actuators, e.g Servomotors; Details of Fluid-pressure Systems, Not Otherwise Provided for F15B 1/04 (20130101) F15B 2201/20 (20130101) F15B 2201/21 (20130101) F15B 2201/31 (20130101) F15B 2201/405 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 61/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09250060 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Ung Kang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yong Huang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Ung Kang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yong Huang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical coherence tomography system having real-time artifact and saturation correction includes an optical coherence tomography unit, and a signal processing and display system adapted to communicate with the optical coherence tomography unit to receive imaging signals therefrom. The optical coherence tomography system is a Fourier Domain optical coherence tomography system. The signal processing and display system includes a parallel processor configured to correct the imaging signals, in real time, to at least partially remove image artifacts and saturation based on a subset of image data within an image frame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586586 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0066 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02044 (20130101) G01B 9/02083 (20130101) G01B 9/02089 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 9/02091 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09250113 | Bashir et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Kidong Park (Hwasung, South Korea); Larry Millet (Savoy, Illinois); K. Jimmy Hsia (Champaign, Illinois); Narayana R. Aluru (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rashid Bashir (Champaign, Illinois); Kidong Park (Hwasung, South Korea); Larry Millet (Savoy, Illinois); K. Jimmy Hsia (Champaign, Illinois); Narayana R. Aluru (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are sensors and methods for determining properties of single cells, such as cell mass. Sensors disclosed herein include resonant sensors having a suspended platform designed to exhibit a uniform vibration amplitude. Methods are also disclosed for measuring changes in cell mass, changes in cell number, changes in cell viscosity and changes in cell elasticity. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805623 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Weighing G01G 3/16 (20130101) G01G 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09250118 | Zumberge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Zumberge (San Diego, California); Jonathan Berger (San Diego, California); Erhard Wielandt (Kirchheim, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Zumberge (San Diego, California); Jonathan Berger (San Diego, California); Erhard Wielandt (Kirchheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, structures, devices and systems are disclosed for implementing optical seismometers that detect seismic information based on optical interferometry. In one aspect, a device includes a first retroreflector attached to a mass of a seismometer, a second retroreflector attached to a member of a frame of the seismometer, the frame structured to suspend the mass, and optical components attached to the member of the frame and configured with the first and second retroreflectors to form an interferometer, in which a change in position of the mass is identified by detecting by a change in an optical path of a light beam generated by a light energy source transmitted to the interferometer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/437901 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09250169 | Ju et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Qiao Lin (New York, New York); ThaiHuu Nguyen (Richmond, Virginia); Renjun Pei (Jiangsu, China PRC); Chunmei Oiu (New York, New York); Milan N. Stojanovic (Fort Lee, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The described subject matter includes techniques and components for minimally invasive, selective capture and release of analytes. An aptamer is selected for its binding affinity with a particular analyte(s). The aptamer is functionalized on a solid phase, for example, microbeads, polymer monolith, microfabricated solid phase, etc. The analyte is allowed to bind to the aptamer, for example, in a microchamber. Once the analyte has been bound, a temperature control sets the temperature to an appropriate temperature at which the captured analyte is released. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/652214 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 2525/205 (20130101) C12Q 2527/107 (20130101) C12Q 2565/629 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/4055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/6408 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/24 (20150115) Y10T 436/25375 (20150115) Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09251134 | Birnbaum et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Narrative Science Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Narrative Science Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence A. Birnbaum (Evanston, Illinois); Kristian J. Hammond (Chicago, Illinois); Nicholas D. Allen (Chicago, Illinois); John R. Templon (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features are then used to identify a plurality of angles for the narrative story. The plurality of angles is then filtered, for example through use of parameters that specify a focus for the narrative story, length of the narrative story, etc. Points associated with the filtered plurality of angles are then assembled and the narrative story is rendered using the filtered plurality of angles and the assembled points. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/738609 |
| ART UNIT | 2657 — Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/24 (20130101) G06F 17/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09251438 | Lerman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gilad Lerman (St. Paul, Minnesota); Teng Zhang (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A convex minimization is formulated to robustly recover a subspace from a contaminated data set, partially sampled around it, and propose a fast iterative algorithm to achieve the corresponding minimum. This disclosure establishes exact recovery by this minimizer, quantifies the effect of noise and regularization, and explains how to take advantage of a known intrinsic dimension and establish linear convergence of the iterative algorithm. The minimizer is an M-estimator. The disclosure demonstrates its significance by adapting it to formulate a convex minimization equivalent to the non-convex total least squares (which is solved by PCA). The technique is compared with many other algorithms for robust PCA on synthetic and real data sets and state-of-the-art speed and accuracy is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/062536 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/11 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/34 (20130101) G06K 9/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/6247 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/40 (20130101) G06T 17/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09251527 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Vivek Francis Farias (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Srikanth Jagabathula (New York, New York); Ammar Tawfiq Ammar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Vivek Francis Farias (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Srikanth Jagabathula (New York, New York); Ammar Tawfiq Ammar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing a personalized recommendation from a series of partial preferences is presented. A preference distribution of a population including a plurality of weighted ranked lists is identified. A revealed preference of a user is compared to the plurality of ranked lists. An affinity weight between the user and each of the plurality of ranked lists is assigned, and a weighted average of each of the affinity weights is taken. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/598124 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| 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 30/0201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 30/0204 (20130101) |
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| US 09252214 | Dehon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brown University Research Foundation (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Dehon (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); John E. Savage (Providence, Rhode Island); Eric Rachlin (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method to construct a device that includes a plurality of nanowires (NWs) each having a core and at least one shell. The method includes providing a plurality of radially encoded NWs where each shell contains one of a plurality of different shell materials; and differentiating individual ones of the NWs from one another by selectively removing or not removing shell material within areas to be electrically coupled to individual ones of a plurality of mesowires (MWs). Also disclosed is a nanowire array that contains radially encoded NWs, and a computer program product useful in forming a nanowire array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520524 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/10 (20130101) H01L 27/28 (20130101) H01L 29/0669 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/0673 (20130101) H01L 51/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09252456 | Kofinas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Kofinas (North Bethesda, Maryland); Ayan Ghosh (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kofinas (North Bethesda, Maryland); Ayan Ghosh (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible polymer solid electrolyte material useful in battery technology is described. The flexible solid electrolyte comprises a first block that has the ability to solvate alkali metal salts. The flexible solid electrolyte comprises a second block that has the ability to incorporate lithium ions within microphase separated spherical domains, wherein the lithium ions are from a secondary lithium source. The flexible solid electrolyte further comprises a second lithium salt. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715178 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/2268 (20130101) C08J 2335/02 (20130101) C08J 2371/12 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 6/181 (20130101) H01M 6/188 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09253719 | Ansari et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirwan Ansari (Montville, New Jersey); Tao Han (North Arlington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies are generally described to provide a distributed scheme that enables a Green-energy Aware and the Latency Aware (GALA) user-base station (BS) associations in wireless networks, whose BSs are powered by both on-grid energy and green energy. According to some examples, the GALA approach may consider traffic delivery latency and green energy generation rate in BSs to determine the user-BS association. The GALA approach may converge to a particular solution, which may reduce the summation of the weighted latency ratios of BSs, while enabling a trade-off between the on-grid power consumption and the average traffic delivery latency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/364656 |
| ART UNIT | 2645 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/04 (20130101) H04W 24/08 (20130101) H04W 48/10 (20130101) H04W 48/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/0206 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Mahan (Lubbock, Texas); John J. Burke (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The water-deficit stress of plants or crops is managed using plant temperatures to maximize product quality. The temperature of the target plant is repeatedly measured over a period of interest, and after each measurement, the plant temperature is compared with a predetermined plant setpoint temperature associated with a desired water-deficit stress level, above which temperature the plant is deemed to be in an undesired metabolic state. If the measured plant temperature is greater than the setpoint temperature, and humidity is not restrictive to plant cooling, then irrigation can be triggered to retain the plant within the desired stressed level, as determined by the temperature of the plant. By this method, irrigation can be withheld to increase plant temperature or applied to reduce plant temperature. The temperature of the plant is thus continuously increased and decreased relative to a desired temperature value that is indicative of a desired water-deficit stress. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/136406 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Horticulture; Cultivation of Vegetables, Flowers, Rice, Fruit, Vines, Hops or Seaweed; Forestry; Watering A01G 1/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 13/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09248145 | Baerson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott R. Baerson (Oxford, Mississippi); Zhiqiang Pan (Oxford, Mississippi); Agnes M. Rimando (Oxford, Mississippi); Franck E. Dayan (Oxford, Mississippi); Daniel Cook (Providence, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. Baerson (Oxford, Mississippi); Zhiqiang Pan (Oxford, Mississippi); Agnes M. Rimando (Oxford, Mississippi); Franck E. Dayan (Oxford, Mississippi); Daniel Cook (Providence, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Sorghum is considered an allelopathic crop species and sorgoleone likely accounts for much of its allelopathic properties. Prior investigations into the biosynthesis of sorgoleone suggested the participation of one or more alkylresorcinol synthases (ARS), which are type III polyketide synthases (PKS) that produce 5-alkylresorcinols using medium to long-chain fatty acyl-CoA starter units via iterative condensations with malonyl-CoA. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis of PKS-like sequences mined from isolated root hairs revealed that two sequences, designated ARS1 and ARS2, were preferentially expressed. Recombinant enzyme studies demonstrated that both sequences encode ARS enzymes capable of accepting a variety of fatty acyl-CoA starter units. RNA interference (RNAi) experiments directed against ARS1 and ARS2 resulted in the generation of multiple independent transformant events exhibiting dramatically reduced sorgoleone levels. Thus, both ARS1 and ARS2 participate in the biosynthesis of sorgoleone in planta. ARS1 and ARS2 sequences were used to identify rice genes encoding alkylresorcinol synthases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/721206 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/00 (20130101) C12N 15/825 (20130101) C12N 15/8242 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) |
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| US 09248176 | Ficht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas A. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Allison R. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Renee Tsolis (Davis, California); Leslie Garry Adams (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TEXAS A and M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Allison R. Ficht (College Station, Texas); Renee Tsolis (Davis, California); Leslie Garry Adams (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the treatment of Brucella induced diseases and disorders are disclosed herein. In preferred embodiments, the invention relates to vaccines. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to formulations capable of releasing said vaccines at a controlled rate of release in vivo. In further embodiments, the invention relates to modified strains of the bacteria Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus. In still further embodiments, the invention relates to compositions that do not induce clinical symptoms or splenomegaly in a subject receiving said compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/269382 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/098 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) A61K 2039/622 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09249388 | Robl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Robl (Belchertown, Massachusetts); Jose Cibelli (Holden, Massachusetts); Amy Burnside (Florence, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining pluripotent (embryonic stem) cells from parthenogenetic embryos, especially primates, are provided. These cells are useful for producing differentiated cells, tissues and organs, especially human and non-human primate cells, tissues and organs. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/761897 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/12 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0696 (20130101) C12N 15/873 (20130101) C12N 2500/14 (20130101) C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2502/13 (20130101) C12N 2506/04 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2517/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/502 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 33/5044 (20130101) G01N 33/5073 (20130101) G01N 33/5088 (20130101) G01N 2333/475 (20130101) |
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| US 09249421 | Herbert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Herbert (Laramie, Wyoming); Levi G. Lowder (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the self-assembly of photosynthetic unicells into a multicellular shape are provided. DNA constructs as well as methods for integration of the DNA constructs into the genomes of photosynthetic unicells for the expression of cell wall proteins or cell adhesion molecules for the self-assembly of photosynthetic unicells into a multicellular shape are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/772635 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/405 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/12 (20130101) C12N 5/04 (20130101) C12N 15/79 (20130101) C12N 15/82 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8242 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) |
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| US 09251924 | Malmonge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP (Ilha Solteira, Brazil) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Antonio Malmonge (Ilha Solteira, Brazil); Colleen M. McMahan (Sausalito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for the preparation of elastomeric conductive material, involving combining at least one conductive polymer with rubber latex, at least one organic acid, at least one oxidant, a pH stabilizer, optionally an organic solvent, and optionally at least one surfactant. Also disclosed are elastomeric conductive materials produced by such processes, which exhibit excellent strength, elasticity, and conductivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/826279 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/128 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP26369 | Moore |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Peder Moore (Puyallup, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of red raspberry plant (Rubus idaeus L.) named ‘Cascade Harvest’ adapted to the raspberry production area of the Pacific Northwest. ‘Cascade Harvest’ is primarily characterized by suitability for machine harvestability, tolerance to root rot, resistance to raspberry bushy dwarf virus and large, conical fruit that is longer than it is broad. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 13/999114 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09249421 | Herbert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Herbert (Laramie, Wyoming); Levi G. Lowder (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the self-assembly of photosynthetic unicells into a multicellular shape are provided. DNA constructs as well as methods for integration of the DNA constructs into the genomes of photosynthetic unicells for the expression of cell wall proteins or cell adhesion molecules for the self-assembly of photosynthetic unicells into a multicellular shape are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/772635 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/405 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/12 (20130101) C12N 5/04 (20130101) C12N 15/79 (20130101) C12N 15/82 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8242 (20130101) C12N 15/8257 (20130101) |
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| US 09250148 | Manohara et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harish Manohara (Arcadia, California); Linda Y. Del Castillo (Arcadia, California); Mohammed M. Mojarradi (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement multi-directional environmental sensors. In one embodiment, a multi-directional environmental sensor includes: an inner conductive element that is substantially symmetrical about three orthogonal planes; an outer conductive element that is substantially symmetrical about three orthogonal planes; and a device that measures the electrical characteristics of the multi-directional environmental sensor, the device having a first terminal and a second terminal; where the inner conductive element is substantially enclosed within the outer conductive element; where the inner conductive element is electrically coupled to the first terminal of the device; and where the outer conductive element is electrically coupled to the second terminal of the device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/834283 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/00 (20130101) G01K 1/14 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 5/165 (20130101) G01L 9/00 (20130101) G01L 9/0002 (20130101) G01L 9/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 9/02 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 15/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09250200 | Grubsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Victor Grubsky (Porter Ranch, California); Volodymyr Romanoov (Torrance, California); Keith Shoemaker (Harbor City, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Grubsky (Porter Ranch, California); Volodymyr Romanoov (Torrance, California); Keith Shoemaker (Harbor City, California); Edward Matthew Patton (Torrance, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Compton tomography system comprises an x-ray source configured to produce a planar x-ray beam. The beam irradiates a slice of an object to be imaged, producing Compton-scattered x-rays. The Compton-scattered x-rays are imaged by an x-ray camera. Translation of the object with respect to the source and camera or vice versa allows three-dimensional object imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/586682 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/046 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09251587 | Friend et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Russell Friend (Morton, Illinois); Qi Chen (Dunlap, Illinois); Hong Chang (Peoria, Illinois); Daniel Dale Morris (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jodi Seaborn Graf (Seabrook, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A motion determination system is disclosed. The system may receive a first and a second camera image from a camera, the first camera image received earlier than the second camera image. The system may identify corresponding features in the first and second camera images. The system may receive range data comprising at least one of a first and a second range data from a range detection unit, corresponding to the first and second camera images, respectively. The system may determine first positions and the second positions of the corresponding features using the first camera image and the second camera image. The first positions or the second positions may be determined by also using the range data. The system may determine a change in position of the machine based on differences between the first and second positions, and a VO-based velocity of the machine based on the determined change in position. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/857670 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2200/04 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) G06T 2207/30252 (20130101) |
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| US 09252477 | Simons et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rainee N Simons (North Olmsted, Ohio); Edwin G Wintucky (Willoughby, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A multimode directional coupler is provided. In some embodiments, the multimode directional coupler is configured to receive a primary signal and a secondary signal at a first port of a primary waveguide. The primary signal is configured to propagate through the primary waveguide and be outputted at a second port of the primary waveguide. The multimode directional coupler also includes a secondary waveguide configured to couple the secondary signal from the primary waveguide with no coupling of the primary signal into the secondary waveguide. The secondary signal is configured to propagate through the secondary waveguide and be outputted from a port of the secondary waveguide. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/968531 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 5/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09250238 | Low et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald G. Reifenberger (Lafayette, Indiana); Youngsoon Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Avijit Kumar Adak (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Lyvers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kulbhushan Durugkar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Doorneweerd (Lockport, Illinois); Rajendra P. Bandari (Warangal, Indiana); Rajesh Kumar Pandey (New Haven, Connecticut); Alexei Leonov (Lafayette, Indiana); Walter A. Henne (Frankfort, Illinois); Yeong E. Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip S. Low (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexander Wei (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald G. Reifenberger (Lafayette, Indiana); Youngsoon Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Avijit Kumar Adak (West Lafayette, Indiana); David Lyvers (Indianapolis, Indiana); Kulbhushan Durugkar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Derek Doorneweerd (Lockport, Illinois); Rajendra P. Bandari (Warangal, Indiana); Rajesh Kumar Pandey (New Haven, Connecticut); Alexei Leonov (Lafayette, Indiana); Walter A. Henne (Frankfort, Illinois); Yeong E. Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Pathogens are detected through the use of mutation-resistant ligands. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805770 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 5/005 (20130101) B03C 5/026 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/569 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/5302 (20130101) G01N 33/5308 (20130101) G01N 33/54353 (20130101) G01N 33/56905 (20130101) G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56961 (20130101) G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2035/00158 (20130101) |
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| US 09250327 | Kelley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SubCarrier Systems Corporation (Glendora, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SubCarrier Systems Corporation (Glendora, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Charles Kelley (Glendora, California); Gregory John Berchin (Lake Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive method by which Differential GNSS corrections may be compressed. Each measurement datum to be transmitted to a rover for satellite navigation purposes is decomposed into two parts, namely, an anchor value and a delta value, and in some instances an added third part termed a nonce value is used. Encoding parameters such as the number of bits assigned to each part of the measurement datum, the order of the models used to convey positional data, and scaling constants in the models, are adjusted adaptively based on changing data and/or transmission medium characteristics. Adaptive compression also allows for anomalous conditions such as out-of-range data values to be handled gracefully. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/785514 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — 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 19/07 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 7/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09252417 | Hill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Proterra Inc (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proterra Inc. (Greenville, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Hill (Dillon, Colorado); Michael Walker (Carlsbad, California); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado); Shaun Onorato (Superior, Colorado); Donald Morris (Conifer, Colorado); Stephen Misencik (Raleigh, North Carolina); John Winkel (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for a high occupancy or heavy-duty vehicle with a battery propulsion power source, which may include lithium titanate batteries. The vehicle may be all-battery or may be a hybrid, and may have a composite body. The vehicle battery system may be housed within the floor of the vehicle and may have different groupings and arrangements. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/887135 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Arrangement or Mounting of Propulsion Units or of Transmissions in Vehicles; Arrangement or Mounting of Plural Diverse Prime-movers in Vehicles; Auxiliary Drives for Vehicles; Instrumentation or Dashboards for Vehicles; Arrangements in Connection With Cooling, Air Intake, Gas Exhaust or Fuel Supply of Propulsion Units in Vehicles B60K 1/04 (20130101) B60K 6/20 (20130101) B60K 2001/0438 (20130101) Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 3/0046 (20130101) B60L 11/126 (20130101) B60L 11/185 (20130101) B60L 11/1853 (20130101) B60L 11/1864 (20130101) B60L 11/1874 (20130101) B60L 11/1877 (20130101) B60L 11/1879 (20130101) B60L 2200/26 (20130101) B60L 2200/28 (20130101) B60L 2270/40 (20130101) Vehicles, Vehicle Fittings, or Vehicle Parts, Not Otherwise Provided for B60R 16/04 (20130101) Conjoint Control of Vehicle Sub-units of Different Type or Different Function; Control Systems Specially Adapted for Hybrid Vehicles; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems for Purposes Not Related to the Control of a Particular Sub-unit B60W 10/24 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Aspects Cross-cutting Vehicle Technology B60Y 2200/14 (20130101) B60Y 2200/15 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2/1077 (20130101) H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 10/42 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/613 (20150401) H01M 10/4207 (20130101) H01M 10/5004 (20130101) H01M 2010/4271 (20130101) H01M 2220/20 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/6217 (20130101) Y02T 10/6269 (20130101) Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) Y02T 10/7061 (20130101) Y02T 10/7077 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts); Tryggve Fossum (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing distributed power control in a processor comprising an array of cores enables each core to regulate power at least partially independently. Global power management settings are made accessible to all cores and communication between cores propagates power consumption information between nearest neighbors in the array. Each core attempts to best regulate its own power consumption in accordance with global power consumption information and/or specific instructions from a global power manager. In this manner local opportunistic load balancing may be achieved in a scalable manner suitable for a large array of cores. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/732289 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/324 (20130101) G06F 1/3203 (20130101) G06F 1/3206 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3234 (20130101) G06F 1/3243 (20130101) G06F 1/3275 (20130101) G06F 1/3287 (20130101) G06F 1/3296 (20130101) G06F 9/3885 (20130101) G06F 9/5094 (20130101) |
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| US 09251073 | Steely et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simon C. Steely (Hudson, New Hampshire); William C. Hasenplaugh (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi core processor implements a cash coherency protocol in which probe messages are address-ordered on a probe channel while responses are un-ordered on a response channel. When a first core generates a read of an address that misses in the first core's cache, a line fill is initiated. If a second core is writing the same address, the second core generates an update on the addressed ordered probe channel. The second core's update may arrive before or after the first core's line fill returns. If the update arrived before the fill returned, a mask is maintained to indicate which portions of the line were modified by the update so that the late arriving line fill only modifies portions of the line that were unaffected by the earlier-arriving update. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/732242 |
| ART UNIT | 2132 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0811 (20130101) G06F 12/0828 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/0886 (20130101) |
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| US 09252118 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Siddharth Jain (Santa Barbara, California); John Bowers (Santa Barbara, California); Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, California); John Heck (Berkeley, California); Ran Feldesh (Gan Yavne, Israel); Richard Jones (San Mateo, California); Yoel Shetrit (Kfar Ben-Nun, Israel); Michael Geva (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTEL CORPORATION (Santa Clara, California); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddharth Jain (Santa Barbara, California); John Bowers (Santa Barbara, California); Matthew Sysak (Sunnyvale, California); John Heck (Berkeley, California); Ran Feldesh (Gan Yavne, Israel); Richard Jones (San Mateo, California); Yoel Shetrit (Kfar Ben-Nun, Israel); Michael Geva (Sierra Madre, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor metallurgy includes a ratio of germanium and palladium that provides low contact resistance to both n-type material and p-type material. The metallurgy allows for a contact that does not include gold and is compatible with mass-production CMOS techniques. The ratio of germanium and palladium can be achieved by stacking layers of the materials and annealing the stack, or simultaneously depositing the germanium and palladium on the material where the contact is to be manufactured. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/995689 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/8258 (20130101) H01L 21/28575 (20130101) H01L 21/823814 (20130101) H01L 21/823871 (20130101) H01L 24/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/1203 (20130101) H01L 29/20 (20130101) H01L 29/452 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00011 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01006 (20130101) H01L 2924/01015 (20130101) H01L 2924/01015 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/021 (20130101) H01S 5/0425 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09248415 | Osborn |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Scott Osborn (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); BlueInGreen, LLC (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Scott Osborn (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for maximizing the dissolved concentration of ozone in a liquid. The apparatus includes a dissolution tank having a pressure vessel configured to contain a treated fluid and at least one gas in a head space above the treated fluid, an inlet configured to permit passage of an untreated fluid into the head space, and an outlet configured to permit passage of the treated fluid out of the vessel; a gas supply system configured to transport the at least one gas to the head space; a fluid supply system configured to provide the untreated fluid to the tank; a bleed-off system for removing gas from the head space so as to maximize the dissolved concentration of the ozone gas in the liquid; and a discharge device configured to pass the treated fluid from the tank into the target liquid. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600950 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/0473 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 3/0876 (20130101) B01F 5/0463 (20130101) B01F 5/0498 (20130101) B01F 2003/04886 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/78 (20130101) C02F 7/00 (20130101) C02F 2209/02 (20130101) C02F 2209/005 (20130101) C02F 2209/40 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 10/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09249211 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Joshua Silverman (Sunnyvale, California); Chia-wei Wang (Milpitas, California); Benjamin Spink (San Carlos, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Nathan Geething (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to binding fusion protein compositions comprising targeting moieties linked to extended recombinant polypeptide (XTEN), binding fusion protein-drug conjugate compositions, and XTEN-drug conjugate compositions, isolated nucleic acids encoding the compositions and vectors and host cells containing the same, and methods of using such compositions in treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/631361 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) C07K 14/8125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 16/241 (20130101) C07K 16/244 (20130101) |
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Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09251591 | Song et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hwa K. Song (Ithaca, New York); Susan P. Ashdown (Ithaca, New York); Anthony P. Reeves (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hwa K. Song (Ithaca, New York); Susan P. Ashdown (Ithaca, New York); Anthony P. Reeves (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for categorizing body shape is provided comprising the steps of providing a data set of body shape-defining measurements of a portion of the body of interest from a plurality of subjects' bodies, wherein the measurements define a silhouette and profile (front and side) perspectives of the portion of the body of interest; conducting a principal component (PC) analysis of the data set of measurements to calculate and generate PC scores; conducting cluster analysis using the PC scores as independent variables to produce cluster analysis results; and establishing one or more body shape categories from the cluster analysis results, thereby categorizing body shapes of the plurality of subjects. A shape prototyping system is also provided for designing a custom fit garment for an individual subject, the system being based on the method for categorizing body shape. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/990273 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00369 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0075 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 19/00 (20130101) G06T 2210/16 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09249103 | Riscoe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Riscoe (Tualatin, Oregon); Rolf W. Winter (Portland, Oregon); Sovitj Pou (Beaverton, Oregon); David J. Hinrichs (Sherwood, Oregon); Jane Xu Kelly (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Yuexin Li (Vancouver, Washington); Aaron Nilsen (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods useful for treating infectious diseases are provided. In particular, 3-aryl quinoline compounds, their synthesis, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of treating infectious diseases such as malaria, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371870 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/12 (20130101) |
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Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09250118 | Zumberge et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark A. Zumberge (San Diego, California); Jonathan Berger (San Diego, California); Erhard Wielandt (Kirchheim, Germany) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Zumberge (San Diego, California); Jonathan Berger (San Diego, California); Erhard Wielandt (Kirchheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, structures, devices and systems are disclosed for implementing optical seismometers that detect seismic information based on optical interferometry. In one aspect, a device includes a first retroreflector attached to a mass of a seismometer, a second retroreflector attached to a member of a frame of the seismometer, the frame structured to suspend the mass, and optical components attached to the member of the frame and configured with the first and second retroreflectors to form an interferometer, in which a change in position of the mass is identified by detecting by a change in an optical path of a light beam generated by a light energy source transmitted to the interferometer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/437901 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09252955 | Chamberlin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles R. Chamberlin (Arlington, Virginia); Bradley A. Reck (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Chamberlin (Arlington, Virginia); Bradley A. Reck (Sterling, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention provides a method for processing a secure electronic transaction over a network from a sender to a receiver, which includes the process of generating a first unique representation of information included in the transaction, encrypting the information with a first encryption layer, and forming an encryption packet which includes the first encryption layer. The encryption packet is then transmitted over a network and then received the by a receiver. The authenticity of the encryption packet is verified and a receipt is generated using the information included in the encryption packet. The receipt is then transmitted to an electronic postmark server which verifies authenticity of the receipt. A postmarked receipt is then created by the electronic postmark server and a copy is sent to the sender an/or the receiver. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344720 |
| ART UNIT | 2495 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/321 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3247 (20130101) H04L 63/123 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) H04L 2463/121 (20130101) |
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Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09253472 | Gutierrez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anthony Gutierrez (Stewartstown, Pennsylvania) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Gutierrez (Stewartstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A macro photographic apparatus for creating focus stacked images of a specimen may include a rigid longitudinal member having a longitudinal axis and including a camera mount thereon. A translation device may be fixed to the member for translating the specimen along the member toward and away from the camera mount. A rotation device may be mounted on the translation device. The rotation device may support the specimen and enable rotation of the specimen around first and second axes that are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the member. At any single position of the translation device along the longitudinal axis of the member, as the specimen is rotated around the first and second axes, the spatial location of the specimen remains substantially the same. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/667972 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Frames, Casings or Beds of Engines, Machines or Apparatus, Not Specific to Engines, Machines or Apparatus Provided for Elsewhere; Stands; Supports F16M 11/06 (20130101) F16M 11/043 (20130101) 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 15/00 (20130101) G03B 17/561 (20130101) G03B 35/02 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/004 (20130101) H04N 13/0203 (20130101) H04N 13/0253 (20130101) H04N 13/0282 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09253635 | Berenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Berenberg (Mountain View, California); Igor Ryshakov (Mountain View, California); Dongyan Chen (Metairie, Louisiana); Georgi Danielyan (Yerevan, Armenia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Berenberg (Mountain View, California); Igor Ryshakov (Mountain View, California); Dongyan Chen (Metairie, Louisiana); Georgi Danielyan (Yerevan, Armenia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of methods and devices are disclosed for enabling network devices to join a network. These embodiments generally include a first network device, which is joined to the network, sending authentication information. If the authentication information is determined as valid by a second network device, the second network device sends a join request toward the first network device. During or after the joining process, the first and second network devices can share scheduling information. These embodiments enable a network to have additional security while consuming low amounts of power. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/023673 |
| ART UNIT | 2449 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04W 52/0216 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
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, February 02, 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
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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
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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
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