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| US 09282910 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, None); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method to target a biological rhythm disorder, such as a heart rhythm disorder, include processing cardiac signals via a computing device to determine a shape in a region of tissue defined by a source associated with the biological rhythm disorder that migrates spatially on or within the shape, and identifying at least one portion of the tissue proximate to the shape to enable selective modification of the at least one portion of tissue in order to terminate or alter the heart rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462534 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00577 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) |
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| US 09282928 | Giffrida |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Giffrida (Hinckley, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Giffrida (Hinckley, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a movement disorder monitor, and a method of measuring the severity of a subject's movement disorder. The present invention additionally relates to a drug delivery system for dosing a subject in response to the increased severity of a subject's symptoms. The present invention provides for a system and method, which can accurately quantify symptoms of movements disorders, accurately quantifies symptoms utilizing both kinetic information and electromyography (EMG) data, that can be worn continuously to provide continuous information to be analyzed as needed by the clinician, that can provide analysis in real-time, that allows for home monitoring of symptoms in subject's with these movement disorders to capture the complex fluctuation patterns of the disease over the course of days, weeks or months, that maximizes subject safety, and that provides remote access to the clinician or physician. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/169619 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/1101 (20130101) A61B 5/4082 (20130101) A61B 5/4839 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09282964 | Cohen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Microfabrica Inc. (Van Nuys, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microfabrica Inc. (Van Nuys, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam L. Cohen (Valley Village, California); Christopher R. Folk (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of invention involve tissue approximation instruments that may be delivered to the body of a patient during minimally invasive or other surgical procedures. In one group of embodiments, the instrument has an elongated configuration with two sets of expandable wings that each have spreadable wings that can be made to expand when located on opposite sides of a distal tissue region and a proximal tissue region and can then be made to move toward one another to bring the two tissue regions into a more proximate position. The instrument is delivered through a needle or catheter and is controlled by relative movement of a push tube and control wire wherein the control wire can be released from the instrument via rotation in a first direction and can cause release of the approximation device from tissue that it is holding by rotation in the opposite direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/714179 |
| ART UNIT | 3773 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 17/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 17/08 (20130101) A61B 17/00234 (20130101) A61B 2017/081 (20130101) A61B 2017/081 (20130101) A61B 2017/088 (20130101) A61B 2017/088 (20130101) |
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| US 09283184 | Irvine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Matthias Stephan (Boston, Massachusetts); Jaehyun Moon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anna Bershteyn (Seattle, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Matthias Stephan (Boston, Massachusetts); Jaehyun Moon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anna Bershteyn (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for delivering agents to localized regions, tissues, or organs in vivo by conjugating agent-loaded nanoparticles to cells having homing capability. The agents may be therapeutic or diagnostic agents such as cancer chemotherapeutic agents and imaging agents respectively. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/130845 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/127 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 31/7105 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/395 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 47/46 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 47/48915 (20130101) A61K 2035/124 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0006 (20130101) C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 5/0647 (20130101) C12N 15/87 (20130101) |
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| US 09283200 | Mohamed 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 (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Al-Walid Mohsen Mohamed (Carnagie, Pennsylvania); Gerard Vockley (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for methods and compositions for treating medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that phenylbutyrate can serve as a substrate for medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase. In non-limiting embodiments, phenylbutyrate and/or another source of phenylacetate is administered as a chaperone treatment to patients suffering from medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/515298 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/192 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/192 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 31/216 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09283233 | Ulmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LABORATOIRE HRA PHARMA (Paris, France); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LABORATOIRE HRA-PHARMA (Paris, France); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Ulmann (Paris, France); Erin Gainer (Chardonne, Switzerland); Henri Camille Mathe (Paris, France); Diana Blithe (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lynnette Nieman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for on-demand contraception, which method comprises administering a progestogen agent or progesterone receptor modulator, such as 17a-acetoxy-11b-(4-N,N-dimethylamino-phenyl)-19-norpregna-4,9-diene-3,20-dione (ulipristal acetate) in a woman, within 72 hours before an intercourse or within 120 hours after the intercourse. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/635107 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/20 (20130101) A61K 9/0036 (20130101) A61K 31/56 (20130101) A61K 31/57 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09283241 | Simionescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Agneta Simionescu (Pendleton, South Carolina); Dan Simionescu (Pendleton, South Carolina); James Chow (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a medical device treated with a phenolic compound and a process for treating a device with the phenolic compound. For example, a collagen or elastin-based scaffold can be treated with pentagalloyl glucose (PGG). The treated scaffold can become resistant to glycoxidative stress associated with advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that are present in a hyperglycemic environments associated with diabetes mellitus. The treated scaffold can exhibit a reduced increase in stiffness as compared to an untreated scaffold. The treated scaffold can also exhibit reduced inflammation without negatively affecting the ability of the scaffold to remodel in vivo. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/938275 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 2/24 (20130101) A61F 2/82 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7024 (20130101) A61K 31/7032 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/24 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) A61L 27/507 (20130101) A61L 27/3633 (20130101) A61L 27/3683 (20130101) A61L 27/3687 (20130101) A61L 2300/216 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) A61L 2430/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09283242 | Essigmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Essigmann (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Deyu Li (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Katherine J. Silvestre (Seekonk, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a dihydro base described herein (e.g., compound DHdC). The dihydro base may show multiple tautomerism and may increase mutation of an RNA and/or DNA of a virus or cancer cell. The dihydro base may be used to reduce DNA methylation (e.g., in a cancer cell). The present invention also provides kits including the inventive pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating a viral infection (e.g., influenza, HIV infection, or hepatitis C) or cancer using the pharmaceutical compositions or kits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/161675 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/708 (20130101) A61K 31/7068 (20130101) A61K 31/7072 (20130101) A61K 31/7076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 19/073 (20130101) C07H 19/173 (20130101) |
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| US 09283243 | Cho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sunghee Cho (Hastings on Hudson, New York); Yi Bao (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Eunhee Kim (White Plains, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CORNELL UNIVERSITY CORNELL CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY, ENTERPRISE and COMMERCIALIZATION (“CCTEC”) (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunghee Cho (Hastings on Hudson, New York); Yi Bao (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Eunhee Kim (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to the therapeutic utility of CD36 antagonists to reduce body weight, inhibit fat accumulation and especially visceral fat accumulation, improve insulin sensitivity, lower blood glucose levels, and treat and prevent metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes and diabetes, and lower plasma cholesterol levels and decrease fat deposit in the liver. CD36 antagonists, including SAB or its metabolites, such as RA and DSS, are useful for these purposes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/701726 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/19 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/4375 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2896 (20130101) |
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| US 09283262 | King et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | George L. King (Dover, Massachusetts); Hillary A. Keenan (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George L. King (Dover, Massachusetts); Hillary A. Keenan (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for diagnosing, predicting risk of, and/or treating diabetic retinopathy and/or diabetic nephropathy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/992149 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (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 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2800/042 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) G01N 2800/164 (20130101) G01N 2800/347 (20130101) |
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| US 09283264 | Kurtis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan Kurtis (Providence, Rhode Island); Mario Jiz (Providence, Rhode Island); Haiwei Wu (Lincoln, Rhode Island); Sunthorn Pond-Tor (Cranston, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rhode Island Hospital (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Kurtis (Providence, Rhode Island); Mario Jiz (Providence, Rhode Island); Haiwei Wu (Lincoln, Rhode Island); Sunthorn Pond-Tor (Cranston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The method for large scale production of a full length Schistosomal paramyosin coiled coil dimer composition is carried out by providing a composition comprising recombinant paramyosin, contacting the composition with a strand separation agent to remove paramyosin fragments and other contaminants. The purified paramyosin is used in vaccines for humans and bovine animals to induce immunity against schistosomal infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/864041 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) |
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| US 09283289 | Rajadas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO (, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California); Emilio Gonzalez (Madrid, Spain); Hyejun Ra (Sunnyvale, California); Irfan Ali-Khan (Saratoga, California); Christopher Contag (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Encompassed are pharmaceutically acceptable compositions formulated for the topical or transdermal delivery of probes specific for cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) of human and non-human subjects. In particular, an activatable probe comprises a fluorescent moiety comprising a fluorophore attached to a compound having selective affinity for COX-2, and a removable fluorescence quencher linked to the fluorescent moiety by a cleavable linker. Upon delivery to a recipient subject, the activatable probe is localized and concentrated in tissues and cells with elevated levels of COX-2. The linker is cleaved to release the fluorescence quencher. Irradiation by an activating incident illumination results in a detectable fluorescent emission signal |
| FILED | Monday, July 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/932085 |
| 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 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/415 (20130101) A61K 31/4375 (20130101) A61K 49/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 49/0041 (20130101) A61K 49/0052 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/6428 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) G01N 21/6486 (20130101) G01N 2021/6432 (20130101) |
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| US 09283298 | Nagatomi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiro Nagatomi (Seneca, South Carolina); C. Kenneth Webb (Clemson, South Carolina); Olin Thompson Mefford (Clemson, South Carolina); Lindsey Sanders (Seneca, South Carolina); Roland Stone (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Surgical adhesives that include a blend of two different thermoreversible gelling polymers and a crosslinking agent are described. The first thermoreversible gelling polymer is partially or fully acrylated and the second thermoreversible gelling polymer includes dual functionality including acrylate functionality and amine-reactive functionality. The adhesives can provide gelling and covalent crosslinking within the polymers of the adhesive as well as crosslinking with surrounding tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/495103 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 24/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 24/0031 (20130101) A61L 24/043 (20130101) A61L 2430/40 (20130101) |
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| US 09283299 | Mikos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonios G. Mikos (Houston, Texas); F. Kurtis Kasper (Houston, Texas); Adam K. Ekenseair (Boston, Massachusetts); Tiffany N. Vo (Houston, Texas); Kristel W. M. Boere (Utrecht, Netherlands); Tyler J. Touchet (Cypress, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to injectable compositions. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to injectable, thermogelling hydrogels and associated methods. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides for a composition comprising a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based macromer and a polyamidoamine-based macromer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/298170 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/06 (20130101) A61K 9/0024 (20130101) A61K 35/28 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 47/18 (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 27/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/52 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2300/252 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/06 (20130101) A61L 2430/34 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 33/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09283301 | Simionescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Simionescu (Pendleton, South Carolina); Jeremy J. Mercuri (Easley, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogel biomaterial that can be utilized as a nucleus pulposus replacement material is described. The hydrogel biomaterial can is an elastin-glycosaminoglycan-collagen composite hydrogel biomaterial that can mimic the biochemical and functional characteristics of the human nucleus pulposus. Methods for forming the hydrogel biomaterial are also described as are methods for use of the hydrogel biomaterial, one of which is as an in vivo nucleus pulposus replacement material, another of which is a scaffolding material for use in nucleus pulposus tissue engineering applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/713685 |
| ART UNIT | 3733 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| 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 2/02 (20130101) A61F 2/441 (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 27/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09283559 | Berthier et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Erwin Berthier (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter Cavnar (Madison, Wisconsin); David John Guckenberger (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin); David Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin Berthier (Madison, Wisconsin); Peter Cavnar (Madison, Wisconsin); David John Guckenberger (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin); David Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device and method is provided for handheld diagnostics and assays. A first substance is frozen in a cryopreservation fluid in a first well of a lid. The lid includes a first surface communicating with a first port of the first well and a second surface communicating with a second port of the first well. A porous membrane is affixed to the first surface so as to overlap the first port and a non-porous membrane is affixed to the second surface so as to overlap the second port. The first substance may be dialytically freed from the cryopreservation fluid at a user desired time. Thereafter, the lid may be moved from a first position wherein the lid is spaced from a base to a second position wherein the lid is adjacent the channel in the base such that the first substance communicates with the input of the channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/467584 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 1/0263 (20130101) A01N 1/0268 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502715 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 7/50 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2300/044 (20130101) B01L 2300/047 (20130101) B01L 2300/0672 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0887 (20130101) B01L 2400/086 (20130101) B01L 2400/0406 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0677 (20130101) B01L 2400/0683 (20130101) B01L 2400/0694 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
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| US 09284297 | Keller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tracy Keller (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Ralph Mazitschek (Belmont, Massachusetts); Malcolm Whitman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Jinbo Lee (Andover, Massachusetts); Mark S. Sundrud (Jupiter, Florida); Anjana Rao (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy Keller (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Ralph Mazitschek (Belmont, Massachusetts); Malcolm Whitman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Jinbo Lee (Andover, Massachusetts); Mark S. Sundrud (Jupiter, Florida); Anjana Rao (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel analogs and derivatives of halofuginone. The invention also provides pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions thereof and methods for using halofuginone analogs in treating chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, dry eye syndrome, fibrosis, scar formation, angiogenesis, viral infections, ischemic damage, transplant and implant rejection, neurodegenerative diseases, and cosmetic applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/058486 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4184 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 491/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/65583 (20130101) |
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| US 09284322 | Carroll et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina); Pauline Wanjiku Ondachi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compounds and methods of preparation of compounds that are capable of functioning as agonists or antagonists of a nicotinic receptor. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more of these compounds, which may further comprise one or more additional therapeutic agents. Further provided are methods of treatment of various conditions that may be responsive to such activity at the nicotinic receptors, such as nicotine dependence. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/616313 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/407 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) C07D 487/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284325 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Lee (Cordova, Tennessee); Jianjun Qi (Houston, Texas); Julian G. Hurdle (Euless, Texas); Bernd Meibohm (Germantown, Tennessee); VNR Pavan Kumar Vaddady (Memphis, Tennessee); Rakesh (Cordova, Tennessee); Jiuyu Liu (Bartlett, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel 3′-deoxy-3′-acylaminospectinomycin compounds are described. Also described are methods of using the 3′-deoxy-3-acylaminospectinomycin compounds and other spectinomycin analogs in treating tuberculosis and in treating microbial infections. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222647 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/133 (20130101) A61K 31/357 (20130101) A61K 31/423 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/497 (20130101) A61K 31/501 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4409 (20130101) A61K 31/4433 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 493/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284337 | Bachovchin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Bachovchin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of treating cancer, comprising administering to a mammal in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that inhibits a plurality of mammalian dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP) IV activity and/or structural homologues thereof (DASH) serine proteases. Also disclosed is a method of (a) increasing antitumor immunity, (b) stimulating or enhancing an immune response, (c) treating a condition characterized by abnormal cell proliferation, (d) increasing cytokine and/or chemokine production, or (e) stimulating or enhancing production of T-cells, in a mammal, comprising administering to a mammal in need thereof an effective amount of a compound that inhibits a plurality of mammalian DASH serine proteases. For example, the compound that inhibits a plurality of mammalian DASH serine proteases may be t-butylGly-boroPro. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/353408 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) A61K 38/05 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/20 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 38/21 (20130101) A61K 39/0005 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/10 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284343 | Beaucage et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Serge L. Beaucage (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jacek Cieslak (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Serge L. Beaucage (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jacek Cieslak (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are O-protected compounds of the formula (I): wherein B is an optionally protected nucleobase, and R1-R3 are as described herein, wherein at least one of R1-R3 is —CH2—O—N═CHR. The compounds are useful as intermediates in oligonucleotide synthesis. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the compounds from nucleosides via a process comprising conversion of a hydroxyl group to a methylthiomethoxy group, and a method of preparing oligonucleotides such as RNA starting from the compounds. The —CH2—O—N═CHR group is stable during oligonucleotide synthesis and can be easily removed after synthesis via, for example, treatment with a base. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/008805 |
| ART UNIT | 1673 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) C07H 19/06 (20130101) C07H 19/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07H 19/048 (20130101) C07H 23/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09284353 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Deisseroth (Stanford, California); Feng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Viviana Gradinaru (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Stimulation of target cells using light, e.g., in vivo or in vitro, is implemented using a variety of methods and devices. One example involves a vector for delivering a light-activated NpHR-based molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence that codes for light-activated NpHR-based molecule and a promoter. Either a high expression of the molecule manifests a toxicity level that is less than about 75%, or the light-activated NpHR-based proteins are expressed using at least two NpHR-based molecular variants. Each of the variants characterized in being useful for expressing a light-activated NpHR-based molecule that responds to light by producing an inhibitory current to dissuade depolarization of the neuron. Other aspects and embodiments are directed to systems, methods, kits, compositions of matter and molecules for ion pumps or for controlling inhibitory currents in a cell (e.g., in in vivo and in vitro environments). |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/855413 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal Husbandry; Care of Birds, Fishes, Insects; Fishing; Rearing or Breeding Animals, Not Otherwise Provided For; New Breeds of Animals A01K 67/0333 (20130101) A01K 2217/052 (20130101) A01K 2227/703 (20130101) A01K 2267/0356 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0058 (20130101) A61K 48/0083 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/0613 (20130101) A61N 5/0622 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/195 (20130101) C07K 14/215 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) C12N 2710/16643 (20130101) C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2740/16071 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2830/002 (20130101) |
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| US 09284355 | Friedman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Harvey Friedman (Merion, Pennsylvania); Sita Awashi (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); John Lubinski (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey Friedman (Merion, Pennsylvania); Sita Awashi (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); John Lubinski (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides vaccines comprising two or more recombinant Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) proteins selected from a gD protein, a gC protein and a gE protein; and methods of vaccinating a subject against HSV and treating, impeding, inhibiting, reducing the incidence of, or suppressing an HSV infection or a symptom or manifestation thereof, comprising administration of a vaccine of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/005407 |
| 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 39/245 (20130101) A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55561 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/21 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2710/16622 (20130101) C12N 2710/16634 (20130101) C12N 2710/16662 (20130101) |
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| US 09284356 | Chang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gwong-Jen J. Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado); Holly R. Hughes (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gwong-Jen J. Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado); Holly R. Hughes (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the identification and of a potent West Nile virus (WNV) CD4 positive T cell epitope and its use for increasing the immunogenicity of heterologous flavivirus vaccines, such as dengue virus type 2 (DENV-2) DNA and virus-like particle (VLP) vaccines. Also described are methods for the identification of potent T cell epitopes to enhance immunogenicity of multivalent vaccines. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/130839 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/70 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2770/24122 (20130101) |
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| US 09284357 | Gao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guangping Gao (Westborough, Massachusetts); Terence Flotte (Holden, Massachusetts); Jun Xie (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention in some aspects relates to recombinant adeno-associated viruses having distinct tissue targeting capabilities. In some aspects, the invention relates to gene transfer methods using the recombinant adeno-associate viruses. In some aspects, the invention relates to isolated AAV capsid proteins and isolated nucleic acids encoding the same. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246560 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2750/14122 (20130101) C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) C12N 2750/14145 (20130101) |
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| US 09284358 | McIntosh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michael Ellison (Boulder, Colorado); Michelle A. Vincler (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michael Ellison (Boulder, Colorado); Michelle A. Vincler (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates conotoxin peptides that are analogs of the α-conotoxin peptide RgIA. These conotoxin peptides block the α9α10 subtype of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) and can be used for treating pain, such as neuropathic pain and inflammatory pain, inflammatory disorders, such as rheumatic diseases, and in the treatment of breast cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/289494 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/43504 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284362 | Gellman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); James W. Checco (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are α/β-peptide mimics of Z-domain scaffold peptides, methods of making them, and methods of using them. The α/β-peptide mimics include β-amino acid residues and, optionally, disulfide bonds to stabilize the conformation of the mimics. The compounds may be truncated as compared to conventional Z-domain scaffold peptides and are resistant to proteolytic degradation due to the presence of β-amino acid residues. The mimics can be made so as to bind selectively to a desired target. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/602734 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/31 (20130101) C07K 14/52 (20130101) C07K 14/525 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/22 (20130101) C07K 16/4283 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2317/92 (20130101) C07K 2318/20 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/10001 (20130101) |
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| US 09284363 | Herlitze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stefan Herlitze (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Lynn Landmesser (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Herlitze (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Lynn Landmesser (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-sensitive G-protein coupled receptor includes a light sensitive extracellular domain and a heterologous intracellular domain capable of modulating an intracellular signaling pathway. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/375114 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/705 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09284366 | Krainc et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dimitri Krainc (Boston, Massachusetts); Hyunkyung Jeong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Florian Then (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitri Krainc (Boston, Massachusetts); Hyunkyung Jeong (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Florian Then (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention includes, in part, methods of preparing acetylated Huntingtin (Htt) polypeptides, acetylated Htt polypeptide antigens, and antibodies that specifically recognize acetylated epitopes on Htt polypeptides. The invention also relates, in part, to the preparation and use of antibodies that specifically recognize and bind to acetylated epitopes on acetylated Htt polypeptides when an acetylated residue on the Htt polypeptide is a lysine that corresponds to K444 residue of full-length, wild-type Htt polypeptide. In some aspects, the invention includes hybridoma cell lines that produce antibodies that specifically bind acetylated Htt polypeptide and also includes antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof produced using polypeptides of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981830 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09284368 | Byers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Byers (Tacoma Park, Maryland); Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy (Herndon, Virginia); Jaime M. Guidry Auvil (Elkridge, Maryland); Milton L. Brown (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for a method of preventing or treating a cadherin-11 related disease in a subject, which includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of the following formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, X1 and X2 are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/323374 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/30 (20130101) C07D 215/14 (20130101) C07D 241/42 (20130101) C07D 307/77 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284381 | Josephson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee Josephson (Reading, Massachusetts); Elisabeth Garanger (Bordeaux, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Multifunctional probes include a substrate (e.g., a nanoparticle, polymer, antibody, protein, low molecular weight compound, drug) and a multifunctional single-attachment-point (MSAP) reagent. The MSAP reagents can include three components: (i) a peptide scaffold, (ii) a single chemically reactive group on the peptide scaffold for reaction of the MSAP with a substrate having a complementary reactive group, and (iii) multiple functional groups on the peptide scaffold. The peptide scaffold can include any number of residues; however, for ease of synthesis and reproducibility in clinical trials, it is preferred to limit the residues in the peptide to 20 or less. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/937909 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 17/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/531 (20130101) G01N 33/532 (20130101) |
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| US 09284530 | Van Zant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary Van Zant (Lexington, Kentucky); Ying Liang (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Van Zant (Lexington, Kentucky); Ying Liang (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide methods and related compositions for increasing the population size of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in patients that may benefit from reconstitution of stem cells and/or differentiated cells of the blood lineage. The present methods enable the production of HSCs ex vivo and in vivo by reducing latexin expression and/or latexin activity within HSC exposed to various antagonists. Inhibition of latexin expression and/or latexin activity by various antagonists can promote HSC proliferation and/or inhibit HSC apoptosis. Antagonists that can reduce latexin expression and/or latexin activity can be utilized to regenerate endogenous HSCs within patients affected with disorders, diseases, cancers, or therapies for such conditions, that result in the depletion or reduction in HSCs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/342628 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2500/14 (20130101) C12N 2501/01 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) |
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| US 09284541 | Ting et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Florian Richter (Seattle, Washington); Lucas Nivon (Seattle, Washington); Daniel Shao-Chen Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alice Y. Ting (Allston, Massachusetts); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Florian Richter (Seattle, Washington); Lucas Nivon (Seattle, Washington); Daniel Shao-Chen Liu (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of use thereof for labeling peptide and proteins in vitro or in vivo. The methods described herein employ lipoic acid ligase or mutants thereof, and lipoic acid analogs (e.g., lipoic acid analogs comprising a resorufin moiety) recognized by lipoic acid ligase and lipoic acid ligase mutants. Also provided herein is a method of imaging protein-protein interaction via a reaction mediated by lipoic acid ligase. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/267761 |
| 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 9/93 (20130101) C12N 9/1241 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/102 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/07063 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/532 (20130101) G01N 33/533 (20130101) G01N 2333/9015 (20130101) |
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| US 09284546 | Kraus |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan P. Kraus (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Human cystathionine β-synthase variants are disclosed, as well as a method to produce recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase and variants thereof. More particularly, the role of both the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of human CBS has been studied, and a variety of truncation mutants and modified CBS homologues are described. In addition, a method to express and purify recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) and variants thereof which have only one or two additional amino acid residues at the N-terminus are described. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/663749 |
| 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 9/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 402/01022 (20130101) |
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| US 09284547 | Weissman 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) | Jonathan Weissman (San Francisco, California); Nicholas Ingolia (San Francisco, California); Sina Ghaemmaghami (San Francisco, California); John Newman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for, inter alia, detecting nucleic acid molecules resistant to degradation, such as a plurality of RNA molecules bound to a ribosome, using various technologies including deep sequencing. |
| FILED | Monday, April 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/867848 |
| 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 15/1034 (20130101) C12N 15/1041 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1093 (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 1/6809 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/08 (20130101) C40B 50/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09284559 | Gmeiner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William H. Gmeiner (Yadkinville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Gmeiner (Yadkinville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of the formula A-B-C, is provided, wherein: A is a first nucleic acid that specifically binds to an extracellular surface protein expressed by a cell of interest, B is an alkyl linker; and C is a second nucleic acid that hybridizes to a complementary nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the first nucleic acid is an aptamer. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid comprises an active compound, particularly cytotoxic nucleotides such as poly-FdUMP. Compositions and methods of using such compounds for treating and/or detecting cancer are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759216 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) |
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| US 09284570 | Stephanopoulos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Parayil K. Ajikumar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Parayil K. Ajikumar (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to recombinant expression of a steviol or steviol glycosides biosynthetic pathway enzymes in cells and the production of steviol or steviol glycosides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/306633 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | New Plants or Processes for Obtaining Them; Plant Reproduction by Tissue Culture Techniques A01H 5/00 (20130101) A01H 13/00 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/2366 (20130101) A23L 2/60 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0042 (20130101) C12N 9/0073 (20130101) C12N 9/0085 (20130101) C12N 9/88 (20130101) C12N 9/90 (20130101) C12N 9/1085 (20130101) C12N 9/1288 (20130101) C12N 15/70 (20130101) C12N 15/8243 (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 7/42 (20130101) C12P 15/00 (20130101) C12P 17/02 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 106/02004 (20130101) C12Y 114/13 (20130101) C12Y 114/13076 (20130101) C12Y 114/13078 (20130101) C12Y 114/99009 (20130101) C12Y 205/01029 (20130101) C12Y 402/03019 (20130101) C12Y 505/01012 (20130101) C12Y 505/01013 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09284575 | Marengo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew S. Marengo (Cary, North Carolina); Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic regulation of gene expression is provided. In some embodiments, synthetic regulatory constructs are provided. In some embodiments, a synthetic regulatory construct expresses a heterologous gene in a selected cell type. In some embodiments, methods of expressing a heterologous gene in a selected cell type are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/783450 |
| 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 15/85 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2800/30 (20130101) C12N 2830/008 (20130101) C12N 2840/007 (20130101) |
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| US 09284590 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jennifer Sue Lin (Palo Alto, California); Annelise E. Barron (Palo Alto, California); Jennifer Coyne Albrecht (Palo Alto, California); Xiaoxiao Wang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Sue Lin (Palo Alto, California); Annelise E. Barron (Palo Alto, California); Jennifer Coyne Albrecht (Palo Alto, California); Xiaoxiao Wang (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides substantially monodisperse random coil polypeptides, vectors encoding the polypeptides, conjugates containing the polypeptides, methods for their preparation, and their uses in nucleic acid separations, DNA sequencing, and other applications requiring high monodispersity. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/327696 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) C07K 2319/21 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 21/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 21/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09284594 | Elenitoba-Johnson 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) | Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Delphine Rolland (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Venkatesha Basrur (Sylvania, Ohio); Kevin P. Conlon (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Megan S. Lim (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides fusion proteins as biomarkers specific for chromosomal translocation-based conditions (e.g., cancer), related methods for detecting fusion protein biomarkers associated with chromosomal translocation-based conditions, related methods for quantifying amount of fusion protein expression, and related methods for diagnosing chromosomal translocation-based conditions through detection of such fusion protein biomarkers. Such fusion protein biomarkers and related methods additionally find use in research settings. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/317606 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — 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 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6848 (20130101) G01N 2800/7028 (20130101) |
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| US 09284601 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tza-Huei Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Kelvin J. Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher M. Puleo (Glenville, New York); Tushar D. Rane (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device for a confocal fluorescence detection system has an input channel defined by a body of the microfluidic device, a sample concentration section defined by the body of the microfluidic device and in fluid connection with the input channel, a mixing section defined by the body of the microfluidic device and in fluid connection with the concentration section, and a detection region that is at least partially transparent to illumination light of the confocal fluorescence detection system and at least partially transparent to fluorescent light when emitted from a sample under observation as the sample flows through the detection region. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/136671 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502769 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0678 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (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 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/38 (20130101) G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 2001/4027 (20130101) G01N 2015/0038 (20130101) G01N 2015/1493 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09284602 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Yu Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Peng Yin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Yu Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Peng Yin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are primers and primer systems having improved specificity and kinetics over existing primers, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/882231 |
| 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 21/02 (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 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2537/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) |
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| US 09284609 | Tomlins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483157 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) |
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| US 09284610 | Kallioniemi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Abbott Molecular Inc. (Des Plaines, Illinois); National Institute of Health (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Abbott Molecular Inc. (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olli-P Kallioniemi (Rockville, Maryland); Uwe Richard Muller (Painted Post, New York); Guido Sauter (Basel, Switzerland); Juha Kononen (Rockville, Maryland); Maarit Barlund (Tampere, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for rapid molecular profiling of tissue or other cellular specimens by placing a donor specimen in an assigned location in a recipient array, providing copies of the array, and performing a different biological analysis of each copy. The results of the different biological analyses are compared to determine if there are correlations between the results of the different biological analyses at each assigned location. In some embodiments, the specimens may be tissue specimens from different tumors, which are subjected to multiple parallel molecular (including genetic and immunological) analyses. The results of the parallel analyses are then used to detect common molecular characteristic of the genetic disorder type, which can subsequently be used in the diagnosis or treatment of the disease. The biological characteristics of the tissue can be correlated with clinical or other information, to detect characteristics associated with the tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676382 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/00659 (20130101) B01J 2219/00702 (20130101) B01J 2219/00743 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5085 (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 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6809 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6837 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6841 (20130101) C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2537/157 (20130101) C12Q 2537/157 (20130101) C12Q 2537/157 (20130101) C12Q 2539/103 (20130101) C12Q 2539/103 (20130101) C12Q 2539/103 (20130101) C12Q 2543/10 (20130101) C12Q 2543/10 (20130101) C12Q 2565/501 (20130101) C12Q 2600/106 (20130101) C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/08 (20130101) G01N 1/312 (20130101) G01N 1/2813 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/54306 (20130101) G01N 2001/282 (20130101) G01N 2001/288 (20130101) G01N 2001/368 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/34 (20130101) |
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| US 09285322 | Cremer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S. Cremer (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Cremer (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for detecting binding between first and second molecules using a pH-sensitive fluorophore. A change in fluorescence emission intensity of the fluorophore is indicative of binding. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/309313 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/06 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/77 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/84 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) G01N 2021/7786 (20130101) |
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| US 09285363 | Salemme et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | F. Raymond Salemme (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IMIPLEX LLC (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Raymond Salemme (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Patricia C. Weber (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling a protein nanostructure on a surface including selectively patterning a surface with a fixation site, bringing a protein node into contact with the surface, and allowing the protein node to bond with the fixation site, so that the position and/or orientation of the protein node is constrained, and compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/319989 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 2219/0063 (20130101) B01J 2219/00605 (20130101) B01J 2219/00612 (20130101) B01J 2219/00617 (20130101) B01J 2219/00626 (20130101) B01J 2219/00637 (20130101) B01J 2219/00725 (20130101) Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 2201/0214 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00206 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/54386 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09285365 | Dertinger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Litron Laboratories, Ltd. (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Litron Laboratories, Ltd. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Dertinger (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the enumeration of micronucleated erythrocyte populations while distinguishing platelet and platelet-associated aggregates involves the use of a first fluorescent labeled antibody having binding specificity for a surface marker for reticulocytes, a second fluorescent labeled antibody having binding specificity for a surface marker for platelets, and a nucleic acid staining dye that stains DNA (micronuclei) in erythrocyte populations. Because the fluorescent emission spectra of the first and second fluorescent labeled antibodies do not substantially overlap with one another or with the emission spectra of the nucleic acid staining dye, upon excitation of the labels and dye it is possible to detect the fluorescent emission and light scatter produced by the erythrocyte populations and platelets, and count the number of cells from one or more erythrocyte populations in said sample. In particular, the use of the second antibody prevents interference by platelet-associated aggregates in the scoring procedures. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/523790 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/80 (20130101) G01N 33/5094 (20130101) G01N 33/56966 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/70582 (20130101) G01N 2333/70596 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/968 (20130101) Y10S 435/973 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/101666 (20150115) |
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| US 09285375 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John K. Fink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Shirley Rainier (Sylvania, Ohio); Robert D. Nicholls (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jinghua Chai (Ardmore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the NIPA-1 proteins and nucleic acids encoding the NIPA-1 proteins. The present invention further provides assays for the detection of NIPA-1 polymorphisms and mutations associated with disease states, as well as methods of screening for ligands and modulators of NIPA-1 proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/962587 |
| 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 1/6883 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/145555 (20150115) |
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| US 09285443 | He |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qiuhong He (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiuhong He (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods employing spin editing techniques to improve magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) are discussed. Using these spin editing techniques, magnetic resonance signals of one or more unwanted chemicals (that is, chemicals whose signals are to be filtered out or suppressed) chemicals can be suppressed, so that the signal(s) of a first set of chemicals can be obtained without signals from the one or more unwanted chemicals. Information about and differences between the molecular topologies of the first set of chemicals and the one or more unwanted chemicals can be used to design a sequence that suppresses the one or more unwanted chemicals while allowing acquisition of signal(s) from the first set of chemicals. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/501000 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/485 (20130101) G01R 33/1284 (20130101) G01R 33/4608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/5607 (20130101) G01R 33/34046 (20130101) |
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| US 09285449 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chunlei Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Wei Li (Durham, North Carolina); Bing Wu (Beijing, China PRC) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chunlei Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Wei Li (Durham, North Carolina); Bing Wu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for imaging and quantifying tissue magnetism with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method for MRI includes using an MRI system to acquire multiple image echoes of an object. The method also includes combining the image echoes. Further, the method includes generating an image of the object based on the combined image echoes for depicting a characteristic of the object. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/517633 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/443 (20130101) G01R 33/482 (20130101) G01R 33/4822 (20130101) G01R 33/4824 (20130101) G01R 33/5611 (20130101) G01R 33/5616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/56509 (20130101) G01R 33/56536 (20130101) |
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| US 09285575 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Freudiger (Boston, Massachusetts); Wei Min (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Freudiger (Boston, Massachusetts); Wei Min (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscopy imaging system is disclosed that includes a light source system, a spectral shaper, a modulator system, an optics system, an optical detector and a processor. The light source system is for providing a first train of pulses and a second train of pulses. The spectral shaper is for spectrally modifying an optical property of at least some frequency components of the broadband range of frequency components such that the broadband range of frequency components is shaped producing a shaped first train of pulses to specifically probe a spectral feature of interest from a sample, and to reduce information from features that are not of interest from the sample. The modulator system is for modulating a property of at least one of the shaped first train of pulses and the second train of pulses at a modulation frequency. The optical detector is for detecting an integrated intensity of substantially all optical frequency components of a train of pulses of interest transmitted or reflected through the common focal volume. The processor is for detecting a modulation at the modulation frequency of the integrated intensity of substantially all of the optical frequency components of the train of pulses of interest due to the non-linear interaction of the shaped first train of pulses with the second train of pulses as modulated in the common focal volume, and for providing an output signal for a pixel of an image for the microscopy imaging system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690579 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 2003/1282 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2021/653 (20130101) G01N 2021/655 (20130101) G01N 2201/0675 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/082 (20130101) |
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| US 09286381 | Perl et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yehoshua Perl (Forest Hills, New York); James Geller (West Orange, New Jersey); Michael Howard Halper (Fair Lawn, New Jersey); Joyce Wang (Bothell, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Newark, New Jersey); KEAN UNIVERSITY (Union, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yehoshua Perl (Forest Hills, New York); James Geller (West Orange, New Jersey); Michael Howard Halper (Fair Lawn, New Jersey); Joyce Wang (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A disjoint partial-area taxonomy abstraction network and methods of producing same for a hierarchy, which partitions overlapping concepts into singly-rooted disjoint groups that are more manageable to work with and comprehend. This provides abstract models for summarizing overlapping concepts which permit enhanced, high-level display for users at a user interface. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/565097 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30572 (20130101) G06F 17/30734 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09286672 | Madabhushi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Madabhushi (South Plainfield, New Jersey); Ajay Basavanhally (Skillman, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The described invention provides a system and method for predicting disease outcome using a multi-field-of-view scheme based on image-based features from multi-parametric heterogenous images. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/983280 |
| 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 9/00147 (20130101) G06K 9/469 (20130101) G06K 9/6292 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20072 (20130101) G06T 2207/20081 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) |
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| US 09286681 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DRVision Technologies LLC (, None) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DRVision Technologies LLC (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Jong James Lee (Bellevue, Washington); Michael William Jones (Normandy Park, Washington); Bryce Graff (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A computerized mask edit guided processing method for time-lapse image analysis performs by a computer program an assisted mask editing on an input image sequence to generate mask edit data, and performs a mask edit guided processing using the image sequence and the mask edit data. A computerized track edit guided processing method for time-lapse image analysis performs by a computer program an assisted track editing on an input image sequence to generate track edit data, and performs a track edit guided processing using the image sequence and the track edit data. A computerized edit guided processing method for time-lapse image analysis performs by a computer program a combination of assisted mask editing and assisted track editing on an input image sequence to generate edit data, and performs a combination of mask edit guided processing and track edit guided processing using the image sequence and the edit data. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/297103 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0022 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/403 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10056 (20130101) G06T 2207/20008 (20130101) G06T 2207/30024 (20130101) |
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| US 09286686 | Lang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint and assessing cartilage loss, particularly in a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. The amount of cartilage tissue that has been lost, for example as a result of arthritis, can be estimated. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678763 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/107 (20130101) A61B 5/1038 (20130101) A61B 5/1075 (20130101) A61B 5/4514 (20130101) A61B 5/4528 (20130101) A61B 5/7257 (20130101) A61B 6/03 (20130101) A61B 8/0875 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/50 (20130101) G01R 33/56 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10088 (20130101) G06T 2207/20141 (20130101) G06T 2207/30008 (20130101) |
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| US 09287589 | Wessells et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alveo Energy, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alveo Energy, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Deane Wessells (Atherton, California); Ali Firouzi (Los Altos, California); Shahrokh Motallebi (Los Gatos, California); Sven Strohband (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for stabilizing electrodes against dissolution and/or hydrolysis including use of cosolvents in liquid electrolyte batteries for three purposes: the extension of the calendar and cycle life time of electrodes that are partially soluble in liquid electrolytes, the purpose of limiting the rate of electrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen as a side reaction during battery operation, and for the purpose of cost reduction. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/231571 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 10/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0002 (20130101) H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101) |
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| US 09288915 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Qing He (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Jun Xie (Niskayuna, New York); Changlin Pang (Pasadena, California); Terry D. Lee (San Dimas, California); Damien Rodger (South Pasadena, California); Matthieu Liger (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to packed-column nano-liquid chromatography (nano-LC) systems integrated on-chip, and methods for producing and using same. The microfabricated chip includes a column, flits/filters, an injector, and a detector, fabricated in a process compatible with those conventionally utilized to form integrated circuits. The column can be packed with supports for various different stationary phases to allow performance of different forms of nano-LC, including but not limited to reversed-phase, normal-phase, adsorption, size-exclusion, affinity, and ion chromatography. A cross-channel injector injects a nanoliter/picoliter-volume sample plug at the column inlet. An electrochemical/conductivity sensor integrated at the column outlet measures separation signals. A self-aligned channel-strengthening technique increases pressure rating of the microfluidic system, allowing it to withstand the high pressure normally used in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). On-chip sample injection, separation, and detection of mixture of anions in water is successfully demonstrated using ion-exchange nano-LC. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680030 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/6047 (20130101) G01N 30/6095 (20130101) G01N 2030/625 (20130101) G01N 2030/645 (20130101) G01N 2030/645 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 1/80 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Teodoro Aclan Tigno, Jr. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teodoro Aclan Tigno, Jr. (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to systems and methods for magnetized stent having growth-promoting properties. A stent assembly comprising a tubular elongated body having a magnetized region and a tissue nidus area is inserted beneath the orifice of a vascular aneurysm. The magnetic region can serve to attract and position both residual red blood cells and magnetically nano-ireated growth-promoting cells to the orifice area of the aneurysm. The outer circumference of the tubular elongated body can act as a floor or scaffold for regenerated smooth vascular muscle cells. In embodiments, the tissue nidus area can be provided on the exterior stent, while the magnetized region is provided on the interior stent, of a stent-in-stent structure. In embodiments, the exterior stent is made of biodegradable material which gradually dissolves or dissipates in situ. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/805295 |
| ART UNIT | 3734 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| 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 2/82 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/856 (20130101) A61F 2002/823 (20130101) A61F 2210/009 (20130101) A61F 2250/0031 (20130101) A61F 2250/0051 (20130101) |
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| US 09283194 | Tang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yi Tang (San Gabriel, California); Zhen Gu (Los Angeles, California); Yunfeng Lu (Los Angeles, California); Ming Yan (Los Angeles, California); Anuradha Biswas (Los Angeles, California); Guoping Fan (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Tang (San Gabriel, California); Zhen Gu (Los Angeles, California); Yunfeng Lu (Los Angeles, California); Ming Yan (Los Angeles, California); Anuradha Biswas (Los Angeles, California); Guoping Fan (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for intracellular delivery of single proteins or other cargo molecules by encapsulation within nanocapsules formed by interfacial polymerization of one or more types of monomers and selected protease cleavable cross-linkers is provided. The thin positively charged capsules are readily brought into the cytosol of target cells by endocytosis. The capsules are degraded by the action of endogenous proteases or co-delivered proteases on the cross-linkers releasing the functional cargo unaltered. The cross-linkers can be adapted to be cleavable by specific enzymes selected from available intracellular enzymes within the target cell or co-delivered or self-cleaving when the cargo itself is a protease. The nanocapsules produced by the methods have been shown to have long-term stability, high cell penetration capability, low toxicity and efficient protease-modulated specific degradability without affecting cargo protein function. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/089117 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5138 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 41/0042 (20130101) A61K 47/48176 (20130101) |
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| US 09283511 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Garry Chih-Chau Hwang (Houston, Texas); Jay R. Lomeda (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas); NALCO COMPANY (Naperville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Garry Chih-Chau Hwang (Houston, Texas); Jay R. Lomeda (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite materials for carbon dioxide (C02) capture that include: (1) a mesoporous carbon source; and (2) an in situ polymerized polymer that is associated with the mesoporous carbon source, where the in situ polymerized polymer is selected from the group consisting of thiol-based polymers, amine-based polymers, and combinations thereof. Methods of making the composite materials for C02 capture include: (1) associating a mesoporous carbon source with monomers, where the monomers are selected from the group consisting of thiol-based monomers, amine-based monomers, and combinations thereof; and (2) polymerizing the monomers in situ to form said composite materials. Further embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods of capturing C02 from an environment by associating the environment with one or more of the aforementioned composite materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/881428 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/02 (20130101) B01D 53/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2253/25 (20130101) B01D 2253/102 (20130101) B01D 2253/202 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/20 (20130101) B01J 20/261 (20130101) B01J 20/262 (20130101) B01J 20/327 (20130101) B01J 20/2808 (20130101) B01J 20/3272 (20130101) B01J 20/28069 (20130101) B01J 20/28083 (20130101) B01J 20/28085 (20130101) B01J 20/28097 (20130101) B01J 2220/46 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09283530 | Zubrin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pioneer Astronautics (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PIONEER ASTRONAUTICS (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Zubrin (Golden, Colorado); David Kenneth Strott (Lakewood, Colorado); Anthony Muscatello (Rockledge, Florida); Nicholas F. Jameson (Cedar Park, Texas); Emily Bostwick-White (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for generating gas from nitrous oxide are provided as well as downstream uses for the product gas. Reactor devices of the invention are compact and incorporate a novel heat-exchange/regenerative cooling system to optimize N2O decomposition and reactor durability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/150128 |
| ART UNIT | 1799 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 7/00 (20130101) B01J 8/0285 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 23/42 (20130101) B01J 23/46 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 23/464 (20130101) B01J 23/755 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/0203 (20130101) C01B 21/02 (20130101) Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 47/04 (20130101) Means for Generating Smoke or Mist; Gas-attack Compositions; Generation of Gas for Blasting or Propulsion C06D 5/04 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 20/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09283570 | Shojaei et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Borzoyeh Shojaei (Folsom, California); George Hanki Chan (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SICPA HOLDING SA (, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Borzoyeh Shojaei (Folsom, California); George Hanki Chan (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of separating one type of nanoparticle from another type of nanoparticle in a mixture including more than one type of nanoparticle are disclosed. The methods may include suspending a mixture of the various types of nanoparticles in a liquid and modifying a characteristic of the liquid. Thereafter, a force may be applied to the nanoparticles within the mixture causing one type of nanoparticles to separate from another type of nanoparticles. The applied force may be the force of gravity, or it may be an induced force such as a centrifugal force applied with a centrifuge or similar apparatus. Upon the occurrence physical separation, sub-populations of nanoparticles may be removed from the suspension or segregated. Alternatively the methods may include modifying a type of nanoparticle in suspension. Alternative embodiments include nanoparticles modified in suspension to provide for separation from other types of nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/115777 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids or Using Pneumatic Tables or Jigs B03B 1/00 (20130101) B03B 5/30 (20130101) B03B 5/32 (20130101) B03B 5/44 (20130101) B03B 13/005 (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) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/658 (20130101) |
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| US 09283597 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Guiren Wang (Huntsville, Alabama); Jianjun Feng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yi Wang (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Guiren Wang (Huntsville, Alabama); Jianjun Feng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yi Wang (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A micropump that pumps liquid using electrothermally-induced flow is described, along with a corresponding self-regulating pump and infusion pump. The micropump has applications in microfluidic systems such as biochips. The self-regulating infusion pump is useful for the administration of large and small volumes of liquids such as drugs to patients and can be designed for a wide range of flow rates by combining multiple micropumps in one infusion pump system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516269 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 13/0079 (20130101) B01F 13/0081 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 99/00 (20130101) B01L 2300/1833 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) B01L 2400/0493 (20130101) B01L 2400/0496 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 7/0064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B08B 9/00 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/006 (20130101) F04B 19/24 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2030/0035 (20130101) G01N 2030/0065 (20130101) |
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| US 09283734 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neil Anderson (Calumet, Michigan); Matt Kero (Calumet, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GUNITE CORPORATION (Evansville, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Anderson (Calumet, Michigan); Matt Kero (Calumet, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a manufacturing apparatus for forming a ceramic preform from an extrudate having a first end and a second end. A cutter forms the first and second ends of the extrudate complementary to each other such that the first and second ends of the extrudate align with each other in a spaced relationship to define a preform having a substantially uniform exterior surface and a substantially uniform thickness. The present invention provides for a method of forming the preform from the extrudate having the first and second ends utilizing a mandrel. The method includes the step of aligning the second end complementary to the first end of the first layer in a spaced relationship to define the preform having the substantially uniform exterior surface and the substantially uniform thickness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/149292 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping Clay or Other Ceramic Compositions; Shaping Slag; Shaping Mixtures Containing Cementitious Material, e.g Plaster B28B 1/42 (20130101) B28B 21/22 (20130101) B28B 21/24 (20130101) B28B 21/42 (20130101) B28B 21/48 (20130101) B28B 21/52 (20130101) B28B 21/72 (20130101) B28B 21/78 (20130101) B28B 21/242 (20130101) Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 47/0004 (20130101) B29C 47/0019 (20130101) B29C 47/0021 (20130101) B29C 47/0023 (20130101) B29C 47/0059 (20130101) B29C 47/0064 (20130101) B29C 47/0066 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29B, B29C or B29D, Relating to Moulding Materials or to Materials for Reinforcements, Fillers or Preformed Parts, e.g Inserts B29K 2105/06 (20130101) B29K 2105/12 (20130101) B29K 2909/02 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 18/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/10 (20130101) C04B 35/64 (20130101) C04B 35/76 (20130101) C04B 35/117 (20130101) C04B 35/563 (20130101) C04B 35/565 (20130101) C04B 35/803 (20130101) C04B 35/806 (20130101) C04B 35/6224 (20130101) C04B 35/6316 (20130101) C04B 35/6365 (20130101) C04B 35/62625 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/3418 (20130101) C04B 2235/5228 (20130101) C04B 2235/5248 (20130101) C04B 2235/5268 (20130101) C04B 2235/5296 (20130101) C04B 2235/6021 (20130101) C04B 2235/6567 (20130101) C04B 2237/36 (20130101) C04B 2237/38 (20130101) C04B 2237/84 (20130101) C04B 2237/343 (20130101) C04B 2237/365 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1314 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph A. Pellettiere (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Airforce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Pellettiere (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A semi-active seat cushion and method of using the same. In one embodiment, the semi-active seat cushion comprises a plurality of chambers for containing a pressurized fluid, wherein each chamber is connected to at least one other chamber by an orifice that provides a fluid connection; a supply conduit for supplying a pressurized fluid to each of the plurality of chambers; and at least one relief valve that permits rapid and controlled deflation of the plurality of chambers. In another embodiment, the semi-active seat cushion comprises a smart fluid; a plurality of chambers configured for containing the smart fluid; a field generator; and a field controller. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453200 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Chairs; Sofas; Beds A47C 27/083 (20130101) Seats Specially Adapted for Vehicles; Vehicle Passenger Accommodation Not Otherwise Provided for B60N 2/4415 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284368 | Byers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Byers (Tacoma Park, Maryland); Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy (Herndon, Virginia); Jaime M. Guidry Auvil (Elkridge, Maryland); Milton L. Brown (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides for a method of preventing or treating a cadherin-11 related disease in a subject, which includes administering to the subject an effective amount of a compound of the following formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, X1 and X2 are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/323374 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) A61K 31/343 (20130101) A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/30 (20130101) C07D 215/14 (20130101) C07D 241/42 (20130101) C07D 307/77 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284400 | Webb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arthur A Webb (Bethesda, Maryland); Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Keith E Lucas (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A Webb (Bethesda, Maryland); Jozef Verborgt (Dunedin, Florida); Keith E Lucas (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having a polyurea made by reacting a polyisocyanate with one of the below compounds. The value x is 2 or 3. A method of: providing a polyisocyanate and one of the below compounds, spraying the polyisocyanate and the compound with a plural component pump onto a surface to form a mixture, and allowing the mixture to cure to a polyurea. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/832126 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/34 (20130101) B05D 3/02 (20130101) B05D 3/108 (20130101) B05D 7/24 (20130101) B05D 2401/31 (20130101) B05D 2503/00 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 229/22 (20130101) C07C 229/24 (20130101) C07C 229/26 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/765 (20130101) C08G 18/3821 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/02 (20130101) C08L 75/02 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 175/02 (20130101) C09D 175/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09284559 | Gmeiner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William H. Gmeiner (Yadkinville, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Gmeiner (Yadkinville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of the formula A-B-C, is provided, wherein: A is a first nucleic acid that specifically binds to an extracellular surface protein expressed by a cell of interest, B is an alkyl linker; and C is a second nucleic acid that hybridizes to a complementary nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the first nucleic acid is an aptamer. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid comprises an active compound, particularly cytotoxic nucleotides such as poly-FdUMP. Compositions and methods of using such compounds for treating and/or detecting cancer are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759216 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/16 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) |
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| US 09284587 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Pete Heinzelman (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to CBH I chimera fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, and host cells for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/625543 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 2319/35 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) C12Y 302/01074 (20130101) C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) |
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| US 09284602 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Yu Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Peng Yin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Yu Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Peng Yin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are primers and primer systems having improved specificity and kinetics over existing primers, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/882231 |
| 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 21/02 (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 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2537/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) |
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| US 09284609 | Tomlins et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (New York, New York); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Ellwaugen, Germany); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/483157 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) |
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| US 09284845 | Lewis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Lewis (Vernon, Connecticut); Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr. (West Hartford, Connecticut); Steven Bruce Gautschi (Naugatuck, Connecticut); Christopher Corcoran (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil comprises pressure and suction surfaces extending from a root section to a tip section of the airfoil. The airfoil also comprises a leading edge and trailing edge defining a chord length therebetween. A tip shelf is formed along the tip section between the pressure surface and a tip shelf wall, the tip shelf wall being spaced between the pressure surface and the suction surface. A squealer pocket is formed along the tip section between the tip shelf wall and a squealer tip wall extending from the suction surface. The tip shelf extends from within 10% of the cord length measured from the leading edge to within 10% of the chord length measured from the trailing edge. The squealer pocket extends from within 10% of the chord length measured from the leading edge to terminate less than 85% of the chord length measured from the trailing edge. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/250166 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2260/202 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/673 (20130101) Y02T 50/676 (20130101) |
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| US 09284887 | McKenney et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tony R. McKenney (Indianapolis, Indiana); David R. Price (Brownsburg, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony R. McKenney (Indianapolis, Indiana); David R. Price (Brownsburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention is a unique gas turbine engine. Another embodiment is a unique frame for a gas turbine engine. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for gas turbine engines and gas turbine engine frames. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application shall become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith. |
| FILED | Monday, December 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/978939 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/16 (20130101) F01D 25/24 (20130101) F01D 25/28 (20130101) F01D 25/164 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2300/603 (20130101) |
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| US 09284889 | Damgaard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jocelyn C. Damgaard (Vernon, Connecticut); Steven D. Roberts (Moodus, Connecticut); Timothy Dale (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jocelyn C. Damgaard (Vernon, Connecticut); Steven D. Roberts (Moodus, Connecticut); Timothy Dale (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible seal system for a gas turbine engine includes an annular mounting bracket, an annular support bracket, an annular flexible seal and a plurality of mounting spacers. The flexible seal extends axially between a first mounting segment and a second mounting segment. The first mounting segment is connected axially between the mounting bracket and the support bracket, and includes a plurality of mounting apertures that extend axially through the first mounting segment. Each of the mounting spacers is arranged within a respective one of the mounting apertures, and extends axially between the mounting bracket and the support bracket. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/297458 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 1/805 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2250/611 (20130101) |
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| US 09285185 | Cabahug et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Prototype Productions Incorporated Ventures Two, LLC (Ashburn, Virginia) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Eric F. Cabahug (Fairfax, Virginia); Joseph Frascati (Arlington, Virginia); Don McLaughlin (Ashburn, Virginia); James S. Dodd (Linden, Virginia); Ben Feldman (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A firearm may have a plurality of power-consuming accessories that can be attached to the weapon. In order to reduce the weight of these power-consuming accessories, as well as the proliferation of their batteries, the Weapon Accessory Power Distribution System provides a common power source to power the power-consuming accessories attached to the weapon. One or more powered rails are provided to provide a point of electrical interconnection for the power-consuming accessories, absent the use of connectors with their tethering cables, which are susceptible to entanglement. The powered rail(s) are electrically interconnected with a power source, which typically is a battery mounted in the butt stock of the weapon. |
| FILED | Monday, March 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/845379 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Smallarms, e.g Pistols, Rifles; Accessories Therefor F41C 23/22 (20130101) F41C 27/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 11/003 (20130101) |
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| US 09285191 | Roland et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles M. Roland (Waldorf, Maryland); Raymond M. Gamache (Indian Head, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Roland (Waldorf, Maryland); Raymond M. Gamache (Indian Head, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating of atactic polypropylene over a transparent armor substrate improves resistance to penetration while allowing convenient repair of minor abrasions and scratches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320846 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/0407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F41H 7/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09285218 | Shekhar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shashi Shekhar (Plymouth, Minnesota); Venkata Maruti Viswanath Gunturi (Minneapolis, Minnesota); KwangSoo Yang (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A shortest path from a source to a destination for a current start time in a set of start times is determined. A processor identifies a critical start time in the set of start times that is temporally separated from the current start time by at least one intermediate start time. The shortest path from the source to the destination for the current start time is set as the shortest path for the at least one intermediate start time without separately determining the shortest path for the at least one intermediate start time. A different shortest path is determined from the source to the destination for the critical start time. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974777 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/3446 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/047 (20130101) |
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| US 09285222 | Waite et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Optimal Ranging, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OPTIMAL RANGING, INC. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Waite (Los Gatos, California); Thorkell Gudmundsson (San Jose, California); Dimitar Gargov (Merced, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing autonomous navigation for an Autonomous Vehicle such as an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) or an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) in the vicinity of power lines or other signal carrying lines or underwater cable is presented. Autonomous navigation is achieved by measuring the magnitude and phase of the electromagnetic field at an unknown location within a space under excitation by a set of power cables of the power line with one or more orthogonal electromagnetic sensors formed on the AV; and estimating parameters related to a position and orientation of the AV, and load parameters of each cable based on the residual error between the measured set of complex electromagnetic field values corresponding to a combined model of the set of power cables. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/697423 |
| ART UNIT | 3668 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 2201/141 (20130101) Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 7/00 (20130101) Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/20 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/101 (20130101) |
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| US 09285248 | Messenger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott R. Messenger (Baltimore, Maryland); Cory D. Cress (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael K. Yakes (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey H. Warner (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert J. Walters (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott R. Messenger (Baltimore, Maryland); Cory D. Cress (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael K. Yakes (Alexandria, Virginia); Jeffrey H. Warner (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert J. Walters (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is described that includes sensors that are sensitive to displacement damage, and can be configured to display a characteristic damage curve. The sensors, or diodes, can be made of one or more semiconductor materials that are sensitive to displacement damage, and can be operated in dark illumination conditions. The sensors can have multiple shields of a specific or varied thickness. The shields can be formed in different configurations, though the shielding thickness can be designed to change the level of displacement damage absorbed by the sensors. The characteristic damage curve can provide a sensor response variable that displays a functional dependence on displacement damage. For example, the characteristic damage curve can provide a sensor response variable that is one or more currents measured at one or more fixed voltages, or one or more voltages measured at one or more fixed currents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/205187 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 9/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/026 (20130101) |
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| US 09285249 | Schober et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HONEYWELL INTL. INC. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina Marie Schober (St. Anthony, Minnesota); Jennifer S. Strabley (Maple Grove, Minnesota); James A. Vescera (Hopkins, Minnesota); Kenneth Salit (Plymouth, Minnesota); Delmer L. Smith (Edina, Minnesota); Terry Dean Stark (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Chad Langness (Robbinsdale, Minnesota); Karl D. Nelson (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment is directed towards a physics package of an atomic sensor. The physics package includes a frame composed of metal and including a plurality of slender support members extending between one another in a three dimensional structure. The support members define boundaries between adjacent apertures defined in the frame. The plurality of support members include a plurality of mounting surfaces adjacent to the apertures. The physics package also includes a plurality of panes attached to the mounting surfaces of the frame. The plurality of panes cover the apertures such that the frame and the plurality of panes define a vacuum chamber and provide three light paths that cross within the vacuum chamber at 90 degree angles with respect to one another. The physics package also includes a chamber evacuation structure for evacuating the vacuum chamber. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/644618 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Not Specially Adapted for a Specific Variable; Arrangements for Measuring Two or More Variables Not Covered in a Single Other Subclass; Tariff Metering Apparatus; Measuring or Testing Not Otherwise Provided for G01D 11/245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Time-interval Measuring G04F 5/14 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) Y10T 29/49885 (20150115) |
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| US 09285281 | Bednarz, III |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Edward T. Bednarz, III (Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward T. Bednarz, III (Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A deflection plate for protecting a load cell of a mobile dynamometer, includes a generally elongated member having a front surface, a back surface, a top surface, a bottom surface and two side surfaces. The front surface is at least partially tapered such that the front surface adjacent the top surface is thicker than the front surface adjacent the bottom surface. The taper of said front surface of the deflection plate is preferably dimensioned and configured such that the safety factor along substantially most of its length is at least about 1.1 and less than about 1.2. A method for employing strain gages identifies the magnitudes and locations of loads on slender beams using strain gage based methods with application to portable Army bridges. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/545565 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09285322 | Cremer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S. Cremer (College Station, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Cremer (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for detecting binding between first and second molecules using a pH-sensitive fluorophore. A change in fluorescence emission intensity of the fluorophore is indicative of binding. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/309313 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/06 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/77 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/84 (20130101) G01N 33/582 (20130101) G01N 33/54366 (20130101) G01N 2021/7786 (20130101) |
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| US 09285336 | Gupta |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitanya Gupta (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining chemistry of a molecule in a high background interfering liquid environment by application of an electronic signal at a biased metal-electrolyte interface is disclosed. One or more of a resonant exchange of energy between one or more electrons exchanged by the metal and the electrolyte and vibrating bonds of a molecular analyte, for example, may be sensed by measuring small signal conductivity of an electrochemical interface. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/963272 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/4145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/4148 (20130101) G01N 33/561 (20130101) G01N 33/6803 (20130101) |
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| US 09285535 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravinder K. Jain (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mani Hossein-Zadeh (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical resonator made from an elongated fiber having a proximal and distal end. A sphere is created on the distal end by locating the distal end in cylindrically symmetrical heating zone along a centerline. For some embodiments, the distal end is rapidly cooled by allowing it to retract away from the heating zone along the centerline during the formation and solidification of the molten microsphere. The resulting optical resonator has an intrinsic quality factor greater than 106 over the 2.0 to 3.2 μm MIR wavelength range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960659 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/262 (20130101) G02B 6/02052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/12038 (20130101) G02B 2006/12109 (20130101) G02B 2006/12159 (20130101) G02B 2006/12169 (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 3/173 (20130101) H01S 3/0627 (20130101) H01S 3/1608 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09285539 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Using silicon photonic components that support a single polarization, the output of an optical receiver is independent of the polarization of an optical signal. In particular, using a polarization-diversity technique, the two orthogonal polarizations in a single-mode optical fiber are split in two and processed independently. For example, the two optical signals are provided by a polarizing splitting grating coupler. Subsequently, a wavelength channel in the two optical signals is selected using a wavelength-selective filter (for example, using a ring resonator or an echelle grating) and combined at an optical detector (such as a photo-detector) to achieve polarization-independent operation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/588261 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/124 (20130101) G02B 6/126 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 6/12023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29358 (20130101) |
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| US 09285540 | Bauters 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) | Jared Bauters (Santa Barbara, California); John E. Bowers (Santa Barbara, California); Jock Bovington (Goleta, California); Martijn Heck (Aarhus, Denmark); Michael Davenport (Goleta, California); Daniel Blumenthal (Santa Barbara, California); Jonathon Scott Barton (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for realizing a semiconductor waveguide and an ultra-low-loss dielectric waveguide disposed on the same substrate is disclosed. The method includes forming a partial dielectric waveguide structure on the substrate, wherein the dielectric waveguide is annealed to reduce hydrogen incorporation, and wherein the top cladding of the dielectric waveguide is only partially formed by a first dielectric layer. A second substrate comprising a semiconductor layer having a second dielectric layer disposed on its top surface is bonded to the first substrate such that the first and second dielectric layers collectively form the complete top cladding for the dielectric waveguide. The second substrate is then removed and the semiconductor layer is patterned to define the semiconductor waveguide core. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/427748 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/136 (20130101) G02B 6/305 (20130101) G02B 6/1225 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/1228 (20130101) G02B 6/1347 (20130101) G02B 2006/12176 (20130101) G02B 2006/12188 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/105 (20130101) |
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| US 09285554 | Doany et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Fuad Doany (Katonah, New York); Benjamin G. Lee (New York, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fuad Doany (Katonah, New York); Benjamin G. Lee (New York, New York); Clint L. Schow (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optoelectronic integrated circuit for coupling light to or from an optical waveguide formed in an optical device layer in a near-normal angle to that layer. In an embodiment, the integrated circuit comprises a semiconductor body including a metal-dielectric stack, an optical device layer, a buried oxide layer and a semiconductor substrate arranged in series between first and second opposite sides of the semiconductor body. At least one optical waveguide is formed in the optical device layer for guiding light in a defined plane in that device layer. Diffractive coupling elements are disposed in the optical device layer to couple light from the waveguide toward the second surface of the semiconductor body at a near-normal angle to the defined plane in the optical device layer. In an embodiment, an optical fiber is positioned against the semiconductor body for receiving the light from the coupling elements. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/370886 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/124 (20130101) G02B 6/4214 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29323 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 25/167 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09285594 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theodore G. Jones (Alexandria, Virginia); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel F. Gordon (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore G. Jones (Alexandria, Virginia); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel F. Gordon (Alexandria, Virginia); Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing a laser-guided underwater electrical discharge are provided. One or more electrodes defining a desired electrical discharge path are situated in a body of water and are attached to an external electrical power supply. A high-powered, intense laser beam is fired through one or more focusing lenses into the water. The laser beam forms an optical filament in the water, which in turn forms an ionized channel having a much greater conductivity than the surrounding water. An external power supply drives an electrical discharge along the path of the ionized channel due to its greater conductivity. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/569851 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 27/0955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 1/3511 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09285656 | Foster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensors Unlimited, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensors Unlimited, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Foster (Morrisville, Pennsylvania); Michael Delamere (Princeton, New Jersey); John P. Barby (Robbinsville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining lens position including a first capacitor plate disposed on a stationary housing of a camera. A second capacitor plate is disposed on a rotating lens component of the camera. A processor is operatively connected to the first and second capacitor plates to identify the position of the lens of the camera based on capacitance between the first and second capacitor plates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/326113 |
| ART UNIT | 2852 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 13/00 (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 13/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/33 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286032 | Feblowitz 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) | Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Shirin Sohrabi Araghi (White Plains, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automated composition of an application including: receiving a customizable template for application composition and a composition goal, wherein the goal comprises a plurality of tags and the goal is incomplete such that more than one possible composition matches the goal; refining the goal by automatically adding refinement tags to the goal; and generating an application flow that matches the customizable template and the refined goal, wherein the application flow comprises data sources, data processing operators, and outputs of the application flow. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/836645 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/20 (20130101) G06F 8/35 (20130101) G06F 8/36 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286143 | Carey 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) | James E. Carey (Rochester, Minnesota); Matthew W. Markland (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip J. Sanders (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for flexible event data content management for relevant event and alert analysis within a distributed processing system are provided. Embodiments include capturing, by an interface connector, an event from a resource of the distributed processing system; inserting, by the interface connector, the event into an event database; receiving from the interface connector, by a notifier, a notification of insertion of the event into the event database; based on the received notification, tracking, by the notifier, the number of events indicated as inserted into the event database; receiving from the notifier, by a monitor, a cumulative notification indicating the number of events that have been inserted into the event database; in response to receiving the cumulative notification, retrieving, by the monitor, from the event database, events inserted into the event database; and processing, by the monitor, the retrieved events. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678153 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/542 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286216 | Franchetti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franz Franchetti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Qiuling Zhu (San Jose, California); Lawrence T. Pileggi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (3DIC) memory chip including computational logic-in-memory (LiM) for performing accelerated data processing. Related memory systems and methods are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the 3DIC memory chip includes at least one memory layer that provides a primary memory configured to store data. The 3DIC memory chip also includes a computational LiM layer. The computational LiM layer is a type of memory layer having application-specific computational logic integrated into local memory while externally appearing as regular memory. The computational LiM layer and the primary memory are interconnected through through-silica vias (TSVs). In this manner, the computational LiM layer may load data from the primary memory with the 3DIC memory chip without having to access an external bus coupling the 3DIC memory chip to a central processing unit (CPU) or other processors to computationally process the data and generate a computational result. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157040 |
| ART UNIT | 2139 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 15/76 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286418 | Butler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stephen C Butler (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas A Frank (Middletown, Rhode Island); Jackeline D Diapis (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C Butler (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas A Frank (Middletown, Rhode Island); Jackeline D Diapis (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for designing an acoustic array includes establishing a desired beam pattern, acoustic wavelength and beamwidth for the array. Geometric parameters are calculated from these constraints. The array is modeled as a plurality of elements positioned in accordance with the geometric parameters. An amplitude shading function is calculated. An array of acoustic elements is constructed having an area calculated from the calculated amplitude shading function. An acoustic array designed by this process is further provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/267150 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/32 (20130101) G10K 11/34 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286882 | Polakowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Great Lakes Sound and Vibration, Inc. (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Great Lakes Sound and Vibration, Inc. (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Polakowski (Atlantic Mine, Michigan); Steven G. Mattson (Houghton, Michigan); Greg A. Kangas (Hancock, Michigan); Zach R. Bustos (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled noise source is for attachment to an exhaust pipe of a vehicle. The noise source comprises an axially compliant member that couples to the exhaust pipe such that an enclosed internal volume of the axially compliant member is in fluid communication with the interior of the exhaust pipe. A dynamic driver is coupled to the axially compliant member. The dynamic driver oscillates the axially compliant member so as to vary the internal volume of the axially compliant member and thereby introduce controlled pressure waves to the interior of the exhaust pipe that counteract sound produced by the engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/789132 |
| ART UNIT | 2655 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Machines or Engines in General; Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines F01N 1/023 (20130101) F01N 1/065 (20130101) F01N 1/168 (20130101) F01N 2490/12 (20130101) Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/175 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G10K 11/178 (20130101) G10K 11/1788 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 3/002 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286959 | Ferreira 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) | Alexandre P. Ferreira (Austin, Texas); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Janani Mukundan (Ithaca, New York); Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory is provided that comprises a bank of non-volatile memory cells configured into a plurality of banklets. Each banklet in the plurality of banklets can be enabled separately and independently of the other banklets in the bank of non-volatile memory cells. The memory further comprises peripheral banklet circuitry, coupled to the bank of a non-volatile memory array, that is configured to enable selected subsets of bit lines within a selected banklet within the plurality of banklets. Moreover, the memory comprises banklet select circuitry, coupled to the peripheral banklet circuitry, that is configured to select data associated with a selected banklet for reading out from the banklet or writing to the banklet. |
| FILED | Monday, November 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/082624 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 8/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1653 (20130101) G11C 11/1673 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09286962 | Okhi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts); New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Akira Okhi (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew Kent (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic memory system includes a superconductor circuit and one or more magnetic memory elements to store data. To write data, a driver circuit in the superconductor circuit generates a magnetic signal for transmission over a superconductor link extending between the superconductor circuit and the magnetic memory element. To read data, a sensing circuit in the superconductor circuit monitors a superconductor link extending from sensing circuit to the magnetic memory element. The magnetic memory element can be a spin-transfer type magnetic memory element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/300523 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/02 (20130101) G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/1659 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287348 | Youngner |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Youngner (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, methods, and systems for ion trapping are described herein. One device includes a through-silicon via (TSV) and a trench capacitor formed around the TSV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/686576 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/481 (20130101) H01L 28/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287438 | Varghese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tansen Varghese (Regensburg, Germany); Arthur Cornfeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel McGlynn (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tansen Varghese (Regensburg, Germany); Arthur Cornfeld (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel McGlynn (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a solar cell assembly by providing a first substrate; depositing on the first substrate a sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell; mounting a supporting member on top of the sequence of layers using a temporary adhesive bonding material to form a processing assembly; removing the first substrate; and depositing a contact layer including germanium and palladium on the top surface of the solar cell at a relatively low temperature so that the temporary adhesive allows the processing assembly to remain attached. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/754730 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1864 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287442 | Shatalov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc. (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim S Shatalov (Columbia, South Carolina); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina); Jinwei Yang (Columbia, South Carolina); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Alexander Dobrinsky (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution for designing and/or fabricating a structure including a quantum well and an adjacent barrier is provided. A target band discontinuity between the quantum well and the adjacent barrier is selected to coincide with an activation energy of a dopant for the quantum well and/or barrier. For example, a target valence band discontinuity can be selected such that a dopant energy level of a dopant in the adjacent barrier coincides with a valence energy band edge for the quantum well and/or a ground state energy for free carriers in a valence energy band for the quantum well. Additionally, a target doping level for the quantum well and/or adjacent barrier can be selected to facilitate a real space transfer of holes across the barrier. The quantum well and the adjacent barrier can be formed such that the actual band discontinuity and/or actual doping level(s) correspond to the relevant target(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/803753 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/155 (20130101) H01L 29/201 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 33/04 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/32 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (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 5/2009 (20130101) H01S 5/3211 (20130101) H01S 5/3216 (20130101) H01S 5/3407 (20130101) H01S 5/34333 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287489 | Bryce 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) | Brian A. Bryce (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Josephine B. Chang (Mahopac, New York); Marcelo A. Kuroda (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a piezoelectronic transistor (PET), the PET, and a semiconductor device including the PET are described. The method includes forming a piezoelectric (PE) element with a trench and forming a pair of electrodes on the PE element in a coplanar arrangement in a first plane, both of the pair of electrodes being on a same side of the PE element. The method also includes forming a piezoresistive (PR) element above the pair of electrodes and forming a clamp above the PR element. Applying a voltage to the pair of electrodes causes displacement of the PE element perpendicular to the first plane. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/529834 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/183 (20130101) H01L 41/314 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287599 | White et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher John White (Palo Alto, California); James R. White (San Mateo, California); Jay W. Walker (Half Moon Bay, California); David T. Huang (Milpitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Active Spectrum, Inc. (Foster City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John White (Palo Alto, California); James R. White (San Mateo, California); Jay W. Walker (Half Moon Bay, California); David T. Huang (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a miniature tunable filter, comprising at least two adjacent coaxial-type resonators coupled to one another. Each coaxial-type resonator comprises a metal-coated ceramic dielectric cavity having a tuning rod passage formed therethrough. A tuning rod is inserted through the tuning rod passage, such that the miniature tunable filter is tuned by moving the tuning rod into and out of the tuning rod passage of the ceramic dielectric cavity. A low impedance coaxial section surrounds at least a portion of the tuning rod to create an effective microwave short-circuit at a resonant frequency of the miniature tunable filter, which results in very wide tuning and low insertion loss. In a desired aspect, the tuning rod is a solid metal tuning rod. The combination of a solid metal tuning rod with a ceramic coaxial-type resonator results in high radio frequency power handling. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/179409 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/2056 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 7/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287608 | Thompson, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Basil W. Thompson, Jr. (Hooksett, New Hampshire); Robert D. Smith (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Paul Simmons (Londonderry, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to a structure and method for providing better antenna element retention in the any environment. The structure may comprise at least two card guides attached to a base. Each card guide may have at least one antenna slot, and individual antenna elements may be guided into position by an antenna slot of two different card guides. The individual antenna elements may have their freedom of motion restricted in the direction of their insertion by caps attached to the card guides. The individual antenna elements may have their freedom of motion restricted in a direction transverse to their direction of insertion by retention members attached to the card guides. By allowing for the “top-down” assembly of individual antenna elements in a modular fashion, embodiments of the present invention may facilitate easier repair of antenna element arrays, than prior art array assemblies. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/870233 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/1207 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/0087 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49016 (20150115) |
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| US 09287614 | Vahidpour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mehrnoosh Vahidpour (Santa Clara, California); Kamal Sarabandi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jack East (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Meysam Moallem (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehrnoosh Vahidpour (Santa Clara, California); Kamal Sarabandi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jack East (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Meysam Moallem (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A frequency scanning traveling wave antenna array is presented for Y-band application. This antenna is a fast wave leaky structure based on rectangular waveguides in which slots cut on the broad wall of the waveguide serve as radiating elements. A series of aperture-coupled patch arrays are fed by these slots. This antenna offers 2° and 30° beam widths in azimuth and elevation direction, respectively, and is capable of ±25° beam scanning with frequency around the broadside direction. The waveguide can be fed through a membrane-supported cavity-backed CPW which is the output of a frequency multiplier providing 230˜245 GHz FMCW signal. This structure can be planar and compatible with micromachining application and can be fabricated using DRIE of silicon. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600570 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 13/10 (20130101) H01Q 13/18 (20130101) H01Q 13/203 (20130101) H01Q 21/0037 (20130101) H01Q 21/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09287908 | Suarez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Suarez (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments are described that relate to signal distortion for delay and attenuation. A transmission antenna can transmit a baseline signal to a reception antenna and then transmit a test signal to the reception antenna. The baseline signal and test signal can be processed to determine undesirable attenuation and delay coefficients. These coefficients can be transmitted back from the reception antenna to the transmission antenna. Based on these coefficients, a determination can be made on how to modify a signal of interest such that the signal of interest arrives from the transmission antenna to the reception antenna absent the undesirable attenuation and delay coefficients. The transmission antenna can transmit the modified signal of interest such that it arrives at the reception antenna absent the undesirable delay and attenuation coefficients. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/496318 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/40 (20130101) H04B 1/0475 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 1/0483 (20130101) H04B 7/061 (20130101) H04B 17/104 (20150115) H04B 17/345 (20150115) |
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| US 09287993 | Adleman 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) | James R. Adleman (San Diego, California); Christopher K. Huynh (San Diego, California); Everett William Jacobs (San Diego, California); Sanja Zlatanovic (San Diego, California); Andreas O. J. Wiberg (La Jolla, California); Stojan Radic (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF channelizer comprising: a master laser for generating a reference beam; a splitter for splitting the reference beam into first and second beams; first and second modulator modules for converting the first and second beams into first and second modulated beams; first and second seed tone generators for deriving first and second seed tones; first and second parametric mixers for converting the first and second seed tones into first and second combs; a signal modulator for modulating a received RF signal onto the first comb; first and second optical filters for separating the first and second combs into pluralities of first and second filtered beams with center frequencies corresponding to the second comb lines; and a coherent detection array for selecting, combining, and detecting corresponding pairs from first and second filtered beams providing at the output a contiguous bank of channelized signals covering the bandwidth of the RF signal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/529149 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/616 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/2575 (20130101) H04B 2210/006 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/0298 (20130101) |
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| US 09288557 | Zhou |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weimin Zhou (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for generating a frequency spectrum of an RF signal comprising a gate switch for generating a series of pulses from a laser of wavelength lambda modulated by an input RF signal, a first fiber optical loop for circulating a first percentage of a first pulse of the series of pulses from the gate switch, for a predetermined number of cycles n where each cycle takes time t1, a second fiber optical loop for conducting a second percentage of the first pulse for predetermined number of cycles “k”, where each cycle takes time t2, where t2*k=t1*n, a first switch with a first state for coupling the first pulse from the gate switch to a coupler, the coupler coupling the first pulse into the first fiber optical loop and tapping replicas of the pulse from the first fiber optical loop, and a second state for coupling the second percentage of the first pulse to the coupler to increase intensity of the tapped replica pulses, a processor for correlating the replicas of the pulse with each other to produce a set of data points comprising a plurality of multiplexed correlated pulses and transforming the data points into a channelized frequency spectrum of the input RF signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/955042 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 3/2676 (20130101) Transmission H04B 2210/006 (20130101) Selecting H04Q 11/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09288684 | McHenry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Dmitry Dain (Herndon, Virginia); Eugene Livis (Vienna, Virginia); Karl Steadman (Arlington, Virginia); Olga Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for using a detector to monitor and detect channel occupancy are disclosed. The detector resides on a station within a network using a framed format having a periodic time structure. When non-cooperative transmissions are detected by the network, the detector assesses the availability of a backup channel enabling migration of the network. The backup channel serves to allow the network to migrate transparently when the current channel becomes unavailable. The backup channel, however, could be occupied by another network that results in the migrating network interfering with the network already using the backup channel. Thus, the detector detects active transmission sources on the backup channel to determine whether the backup channel is occupied. Methods for using the detector include scheduling detection intervals asynchronously. The asynchronous detection uses offsets from a reference point within a frame. |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/914038 |
| ART UNIT | 2411 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Wireless Communication Networks H04W 16/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicole Labbe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Bonnie H. Ownley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kimberly D. Gwinn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Naima Moustaid-Moussa (Lubbock, Texas); Doris H. D'Souza (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Switchgrass is an increasingly important biofuel crop, but knowledge of switchgrass fungal pathogens is not extensive. The purpose of this research was to identify the fungal pathogens that decrease crop yield of switchgrass grown in Tennessee and to investigate a potential sustainable disease management strategy from a value-added by-product of the switchgrass biofuel conversion process. The specific objectives were 1) to identify and characterize prevalent fungal pathogens of switchgrass in Tennessee, 2) assess switchgrass seed produced in the United States for seedborne fungal pathogens, and 3) evaluate switchgrass extractives for antimicrobial activity against plant pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/079015 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| 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 65/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 65/40 (20130101) Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/3002 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2200/10 (20130101) A23V 2200/328 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 36/899 (20130101) A61K 2236/33 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/00 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/02 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 2201/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vladimir Balepin (Manorville, New York); Anthony Castrogiovanni (Manorville, New York); Florin Girlea (Sea Cliff, New York); Andrew Robertson (West Sayville, New York); Pasquale Sforza (Highland Beach, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital ATK, Inc. (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Balepin (Manorville, New York); Anthony Castrogiovanni (Manorville, New York); Florin Girlea (Sea Cliff, New York); Andrew Robertson (West Sayville, New York); Pasquale Sforza (Highland Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are supersonic separation systems that can be used for the removal of CO2 from a mixed gas stream. Also disclosed are methods for the separation and subsequent collection of solidified CO2 from a gas stream. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/599709 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 45/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 49/006 (20130101) B01D 53/002 (20130101) B01D 53/24 (20130101) B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/65 (20130101) Apparatus Using Free Vortex Flow, e.g Cyclones B04C 3/00 (20130101) B04C 7/00 (20130101) B04C 2003/006 (20130101) B04C 2009/008 (20130101) |
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| US 09283551 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fei Yu (Starkville, Mississippi); Qiangu Yan (Starkville, Mississippi); William Batchelor (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter includes methods for producing liquid hydrocarbons from syngas. In some embodiments the syngas is obtained from biomass and/or comprises a relatively high amount of nitrogen and/or carbon dioxide. In some embodiments the present methods can convert syngas into liquid hydrocarbons through a one-stage process. Also provided are catalysts for producing liquid hydrocarbons from syngas, wherein the catalysts include a base material, a transition metal, and a promoter. In some embodiments the base material includes a zeolite-iron material or a cobalt-molybdenum carbide material. In still further embodiments the promoter can include an alkali metal. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/162606 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 27/22 (20130101) B01J 29/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/157 (20130101) C07C 45/50 (20130101) C07C 51/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09283637 | Grant et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn J. Grant (Benton City, Washington); John G. Frye (Richland, Washington); Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Curt A. Lavender (Richland, Washington); Kenneth Scott Weil (Maumee, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Tools for friction stir welding can be made with fewer process steps, lower cost techniques, and/or lower cost ingredients than other state-of-the-art processes by utilizing improved compositions and processes of fabrication. Furthermore, the tools resulting from the improved compositions and processes of fabrication can exhibit better distribution and homogeneity of chemical constituents, greater strength, and/or increased durability. In one example, a friction stir weld tool includes tungsten and rhenium and is characterized by carbide and oxide dispersoids, by carbide particulates, and by grains that comprise a solid solution of the tungsten and rhenium. The grains do not exceed 10 micrometers in diameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/747236 |
| 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 1/0044 (20130101) B22F 3/12 (20130101) B22F 9/24 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/1245 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 27/00 (20130101) C01G 33/00 (20130101) C01G 39/02 (20130101) C01G 41/00 (20130101) C01G 41/02 (20130101) C01G 47/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) Alloys C22C 1/045 (20130101) C22C 1/058 (20130101) C22C 27/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09284188 | Helms et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brett A. Helms (San Francisco, California); Andrea R. Bayles (New Canaan, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett A. Helms (San Francisco, California); Andrea R. Bayles (New Canaan, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A facile procedure to deliver nanocrystals to the cytosol of live cells that is both rapid and general. The technique employs a unique cationic core-shell polymer colloid that directs nanocrystals to the cytosol of living cells within a few hours of incubation. The present methods and compositions enable a host of advanced applications arising from efficient cytosolic delivery of nanocrystal imaging probes: from single particle tracking experiments to monitoring protein-protein interactions in live cells for extended periods. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/225199 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B82Y 15/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 265/06 (20130101) C08F 265/10 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) G01N 33/5005 (20130101) |
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| US 09284512 | Snead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elevance Renewable Sicences, Inc. (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Snead (Woodridge, Illinois); Steven A. Cohen (Woodridge, Illinois); Demond L. Gildon (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for refining natural oil feedstocks and producing dibasic esters and/or dibasic acids. The methods comprise reacting a terminal olefin with an internal olefin in the presence of a metathesis catalyst to form a dibasic ester and/or dibasic acid. In certain embodiments, the olefin esters are formed by reacting the feedstock in the presence of a metathesis catalyst under conditions sufficient to form a metathesized product comprising olefins and esters, separating the olefins from the esters in the metathesized product, and transesterifying the esters in the presence of an alcohol to form a transesterified product having olefin esters. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/628467 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/03 (20130101) C07C 67/03 (20130101) C07C 67/333 (20130101) C07C 67/333 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 69/533 (20130101) C07C 69/533 (20130101) C07C 69/593 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 45/00 (20130101) C10G 45/58 (20130101) C10G 50/00 (20130101) C10G 65/043 (20130101) C10G 2300/30 (20130101) C10G 2300/44 (20130101) C10G 2300/301 (20130101) C10G 2300/307 (20130101) C10G 2300/308 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2300/1018 (20130101) C10G 2300/1088 (20130101) C10G 2400/02 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) C10G 2400/20 (20130101) C10G 2400/22 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/08 (20130101) C10L 1/026 (20130101) C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) C10L 2200/0476 (20130101) Producing, e.g by Pressing Raw Materials or by Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining or Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g Lanolin, Fatty Oils or Waxes; Essential Oils; Perfumes C11B 3/00 (20130101) C11B 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/00 (20130101) C11C 3/003 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 30/20 (20151101) |
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| US 09284566 | Liao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James C. Liao (Los Angeles, California); Kwang Myung Cho (Sungnam-si, South Korea); Yajun Yan (Bogart, Georgia); Yixin Huo (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Liao (Los Angeles, California); Kwang Myung Cho (Sungnam-si, South Korea); Yajun Yan (Bogart, Georgia); Yixin Huo (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are metabolically modified microorganisms characterized by having an increased keto-acid flux when compared with the wild-type organism and comprising at least one polynucleotide encoding an enzyme that when expressed results in the production of a greater quantity of a chemical product when compared with the wild-type organism. The recombinant microorganisms are useful for producing a large number of chemical compositions from various nitrogen containing biomass compositions and other carbon sources. More specifically, provided herein are methods of producing alcohols, acetaldehyde, acetate, isobutyraldehyde, isobutyric acid, n-butyraldehyde, n-butyric acid, 2-methyl-1-butyraldehyde, 2-methyl-1-butyric acid, 3-methyl-1-butyraldehyde, 3-methyl-1-butyric acid, ammonia, ammonium, amino acids, 2,3-butanediol, 1,4-butanediol, 2-methyl-1,4-butanediol, 2-methyl-1,4-butanediamine, isobutene, itaconate, acetoin, acetone, isobutene, 1,5-diaminopentane, L-lactic acid, D-lactic acid, shikimic acid, mevalonate, polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB), isoprenoids, fatty acids, homoalanine, 4-aminobutyric acid (GABA), succinic acid, malic acid, citric acid, adipic acid, p-hydroxy-cinnamic acid, tetrahydrofuran, 3-methyl-tetrahydrofuran, gamma-butyrolactone, pyrrolidinone, n-methylpyrrolidone, aspartic acid, lysine, cadeverine, 2-ketoadipic acid, and/or S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM) from a suitable nitrogen rich biomass. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/883531 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/20 (20130101) C12N 9/0016 (20130101) C12N 9/1096 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) C12N 15/75 (20130101) C12N 15/77 (20130101) C12N 15/78 (20130101) C12N 15/80 (20130101) C12N 15/81 (20130101) C12N 15/815 (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 7/04 (20130101) C12P 7/16 (20130101) C12P 7/24 (20130101) C12P 7/40 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) Y02E 50/17 (20130101) |
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| US 09284596 | Thompson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Neil Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Emily DeCrescenzo Henriksen (Morrisville, North Carolina); David William Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jill Renee Jensen (Buffalo Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining thermophilic enzymatic activity include heating a substrate solution in a plurality of closed volumes to a predetermined reaction temperature. Without opening the closed volumes, at least one enzyme is added, substantially simultaneously, to the closed volumes. At the predetermined reaction temperature, the closed volumes are agitated and then the activity of the at least one enzyme is determined. The methods are conducive for characterizing enzymes of high-temperature reactions, with insoluble substrates, with substrates and enzymes that do not readily intermix, and with low volumes of substrate and enzyme. Systems for characterizing the enzymes are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/180161 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — 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 1/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09284783 | Faircloth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Foro Energy Inc. (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FORO ENERGY, INC. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian O. Faircloth (Evergreen, Colorado); Mark S. Zediker (Castle Rock, Colorado); Charles C. Rinzler (Denver, Colorado); Yeshaya Koblick (Sharon, Massachusetts); Joel F. Moxley (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a system, apparatus and methods for providing a laser beam to borehole surface in a predetermined and energy deposition profile. The predetermined energy deposition profiles may be uniform or tailored to specific downhole applications. Optic assemblies for obtaining these predetermined energy deposition profiles are further provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/852719 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 7/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 7/15 (20130101) |
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| US 09284857 | Ho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Ho (Southington, Connecticut); Samuel S. Mao (Castro Valley, California); Ralph Greif (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to an Organic Flash Cycle (OFC). In one aspect, a modified OFC system includes a pump, a heat exchanger, a flash evaporator, a high pressure turbine, a throttling valve, a mixer, a low pressure turbine, and a condenser. The heat exchanger is coupled to an outlet of the pump. The flash evaporator is coupled to an outlet of the heat exchanger. The high pressure turbine is coupled to a vapor outlet of the flash evaporator. The throttling valve is coupled to a liquid outlet of the flash evaporator. The mixer is coupled to an outlet of the throttling valve and to an outlet of the high pressure turbine. The low pressure turbine is coupled to an outlet of the mixer. The condenser is coupled to an outlet of the low pressure turbine and to an inlet of the pump. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/923159 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 13/00 (20130101) F01K 13/02 (20130101) F01K 23/10 (20130101) F01K 25/00 (20130101) F01K 25/04 (20130101) F01K 25/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01K 25/10 (20130101) F01K 25/14 (20130101) Methods of Steam Generation; Steam Boilers F22B 3/04 (20130101) F22B 27/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09284870 | Gonze et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Garima Bhatia (Bangalore, India) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Garima Bhatia (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A regeneration system includes a particulate matter (PM) filter with an upstream end for receiving exhaust gas and a downstream end. A control module determines a current soot loading level of the PM filter and compares the current soot loading level to a predetermined soot loading level. The control module permits regeneration of the PM filter when the current soot loading level is less than the predetermined soot loading level. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209286 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Machines or Engines in General; Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines F01N 3/027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01N 9/002 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/47 (20130101) |
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| US 09285161 | Gomes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alberto Regio Gomes (St. Joseph, Michigan); Andrew D. Litch (St. Joseph, Michigan); Guolian Wu (St. Joseph, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whirlpool Corporation (Benton Harbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto Regio Gomes (St. Joseph, Michigan); Andrew D. Litch (St. Joseph, Michigan); Guolian Wu (St. Joseph, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A refrigerator appliance (and associated method) that includes a condenser, evaporator and a multi-capacity compressor. The appliance also includes a pressure reducing device arranged within an evaporator-condenser refrigerant circuit, and a valve system for directing or restricting refrigerant flow through the device. The appliance further includes a controller for operating the compressor upon the initiation of a compressor ON-cycle at a priming capacity above a nominal capacity for a predetermined or calculated duration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/400876 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration Machines, Plants or Systems; Combined Heating and Refrigeration Systems; Heat-pump Systems F25B 5/02 (20130101) F25B 40/00 (20130101) F25B 41/04 (20130101) F25B 49/022 (20130101) F25B 2341/0661 (20130101) F25B 2400/052 (20130101) F25B 2600/0251 (20130101) F25B 2600/0253 (20130101) Refrigerators; Cold Rooms; Ice-boxes; Cooling or Freezing Apparatus Not Otherwise Provided for F25D 29/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 30/741 (20130101) Y02B 40/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09285170 | France et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. France (Lombard, Illinois); David S. Smith (Bartlett, Illinois); Wenhua Yu (Darien, Illinois); Jules L. Routbort (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and hybrid radiator-cooling apparatus for implementing enhanced radiator-cooling are provided. The hybrid radiator-cooling apparatus includes an air-side finned surface for air cooling; an elongated vertically extending surface extending outwardly from the air-side finned surface on a downstream air-side of the hybrid radiator; and a water supply for selectively providing evaporative cooling with water flow by gravity on the elongated vertically extending surface. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/775904 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 3/04 (20130101) Heat-exchange Apparatus, Not Provided for in Another Subclass, in Which the Heat-exchange Media Do Not Come into Direct Contact F28D 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09285279 | Maksymovych |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Petro Maksymovych (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable tunnel junction thermometry circuit includes a variable width tunnel junction between a test object and a probe. The junction width is varied and a change in thermovoltage across the junction with respect to the change in distance across the junction is determined. Also, a change in biased current with respect to a change in distance across the junction is determined. A temperature gradient across the junction is determined based on a mathematical relationship between the temperature gradient, the change in thermovoltage with respect to distance and the change in biased current with respect to distance. Thermovoltage may be measured by nullifying a thermoelectric tunneling current with an applied voltage supply level. A piezoelectric actuator may modulate the probe, and thus the junction width, to vary thermovoltage and biased current across the junction. Lock-in amplifiers measure the derivatives of the thermovoltage and biased current modulated by varying junction width. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911914 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 7/01 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01K 11/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09285340 | Jung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Byoungsok Jung (San Jose, California); Kevin Ness (San Mateo, California); Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byoungsok Jung (San Jose, California); Kevin Ness (San Mateo, California); Klint A. Rose (Alviso, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a method includes co-feeding fluids comprising a leading electrolyte, a trailing electrolyte, and at least one of DNA and RNA to a channel, and applying an electric field to the fluids in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the channel for inducing transverse isotachophoresis. In another embodiment, a method includes co-feeding fluids to a channel. The fluids include a leading electrolyte, a trailing electrolyte, biological objects, at least one of DNA and RNA, and a spacer electrolyte having an electrophoretic mobility that is between an electrophoretic mobility of at least some of the biological objects and an electrophoretic mobility of the at least one of the DNA and the RNA. The method also includes applying an electric field to the fluids in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the channel for inducing transverse isotachophoresis. Other methods of isotachophoresis are disclosed in addition to these. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/542215 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44747 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44773 (20130101) G01N 27/44773 (20130101) G01N 2030/8827 (20130101) |
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| US 09285354 | Carpenter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael V. Carpenter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lyle G. Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Alan Lindquist (Cincinnati, Ohio); Vincente Gallardo (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Carpenter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lyle G. Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Alan Lindquist (Cincinnati, Ohio); Vincente Gallardo (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for the detection of low-level harmful substances in a large volume of fluid comprising using a concentrator system to produce a retentate and analyzing the retentate for the presence of at least one harmful substance. The concentrator system performs a method comprising pumping at least 10 liters of fluid from a sample source through a filter. While pumping, the concentrator system diverts retentate from the filter into a container. The concentrator system also recirculates at least part of the retentate in the container again through the filter. The concentrator system controls the speed of the pump with a control system thereby maintaining a fluid pressure less than 25 psi during the pumping of the fluid; monitors the quantity of retentate within the container with a control system, and maintains a reduced volume level of retentate and a target volume of retentate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607921 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/147 (20130101) B01D 63/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/14 (20130101) G01N 1/4005 (20130101) G01N 15/0618 (20130101) G01N 33/1866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/4088 (20130101) G01N 2015/0046 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) |
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| US 09285575 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Freudiger (Boston, Massachusetts); Wei Min (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Freudiger (Boston, Massachusetts); Wei Min (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscopy imaging system is disclosed that includes a light source system, a spectral shaper, a modulator system, an optics system, an optical detector and a processor. The light source system is for providing a first train of pulses and a second train of pulses. The spectral shaper is for spectrally modifying an optical property of at least some frequency components of the broadband range of frequency components such that the broadband range of frequency components is shaped producing a shaped first train of pulses to specifically probe a spectral feature of interest from a sample, and to reduce information from features that are not of interest from the sample. The modulator system is for modulating a property of at least one of the shaped first train of pulses and the second train of pulses at a modulation frequency. The optical detector is for detecting an integrated intensity of substantially all optical frequency components of a train of pulses of interest transmitted or reflected through the common focal volume. The processor is for detecting a modulation at the modulation frequency of the integrated intensity of substantially all of the optical frequency components of the train of pulses of interest due to the non-linear interaction of the shaped first train of pulses with the second train of pulses as modulated in the common focal volume, and for providing an output signal for a pixel of an image for the microscopy imaging system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690579 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 2003/1282 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2021/653 (20130101) G01N 2021/655 (20130101) G01N 2201/0675 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/082 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Hebrink (Scandia, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Hebrink (Scandia, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An article including a transparent substrate having an anti-reflective, structured surface and a sintered coating including a porous network of silica nanoparticles thereon, wherein the silica nanoparticles are bonded to adjacent silica nanoparticles, wherein the structured substrate further includes a backing face, and a moisture barrier layer bonded to the backing face of the structured substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/825403 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (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 24/08 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/113 (20130101) G02B 5/0294 (20130101) G02B 27/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2207/101 (20130101) G02B 2207/107 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0203 (20130101) H01L 31/0236 (20130101) H01L 31/0481 (20130101) H01L 31/02168 (20130101) H01L 31/02366 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09286145 | 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) |
| ABSTRACT | Processing data communications events in a parallel active messaging interface (‘PAMI’) of a parallel computer that includes compute nodes that execute a parallel application, with the PAMI including data communications endpoints, and the endpoints are coupled for data communications through the PAMI and through other data communications resources, including determining by an advance function that there are no actionable data communications events pending for its context, placing by the advance function its thread of execution into a wait state, waiting for a subsequent data communications event for the context; responsive to occurrence of a subsequent data communications event for the context, awakening by the thread from the wait state; and processing by the advance function the subsequent data communications event now pending for the context. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/672054 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) G06F 9/54 (20130101) G06F 9/541 (20130101) G06F 9/542 (20130101) G06F 9/546 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/3851 (20130101) |
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| US 09286261 | Tzelnic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | EMC Corporation (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Percy Tzelnic (Concord, Massachusetts); Sorin Faibish (Newton, Massachusetts); Uday K. Gupta (Westford, Massachusetts); John Bent (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gary Alan Grider (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Hsing-bung Chen (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel supercomputing cluster includes compute nodes interconnected in a mesh of data links for executing an MPI job, and solid-state storage nodes each linked to a respective group of the compute nodes for receiving checkpoint data from the respective compute nodes, and magnetic disk storage linked to each of the solid-state storage nodes for asynchronous migration of the checkpoint data from the solid-state storage nodes to the magnetic disk storage. Each solid-state storage node presents a file system interface to the MPI job, and multiple MPI processes of the MPI job write the checkpoint data to a shared file in the solid-state storage in a strided fashion, and the solid-state storage node asynchronously migrates the checkpoint data from the shared file in the solid-state storage to the magnetic disk storage and writes the checkpoint data to the magnetic disk storage in a sequential fashion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/676000 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 15/167 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09286423 | Asaad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sameh W. Asaad (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Mohit Kapur (Sleepy Hollow, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameh W. Asaad (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Mohit Kapur (Sleepy Hollow, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to simulate operations of a device under test (DUT). The DUT includes a device memory having a number of input ports, and the FPGA is associated with a target memory having a second number of input ports, the second number being less than the first number. In one embodiment, a given set of inputs is applied to the device memory at a frequency Fd and in a defined cycle of time, and the given set of inputs is applied to the target memory at a frequency Ft. Ft is greater than Fd and cycle accuracy is maintained between the device memory and the target memory. In an embodiment, a cycle accurate model of the DUT memory is created by separating the DUT memory interface protocol from the target memory storage array. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/435707 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09287119 | Tangirala et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravisubhash Tangirala (Mountain View, California); Delia J. Milliron (Oakland, California); Anna Llordes (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravisubhash Tangirala (Mountain View, California); Delia J. Milliron (Oakland, California); Anna Llordes (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of an inorganic nanocomposite includes a nanoparticle phase and a matrix phase. The nanoparticle phase includes nanoparticles that are arranged in a repeating structure. In an embodiment, the nanoparticles have a spherical or pseudo-spherical shape and are incompatible with hydrazine. In another embodiment, the nanoparticles have neither a spherical nor pseudo-spherical shape. The matrix phase lies between the nanoparticles of the nanoparticle phase. An embodiment of a method of making an inorganic nanocomposite of the present invention includes forming a nanoparticle superlattice on a substrate. The nanoparticle superlattice includes nanoparticles. Each nanoparticle has organic ligands attached to a surface of the nanoparticle. The organic ligands separate adjacent nanoparticles within the nanoparticle superlattice. The method also includes forming a solution that includes an inorganic precursor. The nanoparticle superlattice is placed in the solution for a sufficient time for the inorganic precursor to replace the organic ligands. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/446289 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 17/20 (20130101) C01B 19/002 (20130101) C01B 19/007 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 3/12 (20130101) C01G 33/00 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/32 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/632 (20130101) C04B 35/6264 (20130101) C04B 35/62272 (20130101) C04B 2235/526 (20130101) C04B 2235/3284 (20130101) C04B 2235/5264 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/08 (20130101) H01B 1/14 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02587 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0749 (20130101) H01L 31/035227 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/541 (20130101) |
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| US 09287208 | Khare et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surhud Khare (Bangalore, India); Ankit More (Hillsboro, Oregon); Dinesh Somasekhar (Portland, Oregon); David S. Dunning (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of islands configured on a semiconductor die, each of the plurality of islands having a plurality of cores; and a plurality of network switches configured on the semiconductor die and each associated with one of the plurality of islands, where each network switch includes a plurality of output ports, a first set of the output ports are each to couple to the associated network switch of an island via a point-to-point interconnect and a second set of the output ports are each to couple to the associated network switches of a plurality of islands via a point-to-multipoint interconnect. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/524622 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/528 (20130101) H01L 23/5221 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09287359 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Arnold (Middleton, Wisconsin); Robert Michael Jacobberger (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphene nanoribbon arrays, methods of growing graphene nanoribbon arrays and electronic and photonic devices incorporating the graphene nanoribbon arrays are provided. The graphene nanoribbons in the arrays are formed using a scalable, bottom-up, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique in which the (001) facet of the germanium is used to orient the graphene nanoribbon crystals along the [110] directions of the germanium. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/486149 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02381 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02527 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02609 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/0673 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1606 (20130101) |
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| US 09287426 | Bojarczuk 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) | Nestor A. Bojarczuk (Poughkeepsie, New York); Talia S. Gershon (White Plains, New York); Supratik Guha (Chappaqua, New York); Byungha Shin (Daejeon, South Korea); Yu Zhu (West Harrison, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for epitaxial growth of CZT(S,Se) materials on Si are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming an epitaxial kesterite material is provided which includes the steps of: selecting a Si substrate based on a crystallographic orientation of the Si substrate; forming an epitaxial oxide interlayer on the Si substrate to enhance wettability of the epitaxial kesterite material on the Si substrate, wherein the epitaxial oxide interlayer is formed from a material that is lattice-matched to Si; and forming the epitaxial kesterite material on a side of the epitaxial oxide interlayer opposite the Si substrate, wherein the epitaxial kesterite material includes Cu, Zn, Sn, and at least one of S and Se, and wherein a crystallographic orientation of the epitaxial kesterite material is based on the crystallographic orientation of the Si substrate. A method of forming an epitaxial kesterite-based photovoltaic device and an epitaxial kesterite-based device are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/499788 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0326 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0368 (20130101) |
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| US 09287430 | Nielson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vipin P. Gupta (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Michael R. Watts (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory N. Nielson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vipin P. Gupta (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Michael R. Watts (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic solar concentrator is disclosed with one or more transverse-junction solar cells (also termed point contact solar cells) and a lens located above each solar cell to concentrate sunlight onto the solar cell to generate electricity. Piezoelectric actuators tilt or translate each lens to track the sun using a feedback-control circuit which senses the electricity generated by one or more of the solar cells. The piezoelectric actuators can be coupled through a displacement-multiplier linkage to provide an increased range of movement of each lens. Each lens in the solar concentrator can be supported on a frame (also termed a tilt plate) having three legs, with the movement of the legs being controlled by the piezoelectric actuators. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933458 |
| ART UNIT | 1755 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0543 (20141201) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09287431 | Mascarenhas 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) | Angelo Mascarenhas (Lakewood, Colorado); Kirstin Alberi (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Voltage-matched thin film multijunction solar cell and methods of producing cells having upper CdTe pn junction layers formed on a transparent substrate which in the completed device is operatively positioned in a superstate configuration. The solar cell also includes a lower pn junction formed independently of the CdTe pn junction and an insulating layer between CdTe and lower pn junctions. The voltage-matched thin film multijunction solar cells further include a parallel connection between the CdTe pn junction and lower pn junctions to form a two-terminal photonic device. Methods of fabricating devices from independently produced upper CdTe junction layers and lower junction layers are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/243320 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0504 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/0725 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amprius, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amprius, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianyue Yu (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are nanostructure networks having high energy storage, electrochemically active electrode materials including nanostructure networks having high energy storage, as well as electrodes and batteries including the nanostructure networks having high energy storage. According to various implementations, the nanostructure networks have high energy density as well as long cycle life. In some implementations, the nanostructure networks include a conductive network embedded with electrochemically active material. In some implementations, silicon is used as the electrochemically active material. The conductive network may be a metal network such as a copper nanostructure network. Methods of manufacturing the nanostructure networks and electrodes are provided. In some implementations, metal nanostructures can be synthesized in a solution that contains silicon powder to make a composite network structure that contains both. The metal nanostructure growth can nucleate in solution and on silicon nanostructure surfaces. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/255418 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) |
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| US 09287568 | Wood et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas E. Wood (Stillwater, Minnesota); Radoslav Atanasoski (Edina, Minnesota); Alison K. Schmoeckel (Stillwater, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Wood (Stillwater, Minnesota); Radoslav Atanasoski (Edina, Minnesota); Alison K. Schmoeckel (Stillwater, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to non-precious metal fuel cell cathode catalysts, fuel cells that contain these catalysts, and methods of making the same. The fuel cell cathode catalysts are highly nitrogenated carbon materials that can contain a transition metal. The highly nitrogenated carbon materials can be supported on a nanoparticle substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/595274 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/8807 (20130101) H01M 4/8817 (20130101) H01M 4/8842 (20130101) H01M 4/8882 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/9008 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09287578 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Travis M. Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Harry D. Pratt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Flow batteries including an electrolyte of a polyoxometalate material are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, the flow battery includes an electrochemical cell including an anode portion, a cathode portion and a separator disposed between the anode portion and the cathode portion. Each of the anode portion and the cathode portion comprises a polyoxometalate material. The flow battery further includes an anode electrode disposed in the anode portion and a cathode electrode disposed in the cathode portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/760956 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/188 (20130101) |
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| US 09287589 | Wessells et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alveo Energy, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alveo Energy, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colin Deane Wessells (Atherton, California); Ali Firouzi (Los Altos, California); Shahrokh Motallebi (Los Gatos, California); Sven Strohband (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for stabilizing electrodes against dissolution and/or hydrolysis including use of cosolvents in liquid electrolyte batteries for three purposes: the extension of the calendar and cycle life time of electrodes that are partially soluble in liquid electrolytes, the purpose of limiting the rate of electrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen as a side reaction during battery operation, and for the purpose of cost reduction. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/231571 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/58 (20130101) H01M 10/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0002 (20130101) H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) H01M 2300/0091 (20130101) |
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| US 09287597 | Friesen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FLUIDIC, INC. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | FLUIDIC, INC. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cody A. Friesen (Fort McDowell, Arizona); Derek Wolfe (Scottsdale, Arizona); Paul Bryan Johnson (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention are related to ionic liquids and more specifically to ionic liquids used in electrochemical metal-air cells in which the ionic liquid includes a cation and an anion selected from hydroxamate and/or N-alkyl sulfamate anions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/077903 |
| 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 12/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 2300/0025 (20130101) |
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| US 09287598 | Tantawi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sami G. Tantawi (Stanford, California); Valery A. Dolgashev (San Carlos, California); Anahid D. Yeremian (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-power microwave RF window is provided that includes a cylindrical waveguide, where the cylindrical waveguide includes a ceramic disk concentrically housed in a central region of the cylindrical waveguide, a first rectangular waveguide, where the first rectangular waveguide is connected by a first elliptical joint to a proximal end of the cylindrical waveguide, and a second rectangular waveguide, where the second rectangular waveguide is connected by a second elliptical joint to a distal end of the cylindrical waveguide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/271784 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 23/12 (20130101) H01J 23/36 (20130101) H01J 25/10 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01P 5/082 (20130101) |
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| US 09287742 | Reddy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Patel Bhageerath Reddy (Niskayuna, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Kum-Kang Huh (Niskayuna, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An internal permanent magnet machine includes a rotor assembly having a shaft comprising a plurality of protrusions extending radially outward from a main shaft body and being formed circumferentially about the main shaft body and along an axial length of the main shaft body. A plurality of stacks of laminations are arranged circumferentially about the shaft to receive the plurality of protrusions therein, with each stack of laminations including a plurality of lamination groups arranged axially along a length of the shaft and with permanent magnets being disposed between the stacks of laminations. Each of the laminations includes a shaft protrusion cut formed therein to receive a respective shaft protrusion and, for each of the stacks of laminations, the shaft protrusion cuts formed in the laminations of a respective lamination group are angularly offset from the shaft protrusion cuts formed in the laminations in an adjacent lamination group. |
| FILED | Monday, August 05, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/958693 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamo-electric Machines H02K 1/272 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H02K 15/03 (20130101) H02K 21/16 (20130101) H02K 29/03 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49012 (20150115) |
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| US 09287994 | Nordholt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jane Elizabeth Nordholt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Charles Glen Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Raymond Thorson Newell (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Richard John Hughes (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane Elizabeth Nordholt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Charles Glen Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Raymond Thorson Newell (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Richard John Hughes (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Birefringence in optical fibers is compensated by applying polarization modulation at a receiver. Polarization modulation is applied so that a transmitted optical signal has states of polarization (SOPs) that are equally spaced on the Poincaré sphere. Fiber birefringence encountered in propagation between a transmitter and a receiver rotates the great circle on the Poincaré sphere that represents the polarization bases used for modulation. By adjusting received polarizations, polarization components of the received optical signal can be directed to corresponding detectors for decoding, regardless of the magnitude and orientation of the fiber birefringence. A transmitter can be configured to transmit in conjugate polarization bases whose SOPs can be represented as equidistant points on a great circle so that the received SOPs are mapped to equidistant points on a great circle and routed to corresponding detectors. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/600898 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Secret Communication; Jamming of Communication H04K 1/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09288449 | Gans et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas R. Gans (Gainesville, Florida); Warren Dixon (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas R. Gans (Gainesville, Florida); Warren Dixon (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system and method for maintaining objects within a camera field of view include identifying constraints to be enforced, each constraint relating to an attribute of the viewed objects, identifying a priority rank for the constraints such that more important constraints have a higher priority that less important constraints, and determining the set of solutions that satisfy the constraints relative to the order of their priority rank such that solutions that satisfy lower ranking constraints are only considered viable if they also satisfy any higher ranking constraints, each solution providing an indication as to how to control the camera to maintain the objects within the camera field of view. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/057073 |
| ART UNIT | 2487 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 7/181 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US RE45930 | Gundiah 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) | Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Gregory A. Bizarri (Berkeley, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Edith D. Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising a lanthanide-doped strontium barium mixed halide useful for detecting nuclear material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/569322 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7705 (20130101) C09K 11/7733 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/00 (20130101) C30B 29/12 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21K 2004/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tewodros Asefa (Somerset, New Jersey); Ankush V. Biradar (Pune, India); Yanfei Wang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tewodros Asefa (Somerset, New Jersey); Ankush V. Biradar (Pune, India); Yanfei Wang (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficient and recyclable heterogeneous nanocatalysts and methods of synthesizing and using the same are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/396052 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 21/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01J 21/066 (20130101) B01J 23/06 (20130101) B01J 23/24 (20130101) B01J 23/32 (20130101) B01J 23/44 (20130101) B01J 23/72 (20130101) B01J 23/74 (20130101) B01J 33/00 (20130101) B01J 35/002 (20130101) B01J 35/006 (20130101) B01J 35/08 (20130101) B01J 35/0013 (20130101) B01J 35/0086 (20130101) B01J 35/1014 (20130101) B01J 35/1019 (20130101) B01J 35/1038 (20130101) B01J 37/0018 (20130101) B01J 37/0203 (20130101) B01J 37/0209 (20130101) B01J 37/0217 (20130101) B01J 37/0221 (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) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/03 (20130101) C07C 5/08 (20130101) C07C 5/08 (20130101) C07C 9/15 (20130101) C07C 13/18 (20130101) C07C 15/18 (20130101) C07C 15/073 (20130101) C07C 15/073 (20130101) C07C 29/132 (20130101) C07C 29/132 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 29/145 (20130101) C07C 31/10 (20130101) C07C 33/22 (20130101) C07C 45/64 (20130101) C07C 45/64 (20130101) C07C 49/17 (20130101) C07C 209/365 (20130101) C07C 209/365 (20130101) C07C 211/52 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09283675 | Hager et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Nicolas Padoy (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Nicolas Padoy (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semi-automatic, interactive robotic system for performing and/or simulating a multi-step task includes a user interface system, a recognition system adapted to communicate with the user interface system, a control system adapted to communicate with the recognition system, and a sensor-actuator system adapted to communicate with the control system. The recognition system is configured to recognize actions taken by a user while the user operates the user interface system and to selectively instruct the control system to cause the sensor-actuator system to perform, and/or simulate, one of an automatic step, a semi-automatic step or direct step of the multi-step task based on the recognized actions and a task model of the multi-step task. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/881662 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) A61B 19/5212 (20130101) A61B 2017/00203 (20130101) A61B 2019/2223 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/163 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/1671 (20130101) B25J 9/1689 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/427 (20130101) G05B 2219/35472 (20130101) G05B 2219/39004 (20130101) G05B 2219/39025 (20130101) G05B 2219/40116 (20130101) G05B 2219/40399 (20130101) G05B 2219/40413 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 23/28 (20130101) |
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| US 09284578 | Gray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Gray (Bay City, Michigan); Thomas D Sharkey (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novels genes encoding methyl butenol (MBO) synthase, methy butenol synthases and their use in methyl butenol production. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/174694 |
| 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 9/88 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/16 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09284580 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shang-Tian Yang (Dublin, Ohio); Mingrui Yu (Columbus, Ohio) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Shang-Tian Yang (Dublin, Ohio); Mingrui Yu (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions, systems, and methods for producing biofuels, such as butanol, and related compounds. More specifically, provided are methods of making recombinant microorganizms having non-naturally occurring metabolic pathways for the production of biofuels, and methods of producing biofuels using such organizms. Also provided are metabolically engineered microorganizms capable of producing butanol from a substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877332 |
| 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 9/0006 (20130101) C12N 9/0008 (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 7/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09284601 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tza-Huei Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Kelvin J. Liu (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher M. Puleo (Glenville, New York); Tushar D. Rane (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device for a confocal fluorescence detection system has an input channel defined by a body of the microfluidic device, a sample concentration section defined by the body of the microfluidic device and in fluid connection with the input channel, a mixing section defined by the body of the microfluidic device and in fluid connection with the concentration section, and a detection region that is at least partially transparent to illumination light of the confocal fluorescence detection system and at least partially transparent to fluorescent light when emitted from a sample under observation as the sample flows through the detection region. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/136671 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 3/502769 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/0678 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (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 1/6825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/38 (20130101) G01N 15/1484 (20130101) G01N 21/6458 (20130101) G01N 2001/4027 (20130101) G01N 2015/0038 (20130101) G01N 2015/1493 (20130101) G01N 2021/6419 (20130101) G01N 2021/6421 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09284602 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David Yu Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Peng Yin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Yu Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Peng Yin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are primers and primer systems having improved specificity and kinetics over existing primers, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/882231 |
| 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 21/02 (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 1/686 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6832 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6848 (20130101) C12Q 1/6853 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/161 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2525/301 (20130101) C12Q 2537/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/161 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) C12Q 2537/1373 (20130101) |
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| US 09285020 | Rokosz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Rokosz (Belmont, Massachusetts); Philip Carvey (Bedford, Massachusetts); Matthew Carvey (Somerville, Massachusetts); Peter Costa (Medford, Massachusetts); Chris Holmes (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADICEP TECHNOLOGIES, INC (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Rokosz (Belmont, Massachusetts); Philip Carvey (Bedford, Massachusetts); Matthew Carvey (Somerville, Massachusetts); Peter Costa (Medford, Massachusetts); Chris Holmes (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application for patent provides a belt clutch having a drum with a drum-side friction surface, an open ended belt with a belt-side friction surface, and an externally controlled actuator on one end of the belt. The belt is configured to be coupled to a source of torque on the other end of the belt. The belt-side and drum-side friction surfaces engage frictionally when in use, such that the effective coefficient of friction between the drum-side friction surface and the belt-side friction surface varies across the width or length of the belt. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/781679 |
| ART UNIT | 3655 — Material and Article Handling |
| 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 2002/6845 (20130101) Couplings for Transmitting Rotation; Clutches; Brakes F16D 13/10 (20130101) Gearing F16H 7/0827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09285218 | Shekhar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shashi Shekhar (Plymouth, Minnesota); Venkata Maruti Viswanath Gunturi (Minneapolis, Minnesota); KwangSoo Yang (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A shortest path from a source to a destination for a current start time in a set of start times is determined. A processor identifies a critical start time in the set of start times that is temporally separated from the current start time by at least one intermediate start time. The shortest path from the source to the destination for the current start time is set as the shortest path for the at least one intermediate start time without separately determining the shortest path for the at least one intermediate start time. A different shortest path is determined from the source to the destination for the critical start time. |
| FILED | Friday, August 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/974777 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01C 21/3446 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/047 (20130101) |
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| US 09285535 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravinder K. Jain (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mani Hossein-Zadeh (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical resonator made from an elongated fiber having a proximal and distal end. A sphere is created on the distal end by locating the distal end in cylindrically symmetrical heating zone along a centerline. For some embodiments, the distal end is rapidly cooled by allowing it to retract away from the heating zone along the centerline during the formation and solidification of the molten microsphere. The resulting optical resonator has an intrinsic quality factor greater than 106 over the 2.0 to 3.2 μm MIR wavelength range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/960659 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/262 (20130101) G02B 6/02052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 2006/12038 (20130101) G02B 2006/12109 (20130101) G02B 2006/12159 (20130101) G02B 2006/12169 (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 3/173 (20130101) H01S 3/0627 (20130101) H01S 3/1608 (20130101) |
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| US 09285575 | Xie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Freudiger (Boston, Massachusetts); Wei Min (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Freudiger (Boston, Massachusetts); Wei Min (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscopy imaging system is disclosed that includes a light source system, a spectral shaper, a modulator system, an optics system, an optical detector and a processor. The light source system is for providing a first train of pulses and a second train of pulses. The spectral shaper is for spectrally modifying an optical property of at least some frequency components of the broadband range of frequency components such that the broadband range of frequency components is shaped producing a shaped first train of pulses to specifically probe a spectral feature of interest from a sample, and to reduce information from features that are not of interest from the sample. The modulator system is for modulating a property of at least one of the shaped first train of pulses and the second train of pulses at a modulation frequency. The optical detector is for detecting an integrated intensity of substantially all optical frequency components of a train of pulses of interest transmitted or reflected through the common focal volume. The processor is for detecting a modulation at the modulation frequency of the integrated intensity of substantially all of the optical frequency components of the train of pulses of interest due to the non-linear interaction of the shaped first train of pulses with the second train of pulses as modulated in the common focal volume, and for providing an output signal for a pixel of an image for the microscopy imaging system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690579 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/10 (20130101) G01J 3/44 (20130101) G01J 2003/1282 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) G01N 2021/653 (20130101) G01N 2021/655 (20130101) G01N 2201/0675 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 21/082 (20130101) |
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| US 09286687 | Panchumarthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ravi Panchumarthy (Tampa, Florida); Dinuka K. Karunaratne (Tampa, Florida); Sudeep Sarkar (Tampa, Florida); Sanjukta Bhanja (Tampa, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi Panchumarthy (Tampa, Florida); Dinuka K. Karunaratne (Tampa, Florida); Sudeep Sarkar (Tampa, Florida); Sanjukta Bhanja (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for image-processing that will facilitate automatically analyzing and estimating atomic force microscopy (AFM) images and magnetic force microscopy (MFM) images of fabricated nanomagnetic arrays to identify the magnetization states of the nanomagnets in the array. The system and method will automatically estimate the magnetization states of nanomagnetics disks into one of a plurality of energy minimum magnetization state configurations and provide an annotated image of the results of the estimation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/467686 |
| ART UNIT | 2666 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe Techniques or Apparatus; Applications of Scanning-probe Techniques, e.g Scanning Probe Microscopy [SPM] G01Q 60/24 (20130101) G01Q 60/50 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/6217 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/20112 (20130101) |
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| US 09286793 | Pan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Bei Pan (Los Angeles, California); Ugur Demiryurek (Redondo Beach, California); Cyrus Shahabi (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bei Pan (Los Angeles, California); Ugur Demiryurek (Redondo Beach, California); Cyrus Shahabi (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Real-time high-fidelity spatiotemporal data on transportation networks can be used to learn about traffic behavior at different times and locations, potentially resulting in major savings in time and fuel. Real-world data collected from transportation networks can be used to incorporate the data's intrinsic behavior into a time-series mining technique to enhance its accuracy for traffic prediction. For example, the spatiotemporal behaviors of rush hours and events can be used to perform a more accurate prediction of both short-term and long-term average speed on road-segments, even in the presence of infrequent events (e.g., accidents). Taking historical rush-hour behavior into account can improve the accuracy of traditional predictors by up to 67% and 78% in short-term and long-term predictions, respectively. Moreover, the impact of an accident can be incorporated to improve the prediction accuracy by up to 91%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 22, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/060360 |
| ART UNIT | 3669 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Traffic Control Systems G08G 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08G 1/0112 (20130101) G08G 1/0129 (20130101) G08G 1/0141 (20130101) |
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| US 09286962 | Okhi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts); New York University (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Akira Okhi (Arlington, Massachusetts); Andrew Kent (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic memory system includes a superconductor circuit and one or more magnetic memory elements to store data. To write data, a driver circuit in the superconductor circuit generates a magnetic signal for transmission over a superconductor link extending between the superconductor circuit and the magnetic memory element. To read data, a sensing circuit in the superconductor circuit monitors a superconductor link extending from sensing circuit to the magnetic memory element. The magnetic memory element can be a spin-transfer type magnetic memory element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/300523 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/02 (20130101) G11C 11/16 (20130101) G11C 11/161 (20130101) G11C 11/1659 (20130101) G11C 11/1675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09287412 | Jain |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faquir Chand Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir Chand Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a field-effect transistor in which the channel is formed in an array of quantum dots. In one embodiment the quantum dots are cladded with a thin layer serving as an energy barrier. The quantum dot channel (QDC) may consist of one or more layers of cladded dots. These dots are realized on a single or polycrystalline substrate. When QDC FETs are realized on polycrystalline or nanocrystalline thin films they may yield higher mobility than in conventional nano- or microcrystalline thin films. These FETs can be used as thin film transistors (TFTs) in a variety of applications. In another embodiment QDC-FETs are combined with: (a) coupled quantum well SWS channels, (b) quantum dot gate 3-state like FETs, and (c) quantum dot gate nonvolatile memories. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465872 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 20/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 16/0408 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/28273 (20130101) H01L 29/125 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/7881 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/42332 (20130101) H01L 29/66825 (20130101) H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/035218 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09287552 | Sloop |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven E. Sloop (Bend, Oregon) |
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| ABSTRACT | Methods for making a recycled or refurbished electrode material for an energy-storage device are provided. One example method comprises harvesting a lithium-deficient electrode material from a recycling or waste stream, and replenishing at least some lithium in the lithium-deficient electrode material. A second example method comprises breeching an enclosure of a cell of an energy storage device, replenishing at least some lithium in a lithium-deficient electrode material of the cell, and sealing the enclosure of the cell. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/480410 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 17/20 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/13 (20130101) H01M 4/049 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/485 (20130101) H01M 4/505 (20130101) H01M 4/525 (20130101) H01M 4/1391 (20130101) H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/54 (20130101) H01M 10/4242 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Wastewater Treatment or Waste Management Y02W 30/84 (20150501) |
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| US 09287683 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rui Q. Yang (Norman, Oklahoma); Tetsuya Mishima (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Zhaobing Tian (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); Robert T. Hinkey (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor interband laser that includes a first cladding layer formed using a first high-doped semiconductor material having a first refractive index/permittivity and a second cladding layer formed using a second high-doped semiconductor material having a second refractive index/permittivity. The laser also includes a waveguide core having a waveguide core refractive index/permittivity, the waveguide core is positioned between the first and the second cladding layers. The waveguide core including an active region adapted to generate light based on interband transitions. The light being generated defines the lasing wavelength or the lasing frequency. The first refractive index and the second refractive index are lower than the waveguide core refractive index. The first cladding layer and/or the second cladding layers can also be formed using a metal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571945 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/343 (20130101) H01S 5/2031 (20130101) H01S 5/3211 (20130101) H01S 5/3401 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3402 (20130101) |
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| US 09287936 | Ali et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammod Ali (Irmo, South Carolina); Juan Caicedo (Columbia, South Carolina); Xiaohua Jin (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments of the present disclosure, a wireless sensor system is described. The wireless sensor system includes a near-field wireless power transfer component, at least one measurement sensor, and an antenna. The antenna is in communication with the measurement sensor and can transmit measurements from the measurement sensor. The near-field wireless power transfer component can wirelessly receive power to operate the measurement sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/571868 |
| ART UNIT | 2647 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/2225 (20130101) H01Q 7/00 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/025 (20130101) Transmission H04B 5/0037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 5/0043 (20130101) H04B 5/0081 (20130101) H04B 7/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09288915 | Tai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Qing He (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Jun Xie (Niskayuna, New York); Changlin Pang (Pasadena, California); Terry D. Lee (San Dimas, California); Damien Rodger (South Pasadena, California); Matthieu Liger (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to packed-column nano-liquid chromatography (nano-LC) systems integrated on-chip, and methods for producing and using same. The microfabricated chip includes a column, flits/filters, an injector, and a detector, fabricated in a process compatible with those conventionally utilized to form integrated circuits. The column can be packed with supports for various different stationary phases to allow performance of different forms of nano-LC, including but not limited to reversed-phase, normal-phase, adsorption, size-exclusion, affinity, and ion chromatography. A cross-channel injector injects a nanoliter/picoliter-volume sample plug at the column inlet. An electrochemical/conductivity sensor integrated at the column outlet measures separation signals. A self-aligned channel-strengthening technique increases pressure rating of the microfluidic system, allowing it to withstand the high pressure normally used in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). On-chip sample injection, separation, and detection of mixture of anions in water is successfully demonstrated using ion-exchange nano-LC. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/680030 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/6047 (20130101) G01N 30/6095 (20130101) G01N 2030/625 (20130101) G01N 2030/645 (20130101) G01N 2030/645 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 1/80 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 3/284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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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) | Lawrence J. Prinzel, III (Newport News, Virginia); Alan T. Pope (Poquoson, Virginia); Olafur S. Palsson (Durham, North Carolina); Marsha J. Turner (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an apparatus and method of biofeedback training for attaining a physiological state optimally consistent with the successful performance of a task, wherein the probability of successfully completing the task is made is inversely proportional to a physiological difference value, computed as the absolute value of the difference between at least one physiological signal optimally consistent with the successful performance of the task and at least one corresponding measured physiological signal of a trainee performing the task. The probability of successfully completing the task is made inversely proportional to the physiological difference value by making one or more measurable physical attributes of the environment in which the task is performed, and upon which completion of the task depends, vary in inverse proportion to the physiological difference value. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153434 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0002 (20130101) A61B 5/16 (20130101) A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/024 (20130101) A61B 5/0205 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/0476 (20130101) A61B 5/486 (20130101) A61B 5/0531 (20130101) Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 69/00 (20130101) A63B 69/0024 (20130101) A63B 71/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A63B 2067/025 (20130101) A63B 2225/50 (20130101) A63B 2230/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09284412 | Dong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ASPEN AEROGELS, INC. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aspen Aerogel, Inc. (Northborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenting Dong (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Wendell E Rhine (Belmont, Massachusetts); Decio Coutinho (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed herein are hybrid aerogels which are compositions of tetraalkoxysilanes and bis-(trialkoxysilyl) imides that exhibit low thermal conductivities and high compressive strengths. Methods for their preparation are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/726885 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 13/0091 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/106 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08G 77/54 (20130101) C08G 2220/00 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/20 (20130101) General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/78 (20130101) Pipes; Joints or Fittings for Pipes; Supports for Pipes, Cables or Protective Tubing; Means for Thermal Insulation in General F16L 59/028 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan A Lee (Madison, Alabama) |
| 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) | Jonathan A Lee (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for transforming a cast component made of modified aluminum alloy by increasing the impact toughness coefficient using minimal heat and energy. The aluminum alloy is modified to contain 0.55%-0.60% magnesium, 0.10%-0.15% titanium or zirconium, less than 0.07% iron, a silicon-to-magnesium product ratio of 4.0, and less than 0.15% total impurities. The shortened heat treatment requires an initial heating at 1,000° F. for up to 1 hour followed by a water quench and a second heating at 350° F. to 390° F. for up to 1 hour. An optional short bake paint cycle or powder coating process further increases the impact toughness coefficient of the cast component. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/333283 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/043 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09285027 | Hofmann et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Hofmann (Altadena, California); Brian Wilcox (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bulk metallic glass-based strain wave gears and strain wave gear components. In one embodiment, a strain wave gear includes: a wave generator; a flexspline that itself includes a first set of gear teeth; and a circular spline that itself includes a second set of gear teeth; where at least one of the wave generator, the flexspline, and the circular spline, includes a bulk metallic glass-based material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177608 |
| ART UNIT | 3658 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Gearing F16H 49/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49467 (20150115) Y10T 74/19642 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09285387 | Foster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John V. Foster (Williamsburg, Virginia); Kevin Cunningham (Newport News, Virginia) |
| 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) | John V. Foster (Williamsburg, Virginia); Kevin Cunningham (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A GPS-based pitot-static calibration system uses global output-error optimization. High data rate measurements of static and total pressure, ambient air conditions, and GPS-based ground speed measurements are used to compute pitot-static pressure errors over a range of airspeed. System identification methods rapidly compute optimal pressure error models with defined confidence intervals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967690 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/46 (20130101) G01F 1/50 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01P 13/025 (20130101) G01P 21/025 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09285652 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nan Yu (Arcadia, California); Dmitry V. Strekalov (Arcadia, California); Guoping Lin (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nan Yu (Arcadia, California); Dmitry V. Strekalov (Arcadia, California); Guoping Lin (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical resonator fabricated from a uniaxial birefringent crystal, such as beta barium borate. The crystal is cut with the optical axis not perpendicular to a face of the cut crystal. In some cases the optical axis lies in the plane of the cut crystal face. An incident (input) electromagnetic signal (which can range from the infrared through the visible to the ultraviolet) is applied to the resonator. An output signal is recovered which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the frequency of the input signal. In some cases a prism is used to evanescently couple the input and the output signals to the resonator. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/924401 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/04 (20130101) G02B 27/56 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/37 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/3501 (20130101) G02F 1/3544 (20130101) G02F 1/3551 (20130101) G02F 2001/3509 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09282738 | Weibel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Ye Jin Eun (Madison, Wisconsin); Maoquan Zhou (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas B. Weibel (Madison, Wisconsin); Ye Jin Eun (Madison, Wisconsin); Maoquan Zhou (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a novel class of inhibitors of bacterial cell division. Several lines of evidence suggest the compounds disclosed herein specifically target the division process and have antibacterial activity in vitro and in vivo. The inhibitors are useful for treating subject in need of treatment for bacterial infections as will as for inhibiting bacterial growth, such as growth on contaminated surfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546667 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| 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 43/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/15 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/421 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/08 (20130101) C07D 235/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09283268 | Deora et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendar K. Deora (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Meenu Mishra (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Neelima Sukumar (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated protein or peptide selected from the group consisting of Bordetella colonization factor A (BcfA) protein and antigenic fragments thereof is described, along with an isolated nucleic acid encoding the same, antibodies that bind to the same, methods of producing an immune response in a mammalian subject in need thereof by administering the proteins, peptides or antibodies, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/498537 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/099 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/575 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/235 (20130101) C07K 16/1225 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 2333/235 (20130101) |
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| US 09284537 | Pan et al. |
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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) | Zhiqiang Pan (Oxford, Mississippi); Scott R. Baerson (Oxford, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Two novel cytochrome P450 genes are isolated from sorghum, each gene encoding a protein having pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase activity. Expression vectors containing these sequences are made and used to elevate levels of pentadecatrienyl resorcinol hydroxylase in transgenic cells and organisms. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/862883 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/0071 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/0073 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/22 (20130101) C12P 7/66 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 114/13 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09285453 | Schantz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hans Gregory Schantz (Huntsville, Alabama); Robert Edward DePierre (Huntsville, Alabama); Alfred Hans Unden (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Eric Alexander Richards (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Q-Track Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Gregory Schantz (Huntsville, Alabama); Robert Edward DePierre (Huntsville, Alabama); Alfred Hans Unden (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Eric Alexander Richards (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of near-field electromagnetic ranging and location exploits the long-wavelength, near-field characteristics of low-frequency RF signals like those in the vicinity of the AM broadcast band. These signals are robust against scattering from small objects and only mildly perturbed by the urban landscape including building structures. They are thus amenable to an RF fingerprinting approach exploiting a coarse calibration to capture the behavior of the gradually varying signal characteristics. In embodiments, a method of near-field electromagnetic ranging and location may exploit transmit tags transmitting to an infrastructure of locator-receivers, or locator-receiver tags detecting signals from an infrastructure of fixed transmitter beacons. In still further embodiments, fixed transmitter beacons may be supplemented by uncooperative signals sources including signals-of-opportunity like AM broadcast band signals. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/692721 |
| 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 5/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 5/0252 (20130101) G01S 13/751 (20130101) G01S 13/878 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/087 (20130101) |
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| US RE45930 | Gundiah 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) | Gautam Gundiah (Berkeley, California); Gregory A. Bizarri (Berkeley, California); Stephen M. Hanrahan (Berkeley, California); Edith D. Bourret-Courchesne (Berkeley, California); Stephen E. Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising a lanthanide-doped strontium barium mixed halide useful for detecting nuclear material. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/569322 |
| ART UNIT | 3991 — Central Reexamination Unit (Chemical) |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7705 (20130101) C09K 11/7733 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 11/00 (20130101) C30B 29/12 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 4/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21K 2004/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09282910 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, None); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method to target a biological rhythm disorder, such as a heart rhythm disorder, include processing cardiac signals via a computing device to determine a shape in a region of tissue defined by a source associated with the biological rhythm disorder that migrates spatially on or within the shape, and identifying at least one portion of the tissue proximate to the shape to enable selective modification of the at least one portion of tissue in order to terminate or alter the heart rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/462534 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/046 (20130101) A61B 18/1492 (20130101) A61B 2018/00357 (20130101) A61B 2018/00577 (20130101) A61B 2018/00839 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09283272 | Weisbart et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard H. Weisbart (Sepulveda, California); Robert N. Nishimura (Sepulveda, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Weisbart (Sepulveda, California); Robert N. Nishimura (Sepulveda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for inhibiting an intracellular target in a cell with a bispecific antibody comprising contacting the cell with a bispecific antibody having a first Fv fragment with a cell-penetrating determinant and a second Fv fragment with an intracellular target-binding determinant under suitable conditions so that the first Fv fragment causes the bispecific antibody to enter the cell and the second Fv fragment binds the intracellular target in the cell and thereby inhibiting the intracellular target. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/844318 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/505 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/44 (20130101) C07K 2317/31 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/77 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 09285354 | Carpenter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael V. Carpenter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lyle G. Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Alan Lindquist (Cincinnati, Ohio); Vincente Gallardo (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Carpenter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lyle G. Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Alan Lindquist (Cincinnati, Ohio); Vincente Gallardo (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for the detection of low-level harmful substances in a large volume of fluid comprising using a concentrator system to produce a retentate and analyzing the retentate for the presence of at least one harmful substance. The concentrator system performs a method comprising pumping at least 10 liters of fluid from a sample source through a filter. While pumping, the concentrator system diverts retentate from the filter into a container. The concentrator system also recirculates at least part of the retentate in the container again through the filter. The concentrator system controls the speed of the pump with a control system thereby maintaining a fluid pressure less than 25 psi during the pumping of the fluid; monitors the quantity of retentate within the container with a control system, and maintains a reduced volume level of retentate and a target volume of retentate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/607921 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/147 (20130101) B01D 63/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/14 (20130101) G01N 1/4005 (20130101) G01N 15/0618 (20130101) G01N 33/1866 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/4088 (20130101) G01N 2015/0046 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09286032 | Feblowitz 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) | Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anand Ranganathan (Stamford, Connecticut); Shirin Sohrabi Araghi (White Plains, New York); Octavian Udrea (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for automated composition of an application including: receiving a customizable template for application composition and a composition goal, wherein the goal comprises a plurality of tags and the goal is incomplete such that more than one possible composition matches the goal; refining the goal by automatically adding refinement tags to the goal; and generating an application flow that matches the customizable template and the refined goal, wherein the application flow comprises data sources, data processing operators, and outputs of the application flow. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/836645 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 8/20 (20130101) G06F 8/35 (20130101) G06F 8/36 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
| US 09286154 | Ashikhmin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei Ashikhmin (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory system comprising a qubit array configured to store therein and read one or more entangled qubit states encoded using a quantum stabilizer code. The quantum-memory system further comprises a quantum-state-refresh module configured to change an entangled qubit state in the qubit array when an error is detected therein. The quantum-state-refresh module is configured to detect an error by performing a redundant measurement of a set of syndrome values corresponding to the quantum stabilizer code, with the redundant measurement being based on a block error-correction code. In one embodiment, the block error-correction code is a low-density generator-matrix code or a low-density parity-check code constructed using an EXIT-function optimization method. |
| FILED | Friday, June 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912654 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/1148 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09283597 | Krishnamoorthy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Guiren Wang (Huntsville, Alabama); Jianjun Feng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yi Wang (Madison, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Guiren Wang (Huntsville, Alabama); Jianjun Feng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yi Wang (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A micropump that pumps liquid using electrothermally-induced flow is described, along with a corresponding self-regulating pump and infusion pump. The micropump has applications in microfluidic systems such as biochips. The self-regulating infusion pump is useful for the administration of large and small volumes of liquids such as drugs to patients and can be designed for a wide range of flow rates by combining multiple micropumps in one infusion pump system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516269 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 13/0079 (20130101) B01F 13/0081 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 99/00 (20130101) B01L 2300/1833 (20130101) B01L 2400/0415 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) B01L 2400/0493 (20130101) B01L 2400/0496 (20130101) Cleaning in General; Prevention of Fouling in General B08B 7/0064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B08B 9/00 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/006 (20130101) F04B 19/24 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2030/0035 (20130101) G01N 2030/0065 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09284093 | Close |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Close (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of this disclosure include a rigid tray container and methods and equipment for using the rigid tray container in batched process operations. In one embodiment, a mass container is sized and dimensioned to receive one or several rigid tray containers. In other embodiments, equipment is configured to lid/unlid, secure, stack, load/unload, and buffer rigid tray containers. In other embodiments, equipment is configured to stack and stage mass containers. In some embodiments, methods are provided for batch processing items. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/791788 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Postal Sorting; Sorting Individual Articles, or Bulk Material Fit to be Sorted Piece-meal, e.g by Picking B07C 9/00 (20130101) Machines, Apparatus or Devices For, or Methods Of, Packaging Articles or Materials; Unpacking B65B 5/06 (20130101) B65B 57/02 (20130101) Containers for Storage or Transport of Articles or Materials, e.g Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding Containers; Accessories, Closures, or Fittings Therefor; Packaging Elements; Packages B65D 1/46 (20130101) B65D 19/385 (20130101) B65D 21/045 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B65D 21/064 (20130101) B65D 21/0212 (20130101) B65D 25/205 (20130101) B65D 25/2888 (20130101) B65D 2203/02 (20130101) B65D 2203/10 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rapamycin Holdings, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rapamycin Holdings, LLC (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana M Vaughn (Seguin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure teaches counter-intuitive methods for treating stomatitis using oral mTOR inhibiting preparations such as preparations of microcapsules and nanoparticles including an inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin. The methods, preparations and other teachings are useful in various respects, especially for assisting in the treatment, prevention and management of stomatitis in feline subjects and, most especially, the treatment and management of Feline Chronic Gingivo-Stomatitis (FCGS), with secondary applications also related to management of gingivitis and autoimmune mucosal disorders. Disclosed embodiments illustrate multi-week dosing regimens and also address needs for alternative preparations or manufacturing processes that ensure efficacy while improving other performance characteristics such as storage stability, biodistribution, dosage cost, etc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/717844 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0053 (20130101) A61K 31/436 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09285334 | Chen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhi David Chen (Lexington, Kentucky) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Zhi David Chen (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A moisture sensor includes a first electrode, a layer of porous insulating material including a plurality of pores, a film of dielectric sensing material covering the inner surfaces of the plurality of pores and a second electrode. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911371 |
| ART UNIT | 2868 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/226 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09287602 | Covert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance Covert (Montgomery, Alabama); Adam M. Kroening (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A circulator comprises a waveguide housing having a plurality of hollow waveguide arms that communicate with a central cavity, the waveguide housing having a height defined by a plurality of waveguide sidewalls between a waveguide floor and a waveguide ceiling. A ferrite element is disposed in the central cavity of the waveguide housing, with the ferrite element including a central portion. The ferrite element further includes a plurality of ferrite segments that each extend from the central portion and terminate at a distal end. A plurality of dielectric transformers each having an upper surface protrude into the waveguide arms away from the central cavity along the waveguide floor. The dielectric transformers have a height that is less than the height of the waveguide housing such that the upper surface of the transformers is separated from the waveguide ceiling by a gap. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/959977 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 1/39 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2016/fedinvent-patents-20160315.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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