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| US 09332937 | Currie et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia); Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia); Leidos, Inc. (Reston, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Currie (Bethesda, Maryland); Makarand Paranjape (Silver Spring, Maryland); Carl C. Peck (Rockville, Maryland); Robert White (Fairfax, Virginia); Thomas W. Schneider (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to a system and method for transdermal sampling, comprising: at least one sampler for retrieving and transferring at least one analyte obtained transdermally from the skin of a subject; at least one detector system for identifying and quantifying said at least one analyte; and at least one logic module for (i) receiving and storing input data from said at least one detector, (ii) relating the input data to other data obtained from the subject, (iii) displaying output information, (iv) transmitting the output information to another system, and (v) controlling the operation of said at least one sampler and at least one detector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/036966 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/1455 (20130101) A61B 5/1486 (20130101) A61B 5/6833 (20130101) A61B 5/14514 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) A61B 5/14546 (20130101) A61B 5/150007 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 2562/12 (20130101) Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/1723 (20130101) |
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| US 09333107 | Potter et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Boston Dynamics, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Potter (Bedford, Massachusetts); Christopher Everett Thorne (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael Patrick Murphy (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A brace system includes a medial brace and a lateral brace securable via cross members. Each brace has an upper portion, a lower portion, and a hinge assembly between the upper and lower portion configured to allow translation of the lower portion relative to the upper portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/967541 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| 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 5/0125 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2005/0137 (20130101) A61F 2005/0139 (20130101) A61F 2005/0144 (20130101) A61F 2005/0169 (20130101) Physical Therapy Apparatus, e.g Devices for Locating or Stimulating Reflex Points in the Body; Artificial Respiration; Massage; Bathing Devices for Special Therapeutic or Hygienic Purposes or Specific Parts of the Body A61H 1/024 (20130101) A61H 3/00 (20130101) A61H 2201/149 (20130101) A61H 2201/165 (20130101) A61H 2201/1246 (20130101) A61H 2201/1642 (20130101) A61H 2201/5061 (20130101) A61H 2201/5071 (20130101) A61H 2201/5084 (20130101) |
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| US 09333243 | Burke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E Burke (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E Burke (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Currently no therapies that provide either protection or restoration of neuronal function for adult onset neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease exist. Many clinical efforts to provide such benefits by infusion of neurotropic factors have failed. An alternative approach such as viral construct transduction may be used to directly activate the intracellular signaling pathways that mediate neurotrophic effects and induce axon growth. Viral construct transduction of dopaminergic neurons with a constitutively active human form of the p70S6K gene—hp70S6K (CA)—was shown to induce axon regeneration from living dopaminergic cell bodies that had no living axons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029786 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0085 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11001 (20130101) |
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| US 09333276 | Guelcher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott A. Guelcher (Franklin, Tennessee); Subhabrata Bhattacharyya (Metuchen, New Jersey); Katarzyna Jadwiga Zienkiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Shaun A. Tanner (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerald E. Dumas (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Guelcher (Franklin, Tennessee); Subhabrata Bhattacharyya (Metuchen, New Jersey); Katarzyna Jadwiga Zienkiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Shaun A. Tanner (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerald E. Dumas (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Present inventions present composites of bone particles and polyurethane(s), as well as methods of making such composite and uses thereof. A porous composite comprises a plurality of bone particles; and polyurethanes with which the bone particles are combined. To prepare a porous composite, a composition comprise a plurality of bone particles, polyurethane precursors including polyisocyanate prepolymers and polyols, water and catalyst. A composition is either naturally moldable and/or injectable, or it can be made moldable and/or injectable. After implantation or injection, a composition may be set to form a porous composite that provides mechanical strength and supports the in-growth of cells. Inventive composites have the advantage of being able to fill irregularly shape implantation site while at the same time being settable to provide the mechanical strength for most orthopedic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/608850 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/44 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09333368 | Xiao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shu Xiao (Norfolk, Virginia); Andrei Pakhomov (Norfolk, Virginia); Karl H. Schoenbach (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shu Xiao (Norfolk, Virginia); Andrei Pakhomov (Norfolk, Virginia); Karl H. Schoenbach (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for treatment of biological tissues is provided. The system includes a lens having a hollow, substantially hemispherical shape with an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a substantially hemispherical cavity for inserting the biological tissues. The system further includes an antenna assembly for generating and directing electromagnetic radiation towards the outer surface. In the system, the lens is configured to direct the electromagnetic energy to an area in the cavity, a dielectric constant of the lens at the inner surface substantially matches a dielectric constant of the biological tissues, the dielectric constant monotonically increases from the outer surface to the inner surface, and the electromagnetic energy is generated via a series of pulses having a transient of less than about 1 nanosecond. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/170720 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/40 (20130101) A61N 2/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 5/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09333558 | Darling et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory ATTN: RDRL-LOC-I (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristopher A. Darling (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Laszlo J. Kecskes (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Brady G. Butler (Havre de Grace, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A binary or higher order high-density thermodynamically stable nanostructured copper-tantalum based metallic system according to embodiments of the invention may be formed of: a solvent of copper (Cu) metal that comprises 70 to 100 atomic percent (at. %) of the metallic system; and a solute of tantalum (Ta) metal dispersed in the solvent metal, that comprises 0.01 to 15 at. % of the metallic system. The metallic system is thermally stable, with the absence of substantial gross grain growth, such that the internal grain size of the solvent metal is substantially suppressed to no more than about 250 nm at approximately 98% of the melting point temperature of the solvent metal and the solute metal remains substantially uniformly dispersed in the solvent metal at that temperature. Processes for forming these metallic systems may include: subjecting powder metals of solvent and the solute to a high-energy milling process using a high-energy milling device to impart high impact energies to its contents. Due to their high-density thermodynamically stable nanostructured, these metallic systems are an ideal candidate for fabricating shaped charge liners for ordinance. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/779803 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 17/20 (20130101) B02C 17/1815 (20130101) B02C 23/06 (20130101) Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 9/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22F 2009/043 (20130101) B22F 2009/049 (20130101) Alloys C22C 9/00 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 1/032 (20130101) |
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| US 09333644 | Angold |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Russdon Angold (American Canyon, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russdon Angold (American Canyon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable load lifting assist system (100) includes a movable support structure including an exoskeleton torso (160) including an exoskeleton trunk (109) that is configured to be coupled to a person's upper body, and a load lifting mechanism (221) secured to the movable support structure including a winch (229) having a motor driven reel mechanism for reeling first and second lifting straps or cables (222) that are secured to first and second end effectors (223). First and second handles (224) are attached to an outside surface of the first and second end effectors, wherein the lifting straps or cables when driven by the winch lift a load contacted by the first and second end effectors. A lower extremity exoskeleton (120) is configured to be coupled to a person's lower limbs. The exoskeleton trunk couples to the person's upper body through an upper body interface device (150) that is coupled to the lower extremity exoskeleton. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/084265 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Capstans; Winches; Tackles, e.g Pulley Blocks; Hoists B66D 3/18 (20130101) |
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| US 09334033 | Langenfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Langenfeld (Nashua, New Hampshire); Christopher M. Werner (San Jose, California); Ryan K. LaRocque (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Thomas S. Schnellinger (North Andover, Massachusetts); Stanley B. Smith, III (Raymond, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A swimming propulsion device. The swimming propulsion device includes a fuselage at least one propulsor pivotally connected to the fuselage, and in some embodiments, at least one stabilizer affixed to the fuselage. The device also includes a swimmer connection mechanism removably attached to the fuselage by a locking mechanism whereby the swimmer connection mechanism connects a swimmer to the device, and a control mechanism installed within the propulsor. A method for efficient swimming is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246360 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, or Fencing; Ball Games; Training Equipment A63B 35/00 (20130101) Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 1/26 (20130101) B63B 1/30 (20130101) B63B 1/248 (20130101) Marine Propulsion or Steering B63H 1/36 (20130101) B63H 16/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334153 | Perahia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raviv Perahia (Los Angeles, California); Hung Nguyen (Los Angeles, California); Richard J. Joyce (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS assembly comprising a substrate and a MEMS device; wherein the MEMS device is connected to the substrate by at least two flexible support structures made in a conductive layer formed on a first portion of one of the substrate and the MEMS. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531861 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Microstructural Devices or Systems, e.g Micromechanical Devices B81B 7/0006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81B 7/0016 (20130101) B81B 7/0019 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00301 (20130101) |
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| US 09334246 | Sciotti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army, on behalf of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Fort Detrick, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army, on behalf of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Sciotti (Olney, Maryland); Gregory A. Reichard (Lovettsville, Virginia); Kristina M. Pannone (Columbia, Maryland); Victor E. Zottig (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are triazine compounds and methods of making and using thereof to treat malaria, provide chemoprophylaxis, and/or treat or inhibit infection by one or more Plasmodium spp. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/426275 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 251/18 (20130101) C07D 251/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 471/08 (20130101) C07D 487/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09334307 | Weihua |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhang Weihua (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound can destabilize a binding interaction between an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and a sodium/glucose co-transporter 1 (SGLT 1). In one embodiment, the compound is a peptide derived from the interacting domain of EGFR. In another embodiment, the peptide is administered to a patient to treat cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/273375 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/70 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7034 (20130101) A61K 31/7042 (20130101) A61K 31/7042 (20130101) A61K 38/179 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334544 | Trudeau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Devin L. Trudeau (Toronto, Canada); Frances H. Arnold (La Canada, California); Toni M. Lee (Orange, California); Stephen L. Mayo (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variant Cel5a endoglucanase has increased thermostability, increased enzymatic activity and/or increased expression in a host, relative to wild type Cel5a. The improved variant Cel5a endoglucanase may be used to hydrolyze more cellulose at a higher temperature for a more efficient and cost-effective production of biofuels as compared to wild type Cel5a. A variant Cel5a endoglucanase is combined with variant Cel6a and variant Cel7a cellobiohydrolases resulting in more effective hydrolysis of cellulose. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516390 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2437 (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) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Y 302/01091 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09334553 | Peker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Atakan Peker (Spokane, Washington); Dongchun Qiao (Spokane, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atakan Peker (Spokane, Washington); Dongchun Qiao (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of zirconium based bulk metallic glass are described herein. In one embodiment, an alloy composition includes zirconium (Zr), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), at least one element from a group consisting of niobium (Nb) and titanium (Ti), and at least one element from a group consisting of nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), and cobalt (Co). |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/847759 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 1/002 (20130101) C22C 16/00 (20130101) C22C 45/001 (20130101) C22C 45/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334645 | Thrall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashley P. Thrall (South Bend, Indiana); Angelene J. Dascanio (Los Olivos, California); Chad P. Quaglia (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A shelter has a packaged configuration and a deployed configuration. The shelter has four panels, each with four edges and two faces. The first and fourth panels have a rectangular shape, and the second and third panels have a quadrangle shape. The relationship of panel edge lengths and angles of the quadrangle shelter panels create a sturdy enclosure that is easy to erect, manipulate, and reconfigure. Furthermore, the shelter may be erected by rotating the panels into place via pivotal connections between the panels and optionally through the use of a lever arm. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/820659 |
| ART UNIT | 3638 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | General Building Constructions; Walls, e.g Partitions; Roofs; Floors; Ceilings; Insulation or Other Protection of Buildings E04B 1/3445 (20130101) E04B 1/34336 (20130101) E04B 1/34357 (20130101) E04B 1/34384 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E04B 2001/34389 (20130101) Buildings or Like Structures for Particular Purposes; Swimming or Splash Baths or Pools; Masts; Fencing; Tents or Canopies, in General E04H 1/1205 (20130101) |
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| US 09334855 | Hruby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vlad Hruby (Newton, Massachusetts); James J. Szabo, Jr. (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles Gasdaska (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Mike Robin (Lincoln, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Busek Company, Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vlad Hruby (Newton, Massachusetts); James J. Szabo, Jr. (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles Gasdaska (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Mike Robin (Lincoln, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A Hall thruster for use with a condensable propellant including a plasma accelerator including an anode for providing plasma discharge, a distributor for distributing the condensable propellant in a liquid or vaporized state, and an electric circuit including a cathode for emitting electrons attracted to the anode and for neutralizing ion flux emitted from the plasma accelerator. A condensable propellant feed system includes a storage vessel for storing the condensable propellant and providing liquid condensable propellant at a controlled pressure. A condensable propellant flow controller includes a pressure reducing device for controlling the flow rate of the liquid condensable propellant. A vaporizer at or above the vaporization temperature of the liquid condensable propellant vaporizes the liquid condensable propellant at a predetermined vaporization rate and flow rate. A magnetic circuit structure includes a magnetic field source for establishing a transverse magnetic field in the plasma accelerator that creates an impedance to the flow of the electrons toward the anode to create plasma in the plasma accelerator for accelerating ionized condensable propellant through the plasma accelerator to create a flux of ions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607342 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/40 (20130101) Producing a Reactive Propulsive Thrust, Not Otherwise Provided for F03H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334856 | Bae |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Young Kun Bae (Perris, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Young Kun Bae (Perris, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is for a system and a method of VUV photoionization of fullerene and derivative clusters followed by their thermal effusion for a practical energy-efficient and economically-viable high thrust density ion thruster. By taking advantage of the state-of-the-art high intensity VUV photon sources, present invention is able to provide much softer ionization with minimal internal energy deposition than the ionization in the electron impact or charge exchange type ionization in plasma environment used in conventional ion thrusters. Because the invention eliminates the need of additional gas for forming discharge plasma, it permits simpler and lighter structures than the conventional fullerene thrusters with significantly enhanced propellant-usage efficiencies, thrust to power ratios, and thrust to weight ratios. Because the present invention employs softer VUV photoionization, it permits the usage of heavier and more complex fullerene derivatives, nanotubes, and nanotube derivatives than fullerene clusters for fuels without significantly fragmenting them. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288689 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing a Reactive Propulsive Thrust, Not Otherwise Provided for F03H 1/00 (20130101) F03H 1/0012 (20130101) F03H 1/0037 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F03H 1/0043 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 27/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09335027 | Hsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chia Wei Hsu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenjun Qiu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia Wei Hsu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenjun Qiu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transparent displays enable many useful applications, including heads-up displays for cars and aircraft as well as displays on eyeglasses and glass windows. Unfortunately, transparent displays made of organic light-emitting diodes are typically expensive and opaque. Heads-up displays often require fixed light sources and have limited viewing angles. And transparent displays that use frequency conversion are typically energy inefficient. Conversely, the present transparent displays operate by scattering visible light from resonant nanoparticles with narrowband scattering cross sections and small absorption cross sections. More specifically, projecting an image onto a transparent screen doped with nanoparticles that selectively scatter light at the image wavelength(s) yields an image on the screen visible to an observer. Because the nanoparticles scatter light at only certain wavelengths, the screen is practically transparent under ambient light. Exemplary transparent scattering displays can be simple, inexpensive, scalable to large sizes, viewable over wide angular ranges, energy efficient, and transparent simultaneously. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067471 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 9/08 (20130101) F21V 9/12 (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 1/19 (20130101) G02F 1/0126 (20130101) Displaying; Advertising; Signs; Labels or Name-plates; Seals G09F 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 09335146 | Goldberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nicholas S. Goldberg (Perris, California); Raymond S. Leon (Corona, California); Kevin R. Orlowski (Corona, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas S. Goldberg (Perris, California); Raymond S. Leon (Corona, California); Kevin R. Orlowski (Corona, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to exemplary inventive practice, a cylindrical object is secured by a rotatable mechanism. Via a motor controller and corresponding motor actuators, a computer exercises motional control as follows: (i) rotation of the rotatable mechanism, and hence of the cylindrical object, about the cylindrical axis; (ii) linear movement of a positionally adjustable LVDT along the cylindrical axis; and, (iii) linear movement of the positionally adjustable LVDT perpendicular to the cylindrical axis. The computer varies the rotational position of the cylindrical axis, varies the Cartesian planar/spatial position of the positionally adjustable LVDT, and receives measurements taken by the positionally adjustable LVDT under these varying conditions. Based on the measuremental input, the computer evaluates the surface profile of the cylindrical object. Exemplary inventive practice may also provide for at least one fixed LVDT providing measurements relating to cylindrical length and/or cylindrical end surface profile (e.g., in terms of axial perpendicularity). |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/603754 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 5/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01B 5/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09335230 | Hooke et al. |
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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 American as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Hooke (Sparta, New Jersey); Kyle Schaarschmidt (Bangor, Pennsylvania); Matthew Hawkswell (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Tyler Myers (Lebanon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining fluid pressure on a gun-launched projectile relies on deformation of a thin layer of a metallic material that comprises the outer layer of a segment of the projectile body. The axial segment of the projectile body that is selected for pressure measurement is altered or replaced with another axial segment. The altered segment has a thin-walled, structural, metallic sleeve that is concentric with an underlying hollow, metallic cylindrical body. The radially outermost surface of the body underlying the sleeve has a plurality of indentations formed thereon. Measurements of the deformations of the thin-walled sleeve into the indentations in the underlying body are correlated with known deformation and pressure data to determine pressure that was applied to the projectile during its ballistic cycle. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/255401 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 35/00 (20130101) Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 7/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01L 7/022 (20130101) |
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| US 09335262 | Wunderer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Brent S. Krusor (Fremont, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Wunderer (Palo Alto, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Brent S. Krusor (Fremont, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes one or more reflector components. Each reflector component comprises layer pairs of epitaxially grown reflective layers and layers of a non-epitaxial material, such as air. Vias extend through at least some of the layers of the reflector components. The device may include a light emitting layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/217859 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/41 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/085 (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 5/18308 (20130101) H01S 5/18341 (20130101) H01S 5/18363 (20130101) H01S 5/18369 (20130101) H01S 5/34333 (20130101) |
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| US 09335267 | Sausa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rosario Sausa (Newark, Delaware); Jerry B. Cabalo (Towson, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of present invention are directed to near infrared (IR) laser-induced vibrational absorption systems and methods for material detection. According to one embodiment, a system for detecting materials may include: at least one laser configured to output light in the near IR spectrum so as to excite at least one vibrational overtone frequency, at least one combination band frequency, or a combination thereof, of a sample comprised of one or more of materials; a detector configured to detect a physical phenomenon of the sample in response to laser excitation; and an analyzer configured to the analyze the detected physical phenomenon and to identify the one or more materials based comparison of the detected signatures with known signatures of one more materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/748874 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/359 (20130101) G01N 21/3563 (20130101) G01N 21/6402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09335271 | Pruessner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marcel W. Pruessner (Silver Spring, Maryland); Todd H. Stievater (Arlington, Virginia); William S. Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcel W. Pruessner (Silver Spring, Maryland); Todd H. Stievater (Arlington, Virginia); William S. Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass sensor system including multiple Fabry-Perot microcavities connected in parallel by multiple waveguides. Each of the mass sensors includes a microbridge having a fundamental resonance frequency, and a movable reflective mirror etched into the microbridge; a fixed reflective mirror etched in a substrate, the fixed reflective mirror being fixed to the substrate in a region spaced apart from the movable reflective mirror; and an optical waveguide etched in the substrate that connects the movable mirror and the fixed mirror forming the Fabry-Perot microcavity interferometer. The system includes a tunable continuous-wave laser operative to optically interrogate the Fabry-Perot microcavity of each of the plurality of mass sensors, and a receiver operative to receive sensor signals from each of the plurality of mass sensors, the sensor signals comprising reflective signals and transmitted signals. A continuous-wave laser may generate optical forces that modify the motion, dynamics, or mechanical Q-factor of the microbridge. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/466090 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02004 (20130101) G01B 9/02051 (20130101) G01B 2290/25 (20130101) Weighing G01G 3/165 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/17 (20130101) G01N 21/75 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/036 (20130101) G01N 2021/757 (20130101) G01N 2291/0256 (20130101) |
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| US 09335300 | Jauriqui |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vibrant Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIBRANT CORPORATION (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leanne Jauriqui (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various approaches for assessing a part for a defect are disclosed and that are based upon SAW modes. In one embodiment, a part-under-test (120) is excited. One or more SAW modes (206) are identified in the frequency response (240/260) of the part-under-test (120). A SAW mode area (248/266) in the frequency response of the part-under-test (120) is compared with a baseline SAW mode area (238/258) of a baseline frequency response (230/250) (and which may be associated with an acceptable part). This comparison may be used to determine if the part-under-test (120) may be characterized defective in at least some respect. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/210783 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/041 (20130101) G01N 29/2462 (20130101) G01N 29/4427 (20130101) G01N 2291/103 (20130101) G01N 2291/265 (20130101) G01N 2291/2696 (20130101) |
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| US 09335327 | Srivastava et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shiv K. Srivastava (Potomac, Maryland); Gyorgy Petrovics (Bethesda, Maryland); Shyh-Han Tan (Kensington, Maryland); Kristen Nickens (Clinton, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiv K. Srivastava (Potomac, Maryland); Gyorgy Petrovics (Bethesda, Maryland); Shyh-Han Tan (Kensington, Maryland); Kristen Nickens (Clinton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of using polycarbonate filters to isolate and detect cancer cells in a biological fluid, particularly biological fluids, such as urine, that contain very low concentrations of cancer cells. The characterization of the isolated cells for the presence or absence of cancer specific proteins is useful for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/237747 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5005 (20130101) G01N 33/57407 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/57434 (20130101) G01N 33/57438 (20130101) |
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| US 09335398 | Zollars et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanohmics, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byron G. Zollars (Georgetown, Texas); Steve M. Savoy (Austin, Texas); Michael W. Mayo (Austin, Texas); Daniel R. Mitchell (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for determining direction from which electromagnetic radiation originates and spectral characteristics of the radiation are provided. Lenses, diffraction gratings, which may be present on the surface of the lenses, and mirrors direct radiation to a photodetector. Lens and grating parameters, along with the location, size, relative spacing and orientation of diffracted orders of radiation detected by the photodetector are used for determining direction from which the radiation originates. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/531247 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/0411 (20130101) G01J 1/0422 (20130101) G01J 1/0492 (20130101) G01J 1/4257 (20130101) G01J 2001/4266 (20130101) G01J 2003/2813 (20130101) Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 3/781 (20130101) G01S 3/782 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01S 3/784 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/14621 (20130101) H01L 27/14625 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) |
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| US 09335539 | Shian et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Shian (Arlington, Massachusetts); David Clarke (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Roger Diebold (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A pixel device using optically active fluid contained within elastomeric materials and actuated through dielectric elastomer membrane is disclosed. The underlying mechanism of optical contrast in this display pixel is the spread and contraction of the fluid contained within a pre-stretched elastomer membrane and a substrate. The actuation mechanism for the fluid flow is a dielectric elastomer membrane coated with compliant electrodes on both sides. When both electrodes are connected to a voltage source, the oppositely charged electrodes attract each other, compressing the sandwiched elastomer membrane in the thickness direction but increasing its lateral dimension. Due to geometrical constraint, the change in the membrane lateral dimension results in the net volume change of the fluid reservoir, causing optically active fluid to move from the display cavity into the fluid reservoir or vice versa. The variation of the amount of fluid in the display cavity corresponds to the variation of optical properties, such as contrast and color, of the pixel device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/373386 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 3/12 (20130101) G02B 26/004 (20130101) G02B 26/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 26/007 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09335886 | Quinn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Assured Information Security, Inc. (Rome, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ASSURED INFORMATION SECURITY, INC. (Rome, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rian Patrick Quinn (Rome, New York); Brendan Timothy Kerrigan (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | User interaction with multiple domains is facilitated while preventing cross-domain transfer of data from those domains. A compositioning domain facilitates this interaction in a secure manner in which cross-domain transfer of data is prevented. This includes obtaining pixel information from the domains via one or more read-only communication paths, providing a user interface to the user, which includes providing a display buffer including at least some of the pixel information obtained from each domain of the domains for display to the user, and maintaining an in-focus domain state. The in-focus domain state indicates which domain of the domains is currently in-focus. User input from the user based on the user interface is provided by a user input handler directly to the currently in-focus domain indicated by the in-focus domain state absent transfer of the user input to the compositioning domain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800262 |
| ART UNIT | 2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 9/4445 (20130101) G06F 2203/04803 (20130101) |
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| US 09335947 | Chien et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pen C. Chien (Walnut, California); Frank N. Cheung (Agoura Hills, California); Kuan Y. Huang (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments relate to an inter-processor memory. An aspect includes a plurality of memory banks, each of the plurality of memory banks comprising a respective plurality of parallel memory modules, wherein a number of the plurality of memory banks is equal to a number of read ports of the inter-processor memory, and a number of parallel memory modules within a memory bank is equal to a number of write ports of the inter-processor memory. Another aspect includes each memory bank corresponding to a single respective read port of the inter-processor memory, and wherein, within each memory bank, each memory module of the plurality of parallel memory modules is writable in parallel by a single respective write port of the inter-processor memory. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318874 |
| ART UNIT | 2135 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/0604 (20130101) G06F 3/0647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/0673 (20130101) |
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| US 09336026 | Cutts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (Northfield, Vermont) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (Northfield, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew W. Cutts (Henniker, New Hampshire); Robert Schmidt (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for simulating a distributed business process are disclosed. The methods and apparatus simulate an interdependent business process, such as a financial transaction system, in a secure distributed manner. Each business entity that is part of the interdependent business process models itself on a local client device at any chosen level of detail. A simulation server connects the separate client based simulations into one large simulation. Details of each local simulation may be hidden from other simulation participants. However, interruptions in business flow caused by simulated disruptions introduced at the simulation server and/or a client device are propagated to all of the effected simulation participants via the simulation server. In addition, if a client based model is not available, the server supplies a software agent to replace the inputs and outputs normally associated with that portion of the overall simulation. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/500340 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/455 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 40/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09336058 | Balmin 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) | Andrey Balmin (San Jose, California); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Viswanath Nagarajan (East Rutherford, New Jersey); Joel L. Wolf (Golden Bridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for automated scheduling management of MapReduce flow-graph applications. A method includes determining a job schedule of MapReduce jobs within each of multiple MapReduce flows in a cluster environment, wherein said job schedule does not violate a precedence relationship within the corresponding MapReduce flow and reduces makespan of the corresponding MapReduce flow, determining a flow schedule for the multiple MapReduce flows based on consideration of a given metric, wherein said flow schedule comprises a number of slots allotted to each of the multiple MapReduce flows, and wherein said number of slots is less than or equal to a number of the one or more MapReduce jobs within each corresponding MapReduce flow, and transforming each job schedule into the flow schedule to allocate resources for the multiple MapReduce flows in the cluster environment without violating a precedence constraint of the multiple MapReduce flows. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804171 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09336145 | Arimilli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Jody B. Joyner (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Jody B. Joyner (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for performing cache injection includes monitoring, at a host fabric interface, snoop responses to an address on a bus. When the snoop responses indicate a data block associated with the address is in a shared state, input/output data associated with the address on the bus is directed to a cache that includes the data block in the shared state and is located physically closer to the host fabric interface than one or more other caches that include the data block associated with the address in the shared state. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421338 |
| ART UNIT | 2131 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/123 (20130101) G06F 12/0815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/1027 (20130101) |
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| US 09336273 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyh-Kwei Chen (Chappaqua, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Range query techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with data stream processing systems. A technique is provided for incrementally processing continual range queries against moving objects. This technique is applicable for location-aware services and applications. A technique for evaluating one or more continual range queries over one or more moving objects comprises maintaining a query index with one or more containment-encoded virtual constructs associated with the one or more continual range queries over the one or more moving objects, and incrementally evaluating the one or more continual range queries using the query index. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940815 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30241 (20130101) G06F 17/30463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09336570 | Kanaev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Andrey V. Kanaev (Lorton, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey V. Kanaev (Lorton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented demosaicking system and method that can receive an image (or many images that represent individual frames of a video) at a demosaicking processor from a multi-spectral band camera. The image can include four or more band images that each correspond to an unique spectral band obtained by the multi-spectral band camera. A clustering module can perform spectral clustering of the four or more band images to identify multiple clusters. For each of the plurality of clusters, a weights module can determine a cluster weight by computing correlations between each of the unique spectral bands in each cluster. A super-resolution module can perform super-resolution for each of the unique spectral bands by utilizing the cluster weights from the weights module. The super-resolution module can iteratively apply the super-resolution for each of the unique spectral bands and a value for each unique spectral band can be updated after each iteration. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/714112 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/4015 (20130101) G06T 3/4061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10024 (20130101) G06T 2207/30212 (20130101) |
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| US 09336669 | Bowden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert A. Bowden (Far Hills, New Jersey); Michelle Hossenlopp (Belton, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Bowden (Far Hills, New Jersey); Michelle Hossenlopp (Belton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The system in at least one embodiment includes a tamper evident specimen sample locking device that in a further embodiment includes an embedded data storage mechanism. A method for using the system in at least one embodiment allows for efficiently and securely creating, maintaining, identifying, tracking, and controlling inventories (either prospective or retrospective) of biological and chemical sample containers and their contents, while eliminating potential loss and degradation associated with handling the samples. The system in at least one embodiment includes a sample container tray or cryogenic box having one or more integrated RFID readers within an associated smart lid that sense RFIDs associated with the individual samples thereby eliminating the need to remove, visually inspect, and/or handle the samples. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/814600 |
| ART UNIT | 2686 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/545 (20130101) B01L 2200/141 (20130101) B01L 2300/022 (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 85/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/42 (20130101) G01N 35/00732 (20130101) G01N 2001/007 (20130101) G01N 2035/00782 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 13/2462 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09336919 | Kagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cherie R. Kagan (Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Aaron T. Fafarman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ji-Hyuk Choi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Weon-kyu Koh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David K. Kim (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Soong Ju Oh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yuming Lai (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sung-Hoon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea); Sangameshwar Rao Saudari (Fishkill, New York); Christopher B. Murray (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of exchanging ligands to form colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) with chalcogenocyanate (xCN)-based ligands and apparatuses using the same are disclosed. The ligands may be exchanged by assembling NCs into a thin film and immersing the thin film in a solution containing xCN-based ligands. The ligands may also be exchanged by mixing a xCN-based solution with a dispersion of NCs, flocculating the mixture, centrifuging the mixture, discarding the supernatant, adding a solvent to the pellet, and dispersing the solvent and pellet to form dispersed NCs with exchanged xCN-ligands. The NCs with xCN-based ligands may be used to form thin film devices and/or other electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices. Devices comprising nanocrystal-based thin films and methods for forming such devices are also disclosed. These devices may be constructed by depositing NCs on to a substrate to form an NC thin film and then doping the thin film by evaporation and thermal diffusion. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/969863 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/18 (20130101) H01L 29/127 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 31/07 (20130101) H01L 31/0324 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09337027 | Chung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dow Corning Corporation (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Corning Corporation (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gilyong Chung (Midland, Michigan); Mark Loboda (Bay City, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for depositing silicon carbide material onto a substrate such that the resulting substrate has a carrier lifetime of 0.5-1000 microseconds, the method comprising a. introducing a gas mixture comprising a chlorosilane gas, a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen gas into a reaction chamber containing a substrate; and b. heating the substrate to a temperature of greater than 1000° C. but less than 2000° C.; with the proviso that the pressure within the reaction chamber is maintained in the range of 0.1 to 760 torr. This invention also relates to a method for depositing silicon carbide material onto a substrate such that the resulting substrate has a carrier lifetime of 0.5-1000 microseconds, the method comprising a. introducing a gas mixture comprising a non-chlorinated silicon-containing gas, hydrogen chloride, a carbon-containing gas, and hydrogen gas into a reaction chamber containing a substrate; and b. heating the substrate to a temperature of greater than 1000° C. but less than 2000° C.; with the proviso that the pressure within the reaction chamber is maintained in the range of 0.1 to 760 torr. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/745066 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 16/325 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02529 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/02576 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) |
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| US 09337033 | Glodde 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) | Martin Glodde (Pine Brook, New Jersey); Wu-Song Huang (Brewster, New York); Hiroyuki Miyazoe (White Plains, New York); Ratnam Sooriyakumaran (San Jose, California); Hsinyu Tsai (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for patterning a hard mask material with line-space patterns below a 30 nm pitch and a 15 nm critical dimension by employing a spin-on titanium-silicon (TiSi) polymer or oligomer as a tone inversion material is provided. The spin-on TiSi material is spin-coated over a patterned OPL that includes a first pattern generated from a DSA based process. The spin-on TiSi material fill trenches within the patterned OPL to form a tone inverted pattern by removing the patterned OPL selective to the spin-on TiSi material. The inverted pattern is a complementary pattern to the first pattern, and is transferred into the underlying hard mask material by an anisotropic etch. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/945456 |
| ART UNIT | 2896 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/094 (20130101) G03F 7/0752 (20130101) G03F 7/0757 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0332 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 21/0337 (20130101) H01L 21/02153 (20130101) H01L 21/02282 (20130101) H01L 21/31116 (20130101) H01L 21/31138 (20130101) H01L 21/31144 (20130101) |
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| US 09337152 | Sherrer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nuvotronics, LLC (Radford, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nuvotronics, Inc (Radford, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David William Sherrer (Radford, Virginia); James D MacDonald (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed and claimed herein is a formulation for packaging an electronic device and assemblies made therefrom. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843505 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/24 (20130101) H01L 23/66 (20130101) H01L 23/295 (20130101) H01L 23/552 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 23/3135 (20130101) H01L 24/16 (20130101) H01L 24/32 (20130101) H01L 24/48 (20130101) H01L 24/49 (20130101) H01L 24/73 (20130101) H01L 2223/6611 (20130101) H01L 2223/6627 (20130101) H01L 2224/16225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32225 (20130101) H01L 2224/32245 (20130101) H01L 2224/32245 (20130101) H01L 2224/32245 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/48247 (20130101) H01L 2224/48247 (20130101) H01L 2224/49109 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/00012 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/181 (20130101) H01L 2924/15156 (20130101) H01L 2924/16195 (20130101) H01L 2924/19041 (20130101) H01L 2924/19043 (20130101) H01L 2924/19105 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 5/0095 (20130101) H05K 9/0024 (20130101) |
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| US 09337268 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Craig Capell (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Anant Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Craig Capell (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Anant Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A negative bevel edge termination for a Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductor device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the negative bevel edge termination includes multiple steps that approximate a smooth negative bevel edge termination at a desired slope. More specifically, in one embodiment, the negative bevel edge termination includes at least five steps, at least ten steps, or at least 15 steps. The desired slope is, in one embodiment, less than or equal to fifteen degrees. In one embodiment, the negative bevel edge termination results in a blocking voltage for the semiconductor device of at least 10 kilovolts (kV) or at least 12 kV. The semiconductor device is preferably, but not necessarily, a thyristor such as a power thyristor, a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), a U-channel Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (UMOSFET), or a PIN diode. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/108366 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/36 (20130101) H01L 29/74 (20130101) H01L 29/0615 (20130101) H01L 29/0661 (20130101) H01L 29/732 (20130101) H01L 29/861 (20130101) H01L 29/1004 (20130101) H01L 29/1016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/1095 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) H01L 29/7397 (20130101) H01L 29/7813 (20130101) |
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| US 09337277 | Loboda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DOW CORNING CORPORATION (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | DOW CORNING CORPORATION (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Loboda (Bay City, Michigan); Gilyong Chung (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | 4H SIC epiwafers with thickness of 50-100 μm are grown on 4° off-axis substrates. Surface morphological defect density in the range of 2-6 cm−2 is obtained from inspection of the epiwafers. Consistent carrier lifetime in the range of 2-3 μs has been obtained on these epiwafers. Very low BPD density has been confirmed in the epiwafers with BPD density down to below 10 cm−2. Epitaxial wafers with thickness of 50-100 μm have been used to fabricate diodes. High voltage testing has demonstrated blocking voltages near the theoretical values for 4H-SiC. Blocking voltage as high as 8 kV has been achieved in devices fabricated on 50 μm thick epitaxial films, and blocking voltage as high as 10 kV has been obtained in devices fabricated on 80 μm thick films. Failure analysis confirmed triangle defects, which form from surface damage or particles present during epitaxy, are killer defects and cause the device to fail in reverse bias operation. In addition, the leakage current at the high blocking voltages of the JBS diodes showed no correlation with the screw dislocation density. It is also observed that the main source of basal plane dislocations in the epilayer originates in the crystal growth process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/487774 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02378 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02532 (20130101) H01L 29/32 (20130101) H01L 29/045 (20130101) H01L 29/78 (20130101) H01L 29/868 (20130101) H01L 29/872 (20130101) H01L 29/1608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/6606 (20130101) H01L 29/66068 (20130101) |
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| US 09337301 | Palacios et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomas Apostol Palacios (Belmont, Massachusetts); Tatsuya Fujishima (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor structures and techniques are described which enable forming aluminum nitride (AIN) based devices by confining carriers in a region of AIN by exploiting the polar nature of AIN materials. Embodiments of AIN transistors utilizing polarization-based carrier confinement are described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/367385 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/201 (20130101) H01L 29/205 (20130101) H01L 29/778 (20130101) H01L 29/812 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) H01L 29/7787 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337387 | 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); Alexander Dobrinsky (Loudonville, New York); Michael Shur (Latham, New York); Remigijus Gaska (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A profiled surface for improving the propagation of radiation through an interface is provided. The profiled surface includes a set of large roughness components providing a first variation of the profiled surface having a characteristic scale approximately an order of magnitude larger than a target wavelength of the radiation. The set of large roughness components can include a series of truncated shapes. The profiled surface also includes a set of small roughness components superimposed on the set of large roughness components and providing a second variation of the profiled surface having a characteristic scale on the order of the target wavelength of the radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/297656 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 5/002 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/5009 (20130101) G06F 17/5045 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/007 (20130101) H01L 33/10 (20130101) H01L 33/20 (20130101) H01L 33/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 2933/0083 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49 (20150115) |
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| US 09337392 | Planillo 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) | Jordan Rudolph Pagayanan Planillo (Camarillo, California); Michael A. Torres (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale solid state terahertz emitter employs a layered half-cylinder associated with a substrate. The half-cylinder is configured with a channel having a pre-determined channel length. The emitter is defined in a three-dimensional frame of reference. The layered half-cylinder includes a conductor layer bonded to the substrate. An insulator layer is bonded to the conductor layer. An arcuate-shaped graphene layer is bonded to the insulator layer along a pre-determined contact length. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/702099 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/1606 (20130101) H01L 33/24 (20130101) H01L 33/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337411 | Bird et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ross W. Bird (Canton, Pennsylvania); William M. Bradley (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania); Gareth J. Knowles (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QorTek, Inc. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross W. Bird (Canton, Pennsylvania); William M. Bradley (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania); Gareth J. Knowles (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Multilayered piezoelectric transformers, transformer elements and methods of constructing piezoelectric transformers are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/646546 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/27 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/107 (20130101) H01L 41/0471 (20130101) H01L 41/0833 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/42 (20150115) |
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| US 09337505 | Roychoudhury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Christian Junaedi (Cheshire, Connecticut); Dennis E. Walsh (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PRECISION COMBUSTION, INC. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut); Christian Junaedi (Cheshire, Connecticut); Dennis E. Walsh (Richboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of reforming a liquid fuel comprising from greater than 50 ppmw sulfur to less than 400 ppmw sulfur, the process comprising contacting a liquid hydrocarbon fuel comprising one or more organosulfur compounds in a concentration from greater than 50 ppmw to less than 400 ppmw sulfur with an oxidant and steam or water, the contacting occurring in a catalyst bed comprising a reforming catalyst deposited on an ultra-short-channel-length metal substrate, such that the process is conducted at a peak catalyst temperature greater than 950° C. so as to produce a reformate mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/007667 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/382 (20130101) C01B 2203/042 (20130101) C01B 2203/065 (20130101) C01B 2203/0244 (20130101) C01B 2203/0485 (20130101) C01B 2203/1023 (20130101) C01B 2203/1247 (20130101) C01B 2203/1614 (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 27/04 (20130101) C10G 2300/70 (20130101) C10G 2300/80 (20130101) C10G 2300/202 (20130101) C10G 2300/207 (20130101) C10G 2300/805 (20130101) C10G 2300/807 (20130101) C10G 2300/1022 (20130101) C10G 2300/1051 (20130101) C10G 2300/1055 (20130101) C10G 2300/4006 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/0618 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337540 | Behdad et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Behdad (Madison, Wisconsin); Kasra Ghaemi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna system that includes a ground plane substrate, a first antenna, and a second antenna is provided. The first antenna includes a first loop conductor electrically connected to a feed network and to the ground plane substrate, a second loop conductor electrically connected to the feed network and to the ground plane substrate, and a first conductor mounted to and electrically connected to a first edge of the first loop conductor and to a second edge of the second loop conductor. The second antenna includes a third loop conductor electrically connected to the feed network and to the first conductor, a fourth loop conductor electrically connected to the feed network and to the first conductor, and a second conductor mounted to and electrically connected to a third edge of the third loop conductor and to a fourth edge of the fourth loop conductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/296138 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 21/0006 (20130101) |
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| US 09337542 | Coburn et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William O. Coburn (Dumfries, Virginia); Amir I. Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William O. Coburn (Dumfries, Virginia); Amir I. Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar antenna comprising: a substrate, a resonant element generating an electromagnetic wave, a plurality of parallel, spaced apart conductive strips on the substrate, wherein conductive strips form collinear rows of at least two strips that are physically separated by a slot to guide the electromagnetic wave in a specific direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/686962 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 13/085 (20130101) H01Q 13/106 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337622 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jung-Hun Seo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultra compact DBRs, VCSELs incorporating the DBRs and methods for making the DBRs are provided. The DBRs are composed of a vertical reflector stack comprising a plurality of adjacent layer pairs, wherein each layer pair includes a layer of single-crystalline Group IV semiconductor and an adjacent layer of silicon dioxide. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/334770 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — 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 5/042 (20130101) H01S 5/183 (20130101) H01S 5/187 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/423 (20130101) |
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| US 09337652 | Carey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ARC Technology, LLC (Whitewater, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARC Technology, LLC (Whitewater, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William John Carey (Whitewater, Kansas); William Charles Nunnally (Austin, Texas); Aaron Jay Wiebe (Whitewater, Kansas); Ryan David Nord (Whitewater, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for protecting a device from transients. The apparatus includes a switching network and a transmission line electrically connecting an input to an output. The switching network includes a detector, a switch, and a communication path therebetween. The detector, such as an electrical-to-optical converter, detects a transient at the input and communicates with the switch The switch then actuates to place a low impendence across the output of the transmission line, thereby attenuating the transient. The switching network has a switching time that equals the sum of the times to detect the transient at the input, transmit a signal corresponding to the detection to the switch, and actuate the switch. The input signal travels from the input to the output along the transmission line, which has a propagation delay. The propagation delay is greater than the switching time of the switch network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/160024 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Emergency Protective Circuit Arrangements H02H 9/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337852 | Ainspan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herschel A. Ainspan (New Hempstead, New York); Mark A. Ferriss (Tarrytown, New York); Daniel J. Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Alexander V. Rylyakov (Mount Kisco, New York); Bodhisatwa Sadhu (White Plains, New York); Alberto Valdes Garcia (Hartsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for phase adjustment include a phase detector that is configured to compare a reference clock and a feedback clock and to generate two output signals. A difference in time between pulse widths of the two output signals corresponds to a phase difference between the reference clock and the feedback clock. A programmable delay line is configured to delay an earlier output signal in accordance with a predicted deterministic phase error. An oscillator is configured to generate a feedback signal in accordance with the delayed output signal. A divider is configured to divide a frequency of the oscillator output by an integer N. The integer N is varied to achieve an average fractional divide ratio and the predicted deterministic phase error is based on the average divide ratio and an instantaneous divide ratio. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/920440 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Automatic Control, Starting, Synchronisation, or Stabilisation of Generators of Electronic Oscillations or Pulses H03L 7/081 (20130101) H03L 7/085 (20130101) H03L 7/099 (20130101) H03L 7/1974 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337924 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Robert A. Croce, Jr. (Guilford, Connecticut); Pawan Gogna (Clinton, Massachusetts); Syed Kamrul Islam (Knoxville, Tennessee); Liang Zuo (San Jose, California); Kai Zhu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable bio-sensing platform architecture that enables the wireless selection, calibration and reading of multiple sensors, as well as checking the power levels of the solar powering source energizing various electronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits embedded in the platform. It also permits checking the operation of the potentiostats interfacing with each amperometric analyte sensor. The platform is flexible to include FET based sensors for protein sensing as well as other applications including pH sensing. In addition, other physiological sensors can be integrated in the platform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/023116 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/1149 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09337939 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inho Kim (Mountain View, California); Zuoguo Wu (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods may provide for an optical module including an optical demultiplexer to receive a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal from a single receive optical fiber and separate the WDM signal into a plurality of optical signals. Additionally, the optical module may include a receiver conversion unit to convert the plurality of optical signals into a corresponding plurality of electrical signals. In addition, the optical module may include a buffer chip having a single clock and data recovery (CDR) module to recover a clock from a designated signal in the plurality of electrical signals and distribute the recovered clock to a plurality of data lanes corresponding to the plurality of electrical signals. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629945 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) H04B 10/69 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/00 (20130101) H04L 25/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09337941 | Emerson 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) | David R. Emerson (Ellettsville, Indiana); Gregory D. Hughes (Dale City, Virginia); Nixon A. Pendergrass (Nashville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system adapted for use with an electromagnetic transmitter and receiver system is provided comprising an electromagnetic transmitter and receiver system comprising an antenna, wherein the electromagnetic transmitter and receiver system is adapted to produce a transmitted signal for antenna pattern measurement which is transmitted through the antenna; a case located in proximity to the electromagnetic transmitter; at least one measurement probe disposed inside the case without changing the antenna's emission pattern, wherein the case, with the probe dispose therein, is placed no closer to the antenna than a limitation on the transmitter and receiver system component comprising a dynamic range associated with radio frequency energy received by the probe from the antenna; and an output section adapted to send results from the antenna pattern measurement received by the probe to a remote location away from the transmitter and receiver system for recording and analysis, the analysis comprising producing an antenna pattern measurement for the transmitter and receiver system. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/746810 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — 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 21/0087 (20130101) Transmission H04B 17/102 (20150115) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09338144 | Rohloff |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Ryan Rohloff (South Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for data privacy in a distributed communication system includes: receiving first and second encrypted data from first and second client terminals, each having a different data representation; analyzing the first and second data representations to determine a common data representation; translating the first and second encrypted data to a shared data representation using the common data representation; performing operations on the first encrypted data and second encrypted data to generate a first and second operated encrypted data; reverting the first operated encrypted data back to said first data representation and sending the reverted first encrypted date to the first client terminal for decryption by the first client terminal; and reverting the second operated encrypted data back to said second data representation and sending the reverted second encrypted date to the second client terminal for decryption by the second client terminal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/184552 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/42 (20130101) |
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| US 09338174 | Locasto et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E Locasto (Springfield, Virginia); Salvatore J Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Angelos D Keromytis (New York, New York); Ke Wang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods that protect an application from attacks are provided. In some embodiments of the present invention, input from an input source, such as traffic from a communication network, can be routed through a filtering proxy that includes one or more filters, classifiers, and/or detectors. In response to the input passing through the filtering proxy to the application, a supervision framework monitors the input for attacks (e.g., code injection attacks). The supervision framework can provide feedback to tune the components of the filtering proxy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/272187 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/1408 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 63/1416 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Timothy J. Salo (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Salo (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus where network-layer devices use host-provided, detailed, per-packet, semantic information (DPPS information), which describes the content, meaning, importance, and/or other attributes of particular application data and is associated with each packet, to provide enhanced network services. In some embodiments of the above method, network-layer devices use DPPS information that includes QoS-related information to provide fine-grained, content-aware, and/or complex QoS assurances or similar services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide network-based, application-protocol-independent, rate-adaptation services. In some embodiments, network-layer devices use DPPS information to provide highly efficient, application-protocol-independent, publish/subscribe dissemination services. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/294144 |
| ART UNIT | 2458 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/306 (20130101) H04L 45/308 (20130101) H04L 47/24 (20130101) H04L 47/32 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) H04L 67/32 (20130101) H04L 67/327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 67/2804 (20130101) H04L 69/22 (20130101) H04L 69/321 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Randy D. Curry (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Curry (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to methods and devices for generating electron dense air plasmas at atmospheric pressures. In particular, this disclosure relate to self-contained toroidal air plasmas. Methods and apparatuses have been developed for generating atmospheric toroidal air plasmas. The air plasmas are self-confining, can be projected, and do not require additional support equipment once formed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/491307 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 1/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05H 1/54 (20130101) H05H 2001/4682 (20130101) H05H 2240/10 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts); Roger Greenwood Mark (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tushar A. Parlikar (Somerville, Massachusetts); Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George C. Verghese (Newton, Massachusetts); Roger Greenwood Mark (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for prediction and detection of circulatory shock using estimates or measurements of arterial blood pressure, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, total peripheral resistance, cardiac ejection fraction, cardiac contractility and ventricular end-diastolic volume are provided. These estimates and measurements are used to determine a type of circulatory shock. In some embodiments, the type of circulatory shock is determined to be one of septic shock, hypovolemic shock, anaphylactic shock, hemorrhagic shock, and cardiogenic shock. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/572949 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/029 (20130101) A61B 5/0402 (20130101) A61B 5/412 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) A61B 5/7275 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/3437 (20130101) |
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| US 09332915 | Narayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Topera, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for identifying a driver of a source associated with a heart rhythm disorder, data are accessed from a plurality of sensors representing biological activity in the heart. A first region and a second region of the heart are identified as the source of the heart rhythm disorder. If the first region has repeating activation and controls the second region for at least a predetermined number of beats, the first region is identified as controlling the source of the heart rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/844562 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0006 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09332946 | Heuscher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dominic Heuscher (Park City, Utah); Frederic Noo (Midvale, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominic Heuscher (Park City, Utah); Frederic Noo (Midvale, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging can include repeatedly scanning a target region at a frequency during a session, the frequency initially being a first rate. After detecting an increase of the attenuation of radiation by a contrast-enhanced first structure within a target region, the frequency can be increased to a second rate. After detecting a subsequent decrease in the attenuation, the frequency can be decreased to a third rate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/531471 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/06 (20130101) A61B 6/032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 6/54 (20130101) A61B 6/405 (20130101) A61B 6/481 (20130101) A61B 6/507 (20130101) A61B 6/541 (20130101) A61B 6/542 (20130101) A61B 6/544 (20130101) A61B 6/5205 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Windham, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/276708 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 2/0063 (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 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/16 (20130101) D01D 5/088 (20130101) D01D 5/098 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/62 (20130101) D01F 6/84 (20130101) D01F 6/625 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1362 (20150115) Y10T 428/1369 (20150115) Y10T 428/249922 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) Y10T 442/183 (20150401) Y10T 442/184 (20150401) Y10T 442/2525 (20150401) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed S. El-Kurdi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yi Hong (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Lorenzo Soletti (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John J. Stankus (Campbell, California); David A. Vorp (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William R. Wagner (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A tubular tissue graft device is provided comprising a tubular tissue and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the tubular tissue. The matrix may be electrospun onto the tubular tissue. In one embodiment, the tubular tissue is from a vein, such as a saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided is method of preparing a tubular graft comprising depositing a fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a perimeter of a tubular tissue to produce a tubular tissue graft device. A cardiac bypass method comprising bypassing a coronary artery with a tubular tissue graft device comprising a vein and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the vein also is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/601523 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2210/0004 (20130101) A61F 2240/001 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) A61L 27/507 (20130101) A61L 27/3625 (20130101) A61L 27/3683 (20130101) A61L 27/3804 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2300/604 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 2533/40 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0007 (20130101) D01D 5/0076 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses of Section D, Relating to Textiles D10B 2331/10 (20130101) D10B 2401/12 (20130101) D10B 2509/06 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Carolina Salvador-Morales (Brookline, Massachusetts); Weiwei Gao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Liangfang Zhang (San Diego, California); Juliana M. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hosptial, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Carolina Salvador-Morales (Brookline, Massachusetts); Weiwei Gao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Liangfang Zhang (San Diego, California); Juliana M. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to particles (e.g., nanoparticles and microparticles) that display multiple functionalized surface domains in a controlled mosaic pattern. The disclosure also provides simple methods to create various particles that have multiple functionalized surface domains while allowing the use of a wide variety of diverse core structures. The multiple functionalized domains provide controllable particle binding and orientation, and controlled and sustained drug release profiles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/122654 |
| 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 8/14 (20130101) A61K 8/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48815 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) A61K 47/48884 (20130101) A61K 47/48915 (20130101) A61K 49/0065 (20130101) A61K 49/0067 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 19/00 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09333179 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Liangfang Zhang (San Diego, California); Aleksandar F. Radovic-Moreno (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Frank X. Gu (Waterloo, Canada); Frank Alexis (Greenville, South Carolina); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liangfang Zhang (San Diego, California); Aleksandar F. Radovic-Moreno (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Frank X. Gu (Waterloo, Canada); Frank Alexis (Greenville, South Carolina); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Omid C. Farokhzad (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nanoparticles with an amphiphilic component. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method of developing nanoparticles with desired properties. In one set of embodiments, the method includes producing libraries of nanoparticles having highly controlled properties, which can be formed by mixing together two or more macromolecules in different ratios. One or more of the macromolecules may be a polymeric conjugate of a moiety to a biocompatible polymer. In some cases, the nanoparticle may contain a drug. Other aspects of the invention are directed to methods using nanoparticle libraries. |
| FILED | Monday, October 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/573591 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/5123 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 9/5192 (20130101) A61K 47/48238 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) A61K 47/48915 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09333193 | Hoffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul S. Hoffman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. MacDonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Eric R. Houpt (Keswick, Virginia); Thomas E. Ballard, Jr. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Hoffman (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. MacDonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Eric R. Houpt (Keswick, Virginia); Thomas E. Ballard, Jr. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for the use of antimicrobial chemical entities based on a nitrothiazolide backbone that exhibit anti-mycobacteria activity, including the mycobacterium causing tuberculosis. Multiple compounds were synthesized and screened for anti-tuberculosis activity. Disclosed herein are a series of compounds with anti-tuberculosis activity, including six leads that completely inhibited bacterial growth at 5 micrograms per ml or less. Three of these compounds were tested to determine MIC and these ranged between 1 and 4 micrograms per ml against both drug susceptible Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains and strains that are multi-drug resistant (MDR) including XDR strains. The compounds developed are derived from parent compound nitazoxanide, which had no inhibitory activity in the stringent testing format used herein. The derivatives were synthesized using a di-nitro-thiophene or 4-Chloro-5-Nitro-thiazole scaffold and R groups connected via a peptide bond (NHCO) to cyclic compounds such as benzene, thiophene or furans. Many of these compounds have broad spectrum activity against Gram positive bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Several of these lead compounds were not toxic for mice at 200 mg/Kg doses administered over a period of three days. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/885414 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/381 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/426 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Konstantin Petrukhin (New Windsor, New York); Janet R. Sparrow (New York, New York); Rando Allikmets (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin Petrukhin (New Windsor, New York); Janet R. Sparrow (New York, New York); Rando Allikmets (Cornwall on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a disease characterized by excessive lipofuscin accumulation in the retina in mammals afflicted therewith, comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of a non-retinoid antagonist compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/398342 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/451 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/495 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/551 (20130101) A61K 31/4525 (20130101) A61K 31/4545 (20130101) |
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| US 09333209 | Oro 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) | Anthony Oro (Stanford, California); Ricardo Ei Dolmetsch (Stanford, California); Gozde Yucel (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cosmetic skin and hair care compositions for enhancing the growth and appearance of mammalian hair in an individual are provided, which compositions comprise a dose of an L-type calcium channel blocker effective to promote anagen phase of the hair cycle. As shown herein, anagen phase promotion can result in more rapid hair growth. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376595 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/41 (20130101) A61K 8/49 (20130101) A61K 8/4926 (20130101) A61K 31/277 (20130101) A61K 31/554 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4422 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 7/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09333212 | Salih et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sana M. Salih (Madison, Wisconsin); Elon Christiane Roti Roti (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing damage to the ovary of a subject receiving chemotherapy is described. The method comprises the step of administering to the subject an amount of a proteasome inhibitor effective to reduce damage to the subject's ovary within a therapeutic time window prior to administration of a chemotherapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/190550 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09333213 | Franz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine J. Franz (Durham, North Carolina); Dennis J. Thiele (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Marian Helsel (Durham, North Carolina); Richard Festa (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides methods of treating (including ameliorating and/or preventing) pathogenic infections by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a prochelator. The present disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions and a kit comprising the prochelator therein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/213207 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/435 (20130101) |
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| US 09333219 | Herold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY (Bronx, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Inc. (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Betsy Herold (Rowayton, Connecticut); Natalia Cheshenko (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for inhibiting or treating a herpesvirus infection in a subject using inhibitors of mammalian Akt. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/415333 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/685 (20130101) A61K 31/713 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/7105 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/035 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1133 (20130101) C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09333232 | Bashkin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James K. Bashkin (St. Louis, Missouri); Terri Grace Edwards (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Christopher Fisher (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Kevin J. Koeller (Richmond Heights, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NanoVir LLC (Kalamazoo, Michigan); THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James K. Bashkin (St. Louis, Missouri); Terri Grace Edwards (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Christopher Fisher (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Kevin J. Koeller (Richmond Heights, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polyamide compositions and therapies for treating cells infected with papilloma virus (PV). |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534666 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 403/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09333235 | Madden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean R. Madden (Hanover, New Hampshire); Patrick R. Cushing (Woburn, Massachusetts); Prisca Boisguérin (Berlin, Germany); Rudolf Volkmer (Nordwestuckermark, Germany); Lars Vouilleme (Berlin, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A combination therapy and kit including an agent that inhibit the interaction between CAL and mutant CFTR proteins, in combination with a CFTR corrector, CFTR potentiator, mucolytic, anti-inflammatory agent or a combination thereof are provided as is a method for preventing or treating cystic fibrosis. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/105646 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/47 (20130101) A61K 31/443 (20130101) A61K 31/443 (20130101) A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/04 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/1013 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/4703 (20130101) |
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| US 09333237 | Murray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California); Elsa J. Murray (Saugus, California); Keyvan Behnam (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cyclized peptide designated BMP Binding Peptide (BBP) is a synthetic peptide that avidly binds rhBMP-2. BBP increases the overall osteogenic activity of rhBMP-2, increases the rate at which rhBMP-2 induces bone formation, and BBP induces calcification alone. Compositions and substrates including BBP, and methods of using BBP are useful in therapeutic, diagnostic and clinical applications requiring calcification and osteogenesis. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/263080 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/32 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09333239 | Vasavada et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rupangi Vasavada (New York, New York); Nagesha Guthalu Kondegowda (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | It is disclosed herein that osteoprotegerin increases human beta cell proliferation and survival. Methods are provided for increasing beta cell proliferation, but contacting a beta cell with an effective amount of osteoprotegrin, a functional fragment, variant or fusion protein thereof. Methods are also provided for treating a human subject with diabetes, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of osteoprotegerin, functional variant or fusion protein thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/802159 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/28 (20130101) A61K 38/191 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/191 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09333243 | Burke |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert E Burke (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E Burke (Tenafly, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Currently no therapies that provide either protection or restoration of neuronal function for adult onset neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease exist. Many clinical efforts to provide such benefits by infusion of neurotropic factors have failed. An alternative approach such as viral construct transduction may be used to directly activate the intracellular signaling pathways that mediate neurotrophic effects and induce axon growth. Viral construct transduction of dopaminergic neurons with a constitutively active human form of the p70S6K gene—hp70S6K (CA)—was shown to induce axon regeneration from living dopaminergic cell bodies that had no living axons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/029786 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0085 (20130101) A61K 38/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 48/005 (20130101) A61K 48/0075 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2750/14143 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11001 (20130101) |
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| US 09333246 | Selitrennikoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claude P. Selitrennikoff (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Tamara K Miller (Wheatridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention illustrate methods of treating and preventing infection due to a pathogen such as a fungal pathogen. In particular, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for vaccinations against or treatment for a fungal organism in a non-immunocompromised or immunocompromised subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800094 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) |
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| US 09333247 | Moe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory R. Moe (Alameda, California); Brent T. Hagen (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Moe (Alameda, California); Brent T. Hagen (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods of producing, and compositions comprising, an isolated alpha (2→8) or (2→9) oligosialic acid derivative bearing a non-reducing end enriched for one or more de-N-acetyl residues and resistant to degradation by exoneuraminidase. A representative production method involves: (i) treating an alpha (2→8) or (2→9) oligosialic acid precursor having a reducing end and a non-reducing end with sodium borohydride under conditions for de-N-acetylating the non-reducing end; and (ii) isolating alpha (2→8) or (2→9) oligosialic acid derivative having one or more de-N-acetylated residues and a non-reducing end that is resistant to degradation by exoneuraminidase. Isolated alpha (2→8) or (2→9) oligosialic acid derivatives that comprise a non-reducing end de-N-acetyl residue are provided, as well as antibodies specific for the derivatives, compositions comprising the derivatives, kits, and methods of use including protection against and detection of E. coli K1 and N. meningitidis bacterial infection, and in diagnosing and treating cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168004 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 39/095 (20130101) A61K 39/0258 (20130101) A61K 2039/6037 (20130101) A61K 2039/55505 (20130101) A61K 2039/55544 (20130101) Sugars; Derivatives Thereof; Nucleosides; Nucleotides; Nucleic Acids C07H 1/00 (20130101) C07H 7/027 (20130101) C07H 13/04 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/1217 (20130101) C07K 16/1282 (20130101) Polysaccharides; Derivatives Thereof C08B 37/0006 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57484 (20130101) G01N 2333/22 (20130101) G01N 2333/245 (20130101) G01N 2400/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09333248 | Decker et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William K. Decker (Houston, Texas); Elizabeth J. Shpall (Houston, Texas); Krishna V. Komanduri (Village of Palmetto Bay, Florida); Dongxia Xing (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the invention are directed to methods for inducing an immunologic response to a tumor in a patient using mature dendritic cells transfected with a nucleic acid composition encoding one or more tumor antigens and loaded with a corresponding tumor antigen composition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/248908 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 5/0639 (20130101) C12N 2500/46 (20130101) C12N 2501/02 (20130101) C12N 2501/22 (20130101) C12N 2501/23 (20130101) C12N 2501/25 (20130101) |
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| US 09333250 | Kim |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kwang S. Kim (Reistertown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kwang S. Kim (Reistertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of bacterial infection, for example extraintestinal E. coli infection such as E. coli bacteremia, meningitis and sepsis. The invention relates also to methods of diagnosis and prevention. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/226088 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0258 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/245 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5308 (20130101) |
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| US 09333251 | Kopecko et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); De-Qi Xu (Columbia, Maryland); John O. Cisar (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for protecting a susceptible host against an infection of Shigella sonnei are disclosed. Such compositions and methods are useful for protecting the host against bacillary dysentery and shigellosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/660498 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0283 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/522 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 1/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09333256 | Kuchroo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Laurent Monney (Bulle, Switzerland); Jason L. Gaglia (Boston, Massachusetts); Edward A. Greenfield (Stoughton, Massachusetts); Gordon J. Freeman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Hanspeter Waldner (Lemoyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for promoting or reducing T-cell trafficking to a target tissue. Also provided are compositions and methods useful for promoting or inhibiting antigen-presenting cell (APC) activation. The invention is related to discovery of functional characteristics of TIM-3, a molecule that is preferentially expressed on the surface of Th1 cells. The methods are useful for treating disorders including cancer, infectious disease, allergy, asthma, and autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464447 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09333264 | Almutairi 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) | Adah Almutairi (La Jolla, California); Caroline De Gracia Lux (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and synthesis methods that pertain to biocompatible polymeric capsules capable of undergoing backbone degradation and cargo release upon exposure to biologically relevant concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (50-100 μM of H2O2). In the invention, bio-responsive polyester bearing boronic ester triggers groups that degrade upon exposure to low concentrations of H2O2. The degradation is induced by transformation of a boronic ester to a phenol, which undergoes a quinone methide rearrangement to break down the polyester backbone. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/199876 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/08 (20130101) A61K 9/14 (20130101) A61K 9/0048 (20130101) A61K 9/141 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 47/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/482 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 79/08 (20130101) C08G 2261/1644 (20130101) |
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| US 09333278 | Zamore |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alan M. Zamore (Monsey, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medtech Capital Ventures LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Zamore (Monsey, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Medical dilatation balloons comprise a polymer that has the attribute of memory, and/or is crosslinked to impart memory. Such balloons exhibit a reduced tendency to overinflate at high inflation pressures. Furthermore, such balloons when shrunk radially by the application of heat while restraining axial shrinkage, exhibit customizable linear or non-linear compliance curves and lower crosslinking profile relative to the same balloon when unshrunk. Also disclosed is an expansive element within a tube whose outer diameter is equal to the outer diameter of the tube from which it was made. In addition, disclosed are (a) processes for preparing crosslinkable polymers, (b) joining crosslinked balloons to catheter systems, (c) forming shrunk balloon elements, and (d) forming an expansive element within a tube whose outer diameter is equal to the outer diameter of the tube from which it was made. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/230170 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| 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 29/04 (20130101) A61L 29/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 25/1029 (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 55/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 218/18 (20130101) C08F 218/18 (20130101) C08F 226/06 (20130101) C08F 226/06 (20130101) C08F 283/00 (20130101) C08F 283/00 (20130101) C08F 283/00 (20130101) C08F 283/00 (20130101) C08F 291/00 (20130101) C08F 291/00 (20130101) C08F 291/00 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (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 4/06 (20130101) C09D 4/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/18 (20150115) Y10T 428/139 (20150115) Y10T 428/1328 (20150115) Y10T 428/1331 (20150115) Y10T 428/1393 (20150115) Y10T 428/1397 (20150115) Y10T 428/24752 (20150115) Y10T 428/31504 (20150401) |
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| US 09334231 | Trauner 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) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, Canada); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/626124 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09334242 | Lu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yan Lu (Bartlett, Tennessee); Chien-Ming Li (Memphis, Tennessee); Zhao Wang (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Jianjun Chen (Memphis, Tennessee); Wei Li (Germantown, Tennessee); James T. Dalton (Lakeland, Tennessee); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Charles Duke (Memphis, Tennessee); Sunjoo Ahn (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GTX, INC. (Memphis, Tennessee); UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Lu (Bartlett, Tennessee); Chien-Ming Li (Memphis, Tennessee); Zhao Wang (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Jianjun Chen (Memphis, Tennessee); Wei Li (Germantown, Tennessee); James T. Dalton (Lakeland, Tennessee); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Charles Duke (Memphis, Tennessee); Sunjoo Ahn (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel compounds having anti-cancer activity, methods of making these compounds, and their use for treating cancer and drug-resistant tumors, e.g. melanoma, metastatic melanoma, drug resistant melanoma, prostate cancer and drug resistant prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/981233 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/425 (20130101) A61K 31/425 (20130101) A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 263/32 (20130101) C07D 277/24 (20130101) C07D 277/28 (20130101) C07D 277/56 (20130101) C07D 417/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09334284 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zheng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Prakash Jagtap (North Andover, Massachusetts); Emily E. Bosco (North Potomac, Maryland); Jaroslaw Meller (Cincinnati, Ohio); Marie-Dominique Filippi (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of p67phox protein are provided herein, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods recited thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/378089 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/473 (20130101) A61K 31/4738 (20130101) A61K 31/5365 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/06 (20130101) C07D 215/36 (20130101) C07D 215/38 (20130101) C07D 215/48 (20130101) C07D 221/16 (20130101) C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 409/04 (20130101) C07D 491/04 (20130101) C07D 491/048 (20130101) C07D 491/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 498/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09334288 | Redinbo |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew R. Redinbo (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods are provided that comprise selective β-glucuronidase inhibitors for both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, especially enteric bacteria normally associated with the gastrointestinal tract. The compounds, compositions and methods can be for inhibiting bacterial β-glucuronidase and for improving efficacy of camptothecin-derived antineoplastic agents or glucuronidase-substrate agents or compounds by attenuating the side effects caused by reactivation by bacterial β-glucuronidases of glucuronidated metabolites of camptothecin-derived antineoplasatic agents or glucuronidase-substrate agents or compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, September 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/033920 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/00 (20130101) A61K 31/38 (20130101) A61K 31/38 (20130101) A61K 31/335 (20130101) A61K 31/335 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/381 (20130101) A61K 31/435 (20130101) A61K 31/435 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/519 (20130101) A61K 31/4704 (20130101) A61K 31/4704 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 215/227 (20130101) C07D 317/50 (20130101) C07D 333/38 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) C07D 495/04 (20130101) C07D 495/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334309 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram Sasisekharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Karthik Viswanathan (Waltham, Massachusetts); Venkataramanan Soundararajan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); S. Raguram (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Viswanathan Sasisekharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vidya Subramanian (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel agents for broad spectrum influenza neutralization. The present invention provides agents for inhibiting influenza infection by bind to the influenza virus and/or hemagglutinin (HA) polypeptides and/or HA receptors, and reagents and methods relating thereto. The present invention provides a system for analyzing interactions between infolds and the interaction partners that bind to them. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/163882 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09334310 | Ruprecht et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruth M. Ruprecht (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael Humbert (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, compositions and kits for treating and or preventing an HIV infection. For example, HIV envelope-like polypeptides (wild-type HIV polypeptides and mimotopes) may be administered to an individual so as to induce a protective immune response to HIV. Alternatively, antibodies directed to the HIV envelope-like polypeptides may be administered to an individual to treat or prevent an HIV infection and/or one or more symptoms associated with the infection (e.g., AIDS). |
| FILED | Monday, June 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/914252 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 39/00 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/21 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/1063 (20130101) C07K 16/4216 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) C07K 2318/10 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2740/15022 (20130101) C12N 2740/16122 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2795/00043 (20130101) |
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| US 09334315 | He et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xi He (Leawood, Kansas); Tong Yin (Prairie Village, Kansas); Qiang Tian (Seattle, Washington); Weiguo Tao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington); Linheng Li (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stowers Institute for Medical Research (Kansas City, Missouri); Institute For Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi He (Leawood, Kansas); Tong Yin (Prairie Village, Kansas); Qiang Tian (Seattle, Washington); Weiguo Tao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington); Linheng Li (Leawood, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a purified molecules, including antibodies, that bind specifically to murine β-catenin phosphorylated at amino acid position Serine552 and to orthologs thereof, such as mammalian orthologs, including human orthologs. Methods of making and using such purified molecules are also provided. Kits containing such purified molecules are further provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/327014 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4702 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/18 (20130101) C07K 2317/34 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6842 (20130101) G01N 33/6854 (20130101) G01N 2800/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09334367 | Davis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Davis (Pasadena, California); Akinleye Alabi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Carrier nanoparticles comprising a polymer containing a polyol coupled to a polymer containing a boronic acid, configured to present the polymer containing a boronic acid to an environment external to the nanoparticle and related compositions, methods and systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/805831 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) A61K 9/5146 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 31/704 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) A61K 47/48207 (20130101) A61K 47/48907 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 59/4078 (20130101) C08G 69/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334473 | Vukasinovic |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jelena Vukasinovic (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jelena Vukasinovic (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jelena Vukasinovic (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a three-dimensional cell culture scaffold composition comprising an absorbent rigid (AR) component, and in some embodiments, further comprises a gel component. The absorbent rigid component preferably comprises a glass fiber material. It is a surprising finding of the present invention that an AR component having a void volume of between approximately 70% and 95% results in a three-dimensional cell culture composition that allows for robust, high-throughput screening and high-content screening accessible tissue models with preserved cell morphology, heterogeneity of cell types and cell populations, extracellular matrix constituents, functional cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions and signaling with sufficient specificities to tissue physiology and pathology. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/962403 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0062 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 5/0068 (20130101) C12N 2533/12 (20130101) C12N 2533/30 (20130101) C12N 2533/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09334497 | Hutvagner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gyorgy Hutvagner (Castle Hill, Australia); Phillip D. Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of a method for inhibiting RNA silencing in a target sequence-specific manner. RNA silencing requires a set of conserved cellular factors to suppress expression of gene-encoded polypeptide. The invention provides compositions for sequence-specific inactivation of the RISC component of the RNA silencing pathway, and methods of use thereof. The RISC inactivators of the present invention enable a variety of methods for identifying and characterizing miRNAs and siRNAs, RISC-associated factors, and agents capable of modulating RNA silencing. Therapeutic methods and compositions incorporating RISC inactivators and therapeutic agents identified through use of RISC inactivators are also featured. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/094205 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — 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 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) C12N 2320/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09334506 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261640 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09334522 | Gu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Hua Gu (New York, New York); Richard Hodes (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeffrey J. Chiang (Herndon, Virginia); Ihnkyung Jang (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York, New York); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Gu (New York, New York); Richard Hodes (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeffrey J. Chiang (Herndon, Virginia); Ihnkyung Jang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated, purified population of human cells comprising CD8+ T cells with reduced Cbl-b activity. The invention provides uses of such cells in methods for inducing or enhancing an anti-tumor immune response in a subject. These methods comprise: (a) providing a cell population, from a subject or from another source, which comprises CD8+ T cells, (b) reducing Cbl-b activity in the CD8+ T-cells, (c) administering the cells of step (b) to the subject. The invention provides methods for making CD8+ T cells that do not require stimulation through a co-receptor in order for the cell to become activated or proliferated in response to contact via its T cell receptor. Such methods are based upon reducing function of Cbl-b. The invention also provides methods for identifying agents which affect Cbl-b expression or activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/441335 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/57 (20130101) A61K 2039/5158 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0636 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (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 1/25 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5011 (20130101) G01N 2333/9015 (20130101) G01N 2333/70514 (20130101) G01N 2333/70517 (20130101) G01N 2333/70539 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09334539 | Scherer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada); McGill University (Montreal, Canada); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleau (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene (EPM2A) that is deleted or mutated in people with Lafora's disease is described. The EPM2A gene encodes a protein having an active catalytic site of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. Many different sequence mutations as well as several microdeletions in EPM2A have been found that co-segregate with Lafora's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/925443 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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| US 09335284 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ICAGEN, INC. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ICAGEN, INC. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lori J. Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Camaron A. Mortillaro (Phoenix, Arizona); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nathan H. Zahler (Ashland, Massachusetts); Pratima Bharti (Portage, Michigan); Chang-Tai Hsieh (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Emilia A. Solomon (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method to quantify biomarkers. The method uses an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to perform an X-ray fluorescence analysis on the sample to obtain spectral features derived from the biomarker; and quantifying the X-ray fluorescence signal of the biomarker. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/715233 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/485 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/223 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 33/487 (20130101) G01N 33/4833 (20130101) G01N 2223/076 (20130101) G01N 2223/0766 (20130101) |
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| US 09335326 | Casciola-Rosen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Livia A. Casciola-Rosen (Pikesville, Maryland); Lisa Christopher-Stine (Baltimore, Maryland); Andrew Mammen (Baltimore, Maryland); Antony Rosen (Pikesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions, methods, and kits diagnosing, monitoring, and otherwise characterizing a myopathy and for detecting the presence of autoantibodies in a biological sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/283638 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/564 (20130101) G01N 33/573 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/902 (20130101) G01N 2333/904 (20130101) G01N 2800/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09335331 | Lee et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kelvin H. Lee (Newark, Delaware); Norman R. Relkin (Harrington Park, New Jersey); Erin Finehout (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelvin H. Lee (Newark, Delaware); Norman R. Relkin (Harrington Park, New Jersey); Erin Finehout (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing a subject's Alzheimer's disease state. The method involves providing a database containing information relating to protein expression levels associated and not associated with Alzheimer's disease. The database includes information relating to at least a majority of the following proteins: albumin, alpha-1-antitrypsin, apolipoprotin E, apolipoprotein J, complement component 3, contactin, fibrin beta, Ig heavy chain, Ig light chain, neuronal pentraxin receptor, plasminogen, proSAAS, retinol-binding protein, transthyretin, and vitamin D binding protein. Information relating to proteins found in one or more cerebrospinal fluid samples from a subject is also provided and a database is used to analyze the information from the subject to diagnose the subject's Alzheimer's disease state. Also disclosed is a computer readable medium and a system, both useful in carrying out the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910721 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6896 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2800/2821 (20130101) |
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| US 09335605 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lihong Wang (St. Louis, Missouri); Xiao Xu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Iterating an optical phase conjugation of ultrasonically-modulated diffuse light emitted by a scattering medium includes illuminating the scattering medium with a light beam from a coherent light source, modulating the diffuse light transmitted through the scattering medium with an ultrasonic wave focused on a region of interest within the scattering medium, fixing a hologram, retro-reflectively illuminating the scattering medium using a phase-conjugated copy of the diffuse light that was ultrasonically modulated, moving the ultrasonic focus, and iterating until light is focused on the final target. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/026577 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/33 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Holographic Processes or Apparatus G03H 1/04 (20130101) G03H 1/0005 (20130101) G03H 1/12 (20130101) G03H 1/22 (20130101) G03H 1/0465 (20130101) G03H 2001/0083 (20130101) G03H 2001/0434 (20130101) G03H 2210/63 (20130101) G03H 2260/36 (20130101) |
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| US 09336592 | Fan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoyao Fan (Lebanon, New Hampshire); David W. Roberts (Lyme, New Hampshire); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Songbai Ji (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Alex Hartov (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining intraoperative locations of a lesion in tissue from lesion locations determined in preoperative imaging includes determining three dimensional locations of surface features of the organ in the preoperative images. A preoperative surface map is extracted from stereo images annotated with surface features from preoperative images. An intraoperative surface map of the organ is extracted from stereo images, and surface features are identified in the stereo images corresponding to surface features annotated into the preoperative surface map. Three dimensional displacements of the surface features are determined and used to constrain a computer model of deformation of the organ. In embodiments, the model of deformation is adapted or constrained to model locations and dimensions of surgical cavities using an optical flow method and/or locations of surgical instruments in the organ. The model of deformation is used to determine intraoperative locations for the lesion. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/375311 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0013 (20130101) A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/0071 (20130101) A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/1077 (20130101) A61B 5/1079 (20130101) A61B 5/7425 (20130101) A61B 6/501 (20130101) A61B 6/5247 (20130101) A61B 8/0808 (20130101) A61B 19/50 (20130101) A61B 19/5223 (20130101) A61B 19/5244 (20130101) A61B 2019/505 (20130101) A61B 2019/507 (20130101) A61B 2019/5255 (20130101) A61B 2019/5276 (20130101) A61B 2019/5295 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/60 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0028 (20130101) G06T 17/00 (20130101) G06T 19/20 (20130101) G06T 2200/08 (20130101) G06T 2207/10021 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) G06T 2207/30004 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101) |
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| US 09336611 | Bilgic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Berkin Bilgic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elfar Adalsteinsson (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berkin Bilgic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elfar Adalsteinsson (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconstructing multiple images of a subject depicting multiple different contrast characteristics from medical image data acquired with a medical imaging system is provided. Multiple image data sets are acquired with one or more medical imaging systems and the image data sets used to estimate hyperparameters drawn from a prior distribution, such as a prior distribution of image gradient coefficients. These hyperparameters and the acquired image data sets are utilized to produce a posterior distribution, such as a posterior distribution of image gradients. From this posterior distribution, multiple images with the different contrast characteristics are reconstructed. The medical imaging system may be a magnetic resonance imaging system, an x-ray computed tomography imaging system, an ultrasound system, and so on. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/822102 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/055 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/561 (20130101) G01R 33/4806 (20130101) G01R 33/5602 (20130101) G01R 33/5608 (20130101) G01R 33/5635 (20130101) G01R 33/56308 (20130101) G01R 33/56341 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337924 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Robert A. Croce, Jr. (Guilford, Connecticut); Pawan Gogna (Clinton, Massachusetts); Syed Kamrul Islam (Knoxville, Tennessee); Liang Zuo (San Jose, California); Kai Zhu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable bio-sensing platform architecture that enables the wireless selection, calibration and reading of multiple sensors, as well as checking the power levels of the solar powering source energizing various electronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits embedded in the platform. It also permits checking the operation of the potentiostats interfacing with each amperometric analyte sensor. The platform is flexible to include FET based sensors for protein sensing as well as other applications including pH sensing. In addition, other physiological sensors can be integrated in the platform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/023116 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/1149 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Anthony Johnson (Houston, Texas); Kenneth J. Moise (Houston, Texas); Milton Nance Ericson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Justin S. Baba (Knoxville, Tennessee); John B. Wilgen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Boyd Mccutchen Evans (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Valve implant systems positionable within a flow passage, the systems having an inlet, an outlet, and a remotely activatable valve between the inlet and outlet, with the valves being operable to provide intermittent occlusion of the flow path. A remote field is applied to provide thermal or magnetic activation of the valves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177652 |
| ART UNIT | 3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| 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 2/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/172 (20130101) A61M 5/16813 (20130101) A61M 27/006 (20130101) A61M 2205/04 (20130101) A61M 2205/0283 (20130101) A61M 2205/3334 (20130101) A61M 2205/3523 (20130101) A61M 2205/3569 (20130101) A61M 2205/3653 (20130101) A61M 2205/8243 (20130101) A61M 2210/145 (20130101) A61M 2210/1032 (20130101) A61M 2210/1075 (20130101) A61M 2210/1089 (20130101) |
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| US 09333337 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Kedar G. Shah (Oakland, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Satinderpall S. Pannu (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kedar G. Shah (Oakland, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Satinderpall S. Pannu (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating electrical feedthroughs coats of a plurality of electrically conductive wires with an electrically insulating material and bundles the coated wires together in a substantially parallel arrangement. The bundled coated wires are secured to each other by joining the electrically insulating material of adjacent wires together to form a monolithic block which is then cut transverse to the wires to produce a block section having opposing first and second sides with a plurality of electrically conductive feedthroughs extending between them. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/118183 |
| ART UNIT | 2847 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/05 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/3754 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49194 (20150115) |
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| US 09333485 | Siriwardane |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ranjani V. Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranjani V. Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for the production of a CO2 sorbent prepared by integrating a clay substrate, basic alkali salt, amine liquid, hydraulic binder, and a liquid binder. The basic alkali salt is present relative to the clay substrate in a weight ratio of from about 1 part to about 50 parts per 100 parts of the clay substrate. The amine liquid is present relative to a clay-alkali combination in a weight ratio of from about 1 part to about 10 parts per 10 parts of the clay-alkali combination. The clay substrate and basic alkali salt may be combined in a solid-solid heterogeneous mixture and followed by introduction of the amine liquid. Alternatively, an alkaline solution may be blended with the amine solution prior to contacting the clay substrate. The clay-alkali-amine CO2 sorbent is particularly advantageous for low temperature CO2 removal cycles in a gas stream having a CO2 concentration less than around 2000 ppm and an oxygen concentration around 21%, such as air. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/695069 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/10 (20130101) B01J 20/22 (20130101) B01J 20/26 (20130101) B01J 20/041 (20130101) B01J 20/043 (20130101) B01J 20/045 (20130101) B01J 20/048 (20130101) B01J 20/223 (20130101) B01J 20/3042 (20130101) B01J 20/3287 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09333733 | Webb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (Gloucester, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (Gloucester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron P. Webb (Austin, Texas); Charles T. Carlson (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-part mask has a pattern plate, which includes a planar portion that has the desired aperture pattern to be used during workpiece processing. The multi-part mask also has a mounting frame, which is used to hold the pattern plate. Prior to assembly, the pattern plate has an aligning portion, which has one or more holes through which reusable alignment pins are inserted. These alignment pins enter kinematic joints disposed on the mounting frame, which serve to precisely align the pattern plate to the mounting frame. After the pattern plate has been secured to the mounting frame, the aligning portion can be detached from the pattern plate. The alignment pins can be reused at a later time. In some embodiments, the pattern plate can later be removed from the mounting frame, so that the mounting frame may be reused. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/322389 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 37/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 2237/31711 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/266 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49895 (20150115) |
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| US 09334194 | Raj et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rishi Raj (Boulder, Colorado); Marco Cologna (Munich, Germany); John S. Francis (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides methods of flash sintering and compositions created by these methods. Methods for sintering multilayered bodies are provided in which a sintered body is produced in less than one minute. In one aspect, each layer is of a different composition, and may be constituted wholly from a ceramic or from a combination of ceramic and metallic particles. When the body includes a layer of an anode composition, a layer of an electrolyte composition and a layer of a cathode composition, the sintered body can be used to produce a solid oxide fuel cell. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/319631 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/016 (20130101) C04B 35/47 (20130101) C04B 35/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 35/111 (20130101) C04B 35/117 (20130101) C04B 35/119 (20130101) C04B 35/486 (20130101) C04B 35/488 (20130101) C04B 35/645 (20130101) C04B 35/4885 (20130101) C04B 35/63416 (20130101) C04B 38/0067 (20130101) C04B 38/0074 (20130101) C04B 2235/77 (20130101) C04B 2235/94 (20130101) C04B 2235/95 (20130101) C04B 2235/608 (20130101) C04B 2235/666 (20130101) C04B 2235/667 (20130101) C04B 2235/781 (20130101) C04B 2235/782 (20130101) C04B 2235/783 (20130101) C04B 2235/784 (20130101) C04B 2235/785 (20130101) C04B 2235/786 (20130101) C04B 2235/3206 (20130101) C04B 2235/3225 (20130101) C04B 2235/3275 (20130101) C04B 2235/5409 (20130101) C04B 2235/5445 (20130101) C04B 2235/5454 (20130101) C04B 2235/5463 (20130101) C04B 2235/6562 (20130101) C04B 2235/6567 (20130101) C04B 2235/9615 (20130101) C04B 2237/04 (20130101) C04B 2237/06 (20130101) C04B 2237/348 (20130101) C04B 2237/597 (20130101) |
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| US 09334404 | Simpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Scott Robert Hunter (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Superhydrophobic paints and epoxies comprising superoleophilic particles and surfaces and methods of making the same are described. The superoleophilic particles can include porous particles having a hydrophobic coating layer deposited thereon. superoleophilic particles. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/757200 |
| ART UNIT | 1768 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 5/1681 (20130101) C09D 7/1266 (20130101) C09D 7/1275 (20130101) |
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| US 09334444 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pin Yang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Haoran Deng (Albuquerque, New Mexico); F. Patrick Doty (Livermore, California); Xiaowang Zhou (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to sorohalide compounds having formula A3B2X9, where A is an alkali metal, B is a rare earth metal, and X is a halogen. Optionally, the sorohalide includes a dopant D. Such undoped and doped sorohalides are useful as scintillation materials or phosphors for any number of uses, including for radiation detectors, solid-state light sources, gamma-ray spectroscopy, medical imaging, and drilling applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177737 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/7773 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Non-electric Light Sources Using Luminescence; Light Sources Using Electrochemiluminescence; Light Sources Using Charges of Combustible Material; Light Sources Using Semiconductor Devices as Light-generating Elements; Light Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F21K 9/56 (20130101) Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/2006 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/502 (20130101) |
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| US 09334505 | Meilan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Meilan (West Point, Indiana); Peter Marius Rubinelli (Fayetteville, Arkansas); George Chuck (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Meilan (West Point, Indiana); Peter Marius Rubinelli (Fayetteville, Arkansas); George Chuck (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to new bioenergy crops and methods of creating new bioenergy crops. For example, genes encoding microRNAs (miRNAs) are used to create transgenic crops. In some embodiments, over-expression of miRNA is used to produce transgenic perennials, such as trees, with altered lignin content or composition. In some embodiments, the transgenic perennials are Populus spp. In some embodiments, the miRNA is a member of the miR156 family. In some embodiments, the gene is Zea mays Cg1. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571900 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/827 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8261 (20130101) |
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| US 09334514 | Fortman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Andrew Hagen (Berkeley, California); Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Sean Poust (Berkeley, California); Jingwei Zhang (San Francisco, California); Sergey Zotchev (Trondheim, Norway) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Andrew Hagen (Berkeley, California); Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Sean Poust (Berkeley, California); Jingwei Zhang (San Francisco, California); Sergey Zotchev (Trondheim, Norway) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a polyketide synthase (PKS) capable of synthesizing an even-chain or odd-chain diacid or lactam or diamine. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS and when cultured produces the even-chain diacid, odd-chain diacid, or KAPA. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS capable of synthesizing a pimelic acid or KAPA, and when cultured produces biotin. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/882099 |
| 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 15/52 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/44 (20130101) C12P 7/46 (20130101) C12P 13/001 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 13/005 (20130101) C12P 17/10 (20130101) C12P 17/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334575 | Zelenay et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gang Wu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Christina M. Johnston (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Qing Li (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for oxidizing dimethyl ether includes an alloy supported on carbon, the alloy being of platinum, ruthenium, and palladium. A process for oxidizing dimethyl ether involves exposing dimethyl ether to a carbon-supported alloy of platinum, ruthenium, and palladium under conditions sufficient to electrochemically oxidize the dimethyl ether. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/840831 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 23/462 (20130101) B01J 35/0033 (20130101) Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 3/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334581 | Stowe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BACOCK and WILCOX TECHNICAL SERVICES Y-12, L.L.C. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); FISK UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Reston, Virginia); Fisk University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashley Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arnold Burger (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing I-III-VI2 compounds, including: melting a Group III element; adding a Group I element to the melted Group III element at a rate that allows the Group I and Group III elements to react thereby providing a single phase I-III compound; and adding a Group VI element to the single phase I-III compound under heat, with mixing, and/or via vapor transport. The Group III element is melted at a temperature of between about 200 degrees C. and about 700 degrees C. Preferably, the Group I element consists of a neutron absorber and the group III element consists of In or Ga. The Group VI element and the single phase I-III compound are heated to a temperature of between about 700 degrees C. and about 1000 degrees C. Preferably, the Group VI element consists of S, Se, or Te. Optionally, the method also includes doping with a Group IV element activator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/658591 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 11/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C30B 29/46 (20130101) |
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| US 09334760 | Ernst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CUMMINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CUMMINS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INC. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana); Christopher R. Nelson (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a waste heat recovery (WHR) system and to a system and method for regulation of a fluid inventory in a condenser and a receiver of a Rankine cycle WHR system. Such regulation includes the ability to regulate the pressure in a WHR system to control cavitation and energy conversion. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/329367 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Steam Engine Plants; Steam Accumulators; Engine Plants Not Otherwise Provided For; Engines Using Special Working Fluids or Cycles F01K 23/065 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F01K 23/101 (20130101) F01K 25/08 (20130101) Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Machines or Engines in General; Gas-flow Silencers or Exhaust Apparatus for Internal Combustion Engines F01N 5/02 (20130101) Hot Gas or Combustion-product Positive-displacement Engine Plants; Use of Waste Heat of Combustion Engines; Not Otherwise Provided for F02G 5/04 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/16 (20130101) Y02T 10/166 (20130101) |
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| US 09334811 | Cowgill |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joel Cowgill (White Lake, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Cowgill (White Lake, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine control method for a vehicle includes: determining a crankshaft angle where a predetermined percentage of fuel injected into a cylinder was combusted during homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) operation of an engine; determining a valve closing timing adjustment for one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve of based on the crankshaft angle; generating a valve closing timing for the one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve of the cylinder based on the valve closing timing adjustment; and closing the one of the intake valve and the exhaust valve of the cylinder based on the valve closing timing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/489949 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Controlling Combustion Engines F02D 13/0269 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02D 35/028 (20130101) F02D 2041/001 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/18 (20130101) Y02T 10/128 (20130101) |
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| US 09335027 | Hsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chia Wei Hsu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenjun Qiu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia Wei Hsu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenjun Qiu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transparent displays enable many useful applications, including heads-up displays for cars and aircraft as well as displays on eyeglasses and glass windows. Unfortunately, transparent displays made of organic light-emitting diodes are typically expensive and opaque. Heads-up displays often require fixed light sources and have limited viewing angles. And transparent displays that use frequency conversion are typically energy inefficient. Conversely, the present transparent displays operate by scattering visible light from resonant nanoparticles with narrowband scattering cross sections and small absorption cross sections. More specifically, projecting an image onto a transparent screen doped with nanoparticles that selectively scatter light at the image wavelength(s) yields an image on the screen visible to an observer. Because the nanoparticles scatter light at only certain wavelengths, the screen is practically transparent under ambient light. Exemplary transparent scattering displays can be simple, inexpensive, scalable to large sizes, viewable over wide angular ranges, energy efficient, and transparent simultaneously. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067471 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 9/08 (20130101) F21V 9/12 (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 1/19 (20130101) G02F 1/0126 (20130101) Displaying; Advertising; Signs; Labels or Name-plates; Seals G09F 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| US 09335043 | Nguyen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Quang A. Nguyen (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies, Inc. (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quang A. Nguyen (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to processes for production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass. The present invention also relates to production of various co-products of preparation of ethanol from cellulosic biomass. The present invention further relates to improvements in one or more aspects of preparation of ethanol from cellulosic biomass including, for example, improved methods for cleaning biomass feedstocks, improved acid impregnation, and improved steam treatment, or “steam explosion.” |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/056074 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or apparatus for combustion using fluid fuel or Solid Fuel Suspended In Air F23C 13/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Burners F23D 14/64 (20130101) F23D 14/66 (20130101) Regulating or Controlling Combustion F23N 1/027 (20130101) F23N 2021/06 (20130101) F23N 2021/08 (20130101) F23N 2025/20 (20130101) F23N 2037/20 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09335420 | Fischbach et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ephraim Fischbach (West Lafayette, Indiana); Jere Jenkins (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A flux detection apparatus can include a radioactive sample having a decay rate capable of changing in response to interaction with a first particle or a field, and a detector associated with the radioactive sample. The detector is responsive to a second particle or radiation formed by decay of the radioactive sample. The rate of decay of the radioactive sample can be correlated to flux of the first particle or the field. Detection of the first particle or the field can provide an early warning for an impending solar event. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/152623 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/20 (20130101) G01T 1/1606 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 7/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09335423 — Radiation detector device for rejecting and excluding incomplete charge collection events
| US 09335423 | Bolotnikov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Aleksey E. Bolotnikov (South Setauket, New York); Gianluigi De Geronimo (Syosset, New York); Emerson Vernon (Ridge, New York); Ge Yang (Moriches, New York); Giuseppe Camarda (Shoreham, New York); Yonggang Cui (Miller Place, New York); Anwar Hossain (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Ki Hyun Kim (Gwangju-si, South Korea); Ralph B. James (Ridge, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksey E. Bolotnikov (South Setauket, New York); Gianluigi De Geronimo (Syosset, New York); Emerson Vernon (Ridge, New York); Ge Yang (Moriches, New York); Giuseppe Camarda (Shoreham, New York); Yonggang Cui (Miller Place, New York); Anwar Hossain (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Ki Hyun Kim (Gwangju-si, South Korea); Ralph B. James (Ridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation detector device is provided that is capable of distinguishing between full charge collection (FCC) events and incomplete charge collection (ICC) events based upon a correlation value comparison algorithm that compares correlation values calculated for individually sensed radiation detection events with a calibrated FCC event correlation function. The calibrated FCC event correlation function serves as a reference curve utilized by a correlation value comparison algorithm to determine whether a sensed radiation detection event fits the profile of the FCC event correlation function within the noise tolerances of the radiation detector device. If the radiation detection event is determined to be an ICC event, then the spectrum for the ICC event is rejected and excluded from inclusion in the radiation detector device spectral analyses. The radiation detector device also can calculate a performance factor to determine the efficacy of distinguishing between FCC and ICC events. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/129091 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 1/17 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01T 1/247 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09335466 | Spencer |
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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) | James E. Spencer (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical fiber waveguides and related approaches are implemented to facilitate communication. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, a waveguide has a substrate including a lattice structure having a plurality of lattice regions with a dielectric constant that is different than that of the substrate, a defect in the lattice, and one or more deviations from the lattice. The defect acts with trapped transverse modes (e.g., magnetic and/or electric modes) and facilitates wave propagation along a longitudinal direction while confining the wave transversely. The deviation(s) from the lattice produces additional modes and/or coupling effects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/109771 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/02042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/02328 (20130101) G02B 6/02347 (20130101) G02B 6/02352 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09335629 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Ulsan, South Korea); Dong Hyun Lee (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ting Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Ulsan, South Korea); Dong Hyun Lee (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ting Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly-ordered block copolymer films are prepared by a method that includes forming a polymeric replica of a topographically patterned crystalline surface, forming a block copolymer film on the topographically patterned surface of the polymeric replica, and annealing the block copolymer film. The resulting structures can be used in a variety of different applications, including the fabrication of high density data storage media. The ability to use flexible polymers to form the polymeric replica facilitates industrial-scale processes utilizing the highly-ordered block copolymer films. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546378 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) Y10T 428/249953 (20150401) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09335973 | Pooser |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raphael C. Pooser (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum random number generator (QRNG) and a photon generator for a QRNG are provided. The photon generator may be operated in a spontaneous mode below a lasing threshold to emit photons. Photons emitted from the photon generator may have at least one random characteristic, which may be monitored by the QRNG to generate a random number. In one embodiment, the photon generator may include a photon emitter and an amplifier coupled to the photon emitter. The amplifier may enable the photon generator to be used in the QRNG without introducing significant bias in the random number and may enable multiplexing of multiple random numbers. The amplifier may also desensitize the photon generator to fluctuations in power supplied thereto while operating in the spontaneous mode. In one embodiment, the photon emitter and amplifier may be a tapered diode amplifier. |
| FILED | Friday, January 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/147131 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 7/588 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09336870 | Mickel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick R. Mickel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Conrad D. James (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew Lohn (Santa Monica, California); Matthew Marinella (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander H. Hsia (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed generally to resistive random-access memory (RRAM or ReRAM) devices and systems, as well as methods of employing a thermal resistive model to understand and determine switching of such devices. In particular example, the method includes generating a power-resistance measurement for the memristor device and applying an isothermal model to the power-resistance measurement in order to determine one or more parameters of the device (e.g., filament state). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/612958 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 13/004 (20130101) G11C 13/0011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 13/0069 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09336919 | Kagan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cherie R. Kagan (Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Aaron T. Fafarman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ji-Hyuk Choi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Weon-kyu Koh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David K. Kim (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Soong Ju Oh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yuming Lai (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sung-Hoon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea); Sangameshwar Rao Saudari (Fishkill, New York); Christopher B. Murray (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of exchanging ligands to form colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) with chalcogenocyanate (xCN)-based ligands and apparatuses using the same are disclosed. The ligands may be exchanged by assembling NCs into a thin film and immersing the thin film in a solution containing xCN-based ligands. The ligands may also be exchanged by mixing a xCN-based solution with a dispersion of NCs, flocculating the mixture, centrifuging the mixture, discarding the supernatant, adding a solvent to the pellet, and dispersing the solvent and pellet to form dispersed NCs with exchanged xCN-ligands. The NCs with xCN-based ligands may be used to form thin film devices and/or other electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices. Devices comprising nanocrystal-based thin films and methods for forming such devices are also disclosed. These devices may be constructed by depositing NCs on to a substrate to form an NC thin film and then doping the thin film by evaporation and thermal diffusion. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/969863 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/18 (20130101) H01L 29/127 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 31/07 (20130101) H01L 31/0324 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09337010 | Cherepy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California); GE Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nerine J. Cherepy (Piedmont, California); Stephen A. Payne (Castro Valley, California); Zachary M. Seeley (Livermore, California); Alok M. Srivastava (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorescent lamp includes a glass envelope; at least two electrodes connected to the glass envelope; mercury vapor and an inert gas within the glass envelope; and a phosphor within the glass envelope, wherein the phosphor blend includes aluminum nitride. The phosphor may be a wurtzite (hexagonal) crystalline structure Al(1-x)MxN phosphor, where M may be drawn from beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, zinc, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, ytterbium, bismuth, manganese, silicon, germanium, tin, boron, or gallium is synthesized to include dopants to control its luminescence under ultraviolet excitation. The disclosed Al(1-x)MxN:Mn phosphor provides bright orange-red emission, comparable in efficiency and spectrum to that of the standard orange-red phosphor used in fluorescent lighting, Y2O3:Eu. Furthermore, it offers excellent lumen maintenance in a fluorescent lamp, and does not utilize “critical rare earths,” minimizing sensitivity to fluctuating market prices for the rare earth elements. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/840839 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 9/22 (20130101) H01J 9/247 (20130101) H01J 61/20 (20130101) H01J 61/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09337169 | Lee 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) | Chi-Hwan Lee (Stanford, California); Dong Rip Kim (Palo Alto, California); Xiaolin Zheng (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device fabrication method includes: (1) providing a growth substrate including an oxide layer; (2) forming a metal layer over the oxide layer; (3) forming a stack of device layers over the metal layer; (4) performing fluid-assisted interfacial debonding of the metal layer to separate the stack of device layers and the metal layer from the growth substrate; and (5) affixing the stack of device layers to a target substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/340425 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/7806 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/98 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09337365 | Nelson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott D. Nelson (Patterson, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Nelson (Patterson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoconductive switch having a wide bandgap semiconductor material substrate between opposing electrodes, with one of the electrodes having an aperture or apertures at an electrode-substrate interface for transversely directing radiation therethrough from a radiation source into a triple junction region of the substrate, so as to geometrically constrain the conductivity path to within the triple junction region. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/912137 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/4295 (20130101) Resistors H01C 7/10 (20130101) H01C 7/1013 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/08 (20130101) H01L 31/09 (20130101) H01L 31/028 (20130101) H01L 31/0224 (20130101) H01L 31/0296 (20130101) H01L 31/0312 (20130101) H01L 31/02325 (20130101) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/03044 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09337470 | Armstrong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beth L. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Claus Daniel (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jane Y. Howe (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); James O. Kiggans, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Adrian S. Sabau (Knoxville, Tennessee); David L. Wood, III (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sergiy Kalnaus (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of drying casted slurries that includes calculating drying conditions from an experimental model for a cast slurry and forming a cast film. An infrared heating probe is positioned on one side of the casted slurry and a thermal probe is positioned on an opposing side of the casted slurry. The infrared heating probe may control the temperature of the casted slurry during drying. The casted slurry may be observed with an optical microscope, while applying the drying conditions from the experimental model. Observing the casted slurry includes detecting the incidence of micro-structural changes in the casted slurry during drying to determine if the drying conditions from the experimental model are optimal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/656020 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 4/0435 (20130101) H01M 4/0471 (20130101) H01M 4/0485 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09337767 | Fahimi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Fahimi (Arlington, Texas); Pourya Shamsi (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for operating a switched reluctance machine includes a controller, an inverter connected to the controller and to the switched reluctance machine, a hysteresis control connected to the controller and to the inverter, a set of sensors connected to the switched reluctance machine and to the controller, the switched reluctance machine further including a set of phases the controller further comprising a processor and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the processor programmed to execute a control process and a generation process. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/318170 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Control or Regulation of Electric Motors, Electric Generators or Dynamo-electric Converters; Controlling Transformers, Reactors or Choke Coils H02P 25/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09337800 | Olsson, III et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy H. Olsson, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kenneth Wojciechowski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microresonator with an input electrode and an output electrode patterned thereon is described. The input electrode includes a series of stubs that are configured to isolate acoustic waves, such that the waves are not reflected into the microresonator. Such design results in reduction of spurious modes corresponding to the microresonator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/649025 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/17 (20130101) H03H 9/54 (20130101) H03H 9/132 (20130101) H03H 9/0211 (20130101) H03H 9/462 (20130101) H03H 9/02275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03H 2009/155 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 09333276 | Guelcher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott A. Guelcher (Franklin, Tennessee); Subhabrata Bhattacharyya (Metuchen, New Jersey); Katarzyna Jadwiga Zienkiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Shaun A. Tanner (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerald E. Dumas (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. (Warsaw, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Guelcher (Franklin, Tennessee); Subhabrata Bhattacharyya (Metuchen, New Jersey); Katarzyna Jadwiga Zienkiewicz (Nashville, Tennessee); Shaun A. Tanner (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jerald E. Dumas (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Present inventions present composites of bone particles and polyurethane(s), as well as methods of making such composite and uses thereof. A porous composite comprises a plurality of bone particles; and polyurethanes with which the bone particles are combined. To prepare a porous composite, a composition comprise a plurality of bone particles, polyurethane precursors including polyisocyanate prepolymers and polyols, water and catalyst. A composition is either naturally moldable and/or injectable, or it can be made moldable and/or injectable. After implantation or injection, a composition may be set to form a porous composite that provides mechanical strength and supports the in-growth of cells. Inventive composites have the advantage of being able to fill irregularly shape implantation site while at the same time being settable to provide the mechanical strength for most orthopedic applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/608850 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/44 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 75/04 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09333510 | Di Carlo 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) | Dino Di Carlo (Los Angeles, California); Mahdokht Masaeli (Los Angeles, California); Elodie Sollier (Gagny, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle sorting system includes an inlet and an inertial focusing microchannel disposed in a substrate and having a downstream expanding region at a distal end, wherein the inlet is connected to an upstream end of the microchannel. A source of different shaped particles is connected to the inlet, wherein the source of different shaped particles are configured for continuous introduction into the inlet. A plurality of outlets is connected to the microchannel at the downstream expanding region. Fluidic resistors are located in the respective outlets. Different resistances may be used in the outlets to capture enriched fractions of particles having particular particle shape(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/346290 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502746 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/088 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) Separating Solid Materials Using Liquids or Using Pneumatic Tables or Jigs B03B 5/48 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/4077 (20130101) G01N 15/02 (20130101) G01N 35/08 (20130101) G01N 2015/0065 (20130101) G01N 2015/0288 (20130101) G01N 2015/0294 (20130101) |
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| US 09333650 | Bajo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea Bajo (Hermitage, Tennessee); Nabil Simaan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic system and methods for manipulation of multi-segment continuum robots. The methods relate to contact detection and estimation of contact location along a multi-segment continuum robot. |
| FILED | Friday, May 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/891389 |
| ART UNIT | 2689 — Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 19/2203 (20130101) A61B 2019/465 (20130101) A61B 2019/2219 (20130101) A61B 2019/2238 (20130101) Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/163 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09334173 | Bartholomew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Calvin H. Bartholomew (Orem, Utah); Brian F. Woodfield (Provo, Utah); Baiyu Huang (Orem, Utah); Rebecca Elizabeth Olsen (Murray, Utah); Lynn Astle (Provo, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin H. Bartholomew (Orem, Utah); Brian F. Woodfield (Provo, Utah); Baiyu Huang (Orem, Utah); Rebecca Elizabeth Olsen (Murray, Utah); Lynn Astle (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making high-surface area, high-porosity, stable metal oxides, such as, but not limited to materials used as adsorbents and catalyst supports include (i) forming a solvent deficient precursor mixture from a metal salt and a base and reacting the metal ions and base ions in the solvent deficient precursor mixture to form an intermediate hydroxide product (e.g., metal hydroxide or metal oxide hydroxide), (ii) causing the intermediate hydroxide to form nanoparticles (e.g., by heating), and (iii) calcining the intermediate nanoparticles to sinter the nanoparticles together and yield a highly porous, stable metal oxide aggregate having a pore structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069317 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/36 (20130101) C01B 13/363 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 7/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 25/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/60 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/13 (20130101) C01P 2006/14 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09334231 | Trauner 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) | Dirk Trauner (Munich, Germany); Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Matthew R. Banghart (Oakland, California); Doris L. Fortin (Ottawa, Canada); Alexandre Mourot (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a photoreactive synthetic regulator of protein function. The present disclosure further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present disclosure further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/626124 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 245/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 44/04 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/025 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/566 (20130101) G01N 33/5008 (20130101) G01N 2500/00 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yun-Ming Lin (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun-Ming Lin (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Bi-functional cobalt-containing catalysts useful for making stereo specific compounds and compositions, along with methods of making, and uses thereof in the syntheses of optically pure β-lactones from aldehydes and ketene are described. Precursors, intermediates, compositions, and particular features of the use if the compositions, such as high enantiomeric selectivity, high yield and low mole percent of catalyst useful are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/393924 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 453/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334297 | Scheidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); Christopher T. Check (Evanston, Illinois); Kipo P. Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Planar chiral N-heterocyclic carbenes that incorporate an iron sandwich complex into the NHC framework are disclosed for use in organocatalytic and transition metal-catalyzed reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/854950 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/22 (20130101) B01J 2231/323 (20130101) B01J 2531/842 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/33 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/04 (20130101) C07F 7/188 (20130101) C07F 15/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334304 | Tovar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Dayton Tovar (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen Robert Diegelmann (Baltimore, Maryland); Brian D. Wall (Baltimore, Maryland); Geeta Sophie Vadehra (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dayton Tovar (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen Robert Diegelmann (Baltimore, Maryland); Brian D. Wall (Baltimore, Maryland); Geeta Sophie Vadehra (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The aqueous self-assembly of oligopeptide-flanked π-conjugated molecules into discrete one-dimensional nanostructures is described. Unique to these molecules is the fact that the π-conjugated unit has been directly embedded within the peptide backbone by way of a synthetic amino acid with π-functionality that is compatible with standard Fmoc-based peptide synthesis or by way of a diacid or other bis(electrophile) that can covalently cross-link peptide chains presented on a synthesis support. The peptide-based molecular designs enforce intimate π-π communication within the aggregates after charge-screening and self-assembly, making these nanostructures attractive for optical or electronic applications in biological environments. In other embodiments, a convenient method to incorporate π-electron units into peptides that assemble into amyloid-like supramolecular polymers is disclosed. Self-assembly manipulates these “electronic peptides” into delocalized sub-10 nm one dimensional (1-D) nanostructures under completely aqueous conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/262742 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0056 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/227 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/1008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 5/1016 (20130101) C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09334373 | Bhowmik et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada); InnoSense LLC (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas, Nevada); INNOSENSE LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip K. Bhowmik (Henderson, Nevada); Kisholoy Goswami (Redondo Beach, California); Maksudul M. Alam (Glendora, California); Haesook Han (Henderson, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides fire retardant materials, including polymers that include pyridinium salt moieties, or a combination thereof, and phosphine oxide moieties. In some cases, fire retardant polymers provided herein have the following structure: where R1 and R6 are each selected consisting of N, wherein R2 and R7 are each negatively charged counterions, where R3, R4, R8, R9, R11, R13, R14, R15, and R16 are each H or a group including one or more carbon molecules, and where R5, R10, and R12 are each groups including one or more carbon molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/577706 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 79/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09334506 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261640 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09334514 | Fortman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Andrew Hagen (Berkeley, California); Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Sean Poust (Berkeley, California); Jingwei Zhang (San Francisco, California); Sergey Zotchev (Trondheim, Norway) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Fortman (San Francisco, California); Andrew Hagen (Berkeley, California); Leonard Katz (Oakland, California); Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Sean Poust (Berkeley, California); Jingwei Zhang (San Francisco, California); Sergey Zotchev (Trondheim, Norway) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a polyketide synthase (PKS) capable of synthesizing an even-chain or odd-chain diacid or lactam or diamine. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS and when cultured produces the even-chain diacid, odd-chain diacid, or KAPA. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS capable of synthesizing a pimelic acid or KAPA, and when cultured produces biotin. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/882099 |
| 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 15/52 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/44 (20130101) C12P 7/46 (20130101) C12P 13/001 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 13/005 (20130101) C12P 17/10 (20130101) C12P 17/186 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09335027 | Hsu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chia Wei Hsu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenjun Qiu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia Wei Hsu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wenjun Qiu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bo Zhen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transparent displays enable many useful applications, including heads-up displays for cars and aircraft as well as displays on eyeglasses and glass windows. Unfortunately, transparent displays made of organic light-emitting diodes are typically expensive and opaque. Heads-up displays often require fixed light sources and have limited viewing angles. And transparent displays that use frequency conversion are typically energy inefficient. Conversely, the present transparent displays operate by scattering visible light from resonant nanoparticles with narrowband scattering cross sections and small absorption cross sections. More specifically, projecting an image onto a transparent screen doped with nanoparticles that selectively scatter light at the image wavelength(s) yields an image on the screen visible to an observer. Because the nanoparticles scatter light at only certain wavelengths, the screen is practically transparent under ambient light. Exemplary transparent scattering displays can be simple, inexpensive, scalable to large sizes, viewable over wide angular ranges, energy efficient, and transparent simultaneously. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067471 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Functional Features or Details of Lighting Devices or Systems Thereof; Structural Combinations of Lighting Devices With Other Articles, Not Otherwise Provided for F21V 9/08 (20130101) F21V 9/12 (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 1/19 (20130101) G02F 1/0126 (20130101) Displaying; Advertising; Signs; Labels or Name-plates; Seals G09F 13/00 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiaming Hu (Auburn, Alabama); Tanyu Wang (Lawrence, Kansas); Christopher J. Easley (Auburn, Alabama); Curtis G. Shannon (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure includes an electrochemical proximity assay (ECPA) which leverages two aptamer or antibody-oligonucleotide probes and proximity-dependent DNA hybridization to move a redox active molecule near an electrically conductive base. The ECPA of the present disclosure produces rapid, quantitative results, enabling point-of-care use in the detection of biomarkers of disease. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/650303 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2545/114 (20130101) C12Q 2545/114 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 27/3275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3276 (20130101) |
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| US 09335629 | Russell et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Ulsan, South Korea); Dong Hyun Lee (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ting Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Boston, Massachusetts); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas P. Russell (Amherst, Massachusetts); Soojin Park (Ulsan, South Korea); Dong Hyun Lee (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ting Xu (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly-ordered block copolymer films are prepared by a method that includes forming a polymeric replica of a topographically patterned crystalline surface, forming a block copolymer film on the topographically patterned surface of the polymeric replica, and annealing the block copolymer film. The resulting structures can be used in a variety of different applications, including the fabrication of high density data storage media. The ability to use flexible polymers to form the polymeric replica facilitates industrial-scale processes utilizing the highly-ordered block copolymer films. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/546378 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00031 (20130101) B81C 2201/0149 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Photomechanical Production of Textured or Patterned Surfaces, e.g for Printing, for Processing of Semiconductor Devices; Materials Therefor; Originals Therefor; Apparatus Specially Adapted Therefor; G03F 7/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24802 (20150115) Y10T 428/249953 (20150401) |
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| US 09336125 | Eggers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Susan J. Eggers (Seattle, Washington); Luis Ceze (Seattle, Washington); Emily Fortuna (Seattle, Washington); Owen Anderson (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan J. Eggers (Seattle, Washington); Luis Ceze (Seattle, Washington); Emily Fortuna (Seattle, Washington); Owen Anderson (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods of providing hardware support for dynamic type checking are provided. In some embodiments, a processor includes a type check register and support for one or more checked load instructions. In some embodiments, normal load instructions are replaced by a compiler with the checked load instructions. In some embodiments, to perform a checked load, an error handler instruction location is stored in the type check register, and a type tag operand is compared to a type tag stored in the loaded memory location. If the comparison succeeds, execution may proceed normally. If the comparison fails, execution may be transferred to the error handler instruction. In some embodiments, type prediction is performed to determine whether a checked load instruction is likely to fail. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/594607 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/437 (20130101) G06F 11/0712 (20130101) G06F 11/0772 (20130101) G06F 11/3668 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cherie R. Kagan (Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Aaron T. Fafarman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ji-Hyuk Choi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Weon-kyu Koh (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David K. Kim (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Soong Ju Oh (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yuming Lai (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sung-Hoon Hong (Daejeon, South Korea); Sangameshwar Rao Saudari (Fishkill, New York); Christopher B. Murray (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of exchanging ligands to form colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) with chalcogenocyanate (xCN)-based ligands and apparatuses using the same are disclosed. The ligands may be exchanged by assembling NCs into a thin film and immersing the thin film in a solution containing xCN-based ligands. The ligands may also be exchanged by mixing a xCN-based solution with a dispersion of NCs, flocculating the mixture, centrifuging the mixture, discarding the supernatant, adding a solvent to the pellet, and dispersing the solvent and pellet to form dispersed NCs with exchanged xCN-ligands. The NCs with xCN-based ligands may be used to form thin film devices and/or other electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices. Devices comprising nanocrystal-based thin films and methods for forming such devices are also disclosed. These devices may be constructed by depositing NCs on to a substrate to form an NC thin film and then doping the thin film by evaporation and thermal diffusion. |
| FILED | Monday, August 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/969863 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/18 (20130101) H01L 29/127 (20130101) H01L 29/413 (20130101) H01L 29/0665 (20130101) H01L 29/78681 (20130101) H01L 31/07 (20130101) H01L 31/0324 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) |
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| US 09337169 | Lee 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) | Chi-Hwan Lee (Stanford, California); Dong Rip Kim (Palo Alto, California); Xiaolin Zheng (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device fabrication method includes: (1) providing a growth substrate including an oxide layer; (2) forming a metal layer over the oxide layer; (3) forming a stack of device layers over the metal layer; (4) performing fluid-assisted interfacial debonding of the metal layer to separate the stack of device layers and the metal layer from the growth substrate; and (5) affixing the stack of device layers to a target substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/340425 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/7806 (20130101) H01L 24/03 (20130101) H01L 24/98 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/1896 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/351 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/1306 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) H01L 2924/12033 (20130101) |
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| US 09337617 | Yang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents 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); Zhaobing Tian (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lu Li (Norman, Oklahoma); Michael B. Santos (Norman, Oklahoma); Matthew B. Johnson (Norman, Oklahoma); Yuchao Jiang (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable semiconductor laser having, in one embodiment, a higher bias voltage end, a lower bias voltage end, and an optically active gain region comprising a band-gap configured to emit light at an emission wavelength that is tunable when an electric field is generated across the optically active gain region by applying a bias voltage thereto, an electron quantum well (QW) layer positioned closer to the higher bias voltage end than the lower voltage bias end, and a hole QW layer positioned closer to the lower bias voltage end than the higher bias voltage end and comprising a type-II band alignment with the electron QW layer such that the band-gap is determined by an energy difference between a ground electron state in the electron QW layer and a ground hole state in the hole QW layer, wherein the emission wavelength is redshifted upon an increase in a bias voltage applied to the optically active gain region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/630358 |
| 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 5/0614 (20130101) H01S 5/0622 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01S 5/3013 (20130101) H01S 5/3422 (20130101) H01S 5/34306 (20130101) |
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| US 09337924 | Jain et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Faquir C. Jain (Storrs, Connecticut); Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos (West Hartford, Connecticut); Robert A. Croce, Jr. (Guilford, Connecticut); Pawan Gogna (Clinton, Massachusetts); Syed Kamrul Islam (Knoxville, Tennessee); Liang Zuo (San Jose, California); Kai Zhu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable bio-sensing platform architecture that enables the wireless selection, calibration and reading of multiple sensors, as well as checking the power levels of the solar powering source energizing various electronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits embedded in the platform. It also permits checking the operation of the potentiostats interfacing with each amperometric analyte sensor. The platform is flexible to include FET based sensors for protein sensing as well as other applications including pH sensing. In addition, other physiological sensors can be integrated in the platform. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/023116 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/1149 (20130101) Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09338331 | Wadhwa et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal Wadhwa (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael Rubinstein (Newton, Massachusetts); Frederic Durand (Somerville, Massachusetts); William T. Freeman (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments are directed to a method, corresponding system, and corresponding apparatus for rendering a video and/or image display to amplify small motions through video magnification. Some embodiments include a new compact image pyramid representation, the Riesz pyramid, that may be used for real-time, high-quality phase-based video magnification. Some embodiments are less overcomplete than even the smallest two orientation, octave-bandwidth complex steerable pyramid. Some embodiments are implemented using compact, efficient linear filters in the spatial domain. Some embodiments produce motion magnified videos that are of comparable quality to those using the complex steerable pyramid. In some embodiments, the Riesz pyramid is used with phase-based video magnification. The Riesz pyramid may phase-shift image features along their dominant orientation, rather than along every orientation like the complex steerable pyramid. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/592211 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 3/40 (20130101) Arrangements or Circuits for Control of Indicating Devices Using Static Means to Present Variable Information G09G 2340/045 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/20 (20130101) H04N 5/144 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/213 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09333517 | Koklu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S.A. 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) | Mehti Koklu (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluidic oscillator array includes a plurality of fluidic-oscillator main flow channels. Each main flow channel has an inlet and an outlet. Each main flow channel has first and second control ports disposed at opposing sides thereof, and has a first and a second feedback ports disposed at opposing sides thereof. The feedback ports are located downstream of the control ports with respect to a direction of a fluid flow through the main flow channel. The system also includes a first fluid accumulator in fluid communication with each first control port and each first feedback port, and a second fluid accumulator in fluid communication with each second control port and each second feedback port. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/786713 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Spraying Apparatus; Atomising Apparatus; Nozzles B05B 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fluid-circuit Elements Predominantly Used for Computing or Control Purposes F15C 1/22 (20130101) |
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| US 09334059 | Jones et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Douglas M. Nark (Norfolk, Virginia); Earl Ayle (Chandler, Arizona); Fumitaka Ichihashi (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic panel liner includes a face sheet, back plate, and liner core positioned therebetween, which may be used in an engine nacelle. Elongated chambers contain variable amounts of septa at a calibrated depth or depths. The septa may have varying DC flow resistance. The chambers may have a hexagonal or other polygonal cross sections. The septa, such as mesh caps, may be bonded to an inner wall of a corresponding chamber. The insertion depths may be the same or different. If different, the pattern of distribution of the depths may be randomized. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/297131 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 33/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64D 2033/0206 (20130101) |
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| US 09334693 | Walton et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Otis Walton (Livermore, California); Hubert J. Vollmer (Tracy, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Otis Walton (Livermore, California); Hubert J. Vollmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A conical feeder is attached to a vertically conveying screw auger. The feeder is equipped with scoops and rotated from the surface to force-feed regolith the auger. Additional scoops are possible by adding a cylindrical section above the conical funnel section. Such then allows the unit to collect material from swaths larger in diameter than the enclosing casing pipe of the screw auger. A third element includes a flexible screw auger. All three can be used in combination in microgravity and zero atmosphere environments to drill and recover a wide area of subsurface regolith and entrained volatiles through a single access point on the surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/847765 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — 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 3/00 (20130101) E21B 7/06 (20130101) E21B 10/003 (20130101) E21B 10/43 (20130101) Original (OR) Class E21B 10/54 (20130101) E21B 49/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09334855 | Hruby et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Vlad Hruby (Newton, Massachusetts); James J. Szabo, Jr. (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles Gasdaska (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Mike Robin (Lincoln, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Busek Company, Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vlad Hruby (Newton, Massachusetts); James J. Szabo, Jr. (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles Gasdaska (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Mike Robin (Lincoln, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A Hall thruster for use with a condensable propellant including a plasma accelerator including an anode for providing plasma discharge, a distributor for distributing the condensable propellant in a liquid or vaporized state, and an electric circuit including a cathode for emitting electrons attracted to the anode and for neutralizing ion flux emitted from the plasma accelerator. A condensable propellant feed system includes a storage vessel for storing the condensable propellant and providing liquid condensable propellant at a controlled pressure. A condensable propellant flow controller includes a pressure reducing device for controlling the flow rate of the liquid condensable propellant. A vaporizer at or above the vaporization temperature of the liquid condensable propellant vaporizes the liquid condensable propellant at a predetermined vaporization rate and flow rate. A magnetic circuit structure includes a magnetic field source for establishing a transverse magnetic field in the plasma accelerator that creates an impedance to the flow of the electrons toward the anode to create plasma in the plasma accelerator for accelerating ionized condensable propellant through the plasma accelerator to create a flux of ions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607342 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/40 (20130101) Producing a Reactive Propulsive Thrust, Not Otherwise Provided for F03H 1/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09336421 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick W. Fink (Missouri City, Texas); Gregory Y. Lin (Friendswood, Texas); Timothy F. Kennedy (Sugar Land, Texas); Phong H. Ngo (Friendswood, Texas); Diane Byerly (Seabrook, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses and systems for radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled information collection are disclosed, including an enclosure, a collector coupled to the enclosure, an interrogator, a processor, and one or more RFID field sensors, each having an individual identification, disposed within the enclosure. In operation, the interrogator transmits an incident signal to the collector, causing the collector to generate an electromagnetic field within the enclosure. The electromagnetic field is affected by one or more influences. RFID sensors respond to the electromagnetic field by transmitting reflected signals containing the individual identifications of the responding RFID sensors to the interrogator. The interrogator receives the reflected signals, measures one or more returned signal strength indications (“RSSI”) of the reflected signals and sends the RSSI measurements and identification of the responding RFID sensors to the processor to determine one or more facts about the influences. Other embodiments are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/549159 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 23/2845 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 7/10316 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 19/07758 (20130101) |
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| US 09336484 | Iverson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David J. Iverson (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Iverson (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An efficient method and system for real-time or offline analysis of multivariate sensor data for use in anomaly detection, fault detection, and system health monitoring is provided. Models automatically derived from training data, typically nominal system data acquired from sensors in normally operating conditions or from detailed simulations, are used to identify unusual, out of family data samples (outliers) that indicate possible system failure or degradation. Outliers are determined through analyzing a degree of deviation of current system behavior from the models formed from the nominal system data. The deviation of current system behavior is presented as an easy to interpret numerical score along with a measure of the relative contribution of each system parameter to any off-nominal deviation. The techniques described herein may also be used to “clean” the training data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/615202 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/3003 (20130101) G06F 11/3006 (20130101) G06F 15/18 (20130101) G06F 17/18 (20130101) G06F 17/30536 (20130101) G06F 17/30539 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 3/08 (20130101) G06N 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06N 5/02 (20130101) |
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard Meilan (West Point, Indiana); Peter Marius Rubinelli (Fayetteville, Arkansas); George Chuck (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Meilan (West Point, Indiana); Peter Marius Rubinelli (Fayetteville, Arkansas); George Chuck (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to new bioenergy crops and methods of creating new bioenergy crops. For example, genes encoding microRNAs (miRNAs) are used to create transgenic crops. In some embodiments, over-expression of miRNA is used to produce transgenic perennials, such as trees, with altered lignin content or composition. In some embodiments, the transgenic perennials are Populus spp. In some embodiments, the miRNA is a member of the miR156 family. In some embodiments, the gene is Zea mays Cg1. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/571900 |
| ART UNIT | 1662 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/827 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8255 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8261 (20130101) |
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| US 09334506 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261640 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) |
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| US 09335292 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AUBURN UNIVERSITY (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiaming Hu (Auburn, Alabama); Tanyu Wang (Lawrence, Kansas); Christopher J. Easley (Auburn, Alabama); Curtis G. Shannon (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure includes an electrochemical proximity assay (ECPA) which leverages two aptamer or antibody-oligonucleotide probes and proximity-dependent DNA hybridization to move a redox active molecule near an electrically conductive base. The ECPA of the present disclosure produces rapid, quantitative results, enabling point-of-care use in the detection of biomarkers of disease. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/650303 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6804 (20130101) C12Q 1/6816 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 1/6825 (20130101) C12Q 2545/114 (20130101) C12Q 2545/114 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) C12Q 2563/116 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 27/3275 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/3276 (20130101) |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Topera, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Topera, Inc. (Menlo Park, California); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Narayan (La Jolla, California); Carey Robert Briggs (La Jolla, California); Ruchir Sehra (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for identifying a driver of a source associated with a heart rhythm disorder, data are accessed from a plurality of sensors representing biological activity in the heart. A first region and a second region of the heart are identified as the source of the heart rhythm disorder. If the first region has repeating activation and controls the second region for at least a predetermined number of beats, the first region is identified as controlling the source of the heart rhythm disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/844562 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0006 (20130101) A61B 5/0422 (20130101) A61B 5/02405 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09333237 | Murray et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America Represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel S. Murray (Saugus, California); Elsa J. Murray (Saugus, California); Keyvan Behnam (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cyclized peptide designated BMP Binding Peptide (BBP) is a synthetic peptide that avidly binds rhBMP-2. BBP increases the overall osteogenic activity of rhBMP-2, increases the rate at which rhBMP-2 induces bone formation, and BBP induces calcification alone. Compositions and substrates including BBP, and methods of using BBP are useful in therapeutic, diagnostic and clinical applications requiring calcification and osteogenesis. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/263080 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/32 (20130101) A61K 38/10 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1841 (20130101) A61K 38/1875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/1875 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/51 (20130101) |
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| US 09334539 | Scherer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada); McGill University (Montreal, Canada); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Ontario, Canada); McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Scherer (Toronto, Canada); Berge A. Minassian (Toronto, Canada); Antonio Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Guy Rouleau (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel gene (EPM2A) that is deleted or mutated in people with Lafora's disease is described. The EPM2A gene encodes a protein having an active catalytic site of a protein tyrosine phosphatase. Many different sequence mutations as well as several microdeletions in EPM2A have been found that co-segregate with Lafora's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, June 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/925443 |
| 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) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) |
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National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09336058 | Balmin 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) | Andrey Balmin (San Jose, California); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Viswanath Nagarajan (East Rutherford, New Jersey); Joel L. Wolf (Golden Bridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for automated scheduling management of MapReduce flow-graph applications. A method includes determining a job schedule of MapReduce jobs within each of multiple MapReduce flows in a cluster environment, wherein said job schedule does not violate a precedence relationship within the corresponding MapReduce flow and reduces makespan of the corresponding MapReduce flow, determining a flow schedule for the multiple MapReduce flows based on consideration of a given metric, wherein said flow schedule comprises a number of slots allotted to each of the multiple MapReduce flows, and wherein said number of slots is less than or equal to a number of the one or more MapReduce jobs within each corresponding MapReduce flow, and transforming each job schedule into the flow schedule to allocate resources for the multiple MapReduce flows in the cluster environment without violating a precedence constraint of the multiple MapReduce flows. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/804171 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5027 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09336273 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyh-Kwei Chen (Chappaqua, New York); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Range query techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with data stream processing systems. A technique is provided for incrementally processing continual range queries against moving objects. This technique is applicable for location-aware services and applications. A technique for evaluating one or more continual range queries over one or more moving objects comprises maintaining a query index with one or more containment-encoded virtual constructs associated with the one or more continual range queries over the one or more moving objects, and incrementally evaluating the one or more continual range queries using the query index. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/940815 |
| ART UNIT | 2169 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30241 (20130101) G06F 17/30463 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09337939 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inho Kim (Mountain View, California); Zuoguo Wu (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods may provide for an optical module including an optical demultiplexer to receive a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal from a single receive optical fiber and separate the WDM signal into a plurality of optical signals. Additionally, the optical module may include a receiver conversion unit to convert the plurality of optical signals into a corresponding plurality of electrical signals. In addition, the optical module may include a buffer chip having a single clock and data recovery (CDR) module to recover a clock from a designated signal in the plurality of electrical signals and distribute the recovered clock to a plurality of data lanes corresponding to the plurality of electrical signals. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/629945 |
| ART UNIT | 2637 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 10/40 (20130101) H04B 10/69 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Multiplex Communication H04J 14/02 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 7/00 (20130101) H04L 25/14 (20130101) |
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Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09333066 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Windham, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/276708 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 2/0063 (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 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/16 (20130101) D01D 5/088 (20130101) D01D 5/098 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/62 (20130101) D01F 6/84 (20130101) D01F 6/625 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1362 (20150115) Y10T 428/1369 (20150115) Y10T 428/249922 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) Y10T 442/183 (20150401) Y10T 442/184 (20150401) Y10T 442/2525 (20150401) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09333246 | Selitrennikoff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claude P. Selitrennikoff (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Tamara K Miller (Wheatridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention illustrate methods of treating and preventing infection due to a pathogen such as a fungal pathogen. In particular, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for vaccinations against or treatment for a fungal organism in a non-immunocompromised or immunocompromised subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/800094 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/521 (20130101) A61K 2039/523 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09334173 | Bartholomew et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Calvin H. Bartholomew (Orem, Utah); Brian F. Woodfield (Provo, Utah); Baiyu Huang (Orem, Utah); Rebecca Elizabeth Olsen (Murray, Utah); Lynn Astle (Provo, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin H. Bartholomew (Orem, Utah); Brian F. Woodfield (Provo, Utah); Baiyu Huang (Orem, Utah); Rebecca Elizabeth Olsen (Murray, Utah); Lynn Astle (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for making high-surface area, high-porosity, stable metal oxides, such as, but not limited to materials used as adsorbents and catalyst supports include (i) forming a solvent deficient precursor mixture from a metal salt and a base and reacting the metal ions and base ions in the solvent deficient precursor mixture to form an intermediate hydroxide product (e.g., metal hydroxide or metal oxide hydroxide), (ii) causing the intermediate hydroxide to form nanoparticles (e.g., by heating), and (iii) calcining the intermediate nanoparticles to sinter the nanoparticles together and yield a highly porous, stable metal oxide aggregate having a pore structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/069317 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/36 (20130101) C01B 13/363 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 7/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 25/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/60 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2004/52 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/13 (20130101) C01P 2006/14 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09334250 | Chowdhury et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandipan Roy Chowdhury (Tempe, Arizona); Omar Khdour (Phoenix, Arizona); Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body Corporate of the State of Arizona Acting For and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandipan Roy Chowdhury (Tempe, Arizona); Omar Khdour (Phoenix, Arizona); Sidney Hecht (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compounds of formula (I): compositions comprising these compounds, and methods of using these compounds in a variety of applications, such as treatment or suppression of diseases associated with decreased mitochondrial function resulting in diminished ATP production and/or oxidative stress and/or lipid peroxidation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/432885 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 279/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09334506 | Carrington et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (St. Louis, Missouri); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/261640 |
| ART UNIT | 1663 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 15/8218 (20130101) C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) C12N 15/8247 (20130101) C12N 15/8251 (20130101) C12N 15/8261 (20130101) C12N 15/8271 (20130101) C12N 15/8274 (20130101) C12N 15/8279 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2320/11 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09333066 | Martin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Windham, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/276708 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| 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 2/0063 (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 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/18 (20130101) A61L 27/48 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) A61L 31/06 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 67/04 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/16 (20130101) D01D 5/088 (20130101) D01D 5/098 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/62 (20130101) D01F 6/84 (20130101) D01F 6/625 (20130101) Crimping or Curling Fibres, Filaments, Threads, or Yarns; Yarns or Threads D02G 3/02 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/1362 (20150115) Y10T 428/1369 (20150115) Y10T 428/249922 (20150401) Y10T 442/10 (20150401) Y10T 442/183 (20150401) Y10T 442/184 (20150401) Y10T 442/2525 (20150401) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09335281 | Marks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Marks (Durham, North Carolina); David Jones Brady (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing images of the structure and composition of an object based on measurements of the low-angle x-ray diffraction properties of the object. The imaging system includes a coded aperture that encodes spatial and spectral features onto radiation scattered from image points within the object. The radiation is detected at a two-dimensional array of detectors, whose output is deconvolved and processed to estimate a three-dimensional image having molecular specificity. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/350073 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/201 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 23/20008 (20130101) Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 2207/005 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 09336781 | Scheffer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI INTERNATIONAL (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolas Scheffer (San Francisco, California); Yun Lei (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A content-aware speaker recognition system includes technologies to, among other things, analyze phonetic content of a speech sample, incorporate phonetic content of the speech sample into a speaker model, and use the phonetically-aware speaker model for speaker recognition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/264916 |
| ART UNIT | 2673 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Speech Analysis or Synthesis; Speech Recognition; Speech or Voice Processing; Speech or Audio Coding or Decoding G10L 17/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 09336510 | Dearing et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Dearing (Herndon, Virginia); Kuldip K. Goyal (Alexandria, Virginia); Carla F. Sherry (Annandale, Virginia); Amy B. Cradic (Reston, Virginia); C. Scot Atkins (Chantilly, Virginia); Himesh A. Patel (Centerville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of processing items. Items in a distribution network or process may be scanned at every handling point in the distribution network, and each scan is recorded in a central repository. The scan information can be used to generate real-time access to data, analytical tools, predictive tools, and tracking reports. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/309747 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/087 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06Q 10/0833 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09337332 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories LLC. (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongming Chu (Agoura Hills, California); Mary Y. Chen (Beverly Hills, California); Xu Chen (Los Angeles, California); Zijian “Ray” Li (Oak Park, California); Karim S. Boutros (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A field-effect transistor (FET) includes a plurality of semiconductor layers, a source electrode and a drain electrode contacting one of the semiconductor layers, a first dielectric layer on a portion of a top semiconductor surface between the source and drain electrodes, a first trench extending through the first dielectric layer and having a bottom located on a top surface or within one of the semiconductor layers, a second dielectric layer lining the first trench and covering a portion of the first dielectric layer, a third dielectric layer over the semiconductor layers, the first dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer, a second trench extending through the third dielectric layer and having a bottom located in the first trench on the second dielectric layer and extending over a portion of the second dielectric, and a gate electrode filling the second trench. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/290029 |
| ART UNIT | 2897 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 29/513 (20130101) H01L 29/2003 (20130101) H01L 29/4236 (20130101) H01L 29/7783 (20130101) H01L 29/7786 (20130101) H01L 29/7827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/42376 (20130101) H01L 29/66462 (20130101) H01L 29/66522 (20130101) H01L 29/66666 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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