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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 31, 2016
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| US 09351855 | Swift et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tim Swift (Albany, California); Adam Brian Zoss (Berkeley, California); Katherine Strausser (Berkeley, California); Matthew Rosa (San Francisco, California); Dylan Miller Fairbanks (Guangzhou, China PRC); Minerva Vasudevan Pillai (Pleasant Hill, California); Miclas Schwartz (Goettingen, Germany); Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Sunnyvale, California); Sebastian Kruse (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ekso Bionics, Inc. (Richmond, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Swift (Albany, California); Adam Brian Zoss (Berkeley, California); Katherine Strausser (Berkeley, California); Matthew Rosa (San Francisco, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California); Dylan Miller Fairbanks (Guangzhou, China PRC); Minerva Vasudevan Pillai (Pleasant Hill, California); Miclas Schwartz (Goettingen, Germany); Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Sunnyvale, California); Sebastian Kruse (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A powered lower extremity orthotic, including a shank link coupled to an artificial foot, a knee mechanism connected to the shank link and a thigh link, is controlled by based on signals from various orthotic mounted sensors such that the artificial foot follows a predetermined trajectory defined by at least one Cartesian coordinate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/480160 |
| 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 2/64 (20130101) A61F 2/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/80 (20130101) A61F 2002/701 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/741 (20130101) A61F 2002/744 (20130101) A61F 2002/745 (20130101) A61F 2002/748 (20130101) A61F 2002/7625 (20130101) A61F 2002/7635 (20130101) A61F 2002/7645 (20130101) A61F 2002/30359 (20130101) A61F 2220/0033 (20130101) |
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| US 09351900 | Walsh 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) | Conor Walsh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alan Thomas Asbeck (Waltham, Massachusetts); Ignacio Galiana Bujanda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ye Ding (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert Joseph Dyer (Concord, Massachusetts); Arnar Freyr Larusson (Hanover, New Hampshire); Brendan Thomas Quinlivan (Rutland, Massachusetts); Kai Schmidt (Berlin, Germany); Diana Wagner (Charlotte, North Carolina); Michael Wehner (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one aspect, there is provided a system for generating force about one or more joints including a soft exosuit having a plurality of anchor elements and at least one connection element disposed between the plurality of anchor elements. The system also includes at least one sensor to determine a force the at least one connection element or at least one of the plurality of anchor elements and to output signals relating to the force, at least one actuator configured to change a tension in the soft exosuit and at least one controller configured to receive the signals output from the at least one sensor and actuate the at least one actuator responsive to the received signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371675 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/0244 (20130101) A61H 1/0266 (20130101) A61H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 2201/164 (20130101) A61H 2201/165 (20130101) A61H 2201/501 (20130101) A61H 2201/1215 (20130101) A61H 2201/1238 (20130101) A61H 2201/1246 (20130101) A61H 2201/1261 (20130101) A61H 2201/1481 (20130101) A61H 2201/1628 (20130101) A61H 2201/1652 (20130101) A61H 2201/1664 (20130101) A61H 2201/5007 (20130101) A61H 2201/5061 (20130101) A61H 2201/5064 (20130101) A61H 2201/5069 (20130101) A61H 2201/5084 (20130101) A61H 2201/5097 (20130101) A61H 2230/60 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09352122 | Mulvihill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P Klaus (State College, Pennsylvania); Casey A Scruggs (Middleburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P Klaus (State College, Pennsylvania); Casey A Scruggs (Middleburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for clearing blockages is provided that may have a tube that is slit. The tube may have a lumen. A reciprocating member may be provided and a portion of the reciprocating member may be located within the lumen. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863108 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 25/00 (20130101) A61M 25/0082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2025/0019 (20130101) |
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| US 09352146 | Langhals et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas B. Langhals (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Paul S. Cederna (Milan, Michigan); Melanie G. Urbanchek (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides nerve interface devices, such as passive or active nerve caps or regenerative peripheral nerve interface devices (RPNI), for a subject in need thereof. The nerve interface devices include nerve interface cap devices capable of treating, minimizing, or preventing formation of neuromas in severed or damaged nerve endings. Such a nerve interface device includes a housing that may be formed of a scaffold, such as a biotic material or hydrogel, an autograft, and optionally an electrode and/or conducting polymer. The autograft may be free muscle or free skin tissue, which is attached to the nerve ending to permit reinnervation. The present disclosure also provides methods for treating, minimizing, or preventing neuroma formation in a subject having a severed or damaged nerve, especially a peripheral nerve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/944167 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| 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 2/72 (20130101) A61F 2/0811 (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 2430/32 (20130101) Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 89/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09352175 | Peterson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Command (APG, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Michael A. Pompeii (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); Michael J. Knapke (Plain City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for extending the service life of a Collective Protection (CP) filter includes: providing at least one CP filter comprising a filter bed; and passing an airstream through a supplemental bed configured to enhance the filter bed by promoting reactions that facilitate the removal of one or more of chemical warfare agents and toxic threat compounds. An apparatus for extending the service life of a Collective Protection (CP) filter, the apparatus including: a CP filter comprising a filter bed; and a supplemental bed configured so as to enhance the filter bed by promoting reactions that facilitate the removal of chemical warfare agents and toxic chemicals. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/260653 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices, Apparatus or Methods for Life-saving A62B 23/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09352470 | da Silva et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Google Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marco da Silva (Arlington, Massachusetts); Kevin Blankespoor (Arlington, Massachusetts); Michael Rose (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method may include determining a requested yaw for a body of a robot, where the biped robot comprises a foot coupled to the body via a leg. The robot may then detect, via one or more sensors, a yaw rotation of the body with respect to a ground surface, where the foot is in contact with the ground surface. Based on the detected yaw rotation of the body, the robot may determine a measured yaw for the body. The robot may also determine a target yaw for the body, where the target yaw for the body is between the measured yaw for the body and the requested yaw for the body. The robot may then cause the foot to rotate the body to the target yaw for the body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/554951 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Manipulators; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices B25J 9/0003 (20130101) B25J 13/088 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/5705 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 1/0891 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 901/01 (20130101) |
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| US 09352543 | Weiss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Franklin, Tennessee); Judson D. Ryckman (Nashville, Tennessee); Marco Liscidini (Pavia, Italy); John E. Sipe (Toronto, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Franklin, Tennessee); Judson D. Ryckman (Nashville, Tennessee); Marco Liscidini (Pavia, Italy); John E. Sipe (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of patterning porous materials on the micro- and nanometer scale using a direct imprinting technique. The present methods of direct imprinting of porous substrates (“DIPS”), can utilize reusable stamps that may be directly applied to an underlying porous material to selectively, mechanically deform and/or crush particular regions of the porous material, creating a desired structure. The process can be performed in a matter of seconds, at room temperature or higher temperatures, and eliminates the requirement for intermediate masking materials and etching chemistries. |
| FILED | Monday, May 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790908 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00 (20130101) Apparatus for the Mechanical Reproduction of Printing Surfaces for Stereotype Printing; Shaping Elastic or Deformable Material to Form Printing Surfaces B41D 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09352820 | Williams et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert B. Williams (West Hollywood, California); Kyle W. Maxhimer (Hermosa Beach, California); Larry L. Lai (Walnut, California); Thomas Brennan (Marina Del Rey, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Williams (West Hollywood, California); Kyle W. Maxhimer (Hermosa Beach, California); Larry L. Lai (Walnut, California); Thomas Brennan (Marina Del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inflatable structure mount is used for mounting a device to an inflatable structure. An example is mounting of radar panels to an inflatable structure within an airship. The mount includes the device, and inserts coupled to the back side of the device, which mechanically couple to flexures mounted on the inflatable structure. Some of the flexures may have slotted holes, used in positioning the inserts on the inflatable structure at positions that will allow the flexures to mate with the inserts. A jig or tool may be used as part of the installation process, to locate the flexures at points where they will properly engage the inserts. The flexures may also each face a center point that is underneath the device to be mounted. The flexures may engage the inserts in ways that allow for quick installation and de-installation of devices, and may allow for visual inspection of proper installation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/466415 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Lighter-than Air Aircraft B64B 1/14 (20130101) B64B 1/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/1292 (20130101) |
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| US 09352845 | Albert et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jeremie J. Albert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Martin G. Andrews (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Jason L. Firko (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremie J. Albert (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Martin G. Andrews (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Jason L. Firko (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A storage container, which may be a fuel bladder, includes a container wall configured to retain a fluid within the container and an opening through the container wall. The container includes a rim of the container wall surrounding the opening and a non-planar flex region of the container wall adjacent to the rim. The flex region includes at least one resilient crease in the container wall and the rim is between the flex region and the opening. A portion of the container wall surrounds the flex region. The flex region exhibits the property of allowing movement of the rim with respect to the portion of the container wall. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/370129 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 37/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353167 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert B. Deisseroth (Potomac, Maryland); Yucheng Tang (San Diego, California); Wei-Wei Zhang (San Diego, California); Xiang-Ming Fang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of generating an immune response to an antigen. The method comprises priming an individual by administering an expression vector encoding the antigen. The vector comprises a transcription unit encoding a secretable fusion protein, the fusion protein containing an antigen and CD40 ligand. Administration of a fusion protein containing the antigen and CD40 ligand is used to enhance the immune response above that obtained by vector administration alone. The methods may be used to generate an immune response against cancer expressing a tumor antigen such as a mucin or human papilloma viral tumor antigen and to generate an immune response against an infectious agent. Also provided is a method for simultaneously producing the expression vector and the fusion protein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/478353 |
| 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) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/70578 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) |
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| US 09353219 | Wright 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) | Michael E. Wright (Ridgecrest, California); Benjamin G. Harvey (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vanillin is found to be a useful starting material for preparing new monomers that can be further applied to make high Tg composite resins that are in turn useful for making composite parts. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/678864 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 263/00 (20130101) C07C 265/14 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 65/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353269 | Kaiser et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | STERIS Corporation (Mentor, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | AMERICAN STERILIZER COMPANY (Mentor, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert J. Kaiser (Pontoon Beach, Illinois); Miranda C. Shaver (Saint Louis, Missouri); Timothy Lee Giddens (Florissant, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive compositions are provided, having biocidal and chemical decontamination/neutralization properties, comprising a hygroscopic polymer and an active, which are useful in a variety of commercial, healthcare and military applications and a wide variety of contaminants, including without limitation chemical and biological warfare agents. The reactive compositions are renewable or rechargeable after use by exposure to an additional application of the active and do not require removal, disposal or replacement of the originally applied composition. Methods for preparing and applying the reactive compositions are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/836364 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/10 (20130101) A01N 25/10 (20130101) A01N 25/34 (20130101) A01N 25/34 (20130101) A01N 59/00 (20130101) A01N 59/00 (20130101) A01N 59/06 (20130101) A01N 59/06 (20130101) Chemical Means for Extinguishing Fires or for Combating or Protecting Against Harmful Chemical Agents; Chemical Materials for Use in Breathing Apparatus A62D 5/00 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 139/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09353428 | 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 with hafnium are described herein. In one embodiment, an alloy composition includes zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), 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 | 13/847773 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys C22C 16/00 (20130101) C22C 30/02 (20130101) C22C 45/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353554 | Carlson |
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| APPLICANT(S) | APG Cash Drawer, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | APG Cash Drawer, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Carlson (Shoreview, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An emergency access mechanism for a cash drawer is provided. In one embodiment, the emergency access mechanism comprises an emergency access plug configured to engage with a locking mechanism of the cash drawer such that actuation of the emergency access plug causes the locking mechanism to release. The mechanism may also comprise an emergency access cover configured to fit partially over and engage the emergency access shell, such that actuation of the emergency access cover causes a portion of the emergency access cover to break. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/693657 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Locks; Accessories Therefor; Handcuffs E05B 39/02 (20130101) E05B 63/0069 (20130101) E05B 65/461 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 70/625 (20150401) Y10T 70/5128 (20150401) Y10T 70/5137 (20150401) Y10T 70/5142 (20150401) Y10T 70/7915 (20150401) Y10T 70/8216 (20150401) Y10T 70/8946 (20150401) |
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| US 09353633 | Nissen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey P. Nissen (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application includes a rotor blade having an erosion protective coating, the coating being a cermet material configured to protect against erosion during the operation of the rotor blade. Further, the present application includes a method of selectively applying the erosion protective coating, a method of selectively repairing/reapplying the erosion protective coating, and a process of developing an erosion surface model map of an optimized erosion protective coating pattern and thickness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/514200 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/02 (20130101) B05D 3/10 (20130101) B05D 3/12 (20130101) Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 11/205 (20130101) Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 2045/0085 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 4/04 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 5/286 (20130101) F01D 5/288 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2230/90 (20130101) F05D 2240/303 (20130101) F05D 2300/2263 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 50/672 (20130101) |
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| US 09353819 | White |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Boeing Company (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOEING COMPANY (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward V White (St. Charles, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical linkage includes first and second end members and a pair of generally parallel arcuate beams, interconnecting the end members and defining a lateral space therebetween. A plurality of alternating fingers extend from each beam into the lateral space, and a damping member is attached between each adjacent pair of fingers within the lateral space. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/458587 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 13/28 (20130101) B64C 27/51 (20130101) B64C 27/605 (20130101) Springs; Shock-absorbers; Means for Damping Vibration F16F 9/306 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F16F 2226/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49616 (20150115) Y10T 403/45 (20150115) |
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| US 09354025 | Guirguis |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raafat Guirguis (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raafat Guirguis (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A dart tail fin assembly includes a cylindrical dart body with a nose, a tail opposite the nose and an outer surface extending from the nose to the tail. A plurality of tail fins is attached to and spaced around the outer surface of the dart body. Each one of the tail fins includes a trailing edge aligned with the tail of the dart, a leading edge opposite the trailing edge toward the nose of the tail, a length from the trailing edge to the leading edge and a flat portion disposed at leading edge extending perpendicularly outward from the outer surface a first width. Each tail fin is detached from the outer surface of the dart body along a portion of the length extending back from the leading edge. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/121517 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354039 | Mower et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jacob C. Mower (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas C. Harris (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dirk R. Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Greg Steinbrecher (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob C. Mower (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas C. Harris (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dirk R. Englund (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Greg Steinbrecher (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable photonic integrated circuit implements arbitrary linear optics transformations in the spatial mode basis with high fidelity. Under a realistic fabrication model, we analyze programmed implementations of the CNOT gate, CPHASE gate, iterative phase estimation algorithm, state preparation, and quantum random walks. We find that programmability dramatically improves device tolerance to fabrication imperfections and enables a single device to implement a broad range of both quantum and classical linear optics experiments. Our results suggest that existing fabrication processes are sufficient to build such a device in the silicon photonics platform. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/732012 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02049 (20130101) G01B 9/02083 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354062 | Osinski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Petr G. Eliseev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward W. Taylor (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek A. Osinski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Petr G. Eliseev (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward W. Taylor (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus embody a rotation sensor including one or more ring lasers designed to utilize a nonlinear Sagnac effect, a passive waveguide arrangement, and a photodetector arrangement to receive the outcoupled light and to detect rotation of the sensor; wherein these components are arranged into a monolithically integrated optoelectronic integrated circuit on a single substrate. The method and apparatus can include seeding a stable, rotation -insensitive, strong (driving) wave using a single-frequency edge emitting laser monolithically integrated on the same substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/987911 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/66 (20130101) G01C 19/727 (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 1/3519 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 3/1028 (20130101) |
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| US 09354063 | Sanders et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Arizona); Lee K. Strandjord (Tonka Bay, Minnesota); Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Arizona); Tiequn Qiu (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for an intensity stabilized resonator fiber optic gyroscope are provided. In one embodiment, a method for providing optical intensity stabilization system for a resonator fiber optic gyroscope (RFOG) is provided. The method comprises: injecting a phase modulated light beam into a fiber optic ring resonator coil; measuring a DC component of the phase modulated light beam at an output of the fiber optic ring resonator coil; generating a feedback control signal based on the DC component; and attenuating the phase modulated light beam prior to injection into the fiber optic ring resonator coil by controlling a variable optical attenuator with the feedback control signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/266356 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/721 (20130101) G01C 19/727 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354064 | Strandjord et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee K. Strandjord (Tonka Bay, Minnesota); Glen A. Sanders (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jianfeng Wu (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator fiber optic gyroscope comprises a master laser device that emits a reference optical signal, a first slave laser device that emits a clockwise optical signal, and a second slave laser device that emits a counter-clockwise optical signal. A resonator ring cavity is in communication with the master laser device and the slave laser devices. A sine wave generator is coupled to the resonator ring cavity and outputs a common cavity modulation frequency comprising in-phase and quadrature signals. A laser stabilization servo receives a clockwise reflection signal that includes the common cavity modulation frequency from the resonator ring cavity. A modulation stripper coupled to the servo receives the in-phase and quadrature signals, receives a net error signal from the servo, demodulates the net error signal at the common cavity modulation frequency, and transmits a stripper signal to the servo to remove the signal at the common cavity modulation frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/325006 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Distances, Levels or Bearings; Surveying; Navigation; Gyroscopic Instruments; Photogrammetry or Videogrammetry G01C 19/721 (20130101) G01C 19/727 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354125 | Peroulis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Peroulis (West Lafayette, Indiana); Lokesh Anilkumar Gupta (West Lafayette, Indiana); Andrew S. Kovacs (Lafayette, Indiana); Amir Shahidi (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor arrangement for wirelessly measuring temperature and vibration is disclosed. The sensor arrangement includes a sensor element and a sensor coil affixed on the device. A readout coil is configured to be magnetically coupled to the sensor coil configured to energize the sensor coil with an energizing signal, configured to provide the natural frequency of the sensor element, the sensor coil, and the readout coil, and configured to provide amplitude modulations of the energizing signal, the amplitude modulations being induced by changes in the coupling factor of the readout coil and the sensor coil. An energizing circuit is configured to energize the readout coil with the energizing signal. A readout circuit is configured to store or display information regarding the natural frequency and the amplitude modulations. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/936192 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 11/00 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/024 (20130101) G01K 7/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01K 13/08 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 13/045 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/11 (20130101) G01P 15/097 (20130101) |
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| US 09354199 | Selden et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard F. Selden (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Eugene Tan (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NetBio, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Selden (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Eugene Tan (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A biochip for the integration of all steps in a complex process from the insertion of a sample to the generation of a result, performed without operator intervention includes microfluidic and macrofluidic features that are acted on by instrument subsystems in a series of scripted processing steps. Methods for fabricating these complex biochips of high feature density by injection molding are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/044485 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 7/52 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0681 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2400/0421 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) B01L 2400/0677 (20130101) B01L 2400/0688 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/44704 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 27/44791 (20130101) |
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| US 09354339 | Bongiovanni |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Bongiovanni (Portsmouth, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a method of processing seismic data using a single triaxial geophone is disclosed, where the method comprises acts of calibrating the single triaxial geophone sensor to determine a position and an orientation relative to a surrounding environment, configuring the single triaxial geophone sensor to receive seismic data from the surrounding environment along three orthogonal axes, measuring, with the single triaxial geophone sensor, a plurality of time series of seismic data from the surrounding environment for the three orthogonal axes, storing, with a computer system coupled to the single triaxial geophone sensor, the time series of seismic data from the surrounding environment for the three orthogonal axes, and processing, with the computer system, the time series of seismic data to identify a plurality of seismic waves of different polarizations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/103467 |
| ART UNIT | 3648 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/284 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01V 1/307 (20130101) G01V 2210/63 (20130101) G01V 2210/65 (20130101) |
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| US 09354393 | Pomerene et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T S Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia); Matthew A. Gregory (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for polishing photonic chips is described. A gauge is placed in a photonic chip adjacent to an edge to be polished. The gauge includes a set of bars of various lengths. The bar lengths can be progressively ordered from shortest to longest or vice versa. The photonic chip is then secured in a chip polishing jig to get ready for polishing. When the photonic chip is being polished, an operator can visually inspect the gauge by looking at the polishing edge to estimate a polishing depth in order to determine a stopping point for polishing. Once the stopping point has been reached, the polishing of the photonic chip can be stopped. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/790963 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Machines, Devices, or Processes for Grinding or Polishing; Dressing or Conditioning of Abrading Surfaces; Feeding of Grinding, Polishing, or Lapping Agents B24B 9/065 (20130101) B24B 49/02 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/122 (20130101) G02B 2006/121 (20130101) G02B 2006/12197 (20130101) |
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| US 09354394 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Oracle International Corporation (Redwood City, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guoliang Li (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device is described. This optical device includes multiple components, such as a ring resonator, an optical waveguide and a grating coupler, having a common etch depth (which is associated with a single etch step or operation during fabrication). Moreover, these components may be implemented in a semiconductor layer in a silicon-on-insulator technology. By using a common etch depth, the optical device may provide: compact active devices, multimode ultralow-loss optical waveguides, high-speed ring resonator modulators with ultralow power consumption, and compact low-loss interlayer couplers for multilayer-routed optical links. Furthermore, the single etch step may help reduce or eliminate optical transition loss, and thus may facilitate high yield and low manufacturing costs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/890140 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/122 (20130101) G02B 6/136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/12004 (20130101) G02B 6/12007 (20130101) |
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| US 09354943 | Bose 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) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Heather L. Hanson (Austin, Texas); Hans M. Jacobson (White Plains, New York); Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas); Srinivasan Ramani (Cary, North Carolina); Todd J. Rosedahl (Zumbrota, Minnesota); Augusto J. Vega (Astoria, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an aspect, power management of a multi-core processing system includes determining workload characteristics in the multi-core processing system. A power adjustment scenario is identified based on the workload characteristics. A predetermined actuation order for at least two power adjustment actuators is identified based on the power adjustment scenario. Based on the predetermined actuation order, it is determined whether there is an adequate adjustment capacity for a power adjustment action associated with one of the at least two power adjustment actuators. The power adjustment action is initiated based on the predetermined actuation order and determining that the adequate adjustment capacity is available. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/219550 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/3243 (20130101) G06F 9/5094 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355089 | Nagarajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meenakshi Nagarajan (San Jose, California); William Scott Spangler (San Martin, California); Benjamin J. Bachman (Houston, Texas); Lawrence A. Donehower (Houston, Texas); Olivier Lichtarge (Houston, Texas); Sam J. Regenbogen (Houston, Texas); Angela D. Wilkins (Houston, Texas); Curtis R. Pickering (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new information in a language and relating to a subject matter domain is parsed into a constituent set of complete grammatical constructs. In a subset of the complete grammatical constructs, a set of linguistic styles of the language is identified according to a subset of a set of word-style associations related to the language and independent of the subject matter domain. A first weight is assigned to a first linguistic style and a second weight to a second linguistic style from the set of linguistic styles. A first intention information is mapped to the first style using a first style-intention rule, and a second intention information to the second style using a second style-intention rule. A complete grammatical construct in the subset is tagged with the first intention information responsive to a weight associated with the first intention information exceeding an intention selection threshold. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/564068 |
| ART UNIT | 2674 — Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/28 (20130101) G06F 17/274 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/2715 (20130101) G06F 17/2775 (20130101) |
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| US 09355167 | Gomes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Gomes (Santa Monica, California); Peter Welinder (San Diego, California); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for the crowdsourced clustering of data items in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining categories for a set of source data includes obtaining a set of source data, determining a plurality of subsets of the source data, where a subset of the source data includes a plurality of pieces of source data in the set of source data, generating a set of pairwise annotations for the pieces of source data in each subset of source data, clustering the set of source data into related subsets of source data based on the sets of pairwise labels for each subset of source data, and identifying a category for each related subset of source data based on the clusterings of source data and the source data metadata for the pieces of source data in the group of source data. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/897229 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30525 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355331 | Andreopoulos 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) | Alexander Andreopoulos (San Jose, California); Steven K. Esser (San Jose, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provide a method of visual saliency estimation comprising receiving an input sequence of image frames. Each image frame has one or more channels, and each channel has one or more pixels. The method further comprises, for each channel of each image frame, generating corresponding neural spiking data based on a pixel intensity of each pixel of the channel, generating a corresponding multi-scale data structure based on the corresponding neural spiking data, and extracting a corresponding map of features from the corresponding multi-scale data structure. The multi-scale data structure comprises one or more data layers, wherein each data layer represents a spike representation of pixel intensities of a channel at a corresponding scale. The method further comprises encoding each map of features extracted as neural spikes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850046 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/66 (20130101) G06K 9/4604 (20130101) G06K 9/4652 (20130101) G06K 9/4676 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355359 | Welinder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Welinder (San Diego, California); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for the annotation of source data using confidence labels in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining confidence labels for crowdsourced annotations includes obtaining a set of source data, obtaining a set of training data representative of the set of source data, determining the ground truth for each piece of training data, obtaining a set of training data annotations including a confidence label, measuring annotator accuracy data for at least one piece of training data, and automatically generating a set of confidence labels for the set of unlabeled data based on the measured annotator accuracy data and the set of annotator labels used. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915962 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30303 (20130101) G06F 17/30525 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355360 | Welinder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Welinder (San Diego, California); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining annotator performance in the distributed annotation of source data in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for clustering annotators includes obtaining a set of source data, determining a training data set representative of the set of source data, obtaining sets of annotations from a set of annotators for a portion of the training data set, for each annotator determining annotator recall metadata based on the set of annotations provided by the annotator for the training data set and determining annotator precision metadata based on the set of annotations provided by the annotator for the training data set, and grouping the annotators into annotator groups based on the annotator recall metadata and the annotator precision metadata. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921493 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30303 (20130101) G06F 17/30525 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355364 | Miller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald L. Miller (Export, Pennsylvania); Ofer Naaman (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Miller (Export, Pennsylvania); Ofer Naaman (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention includes a reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) readout system. The system includes an input stage on which a read pulse is provided and an output stage configured to propagate an output pulse. The system also includes an RQL comparator comprising a first Josephson junction and a second Josephson junction that are coupled to a qubit. A bias current switches between a first Josephson junction in a first quantum state of the qubit and a second Josephson junction in a second quantum state of the qubit. The first Josephson junction triggers to provide the output pulse on the output stage in the first quantum state in response to the read pulse and the second Josephson junction triggers to provide no output pulse on the output stage in the second quantum state in response to the read pulse. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/202724 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 39/223 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 3/38 (20130101) |
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| US 09355439 | Gibson |
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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) | Kristofor B. Gibson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method involves generating a denoised image by performing a denoising operation on an input image of an object, the input image having turbulence and a contrast reducing scattering medium therein, generating a contrast enhanced image from the denoised image using a contrast enhancement algorithm, estimating a global motion vector of the contrast enhanced image using an image alignment algorithm, generating a contrast enhanced aligned image by globally aligning the contrast enhanced image to the global motion vector and locally aligning the contrast enhanced image with an optical flow method, temporally averaging the contrast enhanced aligned image, and generating an output image of the object by performing a deblur operation on the temporally averaged contrast enhanced aligned image. The method may further include measuring turbulence using sequences of input images and output images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/547759 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 5/009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 5/20 (20130101) G06T 5/50 (20130101) G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/20208 (20130101) G06T 2207/30232 (20130101) |
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| US 09355571 | Rucci et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Rucci (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Anthony Z. Stobiecki (Huntington, Connecticut); Brent Davis (Oxford, Connecticut); Christopher James Myers (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Rucci (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Anthony Z. Stobiecki (Huntington, Connecticut); Brent Davis (Oxford, Connecticut); Christopher James Myers (Guilford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for conducting flight procedures training in a rotary-wing aircraft with a multi-engine powerplant includes determining a variable bias relative an available power margin to simulate a reduced power available flight condition; and displaying symbology indicative of the simulated reduced power available flight condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018219 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Toys, e.g Tops, Dolls, Hoops or Building Blocks A63H 27/12 (20130101) Motor Vehicles; Trailers B62D 1/02 (20130101) B62D 1/22 (20130101) Aeroplanes; Helicopters B64C 27/04 (20130101) Educational or Demonstration Appliances; Appliances for Teaching, or Communicating With, the Blind, Deaf or Mute; Models; Planetaria; Globes; Maps; Diagrams G09B 9/08 (20130101) G09B 9/16 (20130101) G09B 9/18 (20130101) G09B 9/44 (20130101) G09B 9/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G09B 9/165 (20130101) G09B 9/203 (20130101) G09B 9/206 (20130101) |
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| US 09355694 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (, None) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaydeep P. Kulkarni (Portland, Oregon); Anupama Thaploo (Maricopa, Arizona); Iqbal Rajwani (Roseville, California); Kyung-Hoae Koo (Hillsboro, Oregon); Eric A. Karl (Hillsboro, Oregon); Muhammad Khellah (Tigard, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems related to an assist circuit that may be coupled to one or more components of a memory system to selectively lower a supply voltage that is delivered to the component. For example, the assist circuit may be coupled to a plurality of bitcells (e.g., register file bitcells). The assist circuit may selectively lower the supply voltage delivered to the bitcells during at least a portion of a write operation and/or during an inactive state of the bitcells. Additionally, or alternatively, the assist circuit may be coupled to a read circuit to selectively lower the supply voltage delivered to the read circuit during an inactive state of the read circuit. The assist circuit may include a control transistor coupled in parallel with one or more diodes between a main supply rail and a supply node of the bitcells and/or read circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/229767 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 7/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 7/22 (20130101) G11C 17/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09355699 | Khalili Amiri 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) | Pedram Khalili Amiri (Los Angeles, California); Kang L. Wang (Santa Monica, California); Kosmas Galatsis (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Voltage controlled magnetic tunnel junctions and memory devices are described which provide efficient high speed switching of non-volatile magnetic devices at high cell densities. Implementations are described which provide a wide range of voltage control alternatives with in-plane and perpendicular magnetization, bidirectionally switched magnetization, and control of domain wall dynamics. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/968195 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/161 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 11/1673 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 43/02 (20130101) H01L 43/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09355750 | Saffman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Saffman (Madison, Wisconsin); Martin T. Lichtman (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling atomic particles using projected light are provided. In some aspects, a method includes providing a plurality of atomic particles, and generating light fields using frequencies shifted from at least one atomic resonance. The method also includes forming a two-dimensional (“2D”) optical array using the generated light fields, wherein the 2D optical array comprises linear segments of light, and projecting the 2D optical array on the plurality of atomic particles to control their respective locations in space. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/474702 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Techniques for Handling Particles or Ionising Radiation Not Otherwise Provided For; Irradiation Devices; Gamma Ray or X-ray Microscopes G21K 1/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355764 | Tolbert 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) | Sarah H. Tolbert (Los Angeles, California); Gregory P. Carman (Los Angeles, California); Scott Keller (Long Beach, California); Laura Schelhas (Los Angeles, California); Hyungsuk Kim (Los Angeles, California); Joshua Hockel (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetoelectric composite device having a free (i.e. switchable) layer of ferromagnetic nanocrystals mechanically coupled a ferroelectric single crystal substrate is presented, wherein application of an electrical field on the composite switches the magnetic state of the switchable layer from a superparamagnetic state having no overall net magnetization to a substantially single-domain ferromagnetic state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/155283 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0018 (20130101) H01F 1/0036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 1/0063 (20130101) |
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| US 09355818 | Petric |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul F. Petric (Pleasanton, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Petric (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment disclosed relates to an apparatus for reflection electron beam lithography. The apparatus includes an electron source, a patterned electron reflector generator structure, a stage, a demagnifying electron lens, and an ExB separator. The ExB separator configured to bend a trajectory of the electron beam towards the dynamic pattern generator structure. The patterned electron reflector structure is configured to reflect select portions of the electron beam so as to form a patterned electron beam. The ExB separator is further configured to allow the patterned electron beam to pass straight through towards the demagnifying electron lens. The demagnifying electron lens is configured to demagnify the patterned electron beam and project the demagnified patterned electron beam onto the target substrate. The apparatus disclosed herein has a straight projection axis and substantially reduces the electron beam path by a factor of three-to-one (compared to a prior apparatus which uses a magnetic prism). |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790177 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| 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) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 37/147 (20130101) H01J 37/3175 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 2237/1508 (20130101) H01J 2237/31789 (20130101) |
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| US 09356151 | Tour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Vera Abramova (Houston, Texas); Alexander Slesarev (Houston, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Vera Abramova (Houston, Texas); Alexander Slesarev (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods of preparing graphene nanoribbons from a graphene film associated with a meniscus, where the method comprises patterning the graphene film while the meniscus acts as a mask above a region of the graphene film, and where the patterning results in formation of graphene nanoribbons from the meniscus-masked region of the graphene film. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to methods of preparing wires from a film associated with a meniscus, where the method comprises patterning the film while the meniscus acts as a mask above a region of the film, and where the patterning results in formation of a wire from the meniscus-masked region of the film. Additional embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to chemical methods of preparing wires from water-reactive materials. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/171642 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0438 (20130101) C01B 31/0484 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/3065 (20130101) H01L 21/31116 (20130101) H01L 21/32131 (20130101) H01L 29/66742 (20130101) H01L 29/78606 (20130101) H01L 29/78684 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 29/78696 (20130101) |
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| US 09356162 | Pan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Noren Pan (Wilmette, Illinois); Christopher Youtsey (Libertyville, Illinois); David S. McCallum (West Chicago, Illinois); Victor C. Elarde (Evanston, Illinois); John M. Dallesasse (Niles, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noren Pan (Wilmette, Illinois); Christopher Youtsey (Libertyville, Illinois); David S. McCallum (West Chicago, Illinois); Victor C. Elarde (Evanston, Illinois); John M. Dallesasse (Niles, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application utilizes an oxidation process to fabricating a Group III-V compound semiconductor solar cell device. By the oxidation process, a window layer disposed on a cell unit is oxidized to enhance the efficiency of the solar cell device. The oxidized window has an increased band gap to minimize the surface recombination of electrons and holes. The oxidized window also improves transparency at the wavelengths that were absorbed in the conventional window layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695671 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0735 (20130101) H01L 31/1868 (20130101) H01L 31/02168 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09356176 | Cornfeld et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Cornfeld (Sandy Springs, Georgia); Pravin Patel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark A. Stan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Benjamin Cho (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul R. Sharps (Alburquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Aiken (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); John Spann (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A multijunction solar cell having at least four solar subcells includes a first solar subcell having a first band gap. A first graded interlayer adjacent to the first solar subcell and has a second band gap greater than the first band gap and that is constant at 1.5 eV throughout the thickness of the first graded interlayer. A second solar subcell is adjacent to the first graded interlayer and has a third band gap smaller than the first band gap of the first solar subcell. The second solar subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to the first solar subcell. A second graded interlayer is adjacent to the second solar subcell and has a fourth band gap greater than the third band gap of the second solar subcell and that is constant at 1.1 eV throughout the thickness of the second graded interlayer. A third solar subcell is adjacent to the second graded interlayer and has a fifth band gap smaller than the third band gap of the second solar subcell. The third solar subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to the second solar subcell. Each of the first and second graded interlayers is composed, respectively, of a compositionally step-graded series of (InxGa1-x)yAl1-yAs layers with monotonically changing lattice constant, with x and y having respective values such that the band gap of each interlayer remains constant throughout its thickness, and wherein 0<x<1 and 0<y<1. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/813745 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/078 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) H01L 31/1892 (20130101) H01L 31/06875 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09356178 | Peale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Peale (Winter Park, Florida); Masahiro Ishigami (Orlando, Florida); Christian W. Smith (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasmonic phototransistor includes a photon to surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) transducer including and an optical coupling structure configured to receive incident light and an electrically conducting layer having a first and a second surface. The second surface is on the optical coupling structure and the first surface generates SPPs responsive to the incident light. A gate dielectric layer is on the first surface. A two dimensional (2D) electrically conductive material is on the gate dielectric layer having electrical properties sensitive to electromagnetic fields of the SPP. Source and drain contacts are on the 2D electrically conductive material. Dynamic electric fields of the SPPs reach the 2D electrically conductive material that are operable to electric field-induce modulation of an electrical conductance of the 2D electrically conductive material which is sensed from the source and drain contacts. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/516330 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 1/42 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/1136 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02327 (20130101) |
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| US 09356183 | Sheldon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matthew Sheldon (Los Angeles, California); Carissa N. Eisler (Santa Clarita, California); Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Sheldon (Los Angeles, California); Carissa N. Eisler (Santa Clarita, California); Harry A. Atwater (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound III/V optoelectronic device and method associated with such a device is disclosed. In one aspect, a method for an improved III/V compound optoelectronic device is disclosed. The method comprises applying a sulfur surfactant on the III/V compound optoelectronic device to improve passivation of the III/V compound optoelectronic device. In a second aspect, a III/V compound optoelectronic device is disclosed. The III/V compound optoelectronic device comprises a thin film device with a III/V compound semiconductor absorbing material, and a sulfur surfactant on the III/V compound thin film device to improve passivation of the III/V compound optoelectronic device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/528721 |
| ART UNIT | 1758 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/18 (20130101) H01L 31/0216 (20130101) H01L 31/1868 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02167 (20130101) |
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| US 09356240 | Lai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California); Alfred J. Baca (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Lai (Ridgecrest, California); Alfred J. Baca (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making electronic devices based on derivatized ladder polymer (Pz-BBL) including photovoltaic modules and simple thin film transistors in planar and mechanically flexible and stretchable constructs. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/667115 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 4/008 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0002 (20130101) H01L 51/0044 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0508 (20130101) |
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| US 09356291 | Allen 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 AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan L. Allen (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joshua L. Allen (Columbia, Maryland); Samuel A. Delp, III (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jeffrey B. Wolfenstine (Silver Spring, Maryland); T. Richard Jow (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A positive electrode material having a nominal stoichiometry Li1+y/2Co1−x−y−z−dSizFexMyM′d(PO4)1+y/2 where M is a trivalent cation selected from at least one of Cr, Ti, Al, Mn, Ni, V, Sc, La and/or Ga, M′ is a divalent cation selected from at least one of Mn, Ni, Zn, Sr, Cu, Ca and/or Mg, y is within a range of 0<y≦0.10 and x is within a range of 0≦x≦0.2. The use of double compositional modification to LiCoPO4 increases the discharge capacity from ˜100 mAh/g to about 130 mAh/g while retaining the discharge capacity retention of the singly Fe-substituted LiCoPO4. Additional compositional modification to include Si increases the cycle life and greatly improved the coulombic efficiency to between 97-100% at a C/3 cycle rate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/281924 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Capacitors; Capacitors, Rectifiers, Detectors, Switching Devices or Light-sensitive Devices, of the Electrolytic Type H01G 11/46 (20130101) H01G 11/50 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/5825 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2004/021 (20130101) H01M 2004/028 (20130101) |
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| US 09356297 | Atanassov et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Plamen B Atanassov (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Heather R Luckarift (Port St Joe, Florida); Glenn R. Johnson (Panama City, Florida); Jared N. Roy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan R. Sizemore (Wewahitchka, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Plamen B Atanassov (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Heather R Luckarift (Port St Joe, Florida); Glenn R. Johnson (Panama City, Florida); Jared N. Roy (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Susan R. Sizemore (Wewahitchka, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Scalable, hierarchically structure biopolymer carbon architectures that are suitable for use as bioelectrodes and biologically friendly methods for making the same. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/839699 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/88 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/16 (20130101) |
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| US 09356331 | Toonen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Adelphi, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan C. Toonen (Belcamp, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A high radio frequency transmission line having a dielectric substrate with two sides and constructed of a transparent material. An electrically conductive strip extends along at least a portion of one side of the substrate. An electrically conductive film is deposited on one of the sides of the substrate at a position spaced from the conductive strip. This conductive film has a thickness sufficiently small so that the film is substantially transparent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/247380 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 3/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09356564 | Kang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongchan Kang (Moorpark, California); Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband linear amplifier including an input, a first distributed amplifier coupled to the input and having a bias for one of Class A or Class AB operation, the first distributed amplifier including a first plurality of field effect transistors and having a first output, a second distributed amplifier coupled to the input and having a bias for Class C operation, the second distributed amplifier including a second plurality of field effect transistors and having a second output, and a summed output coupled to the first output and the second output, wherein gate widths of the first plurality of field effect transistors monotonically decrease from the input to the first output, and wherein gate widths of the second plurality of field effect transistors monotonically decrease from the input to the second output. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/228169 |
| ART UNIT | 2842 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers H03F 1/3205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03F 3/193 (20130101) H03F 3/211 (20130101) |
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| US 09356603 | Limb et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott J. H. Limb (Palo Alto, California); Gregory L. Whiting (Menlo Park, California); Sean R. Garner (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermally tempered glass substrate for transient electronic systems (i.e., including electronic devices that visually disappear when triggered to do so) including two or more fused-together glass structures having different coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) values disposed in an intermixed arrangement manner that generates and stores potential energy in the form of residual, self-equilibrating internal stresses. In alternative embodiments the substrate includes laminated glass sheets, or glass elements (e.g., beads or cylinders) disposed in a glass layer. A trigger device causes an initial fracture in the thermally tempered glass substrate, whereby the fracture energy nearly instantaneously travels throughout the thermally tempered glass substrate, causing the thermally tempered glass substrate to shatter into multiple small (e.g., micron-sized) pieces that are difficult to detect. Patterned fracture features are optionally provided to control the final fractured particle size. Electronic systems built on the substrate are entirely destroyed and dispersed during the transience event. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/694121 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 7/02 (20130101) B32B 17/00 (20130101) B32B 2457/08 (20130101) B32B 2457/14 (20130101) Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 19/09 (20130101) C03B 23/203 (20130101) Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 3/00 (20130101) C03C 4/0064 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/71 (20130101) H01L 23/14 (20130101) H01L 23/15 (20130101) H01L 27/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/17768 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24942 (20150115) |
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| US 09356645 | Agrawal 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) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Vasileios Pappas (Elmsford, New York); Ramya Raghavendra (White Plains, New York); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York); Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, New York); Ho Y. Wong (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program product for transmitting content across a link in a communications network. In an embodiment, the method comprises examining traffic in the network at a sender end of the link to determine if the traffic is carrying compressed content; when the traffic is carrying compressed content, decompressing at least one portion of the compressed content; and checking a cache to determine if the cache has content matching the at least one decompressed portion of the content. In an embodiment, the method further comprises when the cache has content matching the at least one decompressed portion of the content, determining an identifier associated with the at least one decompressed portion of the content; and using the identifier to reconstruct, at a receiving end of the link, the at least one decompressed portion of the content. In one embodiment, the at least one decompressed portion of the content from the traffic is replaced with an index, the index is compressed to form the associated identifier, and the associated identifier is sent to the receiving end of the link. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/679487 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/66 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 67/2842 (20130101) H04L 67/2885 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09356692 | Schermer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ross Schermer (Springfield, Virginia); Frank Bucholtz (Crofton, Maryland); Carl A. Villarruel (Burke, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross Schermer (Springfield, Virginia); Frank Bucholtz (Crofton, Maryland); Carl A. Villarruel (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system testing the speed of a microwave photonic system, having a Mach Zehnder interferometer that includes a first arm with a photonic system to be tested and an amplifier arranged to amplify the output of the photonic system, and a second arm with an attenuator configured to match the output power of the amplifier, with at least one filter arranged at the output of the Mach Zehnder interferometer, the filter having a pass band that includes the center frequency of a continuous wave microwave signal applied to the Mach Zehnder interferometer arms. A continuous wave microwave signal is applied to the input of the Mach Zehnder interferometer, a signal is applied to only the second arm with the photonic link, and the output of the bandpass filter is measured with an oscilloscope and a microwave power detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/682307 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 9/02 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 26/06 (20130101) G02B 26/105 (20130101) G02B 27/44 (20130101) G02B 27/0087 (20130101) G02B 27/4233 (20130101) Waveguides; Resonators, Lines, or Other Devices of the Waveguide Type H01P 9/00 (20130101) Generation of Oscillations, Directly or by Frequency-changing, by Circuits Employing Active Elements Which Operate in a Non-switching Manner; Generation of Noise by Such Circuits H03B 17/00 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/30 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/0795 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09356779 | Boneh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Matthew Franklin (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Matthew Franklin (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for encrypting a first piece of information M to be sent by a sender [100] to a receiver [110] allows both sender and receiver to compute a secret message key using identity-based information and a bilinear map. The sender uses a bilinear map to encrypt a message M, producing ciphertext V to be sent from the sender [100] to the receiver [110]. The receiver [110] uses the bilinear map to decrypt V and recover the original message M. According to one embodiment, the bilinear map is based on a Weil pairing or a Tate pairing defined on a subgroup of an elliptic curve. Also described are several applications of the techniques, including key revocation, credential management, and return receipt notification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/369165 |
| ART UNIT | 2496 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0847 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/3073 (20130101) H04L 2209/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09357151 | Milkov |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC and IMAGING, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TELEDYNE SCIENTIFIC and IMAGING, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihail Milkov (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A shared counter circuit for a column-parallel single-slope ADC includes an n-bit counter; n low-voltage (LV) drivers connected to receive respective counter output bits and to provide a logic high or logic low output signal which tracks the received bit, the voltage difference between the logic high and logic low output signals being less than Vdd; and a plurality of sets of regenerative latches powered by a supply voltage Vdd, each of which receives an output from a respective LV driver and latches and regenerates the received output as a rail-to-rail CMOS signal upon the occurrence of a trigger event. One typical trigger event occurs when a periodic ramp voltage exceeds an input voltage provided to the ADC which may originate, for example, from the columns of a photodetector array. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/671179 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 1/00 (20130101) H03M 1/56 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 3/155 (20130101) H04N 5/363 (20130101) H04N 5/378 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04N 5/3698 (20130101) H04N 5/37455 (20130101) |
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| US 09357331 | Huang |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dijiang Huang (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dijiang Huang (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and apparatuses for a secure mobile cloud framework (referred to as MobiCloud) for mobile computing and communication are disclosed. Embodiments of MobiCloud transfer each mobile node from a traditional strictly layer-structured communication node into a service node (SN). Each SN may be used as a service provider or a service broker according its capability. Each SN may be incorporated as a virtualized component of the MobiCloud. In some embodiments, MobiCloud mirrors an SN to one or multiple virtual images in the Cloud for addressing communication and computation deficiencies of mobile devices. Virtual images can create a visualized MANET routing and communication layer that can maximally assist the mobile nodes to enable pervasive computing services for each mobile device owner. A secure data processing framework is disclosed for the MobiCloud. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/440201 |
| ART UNIT | 2456 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 63/20 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 4/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Steven Barlow (Lawrence, Kansas); Douglas S. Kieweg (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Barlow (Lawrence, Kansas); Douglas S. Kieweg (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for measuring orofacial stiffness in a subject can include: two lip saddle attachment components configured for attachment to the lip saddles of a patients mouth; two elongate members, each being coupled with one of the lip saddle attachment components; a pivot member that couples the two elongate members at a pivot point opposite from the two lip saddle attachment components; an electronic sensor configured to sense the stiffness of the lips by sensing movement of the elongate members with respect to the pivot point, where the electronic sensor is operably coupled to each of the elongate members; and a pressure component configured move with respect to the pivot point so as to provide pressure to and/or receive pressure from the lip saddle attachment components. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/392064 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/228 (20130101) A61B 5/0488 (20130101) A61B 5/682 (20130101) A61B 5/4082 (20130101) A61B 5/4088 (20130101) A61B 5/4519 (20130101) A61B 5/6819 (20130101) |
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| US 09351705 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lihong Wang (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Konstantin Maslov (Affton, Missouri); Joon-Mo Yang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lihong Wang (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Konstantin Maslov (Affton, Missouri); Joon-Mo Yang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A reflection-mode photoacoustic endoscope includes a light source configured to emit a light pulse, a signal detection or transmission unit configured to detect or emit an ultrasonic pulse, and a rotatable reflector. The rotatable reflector is configured to reflect at least one of the light pulse and the ultrasonic pulse into a target area of an object, and reflect a response signal to the signal detection unit. The response signal is one of a photoacoustic wave generated by the object responsive to the light pulse and an ultrasonic pulse echo generated by the object responsive to the ultrasonic pulse. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/143832 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/08 (20130101) A61B 5/0062 (20130101) A61B 5/0084 (20130101) A61B 5/0095 (20130101) A61B 8/12 (20130101) A61B 8/4461 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09351914 | Marinkovich 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) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California); Jing Gao (Mountain View, California); Xiaoyu Xu (Foster City, California); Jayakumar Rajadas (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for the use of a truncated, recombinant laminin-511 for modifying hair growth as well as delivery devices, kits and methods for topically administering truncated, recombinant laminin-511. Furthermore disclosed are delivery devices, kits and methods using modulators of full-length laminin-511 expression or function to decrease hair growth in areas of unwanted hair growth. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/385138 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 8/0204 (20130101) A61K 8/606 (20130101) A61K 2800/91 (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 5/002 (20130101) A61M 37/0015 (20130101) A61M 2037/0023 (20130101) A61M 2037/0061 (20130101) Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 7/00 (20130101) A61Q 7/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09351963 | De Leeuw et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik De Leeuw (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexander D. Mackerell, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for treating and/or preventing infections in mammals, by administering to a mammal a therapeutically effective amount of at least one defensin-like molecule, e.g., in a composition that includes such molecule. Also disclosed are kits that include such molecules, or compositions that include such molecules, as well as instructions for using such molecules to treat a mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/911234 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/05 (20130101) A61K 31/09 (20130101) A61K 31/35 (20130101) A61K 31/40 (20130101) A61K 31/351 (20130101) A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/433 (20130101) A61K 31/4174 (20130101) A61K 31/4709 (20130101) |
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| US 09351964 | Almstead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neil Almstead (Princeton, New Jersey); Tamil Arasu (Edison, New Jersey); Soongyu Choi (Skillman, New Jersey); Liangxian Cao (Parlin, New Jersey); Jeffrey Allen Campbell (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina); Donald Corson (Erie, Colorado); Thomas W. Davis (South Orange, New Jersey); Jason D. Graci (Scranton, Pennsylvania); Zhengxian Gu (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Seongwoo Hwang (Edison, New Jersey); William Lennox (Bedminster, New Jersey); Harry H. Miao (Wellsley, Massachusetts); Langdon Miller (Seattle, Washington); Young-Choon Moon (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Hongyan Qi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Christopher Trotta (Somerset, New Jersey); Marla L. Weetall (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (South Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Almstead (Princeton, New Jersey); Tamil Arasu (Edison, New Jersey); Soongyu Choi (Skillman, New Jersey); Liangxian Cao (Parlin, New Jersey); Jeffrey Allen Campbell (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina); Donald Corson (Erie, Colorado); Thomas W. Davis (South Orange, New Jersey); Jason D. Graci (Scranton, Pennsylvania); Zhengxian Gu (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Seongwoo Hwang (Edison, New Jersey); William Lennox (Bedminster, New Jersey); Harry H. Miao (Wellsley, Massachusetts); Langdon Miller (Seattle, Washington); Young-Choon Moon (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Hongyan Qi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Christopher Trotta (Somerset, New Jersey); Marla L. Weetall (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, such as compounds of Formula (I), that selectively inhibit pathological production of human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and compositions comprising such Compounds are described. Compounds that inhibit viral replication or the production of viral RNA or DNA or viral protein and compositions comprising such Compounds are described. Also described are methods of reducing VEGF using such Compounds and methods for treating cancer and non-neoplastic conditions involving the administration of such Compounds. Further described are methods of inhibiting viral replication or the production of viral RNA or DNA or viral protein using such Compounds and methods for treating viral infections involving the administration of such Compounds. The Compounds may be administered as a single agent therapy or in combination with one or more additional therapies to a human in need of such treatments. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/321257 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 471/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09351971 | Cardone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Cardone (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Xiang Y. Yu (Acton, Massachusetts); Andrew F. Kolodziej (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a chemotherapeutic cancer treatment in which compounds (BH3Is) are administered to a mammal to treat B-cell Lymphoma or other hematopoietic cancers, including diseases associated with MCL-1. The invention also provides a method for treating types of hematopoietic cancers, such as B-cell lymphoma, using a combination of one or more disclosed compounds in combination with other therapes, for example, 26S proteasome inhibitors, such as, for example, Bortezomib. The invention also relates to autoimmune treatment with pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more disclosed compounds. The invention also relates to methods for identifying compounds, for example, compounds of the BH3 mimic class, that have unique in vitro properties that predict in vivo efficacy against B-cell lymphoma tumors and other cancers as well as autoimmune disease. Illustrative compounds are those of Formula II: |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/624263 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/92 (20130101) C07C 229/18 (20130101) C07C 229/34 (20130101) C07C 229/36 (20130101) C07C 229/48 (20130101) C07C 229/58 (20130101) C07C 229/60 (20130101) C07C 229/64 (20130101) C07C 311/21 (20130101) C07C 317/36 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/34 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) C07D 211/60 (20130101) C07D 213/79 (20130101) C07D 215/48 (20130101) C07D 231/14 (20130101) C07D 231/38 (20130101) C07D 235/26 (20130101) C07D 239/28 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 241/46 (20130101) C07D 261/18 (20130101) C07D 263/34 (20130101) C07D 263/48 (20130101) C07D 309/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09352004 | Chancellor 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) | Michael B. Chancellor (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Johnny Huard (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides muscle-derived cells, preferably myoblasts and muscle-derived stem cells, genetically engineered to contain and express one or more heterologous genes or functional segments of such genes, for delivery of the encoded gene products at or near sites of musculoskeletal, bone, ligament, meniscus, cartilage or genitourinary disease, injury, defect, or dysfunction. Ex vivo myoblast mediated gene delivery of human inducible nitric oxide synthase, and the resulting production of nitric oxide at and around the site of injury, are particularly provided by the invention as a treatment for lower genitourinary tract dysfunctions. Ex vivo gene transfer for the musculoskeletal system includes genes encoding acidic fibroblast growth factor, basic fibroblast growth factor, epidermal growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, platelet derived growth factor, transforming growth factor-1, transforming growth factor-a, nerve growth factor and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist protein (IRAP), bone morphogenetic protein (BMPs), cartilage derived morphogenetic protein (CDMPs), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and sonic hedgehog proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/277969 |
| 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 35/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0658 (20130101) C12N 5/0659 (20130101) C12N 2501/13 (20130101) C12N 2501/105 (20130101) C12N 2501/113 (20130101) C12N 2501/115 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) C12N 2510/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09352015 | Hodges et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert S. Hodges (Denver, Colorado); Ziqing Jiang (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Hodges (Denver, Colorado); Ziqing Jiang (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are antimicrobial peptides with useful or superior properties such as antimicrobial activity, desirable levels of hemolysis, and advantageous therapeutic index against various microorganisms, especially Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Staphylococcus aureus. Also provided are methods of to control microbial growth and pharmaceutical compositions to treat or prevent microbial infections. Certain peptides are disclosed utilizing a structure-based rational modification of antimicrobial peptide D1, with single D-/L-amino acid substitutions or charged residue substitutions in or near the center of the peptide on the nonpolar or polar face, or peptides with one or more amino acids in the D configuration, and peptides with all amino acids in the D configuration. Modified peptide analogs herein can demonstrate one or more properties such as improved antimicrobial activity, specificity, and resistance to degradation. Compositions disclosed herein are useful as antibiotics, including as broad spectrum antibiotics. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/793666 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09352023 | Frey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mark R. Frey (Glendale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Frey (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, pharmaceutical compositions and kits for treating, inhibiting and/or reducing the severity of inflammatory bowel disease and necrotizing enterocolitis in a subject in need thereof by administering an effective amount of a composition comprising an activator of ErbB4. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/236831 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2333/71 (20130101) G01N 2440/14 (20130101) G01N 2500/10 (20130101) G01N 2800/065 (20130101) |
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| US 09352033 | Palese et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Robert E. O'Neil (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Robert E. O'Neil (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, to novel methods and substrates for the propagation of viruses. The invention relates to IFN-deficient substrates and methods for propagating viruses in these unconventional substrates. In particular, the invention relates to methods of propagating viruses in immature embryonated eggs, preferably six- to nine-day-old chicken eggs. The methods of the invention are particularly attractive for growing viruses suitable for use in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364243 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/525 (20130101) A61K 2039/543 (20130101) A61K 2039/585 (20130101) A61K 2039/5254 (20130101) A61K 2039/5256 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/005 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2760/16121 (20130101) C12N 2760/16122 (20130101) C12N 2760/16132 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16143 (20130101) C12N 2760/16151 (20130101) C12N 2760/16161 (20130101) C12N 2760/16221 (20130101) C12N 2760/16222 (20130101) C12N 2760/16232 (20130101) C12N 2760/16234 (20130101) C12N 2760/16243 (20130101) C12N 2760/16251 (20130101) |
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| US 09352039 | Liu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Suling Liu (Heifei, China PRC); Max S. Wicha (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, kits, and methods for therapeutic screening, diagnostics, and cancer treatment based on the identification or use of the different states of cancer stem cells, including cancer stem cells in the EMT (epithelial to mesenchymal transition) MET (mesenchymal to epithelial transition), and EMT-MET states are disclosed. In some methods, a subject is treated with one therapeutic that targets EMT cancer stem cells and a second therapeutic that targets MET cancers stem cells. In certain methods, the different states of cancer stem cells are distinguished based on markers CD44+CD24−, EpCam−CD49P+ (for EMT cancers stem cells), ALDH+ and EPCam+CD49r− (for MET cancers stem cells), and CD44+CD24−ALDH+ (for EMT-MET cancer stem cells). In particular methods, micro RNAs are used to transition to one particular cancer stem cell type (e.g., mir-100 for EMT and mir-93 for MET). |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376923 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) A61K 2039/507 (20130101) A61K 2039/5154 (20130101) A61K 2300/00 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1135 (20130101) C12N 15/1136 (20130101) C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/31 (20130101) C12N 2330/50 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57484 (20130101) |
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| US 09352055 | Pantazis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Periklis Pantazis (Oberwil, Switzerland); Jelena Culic-Viskota (Chandler, Arizona); William P. Dempsey (The Woodlands, Texas); Scott E. Fraser (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized second harmonic nanoprobes for imaging samples and a method of using such probes to monitor the dynamics different processes using a variety of imaging techniques are provided. The functionalized second harmonic generating (SHG) nanoprobes are comprised of various kinds of nanocrystalline materials that do not possess an inversion symmetry and therefore are capable of generating second harmonic signals that can then be detected by conventional two-photon microscopy, and are provided with functional surface modifications that allow for targeted imaging of a variety of biological and non-biological processes and structures such as cell signaling, neuroimaging, protein conformation probing, DNA conformation probing, gene transcription, virus infection and replication in cells, protein dynamics, tumor imaging and cancer therapy evaluation and diagnosis as well as quantification in optical imaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/850661 |
| 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 49/0063 (20130101) A61K 49/0093 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Peptides C07K 17/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/588 (20130101) |
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| US 09352122 | Mulvihill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P Klaus (State College, Pennsylvania); Casey A Scruggs (Middleburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P Klaus (State College, Pennsylvania); Casey A Scruggs (Middleburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for clearing blockages is provided that may have a tube that is slit. The tube may have a lumen. A reciprocating member may be provided and a portion of the reciprocating member may be located within the lumen. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863108 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 25/00 (20130101) A61M 25/0082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2025/0019 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hur Koser (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for separating a sample of cells suspended in a bio-compatible ferrofluid is described, The device includes a microfluidic channel having a sample inlet, at least one outlet and a length between the same inlet and the at least one outlet, wherein a sample can be added to the sample inlet and flow along the microfluidic channel length to the at least one outlet. The device includes a plurality of electrodes and a power source for applying a current to the plurality of electrodes to create a magnetic field pattern along the microfluidic channel length. The present invention also includes a method of using said device for separating at least one cell type. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/591492 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/23 (20130101) B03C 1/253 (20130101) B03C 2201/18 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09353075 | Piomelli et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia (Genoa, Italy); Universita Degli Studi Di Parma (Parma, Italy); Universita Degli Studi Di Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Urbino, Italy) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Fondazione Istituto Italiano Di Technologia (Genoa, Italy); Universita Degli Studi Di Parma (Parma, Italy); Universita Degli Studi Di Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Urbino, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniele Piomelli (Irvine, California); Tiziano Bandiera (Gambolo, Italy); Marco Mor (Ghedi, Italy); Giorgio Tarzia (Petriano, Italy); Fabio Bertozzi (Genoa, Italy); Stefano Ponzano (Florence, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting N-acylethanolamine acid amidase (NAAA). Inhibition of NAAA is contemplated as a method to sustain the levels of palmitoylethanolamide (PEA) and oleylethanolamide (OEA), two substrates of NAAA, in conditions characterized by reduced concentrations of PEA and OEA. The invention also provides methods for treating inflammatory diseases and pain, and other disorders in which decreased levels of PEA and OEA are associated with the disorder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/684017 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/38 (20130101) A61K 31/365 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 305/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 405/12 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09353078 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ann Marie Schmidt (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey); Ravichandran Ramasamy (Ardsley, New York); Alexander Shekhtman (Glenmont, New York); Vivek Rai (Allahabad, India); Michaele B. Manigrasso (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York); The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann Marie Schmidt (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey); Ravichandran Ramasamy (Ardsley, New York); Alexander Shekhtman (Glenmont, New York); Vivek Rai (Allahabad, India); Michaele B. Manigrasso (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Amino, amido, and heterocyclic compounds are disclosed. The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, diabetes complications, inflammation, and neurodegeneration, obesity, cancer, ischemia/reperfusion injury, cardiovascular disease and other diseases related to RAGE activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/503919 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/75 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 277/28 (20130101) C07D 319/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353089 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri); Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri); Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoping Chen (Guangzhou, China PRC); Ke Ding (Guangzhou, China PRC); Marvin J. Meyers (Wentzville, Missouri); Micky D. Tortorella (Guangzhou, China PRC); Jing Xu (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides aminohydantoin anti-malarial agents. In some embodiments, these agents have the property of functions of targeting malarial aspartic proteases while at the same time having low activity against human BACE. Methods of employing such agents are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/226295 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 233/02 (20130101) C07D 401/10 (20130101) C07D 403/04 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353094 | Natarajan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Nebraska); THE BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Nebraska); THE BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amarnath Natarajan (Elkhorn, Nebraska); Qianyi Chen (Shanghai, China PRC); Vashti C. Bryant (Cary, North Carolina); Rajkumar Rajule (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) and methods of inhibiting IKKβ and the NF-κB signaling and mTOR pathways. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/639501 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 241/42 (20130101) C07D 241/44 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 401/14 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 405/04 (20130101) C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 471/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09353116 | Garske 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) | Adam L. Garske (San Francisco, California); Kevan M. Shokat (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention sets forth a new chemical genetic approach for engineering kinase enzymes with a cysteine gatekeeper residue as well as for developing electrophilic inhibitors thereto. The present invention also provides a Src proto-oncogenic tyrosine kinase with a cysteine gatekeeper that recapitulates wild type activity and can be irreversibly inhibited both in vitro and in cells. The present invention also provides methods and compositions for modulating kinases and for treating kinase-associate diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690785 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/94 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 409/12 (20130101) C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09353117 | Marugan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Juan Jose Marugan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Noel Southall (Potomac, Maryland); Ehud Goldin (Rockville, Maryland); Wei Zheng (Potomac, Maryland); Samarjit Patnaik (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ellen Sidransky (Bethesda, Maryland); Omid Motabar (Darnestown, Maryland); Wendy Westbroek (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Jose Marugan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Noel Southall (Potomac, Maryland); Ehud Goldin (Rockville, Maryland); Wei Zheng (Potomac, Maryland); Samarjit Patnaik (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ellen Sidransky (Bethesda, Maryland); Omid Motabar (Darnestown, Maryland); Wendy Westbroek (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted pyrazolopyrimidines and dihydropyrazolopyrimidines and related compounds, their methods of manufacture, compositions containing these compounds, and methods of use of these compounds in treating lysosomal storage disorders such as Gaucher disease are described herein. The compounds are of general Formula (I) in which variables R1-R7 and X are described in the application. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/991816 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353121 | Theodorescu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado); THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Virginia); INDIANA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Theodorescu (Englewood, Colorado); Michael Fitzpatrick Wempe (Aurora, Colorado); David Ross (Niwot, Colorado); Samy Meroueh (Westfield, Indiana); Martin A. Schwartz (Earlysville, Virginia); Phillip Reigan (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of inhibiting the growth or metastasis of a cancer in a mammal by inhibiting a Ral GTPase in the mammal. The invention also provides small molecule inhibitors of Ral GTPases useful in the methods of the invention and pharmaceutical compositions containing the therapeutically effective compounds of the invention, and methods of using the same. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/366035 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/351 (20130101) A61K 31/437 (20130101) A61K 31/505 (20130101) A61K 31/4162 (20130101) A61K 31/5513 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353150 | Movassaghi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Movassaghi (Arlington, Massachusetts); Justin Kim (Sunland, California); Paul J. Hergenrother (Champaign, Illinois); Karen Morrison (West Sacramento, California); Nicolas Boyer (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides, among other things, a compound of Formula I-a and/or I-b, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables are defined in the specification. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating various diseases including cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/096158 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48384 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 487/14 (20130101) C07D 513/22 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353166 | Zheng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Zheng (Cincinnati, Ohio); David A. Williams (Dover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric peptides or fusion proteins are disclosed that include a RhoGAP activity domain and at least one specificity domain that targets a specific Rho protein. The fusion proteins can be used to inhibit any GTPase activity within a cell. The fusion proteins are particularly advantageous for the treatment of cancer. The present invention generally relates to chimeric peptides capable of regulating GTPases, and more particularly, to methods of targeting individual GTPases by using GTPase-activating proteins. Such proteins may be used for the treatment of cancers and other GTPase-related diseases. This invention relates to nucleic acid molecules and the encoded GTPase activating proteins, and variants thereof, and to the use of these molecules in the characterization, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cell signaling, immune, and cell proliferative disorders, particularly cancer. Disclosed herein are compounds and methods for regulating transcription of a selected gene. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/216318 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/4706 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2319/01 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 306/05002 (20130101) |
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| US 09353167 | Deisseroth et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroVAX, LLC (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert B. Deisseroth (Potomac, Maryland); Yucheng Tang (San Diego, California); Wei-Wei Zhang (San Diego, California); Xiang-Ming Fang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of generating an immune response to an antigen. The method comprises priming an individual by administering an expression vector encoding the antigen. The vector comprises a transcription unit encoding a secretable fusion protein, the fusion protein containing an antigen and CD40 ligand. Administration of a fusion protein containing the antigen and CD40 ligand is used to enhance the immune response above that obtained by vector administration alone. The methods may be used to generate an immune response against cancer expressing a tumor antigen such as a mucin or human papilloma viral tumor antigen and to generate an immune response against an infectious agent. Also provided is a method for simultaneously producing the expression vector and the fusion protein. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/478353 |
| 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) A61K 2039/545 (20130101) A61K 2039/6031 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/4748 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/70578 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/86 (20130101) C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) |
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| US 09353168 | Dzau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor J. Dzau (Durham, North Carolina); Maria Mirotsou (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified paracrine factor of a mesenchymal stem cell, such as a Secreted frizzled related protein (Sfrp) is useful to reduce cell death and/or tissue injury associated with ischemic conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/256174 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/17 (20130101) A61K 38/18 (20130101) A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/435 (20130101) C07K 14/475 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/10 (20130101) C12N 15/09 (20130101) C12N 15/63 (20130101) |
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| US 09353178 | Lukacs et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas W. Lukacs (Brighton, Michigan); Vladislav A. Dolgachev (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Steven L. Kunkel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cory M. Hogaboam (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sem H. Phan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods, compositions, and uses relating to inhibitors of stem cell factor. For example, provided herein are antibodies targeting stem cell factor and methods for treating fibrotic and tissue remodeling diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/937852 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/22 (20130101) C07K 16/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09353188 | Hu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Guofu Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Wenhao Yu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tufts Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guofu Hu (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Wenhao Yu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel compositions and methods for the inhibition of Plexin B2-mediated Angiogenin activity. Such compositions and methods are useful, for example, for the treatment of cancer, the treatment of wet AMD and the inhibition of angiogenesis. Also disclosed herein are methods of determining whether a test agent is a modulator of Plexin B2 activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/008085 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/71 (20130101) C07K 14/715 (20130101) C07K 16/28 (20130101) C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 2317/34 (20130101) C07K 2317/73 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1138 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6863 (20130101) |
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| US 09353352 | Blelloch 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) | Robert Blelloch (San Francisco, California); Robert Laird Judson (San Francisco, California); Collin Alfred Melton (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods of the present application describe that introduction of physiologically relevant miRNAs can enhance or modulate somatic cell reprogramming, generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells). These miRNAs did not further enhance reprogramming in the presence of cMyc. Furthermore, unlike previously described methods of generating iPS cells, such as through the introduction of genetic elements using viruses, the methods of the present invention reduce the risk of activating oncogenes in the iPS cells. The methods of the invention generate iPS cells that can be free of genetic modifications and thus have greater potential for use as therapeutic agents than those generated by existing methods. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/472987 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/545 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2501/65 (20130101) C12N 2501/602 (20130101) C12N 2501/603 (20130101) C12N 2501/604 (20130101) C12N 2510/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09353353 | Nabel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gary J. Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia); Wataru Akahata (Kensington, Maryland); Srinivas Rao (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia); Wataru Akahata (Kensington, Maryland); Srinivas Rao (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions and methods for the prevention or treatment of one or more strains of Chikungunya virus, as well as other alphavirus-mediated diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 13/131287 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) A61K 2039/55566 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2740/16043 (20130101) C12N 2770/36123 (20130101) C12N 2770/36134 (20130101) |
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| US 09353359 | Sorek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rotem Sorek (Rehovot, Israel); Hila Sberro (Rehovot, Israel); Azita Leavitt (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated polypeptide is disclosed comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 2773-5544 and 11089-11094, wherein the polypeptide has antimicrobial activity. Uses thereof for treating microbial infections are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/140793 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/8107 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/22 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 9/1241 (20130101) |
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| US 09353374 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Rossi (Duarte, California); Katrin Tiemann (Pasadena, California); Jiehua Zhou (Monrovia, California); Britta Vallazza (Hagen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a B cell specific aptamer-siRNA chimera is provided. The B cell specific aptamer-siRNA chimera may include an RNA aptamer that binds BAFF-R and an siRNA molecule conjugated to the RNA aptamer via a nucleotide linker. In another embodiment, a B cell specific RNA aptamer is provided. The RNA aptamer may be a molecule that binds to BAFF-R that has the sequence SEQ ID NO:37, SEQ ID NO:38 or SEQ ID NO:39. In some embodiments, the RNA aptamer is conjugated, via a nucleotide linker, to an siRNA molecule that suppresses expression of one or more target oncogenes in one or more B cells. In one aspect, the one or more target oncogenes are selected from Bcl6, Bcl2, STAT3, Cyclin D1, Cyclin E2 and c-myc. In another embodiment, methods for treating a B cell malignancy in a cancer patient are provided. Such methods may include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic composition, the therapeutic composition comprising a B cell specific RNA aptamer that binds BAFF-R. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/685486 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/713 (20130101) A61K 47/48092 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/115 (20130101) C12N 15/1135 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/3519 (20130101) C12N 2320/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09353414 | Fan 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) | Hei-Mun Christina Fan (Fremont, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method to achieve digital quantification of DNA (i.e., counting differences between identical sequences) using direct shotgun sequencing followed by mapping to the chromosome of origin and enumeration of fragments per chromosome. The preferred method uses massively parallel sequencing, which can produce tens of millions of short sequence tags in a single run and enabling a sampling that can be statistically evaluated. By counting the number of sequence tags mapped to a predefined window in each chromosome, the over- or under-representation of any chromosome in maternal plasma DNA contributed by an aneuploid fetus can be detected. This method does not require the differentiation of fetal versus maternal DNA. The median count of autosomal values is used as a normalization constant to account for differences in total number of sequence tags is used for comparison between samples and between chromosomes. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/168714 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6869 (20130101) C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/48 (20130101) G01N 2800/387 (20130101) |
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| US 09353418 | Vogelstein et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); Duke University (Durham, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); D. Williams Parsons (Bellaire, Texas); Xiaosong Zhang (San Francisco, California); Jimmy Cheng-Ho Lin (Baltimore, Maryland); Rebecca J. Leary (Baltimore, Maryland); Philipp Angenendt (Baltimore, Maryland); Nickolas Papadopoulos (Towson, Maryland); Victor Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland); Giovanni Parmigiani (Baltimore, Maryland); Rachel Karchin (Towson, Maryland); Sian Jones (Baltimore, Maryland); Hai Yan (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Darell Bigner (Mebane, North Carolina); Chien-Tsun Kuan (Cary, North Carolina); Gregory J. Riggins (White Hall, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | We found mutations of the R132 residue of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in the majority of grade II and III astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas as well as in glioblastomas that develop from these lower grade lesions. Those tumors without mutations in IDH1 often had mutations at the analogous R172 residue of the closely related IDH2 gene. These findings have important implications for the pathogenesis and diagnosis of malignant gliomas. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/102730 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6886 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/112 (20130101) C12Q 2600/118 (20130101) C12Q 2600/136 (20130101) C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) |
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| US 09354125 | Peroulis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Peroulis (West Lafayette, Indiana); Lokesh Anilkumar Gupta (West Lafayette, Indiana); Andrew S. Kovacs (Lafayette, Indiana); Amir Shahidi (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor arrangement for wirelessly measuring temperature and vibration is disclosed. The sensor arrangement includes a sensor element and a sensor coil affixed on the device. A readout coil is configured to be magnetically coupled to the sensor coil configured to energize the sensor coil with an energizing signal, configured to provide the natural frequency of the sensor element, the sensor coil, and the readout coil, and configured to provide amplitude modulations of the energizing signal, the amplitude modulations being induced by changes in the coupling factor of the readout coil and the sensor coil. An energizing circuit is configured to energize the readout coil with the energizing signal. A readout circuit is configured to store or display information regarding the natural frequency and the amplitude modulations. |
| FILED | Sunday, July 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/936192 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 11/00 (20130101) Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 1/024 (20130101) G01K 7/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01K 13/08 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 13/045 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 15/11 (20130101) G01P 15/097 (20130101) |
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| US 09354166 | Judkewitz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Judkewitz (Los Angeles, California); Ying Min Wang (Pasadena, California); Roarke Horstmeyer (San Marino, California); Changhuei Yang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for irradiating a scattering medium with increased resolution. The method includes transmitting EM radiation from an Electromagnetic (EM) radiation source to a target inside a scattering medium, wherein the target encodes the EM radiation with a variance structure to form encoded EM radiation; measuring, in a detector, transmitted EM radiation comprising at least a portion of the encoded EM radiation transmitted through and exiting the scattering medium; decoding the transmitted EM radiation, comprising EM fields, in a computer, comprising selecting one or more of the EM fields having the variance structure; and irradiating the scattering medium with time reversed EM radiation from a spatial light modulator (SLM), the time reversed EM radiation generated from time reversing the EM fields having the variance structure, thereby forming a focus of the time reversed EM radiation in the scattering medium with the increased resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/070045 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/49 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 21/1702 (20130101) G01N 21/1717 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) G01N 21/6456 (20130101) G01N 29/2418 (20130101) G01N 2021/516 (20130101) G01N 2021/1708 (20130101) G01N 2021/1727 (20130101) |
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| US 09354224 | D'Andrea et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC. (Boston, Massachusetts); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. D'Andrea (Winchester, Massachusetts); Toshiyasu Taniguchi (Boston, Massachusetts); Edward A. Fox (Boston, Massachusetts); Cynthia Timmers (Columbus, Ohio); Markus Grompe (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the diagnosis of cancer susceptibilities, defective DNA repair mechanisms and treatments thereof are provided. Among sequences provided here, the FANCD2 gene has been identified, and probes and primers are provided for screening patients in genetic-based tests and for diagnosing Fanconi Anemia and cancer. The FANCD2 gene can be targeted in vivo for preparing experimental mouse models for use in screening new therapeutic agents for treating conditions involving defective DNA repair. The FANCD2 polypeptide has been sequenced and has been shown to exist in two isoforms identified as FANCD2-S and the monoubiquinated FANCD-L form. Antibodies including polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies have been prepared that distinguish the two isoforms and have been used in diagnostic tests to determine whether a subject has an intact Fanconi Anemia/BRCA pathway. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/520055 |
| 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 33/5011 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/47 (20130101) G01N 2800/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09354233 | Zeng |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gang Zeng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Zeng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein assay methods which comprise detecting the presence, absence or amount of at least one antibody which specifically binds a first biomarker or an epitope thereof and at least one second biomarker in a sample which comprises a single reaction step whereby both a first capture reagent for the antibody and a second capture reagent for the second biomarker are together contacted with the sample, and detecting the presence, absence or amount of the antibody, and detecting the presence, absence or amount of the second biomarker. Also disclosed are assay methods for prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/141525 |
| 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 33/536 (20130101) G01N 33/57434 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354237 | Tao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weiguo Andy Tao (West Lafayette, Indiana); Li Yang (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to methods for isolating proteins. In certain aspects, methods of the invention involve preparing a plurality of sample preparations, each preparation including one or more intact cells. A capture unit is introduced to a plurality of the preparations. The capture unit includes a member that transiently interacts with one or more proteins in the cells and a reactive functional group. The sample preparations are incubated, and a reaction is initiated at a different time in a plurality of the preparation. In this manner, a protein within the cell that specifically interacts with the member of the capture unit becomes bound to the capture unit via the reactive functional group to form protein/capture unit complexes. The cells are lysed and the protein/capture unit complexes are isolated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/387082 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 1/22 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/34 (20130101) G01N 33/6848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2458/00 (20130101) G01N 2560/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09354243 | Chapman et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Haemonetics Corporation (Braintree, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Haemonetics Corporation (Braintree, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Chapman (Denver, Colorado); Ernest E. Moore (Denver, Colorado); Katherine M. Norem (Rosemont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the invention provides methods for detecting fibrinolysis or hyperfibrinolysis in a blood sample from a patient. The method includes subjecting a first portion of a blood sample comprising reduced platelet function to viscoelastic analysis in the absence of an inhibitor of fibrinolysis to obtain a coagulation characteristic of the first portion at a time point; and subjecting a second portion of the blood sample comprising reduced platelet function to viscoelastic analysis in the presence of an inhibitor of fibrinolysis to obtain a coagulation characteristic of the second portion at the time point; wherein a difference between the coagulation characteristic of the first portion and the coagulation characteristic of the second portion indicates fibrinolysis or hyperfibrinolysis in the blood sample. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/270269 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/86 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355309 | Tridandapani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | EMORY UNIVERSITY (Atlanta, Georgia); GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srini Tridandapani (Atlanta, Georgia); James Provenzale (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Mo Salama (Decatur, Georgia); Senthil Ramamurthy (Atlanta, Georgia); Pamela Bhatti (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media relate to generate an image series that includes a patient image and a medical image. The patient image and the medical image may be associated based on identification information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/736334 |
| ART UNIT | 2665 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/117 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 19/321 (20130101) G06F 19/322 (20130101) G06F 19/323 (20130101) G06F 19/3418 (20130101) Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00362 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355447 | Galavis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paulina E. Galavis (Madison, Wisconsin); Bhudatt Paliwal (Madison, Wisconsin); James Holden (Madison, Wisconsin); Robert Jeraj (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for analyzing medical images of a subject includes acquiring the medical images of the subject and texture images. A computer system determines, using the medical images and the texture feature images, a plurality of segmentation surfaces by iteratively adjusting a relationship between a region growing algorithm that selects a region of interest (ROI) to determine a given segmentation surface and cost function for evaluating the given segmentation surface. The computer system generates a report using the plurality of segmentation surfaces indicating at least boundaries between anatomical structures with functional differences in the medical images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/971913 |
| ART UNIT | 2668 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 5/103 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0081 (20130101) G06T 7/0091 (20130101) G06T 7/401 (20130101) G06T 2207/10104 (20130101) G06T 2207/10108 (20130101) G06T 2207/20144 (20130101) G06T 2207/30016 (20130101) G06T 2207/30096 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Holly Krutka (Centennial, Colorado); Cody Wilson (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Travis Starns (Parker, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA-ES, Inc. (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holly Krutka (Centennial, Colorado); Cody Wilson (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Travis Starns (Parker, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to a process that allows dry sorbents to remove a target constituent, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), from a gas stream. A staged fluidized bed separator enables gas and sorbent to move in opposite directions. The sorbent is loaded with target constituent in the separator. It is then transferred to a regenerator where the target constituent is stripped. The temperature of the separator and regenerator are controlled. After it is removed from the regenerator, the sorbent is then transferred back to the separator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/444119 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 53/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01D 2257/504 (20130101) B01D 2258/0283 (20130101) B01D 2259/40083 (20130101) B01D 2259/40088 (20130101) Capture, Storage, Sequestration or Disposal of Greenhouse Gases [GHG] Y02C 10/04 (20130101) Y02C 10/06 (20130101) Y02C 10/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09352502 | Beer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Reginald Beer (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The cooling of injection molded plastic is targeted. Coolant flows into a porous medium disposed within an injection molding component via a porous medium inlet. The porous medium is thermally coupled to a mold cavity configured to receive injected liquid plastic. The porous medium beneficially allows for an increased rate of heat transfer from the injected liquid plastic to the coolant and provides additional structural support over a hollow cooling well. When the temperature of the injected liquid plastic falls below a solidifying temperature threshold, the molded component is ejected and collected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/313790 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Shaping or Joining of Plastics; Shaping of Material in a Plastic State, Not Otherwise Provided For; After-treatment of the Shaped Products, e.g Repairing B29C 33/3814 (20130101) B29C 45/7312 (20130101) B29C 45/7331 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09352543 | Weiss et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Franklin, Tennessee); Judson D. Ryckman (Nashville, Tennessee); Marco Liscidini (Pavia, Italy); John E. Sipe (Toronto, Canada) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon M. Weiss (Franklin, Tennessee); Judson D. Ryckman (Nashville, Tennessee); Marco Liscidini (Pavia, Italy); John E. Sipe (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of patterning porous materials on the micro- and nanometer scale using a direct imprinting technique. The present methods of direct imprinting of porous substrates (“DIPS”), can utilize reusable stamps that may be directly applied to an underlying porous material to selectively, mechanically deform and/or crush particular regions of the porous material, creating a desired structure. The process can be performed in a matter of seconds, at room temperature or higher temperatures, and eliminates the requirement for intermediate masking materials and etching chemistries. |
| FILED | Monday, May 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790908 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 11/00 (20130101) Apparatus for the Mechanical Reproduction of Printing Surfaces for Stereotype Printing; Shaping Elastic or Deformable Material to Form Printing Surfaces B41D 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/143333 (20150115) |
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| US 09352968 | Kung et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold H. Kung (Wilmette, Illinois); Xin Zhao (Evanston, Illinois); Cary M. Hayner (Evanston, Illinois); Mayfair C. Kung (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphene-based storage materials for high-power battery applications are provided. The storage materials are composed of vertical stacks of graphene sheets and have reduced resistance for Li ion transport. This reduced resistance is achieved by incorporating a random distribution of structural defects into the stacked graphene sheets, whereby the structural defects facilitate the diffusion of Li ions into the interior of the storage materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/025572 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/043 (20130101) C01B 31/0446 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01B 31/0476 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/366 (20130101) H01M 4/386 (20130101) H01M 4/625 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/54 (20151101) |
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| US 09352981 | Simpson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Scott R. Hunter (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Scott R. Hunter (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are examples of apparatuses for evaporative purification of a contaminated liquid. In each example, there is a vessel for storing the contaminated fluid. The vessel includes a surface coated with a layer of superhydrophobic material and the surface is at least partially in contact with the contaminated liquid. The contaminants do not adhere to the surface as the purified liquid evaporates, thus allowing the contaminants to be harvested. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/559000 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 1/0035 (20130101) B01D 5/006 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/14 (20130101) C02F 1/18 (20130101) C02F 1/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C02F 2103/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09353129 | Matzger et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Adam J. Matzger (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyoungmoo Koh (Midland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam J. Matzger (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kyoungmoo Koh (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a three-dimensional coordination complex that includes a plurality of inorganic centers; a plurality of a first bis(bidentate) linker; and a plurality of a second bis(bidentate) linker, where the first and the second bis(bidentate) linkers are have different lengths, and the bidentate binding sites on each linker face in opposite directions on an axis. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/130607 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 57/15 (20130101) C07C 63/28 (20130101) C07C 63/38 (20130101) C07C 63/46 (20130101) C07C 63/66 (20130101) C07C 63/333 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2982 (20150115) |
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| US 09353268 | Brophy et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Enki Technology, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brenor L. Brophy (San Jose, California); Vinod Nair (San Jose, California); Bakul Champaklal Dave (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure discloses abrasion resistant, persistently hydrophobic and oleophobic, anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for glass. The coatings described herein have wide application, including for example the front cover glass of solar modules. Methods of applying the coatings using various apparatus are disclosed. Methods for using the coatings in solar energy generation plants to achieve greater energy yield and reduced operations costs are disclosed. Coating materials are formed by combinations of hydrolyzed silane-base precursors through sol-gel processes. Several methods of synthesis and formulation of coating materials are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/488923 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical Composition of Glasses, Glazes or Vitreous Enamels; Surface Treatment of Glass; Surface Treatment of Fibres or Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals or Slags; Joining Glass to Glass or Other Materials C03C 17/007 (20130101) C03C 17/30 (20130101) C03C 2203/27 (20130101) C03C 2217/78 (20130101) C03C 2217/425 (20130101) C03C 2217/732 (20130101) C03C 2218/113 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 77/24 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 5/1662 (20130101) C09D 183/08 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/265 (20150115) Y10T 428/31612 (20150401) |
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| US 09353360 | Lopez de Leon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California); Michael Rey (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/605764 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/248 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/8245 (20130101) C12N 15/8246 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 19/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01008 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09353391 | Quinlan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jason Quinlan (Woodland, California); Feng Xu (Davis, California); Matthew Sweeney (Sacramento, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVOZYMES, INC. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Quinlan (Woodland, California); Feng Xu (Davis, California); Matthew Sweeney (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a nitrogen-containing compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/816153 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/06 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/96 (20130101) C12N 9/2402 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) C12N 9/2445 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/10 (20130101) C12P 7/14 (20130101) C12P 19/02 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01021 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/16 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09353435 — Stabilizing laser energy density on a target during pulsed laser deposition of thin films
| US 09353435 | Dowden 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) | Paul C. Dowden (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for stabilizing laser energy density on a target surface during pulsed laser deposition of thin films controls the focused laser spot on the target. The process involves imaging an image-aperture positioned in the beamline. This eliminates changes in the beam dimensions of the laser. A continuously variable attenuator located in between the output of the laser and the imaged image-aperture adjusts the energy to a desired level by running the laser in a “constant voltage” mode. The process provides reproducibility and controllability for deposition of electronic thin films by pulsed laser deposition. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/042167 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — 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 14/08 (20130101) C23C 14/28 (20130101) C23C 14/542 (20130101) C23C 14/0641 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09353949 | Laster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Reinhard Schilp (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Reinhard Schilp (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow conditioning device (30, 50, 70, 100, 150) for a can annular gas turbine engine, including a plurality of flow elements (32, 34, 52, 54, 72, 74, 102) disposed in a compressed air flow path (42, 60, 80, 114, 122) leading to a combustor (12), configured such that relative adjustment of at least one flow directing element (32, 52, 72, 110) with respect to an adjacent flow directing element (34, 54, 74, 112, 120) during operation of the gas turbine engine is effective to adjust a level of choking of the compressed air flow path (42, 60, 80, 114, 122). |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/448458 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 17/141 (20130101) F01D 17/162 (20130101) F01D 17/165 (20130101) Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 9/20 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 3/26 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09353950 | Uhm et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong Ho Uhm (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Michael John Hughes (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor includes an end cap that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor. The end cap includes an upstream surface axially separated from a downstream surface. A plurality of tubes extend from the upstream surface through the downstream surface of the end cap to provide fluid communication through the end cap. Each tube in a first set of the plurality of tubes has an inlet proximate to the upstream surface and an outlet downstream from the downstream surface. Each outlet has a first portion that extends a different axial distance from the inlet than a second portion. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/709320 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Burners F23D 14/46 (20130101) F23D 14/58 (20130101) F23D 14/62 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/10 (20130101) F23R 3/286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F23R 2900/00014 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354029 | Mace 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) | Jonathan L. Mace (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gerald J. Seitz (El Rancho, New Mexico); John A. Echave (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The detonation of one or more explosive charges and propellant charges by a detonator in response to a fire control signal from a command and control system comprised of a command center and instrumentation center with a communications link therebetween. The fire control signal is selectively provided to the detonator from the instrumentation center if plural detonation control switches at the command center are in a fire authorization status, and instruments, and one or more interlocks, if included, are in a ready for firing status. The instrumentation and command centers are desirably mobile, such as being respective vehicles. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/878969 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosives or Thermic Compositions; Manufacture Thereof; Use of Single Substances as Explosives C06B 25/34 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 43/263 (20130101) Ignition; Extinguishing-devices F23Q 21/00 (20130101) Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 3/02 (20130101) F42B 3/10 (20130101) Ammunition Fuzes; Arming or Safety Means Therefor F42C 15/42 (20130101) Blasting F42D 1/02 (20130101) F42D 1/05 (20130101) F42D 1/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F42D 1/045 (20130101) F42D 3/00 (20130101) F42D 3/04 (20130101) F42D 3/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354094 | Sinha |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for noninvasively detecting the presence of solid particulate matter suspended in a fluid flowing through a pipe or an oil and gas wellbore are described. Fluid flowing through a conduit containing the particulate solids is exposed to a fixed frequency (>1 MHz) of ultrasonic vibrations from a transducer attached to the outside of the pipe. The returning Doppler frequency shifted signal derived from the scattering of sound from the moving solid particles is detected by an adjacent transducer. The transmitted signal and the Doppler signal are combined to provide sensitive particulate detection. The magnitude of the signal and the Doppler frequency shift are used to determine the particle size distribution and the velocity of the particles. Measurement of the phase shift between the applied frequency and the detected Doppler shifted may be used to determine the direction of motion of the particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/225750 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow or Liquid Level; Metering by Volume G01F 1/74 (20130101) G01F 1/663 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01F 1/704 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354126 | Chainer 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) | Timothy J. Chainer (Putnam Valley, New York); Pritish R. Parida (Fishkill, New York); Mark D. Schultz (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes determining a relationship between indirect thermal data for a processor and a measured temperature associated with the processor, during a calibration process, obtaining the indirect thermal data for the processor during actual operation of the processor, and determining an actual significant temperature associated with the processor during the actual operation using the indirect thermal data for the processor during actual operation of the processor and the relationship. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/691145 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Temperature; Measuring Quantity of Heat; Thermally-sensitive Elements Not Otherwise Provided for G01K 7/427 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01K 2007/422 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354218 | Clark et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas K. Clark (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Bradley W. Hodges (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jesse D. Bush (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jofu Mishima (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for the characterization of respirable aerosols, including: a burn chamber configured to selectively contain a sample that is selectively heated to generate an aerosol; a heating assembly disposed within the burn chamber adjacent to the sample; and a sampling segment coupled to the burn chamber and configured to collect the aerosol such that it may be analyzed. The apparatus also includes an optional sight window disposed in a wall of the burn chamber such that the sample may be viewed during heating. Optionally, the sample includes one of a Lanthanide, an Actinide, and a Transition metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/446492 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354346 | Vu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California); LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. (San Ramon, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cung Khac Vu (Houston, Texas); Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cristian Pantea (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic source for generating an acoustic beam includes a housing; a plurality of spaced apart piezo-electric layers disposed within the housing; and a non-linear medium filling between the plurality of layers. Each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is configured to generate an acoustic wave. The non-linear medium and the plurality of piezo-electric material layers have a matching impedance so as to enhance a transmission of the acoustic wave generated by each of plurality of layers through the remaining plurality of layers. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/836718 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/0688 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 47/0005 (20130101) Geophysics; Gravitational Measurements; Detecting Masses or Objects; Tags G01V 1/42 (20130101) G01V 1/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354968 | Wenzel et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johnson Controls Technology Company (Holland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Wenzel (Oak Creek, Wisconsin); Andrew J. Boettcher (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Kirk H. Drees (Cedarburg, Wisconsin); James P. Kummer (Wales, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting and cleansing suspect building automation system data is shown and described. The method includes using processing electronics to automatically determine which of a plurality of error detectors and which of a plurality of data cleansers to use with building automation system data. The method further includes using processing electronics to automatically detect errors in the data and cleanse the data using a subset of the error detectors and a subset of the cleansers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/631301 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 11/076 (20130101) G06F 11/0727 (20130101) G06F 11/0793 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/30303 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09355545 | Nekoogar et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California); Matthew Reynolds (Seattle, Washington); Scott Lefton (Melrose, Massachusetts); Farid Dowla (Castro Valley, California); Richard Twogood (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dirac Solutions, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California); Matthew Reynolds (Seattle, Washington); Scott Lefton (Melrose, Massachusetts); Farid Dowla (Castro Valley, California); Richard Twogood (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A secure optionally passive RFID tag or sensor system comprises a passive RFID tag having means for receiving radio signals from at least one base station and for transmitting radio signals to at least one base station, where the tag is capable of being powered exclusively by received radio energy, and an external power and data logging device having at least one battery and electronic circuitry including a digital memory configured for storing and recalling data. The external power and data logging device has a means for powering the tag, and also has a means. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/715539 |
| ART UNIT | 2634 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 19/0723 (20130101) G06K 19/07798 (20130101) G06K 2007/10504 (20130101) Signalling or Calling Systems; Order Telegraphs; Alarm Systems G08B 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09355761 | Ma et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beihai Ma (Naperville, Illinois); Manoj Narayanan (Woodridge, Illinois); Uthamalingam Balachandran (Willowbrook, Illinois); Sheng Chao (Woodridge, Illinois); Shanshan Liu (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a process for forming crack-free dielectric films on a substrate. The process comprises the application of a dielectric precursor layer of a thickness from about 0.3 μm to about 1.0 μm to a substrate. The deposition is followed by low temperature heat pretreatment, prepyrolysis, pyrolysis and crystallization step for each layer. The deposition, heat pretreatment, prepyrolysis, pyrolysis and crystallization are repeated until the dielectric film forms an overall thickness of from about 1.5 μm to about 20.0 μm and providing a final crystallization treatment to form a thick dielectric film. The process provides a thick crack-free dielectric film on a substrate, the dielectric forming a dense thick crack-free dielectric having an overall dielectric thickness of from about 1.5 μm to about 20.0 μm. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/146357 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 35/493 (20130101) C04B 35/624 (20130101) C04B 35/634 (20130101) C04B 35/4682 (20130101) C04B 2235/3213 (20130101) C04B 2235/3227 (20130101) C04B 2235/6562 (20130101) Coating Metallic Material; Coating Material With Metallic Material; Surface Treatment of Metallic Material by Diffusion into the Surface, by Chemical Conversion or Substitution; Coating by Vacuum Evaporation, by Sputtering, by Ion Implantation or by Chemical Vapour Deposition, in General C23C 18/208 (20130101) C23C 18/1225 (20130101) C23C 18/1254 (20130101) C23C 18/1283 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 19/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02118 (20130101) H01L 21/02186 (20130101) H01L 21/02189 (20130101) H01L 21/02192 (20130101) H01L 21/02194 (20130101) H01L 21/02197 (20130101) H01L 21/02282 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24975 (20150115) |
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| US 09355767 | Gluskin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Efim Gluskin (Darien, Illinois); Emil Trakhtenberg (Darien, Illinois); Joseph Z. Xu (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for implementing dynamic compensation of magnetic forces for undulators are provided. An undulator includes a respective set of magnet arrays, each attached to a strongback, and placed on horizontal slides and positioned parallel relative to each other with a predetermined gap. Magnetic forces are compensated by a set of compensation springs placed along the strongback. The compensation springs are conical springs having exponential-force characteristics that substantially match undulator magnetic forces independently of the predetermined gap. The conical springs are positioned along the length of the magnets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/476293 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 7/0221 (20130101) H01F 7/0231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 7/0278 (20130101) Plasma Technique; Production of Accelerated Electrically-charged Particles or of Neutrons; Production or Acceleration of Neutral Molecular or Atomic Beams H05H 7/04 (20130101) H05H 2007/041 (20130101) |
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| US 09356173 | Okandan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); Gregory N. Nielson (Albquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A PV system composed of sub-arrays, each having a group of PV cells that are electrically connected to each other. A power management circuit for each sub-array has a communications interface and serves to connect or disconnect the sub-array to a programmable power grid. The power grid has bus rows and bus columns. A bus management circuit is positioned at a respective junction of a bus column and a bus row and is programmable through its communication interface to connect or disconnect a power path in the grid. As a result, selected sub-arrays are connected by selected power paths to be in parallel so as to produce a low system voltage, and, alternately in series so as to produce a high system voltage that is greater than the low voltage by at least a factor of ten. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/014266 |
| ART UNIT | 1756 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/443 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/042 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/02021 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/35 (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 09356224 | Zeches et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Zeches (San Francisco, California); Lane W. Martin (Champaign, Illinois); Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Moraga, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Zeches (San Francisco, California); Lane W. Martin (Champaign, Illinois); Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a composition comprising a thin film of BiFeO3 having a thickness ranging from 20 nm to 300 nm, a first electrode in contact with the BiFeO3 thin film, and a second electrode in contact with the BiFeO3 thin film; wherein the first and second electrodes are in electrical communication. The composition is free or essentially free of lead (Pb). The BFO thin film is has the piezoelectric property of changing its volume and/or shape when an electric field is applied to the BFO thin film. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916209 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/316 (20130101) H01L 41/1878 (20130101) Impedance Networks, e.g Resonant Circuits; Resonators H03H 9/02543 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09356238 | Norris et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Norris (Roseville, Minnesota); Sang Eon Han (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Prashant Nagpal (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Aditya Bhan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Nathan Charles Lindquist (Vadnais Heights, Minnesota); Sang-Huyn Oh (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides templating methods for replicating patterned metal films from a template substrate such as for use in plasmonic devices and metamaterials. Advantageously, the template substrate is reusable and can provide plural copies of the structure of the template substrate. Because high-quality substrates that are inherently smooth and flat are available, patterned metal films in accordance with the present invention can advantageously provide surfaces that replicate the surface characteristics of the template substrate both in the patterned regions and in the unpatterned regions. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/578873 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00119 (20130101) B81C 99/009 (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) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 1/002 (20130101) G02B 5/008 (20130101) G02B 6/1226 (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) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/054 (20141201) H01L 31/02327 (20130101) H01L 49/02 (20130101) H01L 49/006 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/12486 (20150115) Y10T 428/12493 (20150115) Y10T 428/12507 (20150115) |
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| US 09356241 | Beaujuge 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) | Pierre M. Beaujuge (Berkeley, California); Olivia P. Lee (Berkeley, California); Alan T. Yiu (Berkeley, California); Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for an organic compound comprising electron deficient unit covalently linked to two or more electron rich units. The present invention also provides for a device comprising the organic compound, such as a light-emitting diode, thin-film transistor, chemical biosensor, non-emissive electrochromic, memory device, photovoltaic cells, or the like. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/651285 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0053 (20130101) H01L 51/0054 (20130101) H01L 51/0061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0068 (20130101) H01L 51/0072 (20130101) H01L 51/0074 (20130101) H01L 51/4253 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) |
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| US 09356300 | Derose et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Troy, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Derose (Rochester, New York); Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Russell A. Gudyka (Rochester, New York); Joseph V. Bonadies (Clarkston, Michigan); Thomas W. Silvis (Flushing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of fuel cell cassettes each including a fuel cell with an anode and a cathode. Each fuel cell cassette also includes an electrode interconnect adjacent to the anode or the cathode for providing electrical communication between an adjacent fuel cell cassette and the anode or the cathode. The interconnect includes a plurality of electrode interconnect protrusions defining a flow passage along the anode or the cathode for communicating oxidant or fuel to the anode or the cathode. An electrically conductive material is disposed between at least one of the electrode interconnect protrusions and the anode or the cathode in order to provide a stable electrical contact between the electrode interconnect and the anode or cathode. An encapsulating arrangement segregates the electrically conductive material from the flow passage thereby, preventing volatilization of the electrically conductive material in use of the fuel cell stack. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/036342 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/10 (20130101) H01M 8/0202 (20130101) H01M 8/0223 (20130101) H01M 8/0226 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0271 (20130101) H01M 8/0282 (20130101) H01M 8/0297 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) |
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| US 09356307 | Haltiner, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Charles J. Badura (Penfield, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Charles J. Badura (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell system is disclosed comprising a plurality of fuel cell modules including a sealed planar fuel cell stack, the stack including internal manifold channels for transport of fuel and air to fuel cells within the stack and transport of tail gas and spent air away from fuel cells within the stack. Each of the fuel cell stacks is mounted on a stack footprint area of a top member of a base manifold. The base manifolds are configured to allow for interconnection of a number of fuel cell stack modules to provide a fuel cell system capable of producing power outputs that otherwise would have required large surface area cells or stack with a large number of cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/788834 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 8/249 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 8/0494 (20130101) H01M 8/2425 (20130101) H01M 8/04679 (20130101) H01M 2008/1293 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/50 (20130101) Y02E 60/525 (20130101) |
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| US 09356314 | Kim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Guosheng Li (Richland, Washington); Xiaochuan Lu (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington); John P. Lemmon (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington); Guosheng Li (Richland, Washington); Xiaochuan Lu (Richland, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington); John P. Lemmon (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A new battery configuration and process are detailed. The battery cell includes a solid electrolyte configured with an engineered metallization layer that distributes sodium across the surface of the electrolyte extending the active area of the cathode in contact with the anode during operation. The metallization layer enhances performance, efficiency, and capacity of sodium batteries at intermediate temperatures at or below about 200° C. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/776262 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 6/20 (20130101) H01M 6/187 (20130101) H01M 10/0562 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/3927 (20130101) H01M 10/3936 (20130101) H01M 2300/0094 (20130101) |
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| US 09357682 | Campbell 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) | Levi A. Campbell (Poughkeepsie, New York); Richard C. Chu (Hopewell Junction, New York); Milnes P. David (Fishkill, New York); Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr. (Lagrangeville, New York); Madhusudan K. Iyengar (Foster City, California); Robert E. Simons (Poughkeepsie, New York); Prabjit Singh (Poughkeepsie, New York); Jing Zhang (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated multi-fluid cooling method is provided for cooling an electronic component(s). The method includes obtaining a coolant loop, and providing a coolant tank, multiple valves, and a controller. The coolant loop is at least partially exposed to outdoor ambient air temperature(s) during normal operation, and the coolant tank includes first and second reservoirs containing first and second fluids, respectively. The first fluid freezes at a lower temperature than the second, the second fluid has superior cooling properties compared with the first, and the two fluids are soluble. The multiple valves are controllable to selectively couple the first or second fluid into the coolant in the coolant loop, wherein the coolant includes at least the second fluid. The controller automatically controls the valves to vary first fluid concentration level in the coolant loop based on historical, current, or anticipated outdoor air ambient temperature(s) for a time of year. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/758143 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 2265/14 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20836 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09351494 | Woods et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Inscent, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inscent, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel F. Woods (Irvine, California); Spiros Dimitratos (Ontario, California); Robin W. Justice (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present specification discloses honeybee repellents exhibiting repellent properties similar to 2-heptanone, compositions comprising such repellents, uses to repel a honeybee from a mammal, location, plant, structure treated of such repellents, and methods of treating a mammal, location, plant, structure by applying such repellents. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/269115 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/00 (20130101) A01N 33/26 (20130101) A01N 35/02 (20130101) A01N 43/12 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/56 (20130101) A01N 43/78 (20130101) A01N 43/84 (20130101) A01N 43/86 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 47/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 47/40 (20130101) A01N 51/00 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/54 (20130101) |
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| US 09351855 | Swift et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tim Swift (Albany, California); Adam Brian Zoss (Berkeley, California); Katherine Strausser (Berkeley, California); Matthew Rosa (San Francisco, California); Dylan Miller Fairbanks (Guangzhou, China PRC); Minerva Vasudevan Pillai (Pleasant Hill, California); Miclas Schwartz (Goettingen, Germany); Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Sunnyvale, California); Sebastian Kruse (Berkeley, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ekso Bionics, Inc. (Richmond, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Swift (Albany, California); Adam Brian Zoss (Berkeley, California); Katherine Strausser (Berkeley, California); Matthew Rosa (San Francisco, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California); Dylan Miller Fairbanks (Guangzhou, China PRC); Minerva Vasudevan Pillai (Pleasant Hill, California); Miclas Schwartz (Goettingen, Germany); Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht (Sunnyvale, California); Sebastian Kruse (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A powered lower extremity orthotic, including a shank link coupled to an artificial foot, a knee mechanism connected to the shank link and a thigh link, is controlled by based on signals from various orthotic mounted sensors such that the artificial foot follows a predetermined trajectory defined by at least one Cartesian coordinate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/480160 |
| 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 2/64 (20130101) A61F 2/68 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61F 2/80 (20130101) A61F 2002/701 (20130101) A61F 2002/704 (20130101) A61F 2002/741 (20130101) A61F 2002/744 (20130101) A61F 2002/745 (20130101) A61F 2002/748 (20130101) A61F 2002/7625 (20130101) A61F 2002/7635 (20130101) A61F 2002/7645 (20130101) A61F 2002/30359 (20130101) A61F 2220/0033 (20130101) |
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| US 09351900 | Walsh 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) | Conor Walsh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Alan Thomas Asbeck (Waltham, Massachusetts); Ignacio Galiana Bujanda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ye Ding (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert Joseph Dyer (Concord, Massachusetts); Arnar Freyr Larusson (Hanover, New Hampshire); Brendan Thomas Quinlivan (Rutland, Massachusetts); Kai Schmidt (Berlin, Germany); Diana Wagner (Charlotte, North Carolina); Michael Wehner (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one aspect, there is provided a system for generating force about one or more joints including a soft exosuit having a plurality of anchor elements and at least one connection element disposed between the plurality of anchor elements. The system also includes at least one sensor to determine a force the at least one connection element or at least one of the plurality of anchor elements and to output signals relating to the force, at least one actuator configured to change a tension in the soft exosuit and at least one controller configured to receive the signals output from the at least one sensor and actuate the at least one actuator responsive to the received signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/371675 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | 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 1/0244 (20130101) A61H 1/0266 (20130101) A61H 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 2201/164 (20130101) A61H 2201/165 (20130101) A61H 2201/501 (20130101) A61H 2201/1215 (20130101) A61H 2201/1238 (20130101) A61H 2201/1246 (20130101) A61H 2201/1261 (20130101) A61H 2201/1481 (20130101) A61H 2201/1628 (20130101) A61H 2201/1652 (20130101) A61H 2201/1664 (20130101) A61H 2201/5007 (20130101) A61H 2201/5061 (20130101) A61H 2201/5064 (20130101) A61H 2201/5069 (20130101) A61H 2201/5084 (20130101) A61H 2201/5097 (20130101) A61H 2230/60 (20130101) Spring, Weight, Inertia or Like Motors; Mechanical-power Producing Devices or Mechanisms, Not Otherwise Provided for or Using Energy Sources Not Otherwise Provided for F03G 7/08 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An article comprising a polyelectrolyte complex comprising an interpenetrating network of at least one predominantly positively charged polyelectrolyte polymer and at least one predominantly negatively charged polyelectrolyte polymer, the polyelectrolyte complex further comprising a plurality of closed-shell pores, the plurality of pores having at least one average transverse dimension between about 100 nanometer and about 1000 micrometers. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/602628 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — 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 15/24 (20130101) A61L 15/42 (20130101) A61L 15/44 (20130101) A61L 15/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 15/425 (20130101) A61L 2300/41 (20130101) A61L 2300/42 (20130101) A61L 2300/43 (20130101) A61L 2300/216 (20130101) A61L 2300/404 (20130101) A61L 2300/406 (20130101) A61L 2300/408 (20130101) A61L 2300/412 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2300/418 (20130101) |
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| US 09352122 | Mulvihill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P Klaus (State College, Pennsylvania); Casey A Scruggs (Middleburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Actuated Medical, Inc. (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maureen L Mulvihill (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey P Klaus (State College, Pennsylvania); Casey A Scruggs (Middleburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for clearing blockages is provided that may have a tube that is slit. The tube may have a lumen. A reciprocating member may be provided and a portion of the reciprocating member may be located within the lumen. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863108 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 25/00 (20130101) A61M 25/0082 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61M 2025/0019 (20130101) |
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| US 09352155 | Moehlis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Mineeapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Michael Moehlis (Goleta, California); Daniel David Wilson (Goleta, California); Theoden Ivan Netoff (St. Louis Park, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for finding an energy-optimal stimulus which gives a positive Lyapunov exponent, and hence desynchronization, for a neural population. The method is illustrated for three different neural models. Not only does it achieve desynchronization for each model, but it also does so using less energy than recently proposed methods, suggesting a powerful alternative to pulsatile stimuli for deep brain stimulation. Furthermore, we calculate error bounds on the optimal stimulus which will guarantee a minimum Lyapunov exponent. Also, a related control strategy is developed for desynchronizing neurons based on the population's phase distribution. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/420279 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/378 (20130101) A61N 1/36067 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36132 (20130101) A61N 1/36135 (20130101) A61N 1/36146 (20130101) |
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| US 09352291 | Lochhead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Y. Lochhead (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Sarah Elizabeth Morgan (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Samy Madbouly (Ames, Iowa); Yan Zong (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Y. Lochhead (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Sarah Elizabeth Morgan (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Samy Madbouly (Ames, Iowa); Yan Zong (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for dispersing oil spilled into the aqueous environment comprising the treatment of the spilled oil with an oil dispersant composition comprising a phospholipid and a polysaccharide derivative is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/371018 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mixing, e.g Dissolving, Emulsifying, Dispersing B01F 17/0028 (20130101) B01F 17/0064 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01F 17/0085 (20130101) Treatment of Water, Waste Water, Sewage, or Sludge C02F 1/40 (20130101) C02F 1/682 (20130101) C02F 2101/32 (20130101) C02F 2103/08 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 3/32 (20130101) Hydraulic Engineering E02B 15/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09352317 | Koser |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hur Koser (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for separating a sample of cells suspended in a bio-compatible ferrofluid is described, The device includes a microfluidic channel having a sample inlet, at least one outlet and a length between the same inlet and the at least one outlet, wherein a sample can be added to the sample inlet and flow along the microfluidic channel length to the at least one outlet. The device includes a plurality of electrodes and a power source for applying a current to the plurality of electrodes to create a magnetic field pattern along the microfluidic channel length. The present invention also includes a method of using said device for separating at least one cell type. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/591492 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/50273 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 3/502761 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) Magnetic or Electrostatic Separation of Solid Materials From Solid Materials or Fluids; Separation by High-voltage Electric Fields B03C 1/23 (20130101) B03C 1/253 (20130101) B03C 2201/18 (20130101) B03C 2201/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09352963 | Wang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Kalayil Manian Manesh (San Diego, California); Shankar Balasubramanian (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Wang (San Diego, California); Kalayil Manian Manesh (San Diego, California); Shankar Balasubramanian (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Among other things, methods, systems and apparatus are described for implementing nanomotor-based micro- and nanofabrication. In one aspect, a method of fabricating nanoobjects comprises functionalizing a nanomotor with a reagent. The method also includes controlling a movement of the functionalized nanomotor in a solution containing material to react with the reagent to induce a localized deposition or precipitation of a product onto a surface of a substrate or etching of the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/392521 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/18 (20130101) B05D 3/10 (20130101) B05D 3/107 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 2202/00 (20130101) B05D 2350/60 (20130101) B05D 2401/00 (20130101) Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09353037 | Chu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation For The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Setauket, New York); Devinder Mahajan (South Setauket, New York); Tsung-Ming Yeh (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Membranes are provided for energy efficient purification of alcohol by pervaporation. Such membranes include a nanofibrous scaffold in combination with a barrier layer. The barrier layer includes a graphene oxide. The membranes may, in embodiments, also include a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/083568 |
| ART UNIT | 1779 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 61/362 (20130101) B01D 69/10 (20130101) B01D 69/12 (20130101) B01D 71/10 (20130101) B01D 71/024 (20130101) B01D 71/028 (20130101) B01D 71/42 (20130101) B01D 71/48 (20130101) B01D 2323/39 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 29/76 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 29/76 (20130101) C07C 31/08 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/57 (20151101) Y02P 20/572 (20151101) |
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| US 09353092 | Smith |
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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) | Bradley Smith (Granger, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the synthesis and use of croconaine compounds. The disclosed compounds are easily prepared from croconic acid. A halothiophene is reacted with an alkanolamine, the resulting aminothiophene is modified by appending a desired functional group to the hydroxyl group, and the modified aminothiophene is reacted with croconic acid to form the final compound. Applications of such croconaine compounds include photothermal imaging, photothermal therapy, light-activated drug release, and tissue welding. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/311267 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 409/08 (20130101) C07D 409/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353131 | Burke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); Graham R. Dick (Vancouver, Canada); David M. Knapp (Boonville, Indiana); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut); Jenna A. Klubnick (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin D. Burke (Champaign, Illinois); Graham R. Dick (Vancouver, Canada); David M. Knapp (Boonville, Indiana); Eric P. Gillis (Wallingford, Connecticut); Jenna A. Klubnick (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods of forming protected boronic acids that provide in a manner that is straightforward, scalable, and cost-effective a wide variety of building blocks, such as building blocks containing complex and/or pharmaceutically important structures, and/or provide simple or complex protected organoboronic acid building blocks. A first method includes reacting an imino-di-carboxylic acid and an organoboronate salt. A second method includes reacting a N-substituted morpholine dione and an organoboronic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/035408 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/025 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09353313 | Ashurst et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | William Robert Ashurst (Auburn, Alabama); Virginia A. Davis (Auburn, Alabama); Christopher L. Kitchens (Easley, South Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama); Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Robert Ashurst (Auburn, Alabama); Virginia A. Davis (Auburn, Alabama); Christopher L. Kitchens (Easley, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Illustrative embodiments of microdevices and methods of manufacturing such microdevices are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method of manufacturing one or more microdevices may include forming a liquid dispersion containing cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), depositing the liquid dispersion containing the CNC on a substrate, drying the liquid dispersion containing the CNC to form a solid film on the substrate, where the liquid dispersion contains a sufficient concentration of CNC to form a continuous solid film having a controlled microstructure, and processing the solid film to form the one or more microdevices on the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, August 09, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/963709 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 1/00015 (20130101) B81C 1/0015 (20130101) B81C 1/00158 (20130101) B81C 1/00476 (20130101) B81C 1/00531 (20130101) B81C 1/00539 (20130101) B81C 2201/017 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 13/00 (20130101) C09K 19/02 (20130101) C09K 19/3402 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09K 2019/523 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24851 (20150115) |
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| US 09353461 | Jao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pitfee Jao (Gainesville, Florida); Yong-Kyu Yoon (Gainesville, Florida); Gloria Jung-a Kim (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pitfee Jao (Gainesville, Florida); Yong-Kyu Yoon (Gainesville, Florida); Gloria Jung-a Kim (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Various methods and systems are provided for fabrication of nanoporous membranes. In one embodiment, among others, a system includes electrode pairs including substantially parallel electrodes, a controllable power supply to control the electrical potential of each of the electrode pairs, and a syringe to eject an electrically charged solution from a needle to form a nanofiber. The orientation of the nanofiber in a nanofiber layer is determined by the electrical potentials of the electrode pairs. In another embodiment, a method includes providing a nanoporous membrane including nanofiber layers between a transferor and a mainmold of a stamp-through-mold (STM) where adjacent nanofiber layers are approximately aligned in different directions. A patterned membrane is sheared from the nanoporous membrane using the transferor and the mainmold of the STM and transferred to a substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/116403 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 67/0032 (20130101) B01D 71/44 (20130101) B01D 2323/39 (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 65/7451 (20130101) B29C 65/7461 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0069 (20130101) D01D 5/0076 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 9/08 (20130101) Making Textile Fabrics, e.g From Fibres or Filamentary Material; Fabrics Made by Such Processes or Apparatus, e.g Felts, Non-woven Fabrics; Cotton-wool; Wadding D04H 1/728 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/1062 (20150115) |
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| US 09353646 | Aizenberg et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Sung Hoon Kang (Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland); Philseok Kim (Waltham, Massachusetts); Tak Sing Wong (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael Aizenberg (Boston, Massachusetts); Sung Hoon Kang (Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland); Philseok Kim (Waltham, Massachusetts); Tak Sing Wong (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes a strategy to create self-healing, slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS). Roughened (e.g., porous) surfaces can be utilized to lock in place a lubricating fluid, referred to herein as Liquid B to repel a wide range of materials, referred to herein as Object A (Solid A or Liquid A). SLIPS outperforms other conventional surfaces in its capability to repel various simple and complex liquids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and blood), maintain low-contact-angle hysteresis (<2.5°), quickly restore liquid-repellency after physical damage (within 0.1-1 s), resist ice, microorganisms and insects adhesion, and function at high pressures (up to at least 690 atm). Some exemplary application where SLIPS will be useful include energy-efficient fluid handling and transportation, optical sensing, medicine, and as self-cleaning, and anti-fouling materials operating in extreme environments. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/980856 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — 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 15/24 (20130101) A61L 15/24 (20130101) A61L 15/34 (20130101) A61L 15/42 (20130101) A61L 15/46 (20130101) A61L 27/28 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/34 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 33/064 (20130101) A61L 33/064 (20130101) A61L 33/0094 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 3/002 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) B05D 5/083 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 27/12 (20130101) C08L 27/12 (20130101) C08L 27/12 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/16 (20130101) C09D 5/1656 (20130101) C09D 5/1681 (20130101) C09D 5/1693 (20130101) Non-positive Displacement Machines or Engines, e.g Steam Turbines F01D 25/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fluid Dynamics, i.e Methods or Means for Influencing the Flow of Gases or Liquids F15D 1/02 (20130101) F15D 1/10 (20130101) Details of Heat-exchange and Heat-transfer Apparatus, of General Application F28F 13/185 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0236 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24355 (20150115) Y10T 428/24364 (20150115) |
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| US 09354113 | Hayat et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Majeed M. Hayat (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John P. David (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Sanjay Krishna (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Luke F. Lester (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David A. Ramirez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Payman Zarkesh-Ha (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico); The University of Sheffield (Sheffield, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Majeed M. Hayat (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John P. David (Sheffield, United Kingdom); Sanjay Krishna (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Luke F. Lester (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David A. Ramirez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Payman Zarkesh-Ha (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, systems, and methods relate to use of a time-varying bias for application to an avalanche photodiode. Embodiments include systems and methods of determining an appropriate time-varying bias for application to an avalanche photodiode in linear mode. Avalanche photodiode having appropriate parameters may also be determined. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/289645 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 1/46 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09354763 | Latulipe et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Celine Latulipe (Charlotte, North Carolina); Vikash Singh (Charlotte, North Carolina); David Wilson (Charlotte, North Carolina); Sybil Huskey (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A video annotation interface includes a video pane configured to display a video, a video timeline bar including a video play-head indicating a current point of the video which is being played, a segment timeline bar including initial and final handles configured to define a segment of the video for playing, and a plurality of color-coded comment markers displayed in connection with the video timeline bar. Each of the comment markers is associated with a frame or segment of the video and corresponds to one or more annotations for that frame or segment made by one of a plurality of users. Each of the users can make annotations and view annotations made by other users. The annotations can include annotations corresponding to a plurality of modalities, including text, drawing, video, and audio modalities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/627899 |
| ART UNIT | 2179 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 3/04847 (20130101) G06F 17/3082 (20130101) Data Processing Systems or Methods, Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes; Systems or Methods Specially Adapted for Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial, Supervisory or Forecasting Purposes, Not Otherwise Provided for G06Q 10/101 (20130101) G06Q 10/103 (20130101) Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 27/34 (20130101) G11B 27/105 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 21/854 (20130101) H04N 21/4788 (20130101) H04N 21/8547 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anirudh Badam (Princeton, New Jersey); Vivek Pai (Princeton, New Jersey) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Anirudh Badam (Princeton, New Jersey); Vivek Pai (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual address pager and method for use with a bulk erase memory is disclosed. The virtual address pager includes a page protection controller configured with a heap manager interface configured to receive only bulk erase memory-backed page requests for a plurality of memory pages. A RAM object cache controller is configured to store and bulk write data for a portion of the bulk erase memory. The page protection controller may have an operating system interface configured to generate a page memory access permission for each of the plurality of memory pages. The page protection controller may be configured to receive a virtual memory allocation request and generate the page memory access permission based on the virtual memory allocation request. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/421007 |
| ART UNIT | 2138 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 12/0246 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 12/1425 (20130101) |
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| US 09355062 | Marshall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre W. Marshall (University Park, Maryland); Ning Ren (Canton, Massachusetts); Howard Baum (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An initial (near-field) spray generated by a sprinkler under study is fully characterized using a laser-supported Shadowgraphy/PTV system. Near-field spray characteristics are established from local measurements, which are mapped in a spherical coordinate system consistent with the kinematics of the spray. A novel data compression scheme is introduced to generate analytical functions describing the sprinkler spray based on the measurements. These analytical functions are useful for initiating the sprinkler spray in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based spray dispersion and fire suppression modeling. The near-field spray measurements and associated data compression approach are validated by comparing volume density measurements 1 meter below the sprinkler with volume density predictions generated from spray dispersion calculations initiated with the analytical spray functions. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/655001 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fire-fighting A62C 37/50 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355109 | Archak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shrikar Archak (Bangalore, India); Sagar Dixit (Pune, Marshall Islands); Richard P. Spillane (Clifton Park, New York); Erez Zadok (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation For the State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shrikar Archak (Bangalore, India); Sagar Dixit (Pune, Marshall Islands); Richard P. Spillane (Clifton Park, New York); Erez Zadok (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for maintaining an index in multi-tier data structure includes providing a plurality of a storage devices forming the multi-tier data structure, caching an index of key-value pairs across the multi-tier data structure, wherein each of the key-value pairs includes a key, and one of a data value and a data pointer, the key-value pairs stored in the multi-tier data structure, providing a journal for interfacing with the multi-tier data structure, providing a plurality of zone allocators recording which zones of the multi-tier data structure are in used, and providing a plurality of zone managers for controlling access to cache lines of the multi-tier data structure through the journal and zone allocators, wherein each zone manager maintains a header object pointing to data to be stored in an allocated zone. |
| FILED | Monday, June 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/159039 |
| ART UNIT | 2136 — Memory Access and Control |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30132 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355167 | Gomes et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Gomes (Santa Monica, California); Peter Welinder (San Diego, California); Andreas Krause (Zurich, Switzerland); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for the crowdsourced clustering of data items in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining categories for a set of source data includes obtaining a set of source data, determining a plurality of subsets of the source data, where a subset of the source data includes a plurality of pieces of source data in the set of source data, generating a set of pairwise annotations for the pieces of source data in each subset of source data, clustering the set of source data into related subsets of source data based on the sets of pairwise labels for each subset of source data, and identifying a category for each related subset of source data based on the clusterings of source data and the source data metadata for the pieces of source data in the group of source data. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/897229 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30525 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355359 | Welinder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Welinder (San Diego, California); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for the annotation of source data using confidence labels in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining confidence labels for crowdsourced annotations includes obtaining a set of source data, obtaining a set of training data representative of the set of source data, determining the ground truth for each piece of training data, obtaining a set of training data annotations including a confidence label, measuring annotator accuracy data for at least one piece of training data, and automatically generating a set of confidence labels for the set of unlabeled data based on the measured annotator accuracy data and the set of annotator labels used. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915962 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30303 (20130101) G06F 17/30525 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355360 | Welinder et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Welinder (San Diego, California); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining annotator performance in the distributed annotation of source data in accordance embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for clustering annotators includes obtaining a set of source data, determining a training data set representative of the set of source data, obtaining sets of annotations from a set of annotators for a portion of the training data set, for each annotator determining annotator recall metadata based on the set of annotations provided by the annotator for the training data set and determining annotator precision metadata based on the set of annotations provided by the annotator for the training data set, and grouping the annotators into annotator groups based on the annotator recall metadata and the annotator precision metadata. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/921493 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30303 (20130101) G06F 17/30525 (20130101) G06F 17/30598 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 5/048 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355363 | Chamon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (Boston, Massachusetts); UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudio Chamon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Eduardo R. Mucciolo (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A virtual parallel computing system and method represents bits with matrices and computes over all input states in parallel through a sequence of matrix operations. The matrix operations relate to logic gate operators to carry out a function implementation that represents a problem to be solved. Initial matrices are prepared to encode the weights of all input states, which can be binary states. Intermediate results can be simplified to decrease computational complexity while maintaining useful approximation results. The final matrices can encode the answer(s) to the problem represented by the function implementation. The system and method are particularly useful in speeding up database searches and in counting solutions of satisfiability problems. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/762278 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 10/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/30029 (20130101) G06F 17/16 (20130101) Computer Systems Based on Specific Computational Models G06N 99/002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09355470 | Merrell 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) | Paul Merrell (Redwood City, California); Vladlen Koltun (San Francisco, California); Eric Schkufza (San Francisco, California); Maneesh Agrawala (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment of the present invention, an interactive system employs sets of interior design guidelines. In an embodiment, the user begins by specifying the shape of a room and the set of furniture that must be arranged within it. The user then interactively moves furniture pieces. In response, the system suggests a set of furniture layouts that follow the interior design guidelines. The user can interactively select a suggestion and move any piece of furniture to modify the layout. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/690238 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 19/00 (20130101) G06T 2210/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09355716 | Asadi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meysam Asadi (Honolulu, Hawaii); Xiujie Huang (Guangzhou, China PRC); Aleksandar Kavcic (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining decision metrics in a detector for a memory device. The method includes receiving a plurality of signal samples and extracting a set of statistics from the signal samples, wherein at least one of the statistics is non-linear or complex, is derived from a plurality of the signal samples, and is not a function of at least one real linear statistic that is derived from a plurality of the signal samples. The method also includes applying at least one decision metric function to the set of statistics to determine at least one decision metric value corresponding to at least one postulated symbol. |
| FILED | Friday, January 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157730 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 11/5642 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11C 16/26 (20130101) G11C 16/3427 (20130101) Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 13/41 (20130101) H03M 13/3905 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0054 (20130101) H04L 1/0059 (20130101) H04L 25/067 (20130101) H04L 2025/03363 (20130101) |
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| US 09355764 | Tolbert 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) | Sarah H. Tolbert (Los Angeles, California); Gregory P. Carman (Los Angeles, California); Scott Keller (Long Beach, California); Laura Schelhas (Los Angeles, California); Hyungsuk Kim (Los Angeles, California); Joshua Hockel (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetoelectric composite device having a free (i.e. switchable) layer of ferromagnetic nanocrystals mechanically coupled a ferroelectric single crystal substrate is presented, wherein application of an electrical field on the composite switches the magnetic state of the switchable layer from a superparamagnetic state having no overall net magnetization to a substantially single-domain ferromagnetic state. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/155283 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/0018 (20130101) H01F 1/0036 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 1/0063 (20130101) |
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| US 09355845 | Petchsang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nattasamon Petchsang (Nonthaburi, Thailand); Masaru Kuno (Granger, Indiana); Vladimir Plashnitsa (Mishawaka, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nattasamon Petchsang (Nonthaburi, Thailand); Masaru Kuno (Granger, Indiana); Vladimir Plashnitsa (Mishawaka, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for assembling semiconducting nanowires, which method can include providing a mixture comprising a dielectric solvent and two or more semiconducting nanowires, wherein the semiconducting nanowires can be the same or different; exposing the mixture to an electrostatic charge under lighting conditions; and allowing macroscopic nanowire alignment to occur, wherein each nanowire is substantially oriented along the direction of the applied electric field. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/216452 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 7/14 (20130101) C30B 29/06 (20130101) C30B 29/08 (20130101) C30B 29/16 (20130101) C30B 29/40 (20130101) C30B 29/46 (20130101) C30B 29/48 (20130101) C30B 29/50 (20130101) C30B 29/60 (20130101) C30B 33/04 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/02521 (20130101) H01L 21/02551 (20130101) H01L 21/02568 (20130101) H01L 21/02601 (20130101) H01L 21/02603 (20130101) H01L 21/02628 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09356598 | Vrudhula et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sarma Vrudhula (Chandler, Arizona); Jinghua Yang (Tempe, Arizona); Niranjan Kulkarni (Phoenix, Arizona); Shimeng Yu (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarma Vrudhula (Chandler, Arizona); Jinghua Yang (Tempe, Arizona); Niranjan Kulkarni (Phoenix, Arizona); Shimeng Yu (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates generally to threshold logic elements for integrated circuits (ICs). In one embodiment, a threshold logic element has a first input gate network, a second input gate network, a differential sense amplifier, and a resistive network. The first input gate network is configured to receive a first set of logical signals, while the second input gate network configured to receive a second set of logical signals. The differential sense amplifier is operably associated with the first input gate network and the second input gate network such that the differential sense amplifier is configured to generate a differential output in accordance with a threshold logic function. The resistive network is coupled between the differential sense amplifier and the first input gate network and between the differential sense amplifier and the second input gate network. The resistive network makes the threshold logic element less susceptible to process variations. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/792163 |
| ART UNIT | 2844 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/505 (20130101) G06F 17/5068 (20130101) G06F 2217/12 (20130101) Static Stores G11C 7/065 (20130101) G11C 13/0002 (20130101) G11C 13/003 (20130101) G11C 13/004 (20130101) G11C 17/18 (20130101) G11C 17/165 (20130101) G11C 2013/0042 (20130101) G11C 2213/71 (20130101) G11C 2213/79 (20130101) Pulse Technique H03K 19/0013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H03K 19/0027 (20130101) H03K 19/215 (20130101) H03K 19/0813 (20130101) H03K 19/01707 (20130101) |
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 09352358 | Sherrit et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Sherrit (La Crescenta, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California); Mircea Badescu (La Canada Flintridge, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California); Phillip Grant Allen (Walnut, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic ultrasonic horn where the horn, backing, and pre-stress structures are combined in a single monolithic piece is disclosed. Pre-stress is applied by external flexure structures. The provision of the external flexures has numerous advantages including the elimination of the need for a pre-stress bolt. The removal of the pre-stress bolt eliminates potential internal electric discharge points in the actuator. In addition, it reduces the chances of mechanical failure in the actuator stacks that result from the free surface in the hole of conventional ring stacks. In addition, the removal of the stress bolt and the corresponding reduction in the overall number of parts reduces the overall complexity of the resulting ultrasonic horn actuator and simplifies the ease of the design, fabrication and integration of the actuator of the present invention into other structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/590971 |
| ART UNIT | 3645 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Methods or Apparatus for Generating or Transmitting Mechanical Vibrations of Infrasonic, Sonic, or Ultrasonic Frequency, for Performing Mechanical Work in General B06B 1/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B06B 3/00 (20130101) Soldering or Unsoldering; Welding; Cladding or Plating by Soldering or Welding; Cutting by Applying Heat Locally, e.g Flame Cutting; Working by Laser Beam B23K 20/10 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/49826 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09352843 | Suciu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Jesse M. Chandler (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine has a core engine incorporating a core engine turbine. A fan rotor is driven by a fan rotor turbine. The fan rotor turbine is in the path of gases downstream from the core engine turbine. A bypass door is moveable from a closed position at which the gases from the core engine turbine pass over the fan rotor turbine, and moveable to a bypass position at which the gases are directed away from the fan rotor turbine. An aircraft is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/731371 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for Fitting in or to Aircraft; Flying Suits; Parachutes; Arrangements or Mounting of Power Plants or Propulsion Transmissions in Aircraft B64D 27/02 (20130101) B64D 27/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Jet-propulsion Plants F02K 3/06 (20130101) F02K 3/025 (20130101) F02K 3/077 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354134 | Commo et al. |
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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 ADMINSTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean A. Commo (Newport News, Virginia); Keith C. Lynn (Newport News, Virginia); Drew Landman (Norfolk, Virginia); Michael J. Acheson (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An In-Situ Load System for calibrating and validating aerodynamic properties of scaled aircraft in ground-based aerospace testing applications includes an assembly having upper and lower components that are pivotably interconnected. A test weight can be connected to the lower component to apply a known force to a force balance. The orientation of the force balance can be varied, and the measured forces from the force balance can be compared to applied loads at various orientations to thereby develop calibration factors. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/191898 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, or Fluid Pressure G01L 25/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09354206 — Floating ultrasonic transducer inspection system and method for nondestructive evaluation
| US 09354206 | Zalameda et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph N. Zalameda (Poquoson, Virginia); Patrick H. Johnston (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph N. Zalameda (Poquoson, Virginia); Patrick H. Johnston (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for inspecting a structural sample using ultrasonic energy includes positioning an ultrasonic transducer adjacent to a surface of the sample, and then transmitting ultrasonic energy into the sample. Force pulses are applied to the transducer concurrently with transmission of the ultrasonic energy. A host machine processes ultrasonic return pulses from an ultrasonic pulser/receiver to quantify attenuation of the ultrasonic energy within the sample. The host machine detects a defect in the sample using the quantified level of attenuation. The method may include positioning a dry couplant between an ultrasonic transducer and the surface. A system includes an actuator, an ultrasonic transducer, a dry couplant between the transducer the sample, a scanning device that moves the actuator and transducer, and a measurement system having a pulsed actuator power supply, an ultrasonic pulser/receiver, and a host machine that executes the above method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/557250 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 29/11 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 29/28 (20130101) G01N 29/045 (20130101) G01N 29/265 (20130101) G01N 29/4436 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09354880 | Ng 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) | Tak-Kwong Ng (Yorktown, Virginia); Carl S. Mills (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A processing device for high-speed execution of a computer program is provided. A memory module may store one or more computer programs. A sequencer may select one of the computer programs and controls execution of the selected program. A register module may store intermediate values associated with a current calculation set, a set of output values associated with a previous calculation set, and a set of input values associated with a subsequent calculation set. An external interface may receive the set of input values from a computing device and provides the set of output values to the computing device. A computation interface may provide a set of operands for computation during processing of the current calculation set. The set of input values are loaded into the register and the set of output values are unloaded from the register in parallel with processing of the current calculation set. |
| FILED | Monday, March 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/792489 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/445 (20130101) G06F 9/3012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 1/20 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09355194 | Howerton 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) | Brian M. Howerton (Newport News, Virginia); Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An interactive liner design and impedance modeling tool comprises software utilized to design acoustic liners for use in constrained spaces, both regularly and irregularly shaped. A graphical user interface allows the acoustic channel geometry to be drawn in a liner volume while the surface impedance calculations are updated and displayed in real-time. A one-dimensional transmission line model may be used as the basis for the impedance calculations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/771116 |
| ART UNIT | 2694 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Mechanical Vibrations or Ultrasonic, Sonic or Infrasonic Waves G01H 15/00 (20130101) Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Sound-producing Devices; Methods or Devices for Protecting Against, or for Damping, Noise or Other Acoustic Waves in General; Acoustics Not Otherwise Provided for G10K 11/162 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CATERPILLAR INC. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qi Chen (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of estimation motion of a machine is disclosed. The method may include determining a first point cloud and a second point cloud corresponding to an environment in a vicinity of the machine. The method may further include generating a first extended gaussian image (EGI) for the first point cloud and a second EGI for the second point cloud. The method may further include determining a first EGI segment based on the first EGI and a second EGI segment based on the second EGI. The method may further include determining a first two dimensional distribution for points in the first EGI segment and a second two dimensional distribution for points in the second EGI segment. The method may further include estimating motion of the machine based on the first and second two dimensional distributions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/889855 |
| ART UNIT | 2669 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/2033 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 2207/10016 (20130101) G06T 2207/10028 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09356341 | Meador et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mary Ann Meador (Cleveland, Ohio); Felix Miranda (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick Van Keuls (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Ann Meador (Cleveland, Ohio); Felix Miranda (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick Van Keuls (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for lightweight, customizable antenna with improved performance and mechanical properties are disclosed. In some aspects, aerogels can be used, for example, as a substrate for antenna fabrication. The reduced weight and expense, as well as the increased ability to adapt antenna designs, permits a systems to mitigate a variety of burdens associated with antennas while providing added benefits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/653027 |
| ART UNIT | 2845 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Antennas, i.e Radio Aerials H01Q 1/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01Q 9/0407 (20130101) H01Q 21/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| APPLICANT(S) | James P. Mitchell (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Mitchell (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for communication relay via a repeater platform satellite vehicle to a near surface station in the Polar Region is disclosed. A preferred embodiment receives a plurality of positioning and content data from a plurality of constellations of Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO) Satellite Vehicles (SAT). Additionally, the system receives a plurality of position, time and altitude data from constellations of available repeater platform (RP) SATs. The system receives a request for content from a near surface station located in an area lacking adequate line-of-sight to the GEO based signal. The system aligns antenna elements onboard the desired RP SATs to amplify and relay the GEO based signal toward the near surface station and vice versa. Additionally, the system commands directional antenna elements onboard the station to send and receive the relayed signal making the GEO based content available to the near surface station. |
| FILED | Friday, December 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/137302 |
| ART UNIT | 2649 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 7/18519 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09351933 | Zale et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BIND Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BIND Therapeutics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Zale (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Greg Troiano (Pembroke, Massachusetts); Mir Mukkaram Ali (Woburn, Massachusetts); Jeff Hrkach (Lexington, Massachusetts); James Wright (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to therapeutic nanoparticles. Exemplary nanoparticles disclosed herein may include about 1 to about 20 weight percent of a vinca alkaloid; and about 50 to about 99 weight percent biocompatible polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/660281 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/19 (20130101) A61K 9/5153 (20130101) A61K 31/55 (20130101) A61K 31/475 (20130101) A61K 31/4745 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09355661 | Seigler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Allen Seigler (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Sharat Batra (Plymouth, Minnesota); William Albert Challener (Scotia, New York); Hua Zhou (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic recording apparatus includes a write element and an optical device for heating a portion of a magnetic medium. The optical device and the write element are arranged to generally prevent the write element from affecting the optical fields generated by the optical device. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/853329 |
| ART UNIT | 2687 — Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives |
| CURRENT CPC | Information Storage Based on Relative Movement Between Record Carrier and Transducer G11B 5/484 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G11B 2005/0021 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09353317 | Schabron et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Ryan B. Boysen (Laramie, Wyoming); Eric W. Kalberer (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Ryan B. Boysen (Laramie, Wyoming); Eric W. Kalberer (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive technology may involve, in particular embodiments, novel use of a non-porous, high surface energy stationary phase to adsorb, in reversible fashion, the most polar component of a resins fraction of an input hydrocarbon when a mobile phase is passed over the stationary phase. Such reversible adsorption prevents irreversibly adsorption of such components on active stationary phase(s) downflow of the non-porous, high surface energy stationary phase, thereby conserving stationary phase costs and increasing resolution of resins elutions, and accuracy of hydrocarbon component results. Aspects of the inventive technology may also involve a novel combination of a solubility based asphaltene component fractionating and analysis method and an adsorption chromatography method for separating and/or analyzing saturate, aromatics and resins components of an input hydrocarbon. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/237568 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Separation B01D 15/00 (20130101) B01D 15/265 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 20/281 (20130101) B01J 20/283 (20130101) B01J 20/284 (20130101) B01J 20/286 (20130101) B01J 20/287 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 25/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10G 25/12 (20130101) C10G 53/08 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 30/461 (20130101) G01N 30/468 (20130101) G01N 33/2823 (20130101) G01N 2030/085 (20130101) G01N 2030/8854 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09355565 | Pepitone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dave Pepitone (Sun City West, Arizona); Emmanuel Letsu-Dake (Plymouth, Minnesota); Patrick Mulhall (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave Pepitone (Sun City West, Arizona); Emmanuel Letsu-Dake (Plymouth, Minnesota); Patrick Mulhall (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and systems for the disambiguation of an in trail procedure (ITP) vertical display by calculating and rendering symbology on a plan view traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) display. The symbology represents an intersection point between the ground track of an ITP aircraft and the ground track of a blocking aircraft and further represents an association between the intersection point and the respective ITP blocking aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/822035 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Traffic Control Systems G08G 5/0021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G08G 5/0078 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 09351898 | Triolo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as Represnted by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald J. Triolo (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Thomas C. Bulea (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a lift to assist in standing and/or walking for persons who have insufficient strength or movement in their legs. The inventive lift walker includes a frame assembly having a lower an upper and lower portion that wheels are provided beneath the lower frame so as to enable the lift to be propelled and maneuvered. A bracing assembly is provided at the upper portion and comprises a supporting platform which is adapted to fit under the forearms of a person, and optional handles for gripping by the user's left and right hands. An elevator assembly is provided which includes lift and stabilization tracks for raising and lowering the supporting assembly in a coordinated, purely vertical fashion, and further includes gas lift means for effectuating the same via use of a remotely switched activation mechanism. There are also anti-tip means for maintaining the stability of the device when contacting uneven ground surface during movement. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/740349 |
| ART UNIT | 3636 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport, Personal Conveyances, or Accommodation Specially Adapted for Patients or Disabled Persons; Operating Tables or Chairs; Chairs for Dentistry; Funeral Devices A61G 5/14 (20130101) A61G 7/1019 (20130101) A61G 7/1092 (20130101) A61G 7/1094 (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 3/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61H 3/04 (20130101) A61H 2201/1638 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09351981 | Acevedo-Duncan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mildred Enid Acevedo-Duncan (Plant City, Florida); Diondra Denise Hill (Tampa, Florida); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (Tampa, Florida); THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mildred Enid Acevedo-Duncan (Plant City, Florida); Diondra Denise Hill (Tampa, Florida); David A. Ostrov (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to uses of PKC-iota inhibitors for treatment of breast cancer. In one embodiment, the subject invention provides novel uses of 1H-imidazole-4-carboxamide, 5-amino-1-[2,3-dihydroxy-4-[(phosphonooxy)methyl]cyclopentyl]-,[1R-(1α, 2β, 3β, 4α)] (ICA-1) and related compounds for treatment of breast cancer. The compounds of the subject invention have potent anti-proliferative effects against human breast cancer cells. The compounds of the subject invention also inhibit the phosphorylation of IKK-α/IKK-β, induce chromatin condensation, and/or induce DNA fragmentation in cancer cells. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/821725 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/66 (20130101) A61K 31/675 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/4164 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 39/39558 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/1137 (20130101) C12N 2310/14 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 207/11013 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09351494 | Woods et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Inscent, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inscent, Inc. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel F. Woods (Irvine, California); Spiros Dimitratos (Ontario, California); Robin W. Justice (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present specification discloses honeybee repellents exhibiting repellent properties similar to 2-heptanone, compositions comprising such repellents, uses to repel a honeybee from a mammal, location, plant, structure treated of such repellents, and methods of treating a mammal, location, plant, structure by applying such repellents. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/269115 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 25/00 (20130101) A01N 33/26 (20130101) A01N 35/02 (20130101) A01N 43/12 (20130101) A01N 43/40 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/54 (20130101) A01N 43/56 (20130101) A01N 43/78 (20130101) A01N 43/84 (20130101) A01N 43/86 (20130101) A01N 43/90 (20130101) A01N 47/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A01N 47/40 (20130101) A01N 51/00 (20130101) A01N 2300/00 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 239/54 (20130101) |
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| US 09351971 | Cardone et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eutropics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Cardone (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Xiang Y. Yu (Acton, Massachusetts); Andrew F. Kolodziej (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a chemotherapeutic cancer treatment in which compounds (BH3Is) are administered to a mammal to treat B-cell Lymphoma or other hematopoietic cancers, including diseases associated with MCL-1. The invention also provides a method for treating types of hematopoietic cancers, such as B-cell lymphoma, using a combination of one or more disclosed compounds in combination with other therapes, for example, 26S proteasome inhibitors, such as, for example, Bortezomib. The invention also relates to autoimmune treatment with pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more disclosed compounds. The invention also relates to methods for identifying compounds, for example, compounds of the BH3 mimic class, that have unique in vitro properties that predict in vivo efficacy against B-cell lymphoma tumors and other cancers as well as autoimmune disease. Illustrative compounds are those of Formula II: |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/624263 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/69 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/498 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 31/573 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 217/92 (20130101) C07C 229/18 (20130101) C07C 229/34 (20130101) C07C 229/36 (20130101) C07C 229/48 (20130101) C07C 229/58 (20130101) C07C 229/60 (20130101) C07C 229/64 (20130101) C07C 311/21 (20130101) C07C 317/36 (20130101) C07C 317/44 (20130101) C07C 2101/08 (20130101) C07C 2101/14 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/08 (20130101) C07D 209/34 (20130101) C07D 211/46 (20130101) C07D 211/60 (20130101) C07D 213/79 (20130101) C07D 215/48 (20130101) C07D 231/14 (20130101) C07D 231/38 (20130101) C07D 235/26 (20130101) C07D 239/28 (20130101) C07D 239/42 (20130101) C07D 241/46 (20130101) C07D 261/18 (20130101) C07D 263/34 (20130101) C07D 263/48 (20130101) C07D 309/14 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 09352032 | Borca et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Conneticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel V. Borca (Westbrook, Connecticut); Guillermo R. Risatti (Westbrook, Connecticut); Lauren G. Holinka-Patterson (Deep River, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Controlling Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV) involves either prophylactic vaccination or non-vaccination and elimination of infected herds depending on the epidemiological situation. Marker vaccines allowing distinction between naturally infected from vaccinated swine could complement “stamping out” measures. Previously, we reported the development of FlagT4v, a double antigenic marker live attenuated CSFV strain. FlagT4v was later shown as not to be completely stable in terms of its attenuation when assessed in a reversion to virulence protocol. We have developed a modified version of the FlagT4v where changes in the codon usage of genomic areas encoding for Flag and T4 were introduced to rectify the reversion to the virulent genotype. The new virus, FlagT4-mFT-Gv, possesses the same amino acid sequence as FlagT4v except for one substitution, Asparagine is replaced by Glycine at position 852 of the CSFV polypeptide. FlagT4-mFT-Gv protected swine against challenge with Brescia virulent virus at 21 days post vaccination. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/200802 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2770/24321 (20130101) C12N 2770/24334 (20130101) C12N 2770/24351 (20130101) C12N 2770/24371 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56983 (20130101) G01N 2333/183 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09354489 | Fluckiger |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON COMPANY (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David U. Fluckiger (Allen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An autofocus metric approach for focusing video images, automatically, based on images taken during a focus sweep in which a focus cell is repositioned for each of the images is provided. The approach includes, given an edge detected image from the focus sweep and an associated focus cell position in the focus sweep, an autofocus engine dividing the edge detected image into sub-images. For each sub-image, the autofocus engine calculates a normalized edge detection strength and compares it to a threshold. Based on the comparison, the autofocus engine determines whether an edge is present in the sub-image. Based on the determinations of edges in the sub-images, the autofocus engine calculates an autofocus metric associated with the given focus cell position. The autofocus engine provides the autofocus metric together with autofocus metrics associated with other focus cell positions to focus the video images. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177175 |
| ART UNIT | 2664 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus or Arrangements for Taking Photographs or for Projecting or Viewing Them; Apparatus or Arrangements Employing Analogous Techniques Using Waves Other Than Optical Waves; Accessories Therefor G03B 13/36 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 5/23212 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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