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| US 09363991 | Larson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Larson (Waban, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Ruberti (Lexington, Massachusetts); John Slusarz (Hopedale, Massachusetts); Nicholas Goulas (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Erin Rush (Morristown, New York); Trevor Ehret (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A drilling system including a motor that produces a sonic, linear oscillatory motion is provided for removing a frozen biological sample from a stored frozen specimen and methods of use thereof without thawing the remainder of the specimen. The stator and slider assembly is operated by a servo controller which can communicate and be programmed through a port of a PC equipped with software. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/222201 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Preservation of Bodies of Humans or Animals or Plants or Parts Thereof; Biocides, e.g as Disinfectants, as Pesticides or as Herbicides; Pest Repellants or Attractants; Plant Growth Regulators A01N 1/02 (20130101) A01N 1/0242 (20130101) A01N 1/0252 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Refrigerators; Cold Rooms; Ice-boxes; Cooling or Freezing Apparatus Not Otherwise Provided for F25D 31/00 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 1/08 (20130101) G01N 1/42 (20130101) G01N 2001/368 (20130101) |
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| US 09364143 | Yun et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Seok-Hyun Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Johannes F. de Boer (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seok-Hyun Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Johannes F. de Boer (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary apparatus, arrangement and method can be provided for obtaining information associated with an anatomical structure or sample using optical microscopy. A radiation can include first electromagnetic radiation(s) directed to an anatomical sample and at least one second electromagnetic radiation directed to a reference. A wavelength of the radiation can vary over time, and the wavelength can be shorter than approximately 1150 nm. An interference can be detected between third and forth radiations associated with the first, second and fourth radiation, respectively. At least one image corresponding to portion(s) of the sample can be generated using data associated with the interference. Source arrangement(s) can be provided which is configured to provide an electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength that varies over time. A period of a variation of the wavelength of the first electromagnetic radiation(s) can be shorter than 1 millisecond, and the wavelength can be shorter than approximately 1150 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/465580 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 3/102 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0059 (20130101) A61B 5/0066 (20130101) A61B 5/418 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/45 (20130101) G01N 21/4795 (20130101) |
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| US 09364174 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Xian Huang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for monitoring a target analyte in a sample using a polymer capable of binding to the target analyte are disclosed. A microdevice useful for the disclosed techniques includes a semi-permeable membrane structure, a substrate, a first and second microchambers formed between the membrane structure and the substrate. The first microchamber can be adapted to receive a solution including the polymer, and the second microchamber can be adapted to receive a reference solution. Environmental target analyte can permeate the semi-permeable membrane structure and enters the first microchamber and the second microchamber. Based on the difference in a property associated with the polymer solution that is responsive to the target analyte-polymer binding, and the corresponding property associated with reference solution, the presence and/or concentration of the target analyte can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/160092 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0015 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/147 (20130101) B01L 2200/148 (20130101) B01L 2300/023 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0433 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/226 (20130101) G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 33/66 (20130101) G01N 33/5438 (20130101) |
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| US 09364191 | Ning et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruola Ning (Fairport, New York); Weixing Cai (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | DPC (differential phase contrast) images are acquired for each photon energy channel, which are called spectral DPC images. The final DPC image can be computed by summing up these spectral DPC images or just computed using certain ‘color’ representation algorithms to enhance desired features. In addition, with quasi-monochromatic x-ray source, the required radiation dose is substantially reduced, while the image quality of DPC images remains acceptable. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843508 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 6/032 (20130101) A61B 6/482 (20130101) A61B 6/484 (20130101) A61B 6/502 (20130101) A61B 6/4035 (20130101) A61B 6/4085 (20130101) A61B 6/4241 (20130101) A61B 6/4291 (20130101) A61B 6/5235 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 23/087 (20130101) G01N 23/20091 (20130101) Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/005 (20130101) G06T 2207/10081 (20130101) G06T 2207/20212 (20130101) |
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| US 09364412 | Yu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yihua Bruce Yu (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sivakumar Ramachandran (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yiider Tseng (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (, Utah); THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yihua Bruce Yu (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sivakumar Ramachandran (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yiider Tseng (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The compositions and methods disclosed herein pertain to the manufacture and use of hydrogels. The disclosed compositions and methods pertain to hydrogels capable of induction by a variety of methodologies, such as by pH, salt and/or mixing. Such hydrogels are capable of self- or co-assembly and while doing so, may entrap a variety of bioactive agents in their native form, such as proteins, DNA, RNA and the like. The hydrogels of the present invention also demonstrate rapid sheer-responsiveness. The hydrogels of the present invention are biodegradable, biocompatible and useful as a biomaterial or drug-delivery device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/085049 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/042 (20130101) A61K 8/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0009 (20130101) |
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| US 09364426 | Gill et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvinder Singh Gill (Lubbock, Texas); Mark R. Prausnitz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Coated microneedle devices and methods of making such devices are provided. In one aspect, a method for coating includes providing a microstructure having at least one surface in need of coating; and applying a coating liquid, which includes at least one drug, to the at least one surface of the microstructure, wherein the surface energy of the coating liquid is less than the surface energy of the surface of the microstructure. The coating liquid may include a viscosity enhancer and surfactant. Microneedles having heterogeneous coatings, pockets, or both are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/185725 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0021 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/0097 (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 37/0015 (20130101) A61M 2037/0046 (20130101) A61M 2037/0053 (20130101) Processes for Applying Fluent Materials to Surfaces, in General B05D 1/32 (20130101) B05D 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09364443 | Beduneau et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Arnaud Beduneau (Lincoln, Nebraska); Howard Gendelman (Omaha, Nebraska); Barrett Rabinow (Skokie, Illinois); Jane Werling (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Deerfield, Illinois); BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark (Opfikon), Switzerland); BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnaud Beduneau (Lincoln, Nebraska); Howard Gendelman (Omaha, Nebraska); Barrett Rabinow (Skokie, Illinois); Jane Werling (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to surface-modified particles and to methods of making and using the same. The surface-modified particles comprise a particle core and a coating associated with the particle core, wherein the particle core comprises an active agent, the coating comprises an opsonin, and the surface-modified particle has an average size from about 1 nm to about 2,000 nm. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398894 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/146 (20130101) A61K 9/5115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 9/5161 (20130101) A61K 9/5169 (20130101) A61K 31/337 (20130101) A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48853 (20130101) A61K 47/48861 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/283 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) |
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| US 09364448 | Brooks et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian P. Brooks (Kensington, Maryland); William A. Gahl (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for the treatment of vision problems in a subject suffering from one of various forms of albinism, including, for example, oculocutaneous albinism types OCA1a and OCA1b, as well as ocular albinism type 1, resulting from mutations in the GPR143 gene, as well as the OCA2, OCA3 or OCA4 genes, by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the compound (2-[2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoyl]cyclohexane-1,3-dione), also known as NTBC for a sufficient period of time. The administration of NTBC is believed to increase the amount of pigmentation in the subject and alleviate certain symptoms caused by lack of pigmentation in the eye tissues. Also described are methods of use of NTBC for increasing the pigmentation of a subject for cosmetic purposes, by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of NTBC. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/471142 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 8/35 (20130101) A61K 8/40 (20130101) A61K 31/122 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Use of Cosmetics or Similar Toilet Preparations A61Q 5/00 (20130101) A61Q 5/065 (20130101) A61Q 19/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09364449 | Sadowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin J. Sadowski (New York, New York); Kent Kirshenbaum (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. Sadowski (New York, New York); Kent Kirshenbaum (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel peptide/peptoid oligomers are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following formula Ia or Ib: The peptide/peptoid oligomers demonstrate the ability to inhibit fibrillization and oligomerization of Aβ and may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions and used for the prevention or treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals, including humans, associated with Aβ oligomerization. The present peptidomimetic oligomers are particularly valuable for the treatment of subjects with AD. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134547 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/135 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
09364454 — Anti-inflammatory actions of neuroprotectin D1/protectin D1 and its natural stereoisomers
| US 09364454 | Serhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Bruce D. Levy (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Bruce D. Levy (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes novel isolated, purified, 10,17-dihydroxy-docosahexaenoic acids, esters, derivatives and their preparation. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/625865 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/202 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 59/42 (20130101) C07C 69/732 (20130101) |
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| US 09364460 | Faller et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Douglas V. Faller (Weston, Massachusetts); Robert M. Williams (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas V. Faller (Weston, Massachusetts); Robert M. Williams (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to compounds that are specific inhibitors of PKC delta, and methods and compositions for the treatment and prevention of cancers and other disorders. Compositions comprising compounds of the invention are used to treat cancers such as, for example, carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors, malignant melanomas, pancreatic, gastrointestinal and lung cancers. Neuroendocrine tumor cell lines of pulmonary and gastrointestinal origin are surprisingly sensitive to PKC delta inhibition by the compounds of the invention. The invention is further directed to methods, compositions and kits containing compounds of the formulas (Ia), (IIa), (IIIa), (IVa), and (V) as disclosed and described in FIGS. 11 and 12. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/428232 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/403 (20130101) A61K 31/404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/86 (20130101) C07D 405/06 (20130101) C07D 487/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09364462 | Simpson, Jr. |
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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) | Paul C. Simpson, Jr. (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented herein inter alia are novel methods of treating heart and brain diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/067774 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/4164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09364463 | Ferrando et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arny Ferrando (Little Rock, Arkansas); Robert R. Wolfe (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses an amino acid composition for recovery of muscle strength and function. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/359213 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Foods, Foodstuffs, or Non-alcoholic Beverages, Not Covered by Subclasses A23B - A23J; Their Preparation or Treatment, e.g Cooking, Modification of Nutritive Qualities, Physical Treatment; Preservation of Foods or Foodstuffs, in General A23L 1/3051 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Foods, Foodstuffs or Non-alcoholic Beverages A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2002/00 (20130101) A23V 2200/316 (20130101) A23V 2250/06 (20130101) Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/198 (20130101) A61K 31/405 (20130101) A61K 31/4172 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09364472 | 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 | Thursday, August 06, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/819535 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/47 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09364484 | Einav et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Shirit Einav (Palo Alto, California); Rina Barouch-Bentov (Palo Alto, California); Gregory Neveu (Palo Alto, California); Amotz Zivav (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shirit Einav (Palo Alto, California); Rina Barouch-Bentov (Palo Alto, California); Gregory Neveu (Palo Alto, California); Amotz Zivav (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for treating viral infections and coinfections through the use of inhibitory agents that prevent a unique viral structural protein motifs from binding to host proteins from the clathrin adaptor proteins family and subsequently preventing viral replication. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/362993 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/404 (20130101) A61K 31/517 (20130101) A61K 31/553 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/18 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09364501 | McGrath |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Michael S. McGrath (Burlingame, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. McGrath (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods of treating a macrophage-associated neurodegenerative disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), or multiple sclerosis (MS) in a subject by administering chlorite in an amount effective to decrease blood immune cell activation. The invention also features methods of monitoring therapy by assessing blood immune cell activation before and after therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/458954 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 33/00 (20130101) A61K 33/20 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 33/40 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 514/879 (20130101) Y10S 514/885 (20130101) |
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| US 09364513 | Ellis-Behnke et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rutledge Ellis-Behnke (Canton, Massachusetts); Shuguang Zhang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gerald Schneider (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kwok-Fai So (Pokfulam, China Hong Kong); David Tay (Pokfulam, China Hong Kong); Yu-Xiang Liang (Pokfulam, China Hong Kong) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maasachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Versitech Limited (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rutledge Ellis-Behnke (Canton, Massachusetts); Shuguang Zhang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gerald Schneider (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kwok-Fai So (Pokfulam, China Hong Kong); David Tay (Pokfulam, China Hong Kong); Yu-Xiang Liang (Pokfulam, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions that include nanoscale structured materials or precursors thereof (e.g., self-assembling peptides) are described. The compositions can include other substances (e.g., a vasoconstrictor). Also described are methods for using the compositions to promote hemostasis, to protect the skin or wounds from contamination, to decontaminate a site upon removal of previously applied compositions that provided a protective coating, and to inhibit the movement of bodily substances other than blood. The compositions are also useful in isolating tissue, removing tissue, preserving tissue (for, e.g., subsequent transplantation or reattachment), and as bulking, stabilizing or hydrating agents. Medical devices that include the compositions (e.g., a stent or catheter), bandages or other wound dressings, sutures, and kits that include the compositions are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199670 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/0019 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09364516 | Sottile et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jane Sottile (Rochester, New York); Burns C. Blaxall (Pittsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane Sottile (Rochester, New York); Burns C. Blaxall (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to various uses of fibronectin binding proteins or polypeptides for treating and preventing fibrosis and fibrosis related conditions. The fibronectin binding proteins and polypeptides are also useful for treating conditions associated with vascular remodeling and cardiac dysfunction. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/576900 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/164 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09364522 | Li et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qi-Jing Li (Mountain View, California); Chang-Zheng Chen (Stanford, California); Mark M. Davis (Atherton, California); Jacqueline Chau (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a diverse and abundant class of ˜22-nucleotide (nt) endogenous regulatory RNAs that play a variety of roles in animal cells by controlling gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. Increased miR-181a expression in mature T cells is shown to cause a marked increase in T cell activation and augments T cell sensitivity to peptide antigens. Moreover, T cell blasts with higher miR-181a expression become reactive to antagonists. The effects of miR-181a on antigen discrimination are in part achieved by dampening the expression of multiple negative regulators in the T cell receptor (TCR) signaling pathway, including PTPN22 and the dual specificity phosphatases DUSP5 and DUSP6. This results in a reduction in the TCR signaling threshold, thus quantitatively and qualitatively enhancing T cell sensitivity to antigens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/288214 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/57 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) C12N 2310/11 (20130101) C12N 2310/141 (20130101) C12N 2310/315 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/321 (20130101) C12N 2310/3515 (20130101) C12N 2310/3521 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/505 (20130101) G01N 33/5041 (20130101) G01N 2500/02 (20130101) G01N 2800/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09364535 | Chen |
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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) | Lu Chen (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of modulating the occurrence of lymphangiogenesis in a subject are provided. In some instances, the method is a method of treating transplant rejection in the subject. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of: a first antagonist for a tyrosine kinase receptor and a second antagonist for an integrin receptor. In some embodiments, the methods include enhancing survival of transplanted tissue in a subject. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions and kits that find use in methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/966760 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2842 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| US 09364539 | Edwards, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Edwards, Jr. (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Scott G. Filler (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Donald C. Sheppard (Montreal, Canada); Ashraf S. Ibrahim (Irvine, California); Yue Fu (Carson, California); Brad J. Spellberg (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Candida albicans bloodstream infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Filament formation and adherence to host cells are critical virulence factors of C. albicans. Multiple filamentation regulatory pathways have been discovered, however the downstream effectors of these regulatory pathways remain unknown. The cell surface proteins in the ALS group are downstream effectors of the filamentation regulatory pathway. Particularly, Als1p mediates adherence to endothelial cells in vitro and is required for virulence. The blocking of adherence by the organism is described resulting from the use of a composition and method disclosed herein. Specifically, a pharmaceutical composition comprised of a gene, gene product, or specific antibody to the ALS gene family is administered as a vaccine to generate an immune response capable of blocking adherence of the organism. |
| FILED | Monday, September 23, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/034300 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/16 (20130101) A61K 39/0002 (20130101) A61K 39/39575 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/53 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/40 (20130101) C07K 16/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09364543 | Lin |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chien-Chi Lin (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides compositions comprising a visible light-curable mixture capable of forming a biocompatible hydrogel, hydrogels prepared from the hydrogel precursor mixtures, and a biocompatible delivery system comprising a hydrogel. The disclosure also provides a process for preparing a multi layer hydrogel delivery system. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/062296 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 51/1213 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/835 (20130101) |
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| US 09364557 | Neville, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David M. Neville, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Jung-Hee Woo (Temple, Texas); Arthur Frankel (Temple, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Washington, District of Columbia); SCOTT AND WHITE HEALTHCARE (Temple, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Neville, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Jung-Hee Woo (Temple, Texas); Arthur Frankel (Temple, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions related to diphtheria toxin diabody immunotoxins. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/671629 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 47/48484 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48561 (20130101) A61K 47/48584 (20130101) A61K 47/48638 (20130101) A61K 47/48676 (20130101) A61K 2039/505 (20130101) |
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| US 09364563 | Fujii et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MOLECULAR EXPRESS, INC. (Rancho Dominquez, California); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); MOLECULAR EXPRESS, INC. (Rancho Dominguez, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Fujii (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Francis C. Szoka, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Douglas S. Watson (Harrisonburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to liposomal vaccine compositions, methods for the manufacture thereof, and methods for the use thereof to stimulate an immune response in an animal. These compositions comprise dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (“DMPC”); either dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (“DMPG”) or dimyristoyltrimethylammonium propane (“DMTAP”) or both DMPC and DMTAP; and at least one sterol derivative providing a covalent anchor for one or more immunogenic polypeptide(s) or carbohydrate(s). |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320278 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/48046 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48823 (20130101) A61K 2039/60 (20130101) A61K 2039/627 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Steroids C07J 9/00 (20130101) C07J 41/0055 (20130101) C07J 43/003 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/00011 (20130101) C12N 2770/00034 (20130101) |
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| US 09364661 | Kilgore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Kilgore (Avon Lake, Ohio); Douglas Michael Ackermann, Jr. (Palo Alto, California); Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland Hts., Ohio); Narendra Bhadra (Chesterland, Ohio); Joe Payer (Brecksville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Example adjustable electrodes are described. One example adjustable electrode includes two or more contacts configured to selectively deliver high frequency alternating current (HFAC) to a nerve in an amount sufficient to produce an HFAC nerve conduction block in the nerve. The example adjustable electrode may also include a logic configured to selectively control which of the two or more contacts deliver HFAC to the nerve to control whether the nerve electrode is in a first (e.g., onset response mitigating) configuration or in a second (e.g., HFAC nerve conduction block maintenance) configuration. The electrode may be used in applications including, but not limited to, nerve block applications, and nerve stimulation applications. The electrode may be adjusted by changing attributes including, but not limited to, the number, length, orientation, distance between, surface area, and distance from a nerve of contacts to be used to deliver the HFAC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/463948 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0551 (20130101) A61N 1/0556 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61N 1/36071 (20130101) A61N 1/36185 (20130101) |
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| US 09364669 | Kehtarnavaz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nasser Kehtarnavaz (Plano, Texas); Vanishree Bijadi Gopalakrishna (Redmond, Washington); Philipos C. Loizou (Plano, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nasser Kehtarnavaz (Plano, Texas); Vanishree Bijadi Gopalakrishna (Redmond, Washington); Philipos C. Loizou (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention is directed to a real-time noise classification and tuning system for cochlear implant and other hearing device applications. The system is capable of automatically selecting the optimized parameters of a noise suppression algorithm in response to different noisy environments. The feature vector and the classifier deployed in the system to automatically identify the background noise environment are selected so that the computation burden is kept low to achieve a real-time throughput. The results reported herein indicate improvement in speech enhancement when using this intelligent real-time hearing device system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/358377 |
| ART UNIT | 2656 — Digital Audio Data Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrotherapy; Magnetotherapy; Radiation Therapy; Ultrasound Therapy A61N 1/0541 (20130101) A61N 1/36032 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 25/554 (20130101) H04R 25/558 (20130101) H04R 2225/51 (20130101) H04R 2225/67 (20130101) |
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| US 09364831 | Chiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Ting-Hsiang Wu (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Ting-Hsiang Wu (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments this invention provides a pulsed-laser triggered microfluidic switching mechanism that can achieve a switching time of 70 μs. This switching speed is two orders of magnitude shorter than that of the fastest switching mechanism utilized in previous μFACS. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852320 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) B01L 2400/0454 (20130101) B01L 2400/0622 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) F16K 99/004 (20130101) F16K 99/0026 (20130101) F16K 99/0028 (20130101) F16K 99/0061 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0391 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) |
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| US 09364988 | Maia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joao Maia (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Jorge Silva (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Patrick Harris (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joao Maia (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Jorge Silva (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Patrick Harris (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating interfacial surfaces within a first composite stream having a generally planar layer interface lies generally in an x-z plane of an x-y-z coordinate system. The method includes dividing the first composite stream into a plurality of branch streams along the x-axis such that the pair of discrete overlapping layers and the generally planar layer interface are distributed among at least two branch streams. Within each individual branch stream of the at least two branch streams, the width dimension of the branch stream is expanded along the x-axis and the thickness dimension of the branch stream is simultaneously contracted along the y-axis. The branch streams are recombined in an overlapping relationship, after each of the at least two branch streams is simultaneously expanded and contracted, to form a second composite stream having a greater number of discrete overlapping layers of polymeric material than the first composite stream. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424023 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — 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 47/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 47/0021 (20130101) B29C 47/92 (20130101) B29C 47/702 (20130101) B29C 47/707 (20130101) B29C 2947/92514 (20130101) |
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| US 09365418 | Quinonez |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Carlo Joseph Quinonez (San Deigo, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo Joseph Quinonez (San Deigo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device platform may include a valve manifold adapted to deliver a programmable pressure to a plurality of ports, a cell chamber having programmable environmental control, and a chip-to-world interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/241975 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 1/025 (20130101) B01L 3/502707 (20130101) B01L 3/502715 (20130101) B01L 2200/027 (20130101) B01L 2200/028 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2400/0481 (20130101) B01L 2400/0487 (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 45/34 (20130101) B29C 45/401 (20130101) B29C 45/1753 (20130101) B29C 2045/0094 (20130101) Processes or Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture or Treatment of Microstructural Devices or Systems B81C 99/0085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B81C 2201/034 (20130101) Positive-displacement Machines for Liquids; Pumps F04B 19/006 (20130101) F04B 43/043 (20130101) F04B 49/065 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2035/00158 (20130101) Systems for Controlling or Regulating Non-electric Variables G05D 7/0694 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/8376 (20150401) |
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| US 09365493 | Myers 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) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark G. Charest (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Christian D. Lerner (Binningen, Switzerland); Jason D. Brubaker (Cheshire, Connecticut); Dionicio R. Siegel (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The modular synthesis of tetracyclines and tetracycline analogs described provides an efficient and enantioselective route to a variety of tetracycline analogs and polycyclines previously inaccessible via earlier tetracycline syntheses and semi-synthetic methods. These analogs may be used as anti-microbial agents or anti-proliferative agents in the treatment of diseases of humans or other animals. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/063868 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 237/26 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/56 (20130101) C07D 209/58 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 221/18 (20130101) C07D 235/02 (20130101) C07D 237/26 (20130101) C07D 239/70 (20130101) C07D 241/38 (20130101) C07D 261/20 (20130101) C07D 263/52 (20130101) C07D 277/30 (20130101) C07D 277/56 (20130101) C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 277/66 (20130101) C07D 307/77 (20130101) |
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| US 09365502 | Covey |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Covey (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally directed to neuroactive substituted cyclopenta[b]phenanthrenes as referenced herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for use as, for example, an anesthetic, and/or in the treatment of disorders relating to GABA function and activity. The present disclosure is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/200219 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 49/345 (20130101) C07C 49/513 (20130101) C07C 205/05 (20130101) C07C 255/31 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 255/47 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 303/06 (20130101) |
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| US 09365523 | Plemper et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Richard K. Plemper (Decatur, Georgia); James P. Snyder (Atlanta, Georgia); Aiming Sun (Atlanta, Georgia); John M. Ndungu (Decatur, Georgia); Jeong-Joong Yoon (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia); Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Plemper (Decatur, Georgia); James P. Snyder (Atlanta, Georgia); Aiming Sun (Atlanta, Georgia); John M. Ndungu (Decatur, Georgia); Jeong-Joong Yoon (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to antiviral compounds disclosed herein and uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising 2-((benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)thio)-N-phenylpropanamide derivatives, N-phenyl-2-((1-phenyl-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)thio)propanamide derivatives, or 2-((benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)thio)-N-(2-chloro-4-methylphenyl)propanamide derivatives. The derivatives may be substituted with one or more substituents. Typically, the pharmaceutical composition comprises a compound of Formula (I), or salt, prodrug, or ester thereof wherein X, Y, and R1 to R7 are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/006259 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/53 (20130101) A61K 31/422 (20130101) A61K 31/427 (20130101) A61K 31/454 (20130101) A61K 31/496 (20130101) A61K 31/506 (20130101) A61K 31/4184 (20130101) A61K 31/4439 (20130101) A61K 31/5377 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 235/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 401/04 (20130101) C07D 401/06 (20130101) C07D 401/12 (20130101) C07D 403/06 (20130101) C07D 403/12 (20130101) C07D 413/12 (20130101) C07D 417/12 (20130101) |
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| US 09365528 | Reynolds et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Reynolds (Birmingham, Alabama); Bini Mathew (Birmingham, Alabama); Gary A. Piazza (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Reynolds (Birmingham, Alabama); Bini Mathew (Birmingham, Alabama); Gary A. Piazza (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Derivatives of sulindac that lack cyclooxygenase inhibitory activity are provided along with pharmaceutical compositions containing them and use for treatment or prevention of cancer. The derivatives of sulindac are also suitable for treating chronic inflammatory conditions. A method for preparing the derivatives is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/008271 |
| ART UNIT | 1672 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 211/19 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 211/26 (20130101) C07D 213/38 (20130101) C07D 295/13 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 307/52 (20130101) |
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| US 09365530 | Nicewicz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Nicewicz (Durham, North Carolina); David S. Hamilton (Carrboro, North Carolina); Andrew J. Perkowski (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an anti-Markovnikov addition product is carried out by reacting an acid with an alkene or alkyne in a dual catalyst reaction system to the exclusion of oxygen to produce said anti-Markovnikov addition product; the dual catalyst reaction system comprising a single electron oxidation catalyst in combination with a hydrogen atom donor catalyst. Compositions useful for carrying out such methods are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/397603 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/0235 (20130101) B01J 31/0239 (20130101) B01J 31/0244 (20130101) B01J 35/004 (20130101) B01J 2231/324 (20130101) B01J 2531/002 (20130101) B01J 2531/008 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 307/06 (20130101) C07D 307/12 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07D 309/04 (20130101) C07D 313/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09365581 | Saltiel 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) | Alan R. Saltiel (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hollis D. Showalter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Scott Larsen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is technology relating to deuterated amiexanox and particularly, but not exclusively, to compositions comprising deuterated amiexanox, methods of producing deuterated amiexanox, and uses of deuterated amiexanox. Provided herein are deuteratecl amiexanox compounds for the treatment of obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, and steatosis. In addition, the deuterated compounds are anti-inflammatory antiallergic immunomodulators. e.g., for the treatment of diseases associated with inflammation. The deuterium kinetic isotope effect associated with placing deuterium at the site of metabolic derivatization slows metabolic derivatization and thus increases the lifetime of the active drug in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/888591 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/436 (20130101) A61K 45/06 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 491/052 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365612 | Thomas et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Craig Thomas (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Matthew B. Boxer (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Thomas (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Matthew B. Boxer (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, of formula I: X—W wherein X is a caspase-selective structure and W has the structure of —NH—CH(Y)(Z) wherein Y is a structure that can form a reversible covalent bond with a caspase; and Z is selected from a carboxyl moiety or a carboxylic acid mimetic. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/575273 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 5/06026 (20130101) C07K 5/06034 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 5/06191 (20130101) |
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| US 09365616 | Feghali-Bostwick 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) | Carol A. Feghali-Bostwick (Mt Pleasant, South Carolina); Yukie Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | C-terminal endostatin polypeptides are disclosed herein. Polynucleotides encoding these polypeptide, host cells transformed with the polynucleotides, and methods of using these polypeptides and polynucleotides are disclosed. Uses of these polypeptide, polynucleotides and expression vectors include the treatment of fibrosis in a subject. Thus, methods are provided for treating fibrosis, including fibrosis of the skin and/or the lung. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/207246 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/47 (20130101) C07K 14/78 (20130101) |
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| US 09365621 | Burke 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) | Jason Burke (Santa Cruz, California); Seth Rubin (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preventing neoplastic transformation by inhibition of cell cycle progression into S phase by preventing the inactivation of Retinoblastoma protein (Rb). |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/394203 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) A61K 38/08 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365622 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric W. Schmidt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Hathaway (Salt Lake City, Utah); James T. Nelson (South Euclid, Ohio); Mohamed S. Donia (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Schmidt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Hathaway (Salt Lake City, Utah); James T. Nelson (South Euclid, Ohio); Mohamed S. Donia (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for cyclization of polymers such as peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/281373 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 5/12 (20130101) C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365626 | Champagne et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Donald E. Champagne (Athens, Georgia); Hitoshi Tsujimoto (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Ivo Francischetti (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael R. Strand (Athens, Georgia); Michail Kotsyfakis (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Dept. of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Biology Centre CAS, v.v.i. (, Czech Republic) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. Champagne (Athens, Georgia); Hitoshi Tsujimoto (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Ivo Francischetti (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael R. Strand (Athens, Georgia); Michail Kotsyfakis (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a novel protein, also referred to herein as simukunin, that inhibits the function of several physiologically important enzymes. Simukunin is a potent inhibitor of the blood coagulation cascade, inhibiting Factor Xa and functioning as an efficient anticoagulant. Simukunin also inhibits the serine proteases elastase and cathepsin and demonstrates anti-inflammatory properties. Also included are methods of making and using simukunin. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122300 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/435 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/745 (20130101) C07K 14/43577 (20130101) |
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| US 09365630 | Lefrancois et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Lefrancois (West Hartford, Connecticut); Thomas A. Stoklasek (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a therapeutic polypeptide and methods for its creation and use for modulating an immune response in a host organism in need thereof. In particular, the invention relates to the administration to an organism in need thereof, of an effective amount of a pre-coupled polypeptide complex comprising a lymphokine polypeptide portion, for example IL-15 (SEQ ID NO: 5, 6), IL-2 (SEQ ID NO: 10, 12) or combinations of both, and an interleukin receptor polypeptide portion, for example IL-15Ra (SEQ ID NO: 7, 8), IL-2Ra (SEQ ID NO: 9, 11) or combinations of both, for augmenting the immune system in, for example, cancer, SCID, AIDS, or vaccination; or inhibiting the immune system in, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, or Lupus. The therapeutic complex of the invention surprisingly demonstrates increased half-life, and efficacy in vivo. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/567317 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1793 (20130101) A61K 38/2086 (20130101) Peptides C07K 1/02 (20130101) C07K 14/55 (20130101) C07K 14/5443 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/7155 (20130101) C07K 16/00 (20130101) C07K 2317/52 (20130101) C07K 2319/02 (20130101) C07K 2319/30 (20130101) C07K 2319/31 (20130101) |
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| US 09365631 | Burnett, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota); Candace Y. W. Lee (Saint-Leonard, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides natriuretic polypeptides. For example, this document provides polypeptides having a natriuretic activity. In some cases, a polypeptide provided herein can have natriuretic activities without inducing excessive hypotension. This document also provides methods and materials for inducing natriuretic activities within a mammal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 28, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/811458 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/00 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 14/575 (20130101) C07K 2319/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09365641 | June et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl H. June (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Ellen Pure (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Liang-Chuan Wang (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Steven Albelda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); John Scholler (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating cancer in a human. The invention relates to targeting the stromal cell population in a tumor microenvironment. For example, in one embodiment, the invention provides a composition that is targeted to fibroblast activation protein (FAP). The invention includes a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which comprises an anti-FAP domain, a transmembrane domain, and a CD3zeta signaling domain. |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/042306 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 35/17 (20130101) A61K 39/0011 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/7051 (20130101) C07K 14/70517 (20130101) C07K 14/70578 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07K 16/30 (20130101) C07K 16/40 (20130101) C07K 2317/622 (20130101) C07K 2319/03 (20130101) C07K 2319/70 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 2710/10343 (20130101) |
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| US 09365825 | Turner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Taiga Biotechnologies, Inc. (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TAIGA BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Aurora, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Curtis Turner (Denver, Colorado); Yosef Refaeli (Denver, Colorado); Gregory Bird (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for manipulating and expanding stem cell populations, including adult stem cells, the cells produced by such methods, and various protein constructs related thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795659 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 14/82 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/22 (20130101) C12N 2501/26 (20130101) C12N 2501/125 (20130101) C12N 2501/145 (20130101) C12N 2501/606 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2501/2303 (20130101) C12N 2501/2306 (20130101) |
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| US 09365830 | Schulz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thomas Schulz (Athens, Georgia); Allan Robins (Athens, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | VIACYTE, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Schulz (Athens, Georgia); Allan Robins (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for inhibiting or suppressing undifferentiated or pluripotent stem cell growth and proliferation in a differentiated or differentiating cell population or culture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/992931 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0606 (20130101) C12N 5/0696 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/999 (20130101) C12N 2503/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/5073 (20130101) |
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| US 09365831 | Peabody et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Peabody (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bryce Chackerian (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling peptide display valency on virus-like particles (VLPs), especially including MS2 VLPs. In this method, large amounts of wild-type and low quantities of single-chain dimer coat proteins may be produced from a single RNA. Valency is controlled in immunogen (vaccine) production by providing a system that allows the production of large amounts of wild-type and low quantities of single-chain dimer coating proteins from a single RNA, allowing facile adjustment of display valency levels on VLPs, especially MS2 VLPS over a wide range, from few than one—on average—to as many as ninety per particle. This facilitates the production of immunogens and vaccines, including VLPs exhibiting low valency. Nucleic acid constructs useful in the expression of virus-like particles are disclosed, comprised of a coat polypeptide of MS2 modified by insertion of a heterologous peptide, wherein the heterologous peptide is displayed on the virus-like particle and encapsidates MS2 niRNA. Nucleic acid constructs are also disclosed which are useful in the expression of virus-like particles comprised of a coat polypeptide of PP7 modified by insertion of a heterologous peptide, wherein the heterologous peptide is displayed on the virus-like particle and encapsidates PP7 mRNA. |
| FILED | Friday, December 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 13/520057 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 2039/5258 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/1037 (20130101) C12N 2710/20034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16034 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2795/16023 (20130101) C12N 2795/18023 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 40/08 (20130101) |
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| US 09365837 | Mochly-Rosen |
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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) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | PKC V5 isozyme-specific peptides are described. The sequences and compositions comprising the sequences are useful for treating disease states associated with the PKC isozyme from which they are respectively derived. Methods of treatment, pharmaceutical formulations and methods of identifying compounds that mimic the activity of the peptides are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/187070 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/45 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/08 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/1205 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365841 | Zhan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Guo Zhan (Lexington, Kentucky); Fang Zheng (Lexington, Kentucky); Wenchao Yang (Wuhan, China PRC); Liu Xue (Beijing, China PRC); Shurong Hou (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) polypeptide variants of the presently-disclosed subject matter have enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine, as compared to wild-type BChE. Pharmaceutical compositions of the presently-disclosed subject matter include a BChE polypeptide variant having an enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine. A method of the presently-disclosed subject matter for treating a cocaine-induced condition includes administering to an individual an effective amount of a BChE polypeptide variant, as disclosed herein, to lower blood cocaine concentration. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/577778 |
| 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 9/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Enzymes C12Y 301/01008 (20130101) |
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| US 09365849 | Rossi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, California); INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. (Coralville, Iowa); City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Mark A. Behlke (Coralville, Iowa); Dongho Kim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for selectively reducing the expression of a gene product from a desired target gene, as well as treating diseases caused by expression of the gene. The method involves introducing into the environment of a cell an amount of a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) such that a sufficient portion of the dsRNA can enter the cytoplasm of the cell to cause a reduction in the expression of the target gene. The dsRNA has a first oligonucleotide sequence that is between 26 and about 30 nucleotides in length and a second oligonucleotide sequence that anneals to the first sequence under biological conditions. In addition, a region of one of the sequences of the dsRNA having a sequence length of from about 19 to about 23 nucleotides is complementary to a nucleotide sequence of the RNA produced from the target gene. |
| FILED | Friday, September 06, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/019911 |
| ART UNIT | 1674 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/111 (20130101) C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/33 (20130101) C12N 2310/51 (20130101) C12N 2320/30 (20130101) C12N 2320/51 (20130101) C12N 2330/30 (20130101) |
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| US 09365851 | Chai et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Chai (Boston, Massachusetts); Todor Dimitrov (Boston, Massachusetts); Daniel Geoffrey Tenen (Singapore, Singapore); Kol Jia Yong (Singapore, Singapore); Bee Hui Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods of treating a solid tumor which expresses Spalt-Like Transcription Factor 4 (SALL4) and Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog (PTEN) in an individual in need thereof, comprising administering to the individual an effective amount of a composition that inhibits SALL4. In addition, the invention is directed to methods of detecting an aggressive cancer in an individual in need thereof as well as methods of detecting a poor prognosis of a patient with cancer in an individual in need thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/345603 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 38/1709 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/08 (20130101) C07K 16/18 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/113 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2310/14 (20130101) C12N 2310/122 (20130101) C12N 2310/531 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/57496 (20130101) |
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| US 09365856 | Wei et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeanne Wei (Little Rock, Arkansas); Gohar Azhar (Little Rock, Arkansas); Xiaomin Zhang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods of administering SRFΔ3. Administering SRFΔ3 may reduce proliferation of cancer cells, and modulate activity of promoters regulated by serum response factor. |
| FILED | Monday, September 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/028105 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 15/85 (20130101) C12N 15/635 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2015/8572 (20130101) |
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| US 09365867 | Rao |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Catholic University of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venigalla B. Rao (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Complex viruses are assembled from simple protein subunits by sequential and irreversible assembly. During genome packaging in bacteriophages, a powerful molecular motor assembles at the special portal vertex of an empty prohead to initiate packaging. An aspect of the invention relates to the phage T4 packaging machine being highly promiscuous, translocating DNA into finished phage heads as well as into proheads. Single motors can force exogenous DNA into phage heads at the same rate as into proheads and phage heads undergo repeated initiations, packaging multiple DNA molecules into the same head. This shows that the phage DNA packaging machine has unusual conformational plasticity, powering DNA into an apparently passive capsid receptacle, including the highly stable virus shell, until it is full. These features allow for the design of a novel class of nanocapsid delivery vehicles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796263 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (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) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/87 (20130101) C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 2795/10042 (20130101) C12N 2795/10122 (20130101) C12N 2795/10142 (20130101) C12N 2795/10152 (20130101) |
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| US 09365888 | Hazen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Renliang Zhang (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Renliang Zhang (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for characterizing the near term risk of experiencing a major adverse cardiac event in a patient presenting to an Emergency Department with chest pain are provided. In one embodiment the method comprises determining the level of myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity and/or mass in a bodily sample obtained from the patient. Levels of MPO activity or MPO mass in bodily samples from the test subject are then compared to a control value in comparable bodily samples obtained from a control population. Such comparison can also be used to determine the near term treatment of the patient. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/707725 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/908 (20130101) G01N 2800/32 (20130101) G01N 2800/50 (20130101) G01N 2800/56 (20130101) |
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| US 09365889 | Hazen |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for assessing the risk a test subject with heart failure has of experiencing a major adverse cardiac event, requiring revascularization, requiring a heart transplant, requiring unscheduled hospitalization for heart failure, progression of heart failure status, or any combination thereof. Also provided herein are methods for assessing the risk a test subject has of developing heart failure. The present methods comprise determining the levels of paraoxonase 1 activity in the serum, non-chelated plasma, or both in the test subject and comparing the level of PON1 activity in the test subject's sample with a control or baseline value based on levels of PON1 activity in serum, non-chelated plasma, or both samples from a population of control subjects. Also provided herein are kits useful in assessing such risks. |
| FILED | Monday, January 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/153612 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/44 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6893 (20130101) G01N 2333/916 (20130101) G01N 2800/325 (20130101) |
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| US 09365899 | Meisler et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Miriam Meisler (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James R. Lupski (Houston, Texas); Clement Y. Chow (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miriam Meisler (Ann Arbor, Michigan); James R. Lupski (Houston, Texas); Clement Y. Chow (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to neuropathy, in particular to mutations in the FI G4 gene. The present invention also provides assays for the detection of variant FIG4 alleles, and assays for detecting FIG4 polymorphisms and mutations associated with disease states. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597539 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/6883 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 2600/156 (20130101) C12Q 2600/158 (20130101) C12Q 2600/172 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 2500/10 (20130101) |
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| US 09366672 | Zeng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Xiangqun Zeng (Rochester, Michigan); Zhihong Shen (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiangqun Zeng (Rochester, Michigan); Zhihong Shen (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of binding and detecting a microorganism on a solid substrate. The microorganism is bound on a solid substrate covalently bound to a capture agent having a saccharide moiety. A lectin capable of binding to the microorganism and the saccharide moiety of the capture agent is added to the sample to bind the microorganism on the solid substrate. Further provided are biosensor devices, such as a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) device or a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) device, that incorporate the solid substrate for the detection of microorganisms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/373783 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparatus for Enzymology or Microbiology; C12M 25/06 (20130101) Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/10 (20130101) C12Q 1/24 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/56911 (20130101) G01N 33/56916 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2333/42 (20130101) G01N 2333/245 (20130101) G01N 2333/4724 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 435/81 (20130101) |
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| US 09366678 | Coon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J Coon (Middleton, Wisconsin); Alex Hebert (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides mass spectrometry methods, compositions and systems which enable a unique platform for analyte quantitation accessing very high degrees of multiplexing and accurate quantification, particularly well-suited for a range of quantitative analysis for proteomics applications. Embodiments of the present methods and systems combine isotopic coding agents characterized by very small differences in molecular mass with mass spectrometry methods providing large resolving power to provide relative or absolute analyte quantification in a large number of samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/660677 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/6848 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2458/15 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 436/24 (20150115) |
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| US 09366740 | Kecskemeti et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Ryan Kecskemeti (Madison, Wisconsin); Andrew L. Alexander (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Described here are a system and method for obtaining a time series of images that depict a subject using an inversion recovery (“IR”) pulse sequence with a unique data acquisition scheme that allows for the retrospective identification of an image having an optimal tissue contrast. Data acquisition is performed using a radial acquisition scheme such as, preferably, a vastly undersampled isotropic projection reconstruction (“VIPR”) scheme. Using VIPR and IR, combined with a unique projection ordering, a series of three-dimensional, high spatial resolution images with multiple different image contrasts can be obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/829260 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/4824 (20130101) G01R 33/5602 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09367127 | Schaefer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a pointing location are used to define the control input to the electronic device based on the user's motions. Visual feedback is optionally provided to the user during the controller's actions. Additional sensor elements are optionally provided to improve performance of the system. Hardware and software elements are combined to provide for the specified control actions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 13/999891 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00597 (20130101) |
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| US 09367914 | Hager et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Masaru Ishii (Baltimore, Maryland); Eric M. Meisner (Baltimore, Maryland); Daniel J. Marota (Baltimore, Maryland); Haluk N. Tokgozoglu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Masaru Ishii (Baltimore, Maryland); Eric M. Meisner (Baltimore, Maryland); Daniel J. Marota (Baltimore, Maryland); Haluk N. Tokgozoglu (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Repositionable imaging system and method for creating a 3D image of a closed cavity of a patient's anatomy containing the imaging system, estimating characteristics of motion of the system within the cavity, and determining a metric dimension characterizing the cavity without the use of mechanical measurement. The system may include tracking device located externally with respect to the cavity to determine a scale measurement of the system's motion and the structure of the cavity. The system's computer processor is configured to determine triangulated features of the cavity and recover motion scale data with the use of data received from the tracking device. A specific imaging system includes an endoscope (equipped with an electrical coil and complemented with an external electromagnetic tracker). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/895813 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Image Analysis; Applications; Pattern Recognition; Color and compression; Enhancement and Transformation |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 7/0012 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 7/0042 (20130101) G06T 7/0071 (20130101) G06T 7/602 (20130101) G06T 19/00 (20130101) G06T 2200/08 (20130101) G06T 2207/10068 (20130101) G06T 2207/20076 (20130101) G06T 2207/30061 (20130101) G06T 2207/30241 (20130101) G06T 2207/30244 (20130101) G06T 2210/41 (20130101) Pictorial Communication, e.g Television H04N 13/02 (20130101) |
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| US 09368333 | Clemmer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Edward Clemmer (Bloomington, Indiana); Michael A Ewing (Bloomington, Indiana); Steven M. Zucker (Bloomington, Indiana); Christopher R. P. Conant (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | In a drift tube partitioned into a plurality of cascaded drift tube segments each followed by an ion elimination region, a method of separating ions as a function of ion mobility includes repeatedly, and alternating between at least two different time durations, establishing electric drift fields in the drift tube segments and in some of the ion elimination regions while establishing electric repulsive fields in others of the ion elimination regions such that ions having a predefined mobility or range of mobilities are transmitted through the drift tube at one or more frequencies which include one or more overtones of a fundamental frequency at which ions having the predefined mobility or range of mobilities are transmitted through the drift tube with the electric drift fields and electric repulsive fields repeatedly established with uniform time durations. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/815313 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/622 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 49/26 (20130101) H01J 49/0031 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09369275 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California); Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network and related methods for transmitting processes in a network secretly and securely is described. The network use keys, through path-key establishment and a key pool bootstrapping, to ensure that packets are transmitted and received properly and secretly in the presence of one or more adversarial nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696304 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0802 (20130101) H04L 9/0827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/34 (20130101) H04L 2209/80 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Matt Banet (Kihei, Hawaii); Isaac Henry (La Mesa, California); Donald Bernstein (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOTERA WIRLESS, INC. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matt Banet (Kihei, Hawaii); Isaac Henry (La Mesa, California); Donald Bernstein (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a system for measuring stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO), and cardiac power (CP) from a patient that features: 1) an impedance sensor connected to at least two body-worn electrodes and including an impedance circuit that processes analog signals from the electrodes to measure an impedance signal (e.g. a TBEV waveform); 2) an ECG sensor connected to at least two chest-worn electrodes and including an ECG circuit that processes analog signals from the electrodes to measure and ECG signal; 3) an optical sensor connected to a body-worn optical probe and including an optical circuit that processes signals from the probe to measure at least one optical signal (e.g. a PPG waveform) from the patient; 4) a processing system, typically worn on the patient's wrist and connected through a wired interface to the optical sensor, and through either a wired or wireless interface to the TBEV and ECG sensors. The processing system analyzes the ECG, TBEV and optical signals to determine SV, and further analyzes SV and HR determined from an ECG sensor to determine CO. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 28, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/338247 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/01 (20130101) A61B 5/021 (20130101) A61B 5/029 (20130101) A61B 5/0295 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/0535 (20130101) A61B 5/681 (20130101) A61B 5/746 (20130101) A61B 5/0816 (20130101) A61B 5/1116 (20130101) A61B 5/6823 (20130101) A61B 5/6824 (20130101) A61B 5/6826 (20130101) A61B 5/6833 (20130101) A61B 5/7239 (20130101) A61B 5/14551 (20130101) A61B 2562/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09364535 | Chen |
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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) | Lu Chen (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of modulating the occurrence of lymphangiogenesis in a subject are provided. In some instances, the method is a method of treating transplant rejection in the subject. Aspects of the methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of: a first antagonist for a tyrosine kinase receptor and a second antagonist for an integrin receptor. In some embodiments, the methods include enhancing survival of transplanted tissue in a subject. Aspects of the invention further include compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions and kits that find use in methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/966760 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 39/3955 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 2039/507 (20130101) Peptides C07K 16/2842 (20130101) C07K 16/2863 (20130101) C07K 2317/76 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandru S. Biris (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a biocompatible structure includes: obtaining a load graph and a stress graph representing a relationship between a weight percentage of tissue forming nanoparticles and a maximum load or maximum stress of a polymer film, respectively; determining a first and second weight percentage corresponding to a peak of the load graph and the stress graph respectively; determining an optimal weight percentage based on the first and second weight percentages; preparing a polymer film having the optimal weight percentage of the first tissue forming nanoparticles to the polymer; dividing the polymer film to multiple strips; constructing a scaffold by stacking the strips to form polymer layers and adding bone or composite particles between the polymer layers; applying a solution to the scaffold to form a coated scaffold; and adding second tissue forming particles to the coated scaffold to form the biocompatible structure. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/604222 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Filters Implantable into Blood Vessels; Prostheses; Devices Providing Patency To, or Preventing Collapsing Of, Tubular Structures of the Body, e.g Stents; Orthopaedic, Nursing or Contraceptive Devices; Fomentation; Treatment or Protection of Eyes or Ears; Bandages, Dressings or Absorbent Pads; First-aid Kits A61F 2/28 (20130101) A61F 2002/2835 (20130101) Methods or Apparatus for Sterilising Materials or Objects in General; Disinfection, Sterilisation, or Deodorisation of Air; Chemical Aspects of Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles; Materials for Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads, or Surgical Articles A61L 27/38 (20130101) A61L 27/44 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/46 (20130101) A61L 27/50 (20130101) A61L 27/54 (20130101) A61L 27/56 (20130101) A61L 27/58 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61L 27/3608 (20130101) A61L 2300/64 (20130101) A61L 2300/414 (20130101) A61L 2400/12 (20130101) A61L 2400/18 (20130101) A61L 2430/02 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 5/00 (20130101) C08L 67/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 156/1062 (20150115) Y10T 156/1075 (20150115) |
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| US 09364889 | Chaudhry et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | FOPAT LLC (Miamisburg, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | IC PATTERNS, LLC (Miamisburg, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil R. Chaudhry (Xenia, Ohio); Robert Dzugan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Richard M. Harrington (Cincinnati, Ohio); Faurice D. Neece (Lyndhurst, Ohio); Nipendra P. Singh (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Travis Westendorf (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Various techniques are provided for creating fugitive foam patterns for use in investment casting operations. In certain illustrative embodiments, a fugitive foam pattern is assembled from independently formed portions. A first section is formed in a mold. Once cured, a mating surface of the first section is exposed to the cavity of a second mold and the section is formed. The second section integrally adheres to the first section. The process is repeated as necessary. In alternative embodiments, a channel is created in a foam pattern using a temporary core that is removed without chemical leaching. The core material comprises water-soluble materials, acid-soluble materials, low-melting point materials, or a combination thereof. A pattern may also be created by inserting foam around a core that remains with the foam pattern. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/734358 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Foundry Moulding B22C 7/023 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B22C 9/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09365013 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Zheng Wang (Austin, Texas); Shunji Egusa (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Noémie Chocat (Paris, France); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Zheng Wang (Austin, Texas); Shunji Egusa (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Noémie Chocat (Paris, France); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fibers that include a composite of at least three different materials, where the at least three different materials include a conductor, an insulator, and a non-centrosymmetric material, and where each material is disposed in one or more different cross-sectional regions of the fiber, with each region extending along a common length of the fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/178109 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/14 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 99/0078 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/22 (20130101) H01B 1/24 (20130101) H01B 3/30 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/45 (20130101) H01L 41/082 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) H04R 17/10 (20130101) H04R 2217/03 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2935 (20150115) Y10T 428/2944 (20150115) Y10T 428/2964 (20150115) Y10T 428/2967 (20150115) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | John Almeter (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of The Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Almeter (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A Wiggle Hull design for a water vessel, the hull design including a planing hull segment. The planing hull segment has a longitudinal camber that is a combination of concave and convex undersurfaces for improving performance characteristics, including lift and lift to drag ratios. The Wiggle Hull design may also have end plates at the chines to optimize performance characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/735542 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships or Other Waterborne Vessels; Equipment for Shipping B63B 1/18 (20130101) B63B 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365400 | Sadeck 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) | James E. Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts); Dale Tabor (Warren, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Linear brake systems are provided. For example, in one embodiment, a baseplate having a linear brake housing mounted thereto is provided. A linear brake is partially disposed within the brake housing. The linear brake includes a braided cable; a collar attached to the proximal end of the braided cable; a member attached to the distal end of the braided cable; a rope having a portion that passes into a bore in the collar, through a tunnel formed by the braided cable and the collar, and exits the braided cable by passing between cable strands; and an interface mounted to the baseplate to extend the braided cable and constrict the braided cable upon the rope. The collar secures the proximal of the braided cable to the brake housing and the member secures the distal end of the braided cable to the interface. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/628330 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Capstans; Winches; Tackles, e.g Pulley Blocks; Hoists B66D 5/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365506 | Wu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Tom Yao-Hsiang Wu (San Diego, California); Yefen Zou (San Diego, California); Timothy Z. Hoffman (San Diego, California); Jianfeng Pan (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | NOVARTIS AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Yao-Hsiang Wu (San Diego, California); Yefen Zou (San Diego, California); Timothy Z. Hoffman (San Diego, California); Jianfeng Pan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a novel class of compounds, immunogenic compositions and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with Toll-Like Receptors 2. In one aspect, the compounds are useful as adjuvants for enhancing the effectiveness of a vaccine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/326957 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 323/60 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 2101/02 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 213/56 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 9/3808 (20130101) Peptides C07K 5/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09365688 | Elabd et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | DREXEL UNIVERSITY (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yossef A. Elabd (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Karen I. Winey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Yuesheng Ye (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Jae-Hong Choi (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Tsen-Shan Sharon Sharick (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compositions useful for use in separators for use in lithium ion batteries, and membranes, separators, and devices derived therefrom. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/472487 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 41/00 (20130101) B01J 41/14 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Macromolecular Compounds Obtained by Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds C08F 220/14 (20130101) C08F 220/14 (20130101) C08F 220/22 (20130101) C08F 220/34 (20130101) C08F 293/005 (20130101) C08F 2438/02 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/2231 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2353/00 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 8/103 (20130101) H01M 8/1018 (20130101) H01M 8/1027 (20130101) H01M 8/1032 (20130101) H01M 8/1067 (20130101) H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 2008/1095 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Y02E 60/521 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/70 (20130101) |
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| US 09365786 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Scott L. Anderson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian R. Van Devener (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jesus Paulo L. Perez (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott L. Anderson (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian R. Van Devener (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jesus Paulo L. Perez (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Air-stable coated particles which include an oxidizable core having an organic ligand coating substantially encompassing the oxidizable core, are disclosed and described. The coated particles can also be substantially free of an oxide layer, especially oxide layers around the oxidizable core. As such, the organic ligand coating acts as a protective or passivating coating. The air-stable coated particles can be formed via a particle size-reduction process. An oxidizable particulate can be crushed and contacted with an organic ligand. The process conditions are maintained such that an oxide layer is preempted from forming on the oxidizable core. Such materials can be effective as high energy density additives for various fuels, pyrotechnic, ionic liquids, and rocket propellant applications and for biomedical applications. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/278886 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 1/02 (20130101) B22F 1/0018 (20130101) B22F 1/0062 (20130101) B22F 9/04 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 9/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/30 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2989 (20150115) Y10T 428/2991 (20150115) Y10T 428/2993 (20150115) Y10T 428/2998 (20150115) |
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| US 09365791 | Sawyer et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Florida); Jennifer Vail (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include articles and methods of making articles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/462787 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Lubricating Compositions; Use of Chemical Substances Either Alone or as Lubricating Ingredients in a Lubricating Composition C10M 107/32 (20130101) C10M 107/38 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C10M 109/00 (20130101) C10M 2211/063 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass C10M Relating to Lubricating Compositions C10N 2220/08 (20130101) C10N 2220/086 (20130101) C10N 2230/06 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/254 (20150115) |
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| US 09365885 | Mak et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Puiying Annie Mak (San Diego, California); George Santos (Wayland, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Eugene Janes (San Diego, California); John J. Donnelly (Moraga, California) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Puiying Annie Mak (San Diego, California); George Santos (Wayland, Massachusetts); Jeffrey Eugene Janes (San Diego, California); John J. Donnelly (Moraga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods and kits for performing automated high-throughput assays to measure bactericidal activity in samples, such as plasma or sera from vaccinated subjects to evaluate the efficacy of vaccines against bacterial pathogens. The method combines obligatory linear-range data analysis, plate sealing and liquid volume handling for all assay steps to provide an automated, high-throughput measurement of bactericidal activity with favorable inter-assay and inter-operator variability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816534 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 1/18 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09366503 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mads Schmidt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Arnis Mangolds (Stow, Massachusetts); Michael Rufo (Abington, Massachusetts); James Murray (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mads Schmidt (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Arnis Mangolds (Stow, Massachusetts); Michael Rufo (Abington, Massachusetts); James Murray (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile, remotely controlled robot comprising a robot drive subsystem for maneuvering the robot, a turret on the robot, a turret drive for moving the turret, a noise detection subsystem for detecting the probable origin of a noise, a robot position and movement sensor subsystem, a turret position sensor subsystem, and one or more processors, responsive to the noise detection subsystem, the robot position and movement sensor subsystem. The turret position sensor subsystem is configured to control the turret drive to orient the turret to aim a device mounted thereto at the origin of the noise and to maintain said aim as the robot moves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384590 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Functional Features or Details Common to Both Smallarms and Ordnance, e.g Cannons; Mountings for Smallarms or Ordnance F41A 23/24 (20130101) Weapon Sights; Aiming F41G 3/147 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 11/06 (20130101) F41H 13/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09366508 | Marscher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (Whippany, New Jersey) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mechanical Solutions, Inc. (Whippany, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Marscher (Morristown, New Jersey); William Joseph Kelly (Morristown, New Jersey); Paul James Guthrie (Newton, New Jersey); Joseph John DeLorenzo (Rockaway, New Jersey); George DeMassi (Parsippany, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple embodiments of a system are disclosed for defeating enemy missiles and rockets by the use of a non-lethal cloud of pellets that collide with the missile a certain distance away from the target causing premature detonation of the missile, and/or possible severe damage to the missile, and/or deflection of the missile, and/or a deformation to the ogive cones to cause a short in the fuze circuit, and/or deposition of conductive material to cause a short in the fuze circuit. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/246059 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Armour; Armoured Turrets; Armoured or Armed Vehicles; Means of Attack or Defence, e.g Camouflage, in General F41H 5/007 (20130101) F41H 11/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Explosive Charges, e.g for Blasting, Fireworks, Ammunition F42B 5/03 (20130101) F42B 5/145 (20130101) F42B 7/04 (20130101) F42B 12/46 (20130101) F42B 12/56 (20130101) F42B 23/04 (20130101) F42B 23/24 (20130101) |
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| US 09366524 | McCord et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. McCord (Los Gatos, California); Joseph DiRegolo (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to a device that senses alignment and height of a work piece. The device may include both an alignment sensor and a height sensor. The alignment sensor generates a first illumination beam that illuminates an alignment mark on the work piece so as to create a first reflected beam, and determines the alignment of the work piece using the first reflected beam. The height sensor generates a second illumination beam that is directed to a surface of the work piece at an oblique angle so as to form a second illumination spot and images the second illumination spot to determine the height of the work piece. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/481076 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Length, Thickness or Similar Linear Dimensions; Measuring Angles; Measuring Areas; Measuring Irregularities of Surfaces or Contours G01B 11/27 (20130101) G01B 11/0608 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 9/7007 (20130101) G03F 9/7034 (20130101) G03F 9/7069 (20130101) Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 2237/2482 (20130101) H01J 2237/30438 (20130101) H01J 2237/31774 (20130101) |
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| US 09366576 | Hwang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold Y. Hwang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mengkun Liu (Boston, Massachusetts); Richard D. Averitt (Newton, Massachusetts); Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts); Aaron Sternbach (Larchmont, New York); Kebin Fan (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detecting electromagnetic radiation within a target frequency range is provided. The apparatus includes a substrate and one or more resonator structures disposed on the substrate. The substrate can be a dielectric or semiconductor material. Each of the one or more resonator structures has at least one dimension that is less than the wavelength of target electromagnetic radiation within the target frequency range, and each of the resonator structures includes at least two conductive structures separated by a spacing. Charge carriers are induced in the substrate near the spacing when the resonator structures are exposed to the target electromagnetic radiation. A measure of the change in conductivity of the substrate due to the induced charge carriers provides an indication of the presence of the target electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634307 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/20 (20130101) G01J 5/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2005/0077 (20130101) G01J 2005/202 (20130101) G01J 2005/283 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/09 (20130101) |
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| US 09366626 | Pastore et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Thermo Scientific Portable Analytical Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thermo Scientific Portable Instruments Inc. (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Pastore (Wakefield, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. Vachon, Jr. (Holliston, Massachusetts); Brendon D. Tower (Weymouth, Massachusetts); Gregory H. Vander Rhodes (Melrose, Massachusetts); Aaron Sean Poynton (Joppa, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments of the present invention are directed to applying intimate contact pressures to samples while undergoing ATR infrared interrogation. As a general mode of operation, after a solid sample is placed on the ATR element, a force actuator moves an anvil arm to apply a contact force to the sample against the ATR. Thereafter, when the scan is over, the user can see the result of the one or more scans. The force actuator may be a motor or a solenoid or other type of force actuator. The applied contact force may be a fixed force or may be a user-selectable force or may be automatically controlled through feedback from the spectrometer based on the spectroscopic signature of the sample material. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 20, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/922827 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/0272 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/552 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 21/26 (20130101) |
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| US 09366633 | Szu 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) | Harold H. Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); Lein W. Ma (Lorton, Virginia); James A. Hutchinson (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple functional systems are integrated to configure a portable handheld decision-aid device for first responder medics. Fuzzy membership functions of “life” and “death” are used to determine the status of fallen people using remote measurements. EO/IR cameras can be used to detect and identify casualties in a mass injury situation, while also estimating body temperature. Using the temperature, along with the remote estimation of a second vital sign, the life membership proportion can be estimated from the ground truth by using a 2D projection of stable vital signs. The other fuzzy membership function, death, can be estimated by the presence or absence of peri-mortem and post-mortem molecules. These molecules are only released after death and provide a certain indication of death. Solid state UV laser resonance Raman backscattering from these molecules allows the device to analyze the molecules present in a plume around the casualty. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/477898 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0075 (20130101) A61B 5/7264 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 21/65 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2001/007 (20130101) G01N 2201/12 (20130101) G01N 2201/06113 (20130101) |
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| US 09366697 | Weikle, II et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert M. Weikle, II (Crozet, Virginia); Arthur Weston Lichtenberger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Nicolas Scott Barker (Charlottesville, Virginia); Theodore James Reck (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haiyong Xu (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lihan Chen (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Weikle, II (Crozet, Virginia); Arthur Weston Lichtenberger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Nicolas Scott Barker (Charlottesville, Virginia); Theodore James Reck (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haiyong Xu (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lihan Chen (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromachining process to fabricate a single chip that simple drops into a supporting structure. The micromachining process provides the ability to create a probe that will interface with integrated circuits, for example, operating at frequencies in the range of about 100 GHz to about 3,000 GHz (3 THz). This approach creates a silicon structure (or other applicable choice of material) that provides mechanical force for probing while supporting the transfer of the high frequency energy between a measurement system and the integrated circuit, individual device or material. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/699255 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 1/067 (20130101) G01R 1/0416 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 1/06744 (20130101) G01R 3/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09366762 | Smith et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Christopher B. Smith (Mico, Texas); Michael A. Koets (San Antonio, Texas); Michael D. Lillywhite (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher B. Smith (Mico, Texas); Michael A. Koets (San Antonio, Texas); Michael D. Lillywhite (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for detecting the presence of a deception scheme intended to thwart a satellite navigation system (SNS). A detector receives “receiver measurements” of various types from the SNS receiver. It conditions these values, so that they may be readily used by a process that determines whether the receiver is operating in a statistically normal state. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/283431 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radio Direction-finding; Radio Navigation; Determining Distance or Velocity by Use of Radio Waves; Locating or Presence-detecting by Use of the Reflection or Reradiation of Radio Waves; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves G01S 19/21 (20130101) G01S 19/215 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09367079 | Kelly et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon Michael Kelly (Morgantown, West Virginia); Brandon David Rumberg (Beckley, West Virginia); David W. Graham (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of a low power memory buffer are described. In one embodiment, a sampling rate of a signal is adjusted to identify extrema of a signal. An extrema pulse is generated and, in response to the extrema pulse, a time segment and potential value of the signal are stored in a memory. In other aspects, rising and falling slopes of the signal are tracked to identify a local maximum and a local minimum of the signal. In this scenario, an extrema pulse is generated for each of the local maximum and minimum, and time segment and potential values are stored for the local maximum and minimum. Generally, the storage of analog values of the signal at an adjusted sampling rate is achieved with low power, and the signal may be reconstructed at a later time. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/837676 |
| ART UNIT | 2118 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 1/3203 (20130101) G06F 1/3275 (20130101) G06F 1/3293 (20130101) G06F 3/05 (20130101) G06F 9/4418 (20130101) G06F 13/24 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 41/0816 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 52/02 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 60/1228 (20130101) |
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| US 09367293 | Halim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Hawthorne, New York); Kung-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sai Wu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Hawthorne, New York); Kung-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sai Wu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enabling compiler assisted parallelization of one or more stream processing operators in a stream processing application, which consists of a data flow graph with operators as vertices connected by streams. The method includes specifying a parallelized version of one or more of the operators, with a parameterized degree of parallelism, in the stream application, evaluating whether or not to use the parallelized operator, deciding the degree of parallelism of the parallelized operator, if there is a need for a parallelized operator. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/525917 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09367488 | Ardalan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sasan Ardalan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microelectronics Research Development Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasan Ardalan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to both a method and device for booting up a device and online scrubbing utilizing a system on chip appliqué sensor interface module in a Space Plug-and-Play Avionics environment that incorporates Radiation Hardened by Design components. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288955 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09367610 | Damodaran et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh K. Damodaran (Acton, Massachusetts); Benjamin D. O'Gwynn (Newton, Massachusetts); Tamara H. Yu (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed that provide high-level, ontology-based analysis of low-level data stored within an unstructured key/value store. The systems and methods allow an analyst to make sense of massive amounts of data from diverse sources without having any knowledge of the underlying physical data storage. Additional features include feasibility queries to determine if requested data exists in the key/value store before performing an expensive query; automatic query optimization using secondary indexes; and a usage history service to identify performance bottlenecks and fine tune the storage schema. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/157174 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/30 (20130101) G06F 17/30563 (20130101) G06F 17/30569 (20130101) G06F 17/30675 (20130101) G06F 17/30734 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09367659 | Saghizadeh et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parviz Saghizadeh (Los Angeles, California); Thomas Allen Spargo (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Robert T. Narumi (Yorba Linda, California); Mark W. Redekopp (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for reverse synthesizing an integrated circuit from a netlist. A netlist extracted from a device under review is received and converted to a connected graph. Blocks of cells are identified within the connected graph and a circuit model is formed from the blocks of cells, wherein forming includes iteratively building more complex blocks of cells from simpler blocks of cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/454386 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 17/505 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 17/5045 (20130101) G06F 17/5063 (20130101) |
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| US 09368332 | Sullivan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Neal T. Sullivan (Lunenburg, Massachusetts); Steve Bachman (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Philippe de Rouffignac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anton Tremsin (Lafayette, California); David Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Dmitry Gorelikov (Ashland, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arradiance, LLC (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal T. Sullivan (Lunenburg, Massachusetts); Steve Bachman (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Philippe de Rouffignac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anton Tremsin (Lafayette, California); David Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Dmitry Gorelikov (Ashland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchannel plate includes a substrate defining a plurality of channels extending from a top surface of the substrate to a bottom surface of the substrate. A resistive layer is formed over an outer surface of the plurality of channels that provides ohmic conduction with a predetermined resistivity that is substantially constant. An emissive layer is formed over the resistive layer. A top electrode is positioned on the top surface of the substrate. A bottom electrode positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/460726 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 43/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01J 43/246 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09368489 | Alvarez-Icaza Rivera 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) | Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza Rivera (San Jose, California); John V. Arthur (Mountain View, California); John E. Barth (Williston, Vermont); Andrew S. Cassidy (San Jose, California); Subramanian S. Iyer (Mount Kisco, New York); Bryan L. Jackson (Fremont, California); Paul A. Merolla (Palo Alto, California); Dharmendra S. Modha (San Jose, California); Jun Sawada (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to processor arrays, and in particular, a processor array with interconnect circuits for bonding semiconductor dies. One embodiment comprises multiple semiconductor dies and at least one interconnect circuit for exchanging signals between the dies. Each die comprises at least one processor core circuit. Each interconnect circuit corresponds to a die of the processor array. Each interconnect circuit comprises one or more attachment pads for interconnecting a corresponding die with another die, and at least one multiplexor structure configured for exchanging bus signals in a reversed order. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/781497 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/8221 (20130101) H01L 23/50 (20130101) H01L 27/0207 (20130101) H01L 27/0688 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 27/11526 (20130101) H01L 27/11551 (20130101) H01L 27/11573 (20130101) H01L 27/11578 (20130101) H01L 2224/16145 (20130101) H01L 2224/32145 (20130101) H01L 2224/48227 (20130101) H01L 2224/73204 (20130101) H01L 2224/73265 (20130101) |
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| US 09368720 | Moon et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL LABORATORIES LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeong-Sun Moon (Moorpark, California); Hwa-Chang Seo (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A switch includes an input port, an output port, a phase change material coupled between the input port and the output port, a heater, and a thermal dielectric layer in between the heater and the phase change material, and in contact with the heater and the phase change material. The thermal dielectric layer provides thermal conduction between the phase change material and the heater, and the thermal dielectric layer is nonmetallic and electrically non-conductive and includes polycrystalline AlN, diamond, or SiC. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/528945 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 45/144 (20130101) H01L 45/1286 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 45/1293 (20130101) H01L 45/1608 (20130101) |
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| US 09368737 | Hwang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Do Kyung Hwang (Duluth, Georgia); Jungbae Kim (Alpharetta, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Do Kyung Hwang (Duluth, Georgia); Jungbae Kim (Alpharetta, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A field-effect transistor includes a gate, a source and a drain; a semiconductor layer between the source and the drain; and a gate insulator between the gate and the semiconductor layer. The gate insulator comprises a first layer adjoining the semiconductor layer; and a second layer. The first layer is formed from an amorphous fluoropolymer having a first dielectric constant and a first thickness. The second layer has a second dielectric constant and a second thickness. The first dielectric constant is smaller than 3, the first thickness is smaller than 200 nm, the second dielectric constant is higher than 5, and the second thickness is smaller than 500 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877441 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0053 (20130101) H01L 51/0071 (20130101) H01L 51/0529 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0533 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) |
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| US 09369005 | Stankovic et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantina Stankovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Anantha Chandrakasan (Belmont, Massachusetts); Patrick Mercier (San Diego, California); Saurav Bandyopadhyay (Dallas, Texas); Andrew Lysaght (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure describes techniques and systems for extracting energy from the endocochlear potential (EP) in animal subjects (e.g., human subjects) and using the extracted energy to operate circuits (e.g., electronic device, sensors, and transmitters). The subject matter of this disclosure is embodied, for example, in a system for extracting energy from an endocochlear potential of an animal, wherein the system includes a pair of electrodes, and a circuit coupled to the pair of electrodes. The circuit includes a boost converter, an energy buffer component configured to receive voltage from the boost converter, a start-up rectifier configured to provide voltage to the energy buffer component, and a control component configured to provide control signals to the boost converter. The power extracted from the endocochlear potential is equal or larger than the quiescent power of the circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/195371 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| 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 2/10 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 7/32 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Buildings, e.g Housing, House Appliances or Related End-user Applications Y02B 40/90 (20130101) |
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| US 09369201 | Luo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying L. Luo (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical-source monitor images and diffracts received optical signals using an optical device that has a reflective geometry. For example, the optical device may include a diffraction grating on a curved surface, such as an echelle grating. By imaging and diffracting the optical signals, the optical device may couple to the optical signals on different diffraction orders of the optical device (which have different carrier wavelengths) from input optical waveguides to corresponding output optical waveguides. Then, output power monitors may measure the output power levels of the optical signals, and control logic may provide wavelength control signals to optical sources that provide the optical signals based on measured output power levels. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/453930 |
| ART UNIT | 2636 — Optical Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/40 (20130101) H01S 5/0687 (20130101) Transmission H04B 10/0775 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04B 10/07955 (20130101) |
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| US 09369255 | Medard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Linda M. Zeger (Lexington, Massachusetts); Arman Rezaee (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Message dissemination speed is increased during multicast operations in a network by intelligently selecting one or more feedback time slots for use by destination nodes. In at least one implementation, a feedback time slot is selected based upon probabilities that a plurality of data packets will be successfully distributed to a plurality of destination nodes by various future time slots. These probabilities may be estimated based on, for example, packet erasure probabilities in the network. In some implementations, only destination nodes that have not yet successfully received a plurality of data packets are permitted to transmit feedback during feedback time slots. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/655034 |
| ART UNIT | 2469 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/0056 (20130101) H04L 5/0019 (20130101) H04L 5/0055 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 5/0082 (20130101) |
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| US 09369273 | Rohloff et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | RAYTHEON BBN TECHNOLOGIES CORP. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt Ryan Rohloff (South Hadley, Massachusetts); David Bruce Cousins (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for data privacy in a VoIP system includes: generating a private key for an additive homomorphic encryption scheme; sending the private key to a plurality of client terminals to be used by each of the plurality of client terminals to encrypt a respective VoIP streaming data; receiving an encrypted VoIP streaming data from each of the plurality of client terminals, wherein each of the VoIP streaming data is encrypted using the same private key; performing an encrypted homomorphic addition on the encrypted VoIP streaming data to generate a mixed encrypted VoIP data stream; and sending the mixed encrypted VoIP data stream to the plurality of client terminals to be played back. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/191035 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 9/083 (20130101) H04L 65/608 (20130101) |
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| US 09369275 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California); Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network and related methods for transmitting processes in a network secretly and securely is described. The network use keys, through path-key establishment and a key pool bootstrapping, to ensure that packets are transmitted and received properly and secretly in the presence of one or more adversarial nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696304 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0802 (20130101) H04L 9/0827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/34 (20130101) H04L 2209/80 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) |
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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) | Rohan Y. Ramlall (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method involve receiving a plurality of samples of at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) signal, the samples containing at least one complete OFDM symbol including data samples and a cyclic prefix comprising inter-symbol interference (ISI) samples and one or more ISI-free samples, and determining a symbol time offset estimate θ that minimizes the squared difference between the ISI-free samples and their corresponding data samples and satisfies a correlation based boundary condition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/721313 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 25/03012 (20130101) H04L 27/2659 (20130101) H04L 27/2663 (20130101) H04L 27/2691 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2025/03414 (20130101) |
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| US 09369381 | Redi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); Bakul Grover Khanna (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a node comprising a processor, a memory including a predefined mapping, the predefined mapping correlating network characteristics to related critical thresholds at which a delivery ratio of the node is close to a maximum level and at which a total number of transmissions by the node is close to a minimum number necessary to achieve the delivery ratio, and a component configured to communicate with one-hop neighbors of the node and configured to determine at least one characteristic of a dynamic network based on information received from the one-hop neighbors of the node, wherein, in reference to the predefined mapping, the processor is configured to identify a critical threshold associated with the at least one characteristic of the network and is configured to transmit a first packet to at least one one-hop neighbor based on the critical threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/278786 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 45/32 (20130101) H04L 45/70 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Wireless Communication Networks H04W 40/023 (20130101) |
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| US 09369441 | Lal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reshma Lal (Hillsboro, Oregon); Pradeep M. Pappachan (Hillsboro, Oregon); Krystof C. Zmudzinski (Forest Grove, Oregon); Micah J. Sheller (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to an end-to-end secure communication system wherein, in addition to encrypting transmissions between clients, communication-related operations occurring within each client may also be secured. Each client may comprise a secure processing environment to process encrypted communication information received from other clients and locally-captured media information for transmission to other clients. The secure processing environment may include resources to decrypt received encrypted communication information and to process the communication information into media information for presentation by the client. The secure processing environment may also operate in reverse to provide locally recorded audio, image, video, etc. to other clients. Encryption protocols may be employed at various stages of information processing in the client to help ensure that information being transferred between the processing resources cannot be read, copied, altered, etc. In one example implementation, a server may manage interaction between clients, provision encryption keys, etc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/127533 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/14 (20130101) H04L 9/3223 (20130101) H04L 63/08 (20130101) H04L 63/062 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/60 (20130101) |
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| US 09370085 | Kaganovich et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dmitri Kaganovich (Potomac, Maryland); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Virginia); Daniel F. Gordon (Alexandria, Virginia); Bahman Hafizi (Bethesda, Maryland); John Palastro (College Park, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Kaganovich (Potomac, Maryland); Antonio C. Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Michael H. Helle (Arlington, Virginia); Daniel F. Gordon (Alexandria, Virginia); Bahman Hafizi (Bethesda, Maryland); John Palastro (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating coherent, polarized, and tunable X-rays using a single laser pulse is provided. An ultrashort laser pulse is fired into a plasma. As the laser beam travels through the plasma, some of its photons are backscattered, e.g., through Raman backscattering, to generate a counter-propagating photon beam that is co-linear with the original laser beam. When the backscattered photons interact with high-energy accelerated periodic electron bunches, coherent X-rays are generated through Compton backscattering of the photons off of the electrons. The energy of the backscattered X-rays can be tuned by tuning one or more characteristics of the laser pulse and/or the plasma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/798599 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 4/00 (20130101) X-ray Technique H05G 2/003 (20130101) H05G 2/008 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MOLECULAR EXPRESS, INC. (Rancho Dominquez, California); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); MOLECULAR EXPRESS, INC. (Rancho Dominguez, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Fujii (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Francis C. Szoka, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Douglas S. Watson (Harrisonburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to liposomal vaccine compositions, methods for the manufacture thereof, and methods for the use thereof to stimulate an immune response in an animal. These compositions comprise dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (“DMPC”); either dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (“DMPG”) or dimyristoyltrimethylammonium propane (“DMTAP”) or both DMPC and DMTAP; and at least one sterol derivative providing a covalent anchor for one or more immunogenic polypeptide(s) or carbohydrate(s). |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320278 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/48046 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48823 (20130101) A61K 2039/60 (20130101) A61K 2039/627 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Steroids C07J 9/00 (20130101) C07J 41/0055 (20130101) C07J 43/003 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/00011 (20130101) C12N 2770/00034 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California); Milun Perisic (Torrance, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lateef A. Kajouke (San Pedro, California); Milun Perisic (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power line quality conditioning system for a vehicle includes an onboard rechargeable direct current (DC) energy storage system and an onboard electrical system coupled to the energy storage system. The energy storage system provides DC energy to drive an electric traction motor of the vehicle. The electrical system operates in a charging mode such that alternating current (AC) energy from a power grid external to the vehicle is converted to DC energy to charge the DC energy storage system. The electrical system also operates in a vehicle-to-grid power conditioning mode such that DC energy from the DC energy storage system is converted to AC energy to condition an AC voltage of the power grid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/237848 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Propulsion of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Supplying Electric Power for Auxiliary Equipment of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electrodynamic Brake Systems for Vehicles in General; Magnetic Suspension or Levitation for Vehicles; Monitoring Operating Variables of Electrically-propelled Vehicles; Electric Safety Devices for Electrically-propelled Vehicles B60L 11/1812 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B60L 11/1842 (20130101) B60L 11/1844 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/721 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7005 (20130101) Y02T 10/7072 (20130101) Y02T 90/14 (20130101) Y02T 90/121 (20130101) Y02T 90/127 (20130101) Y02T 90/128 (20130101) Y02T 90/163 (20130101) Systems Integrating Technologies Related to Power Network Operation, Communication or Information Technologies for Improving the Electrical Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Management or Usage, i.e Smart Grids Y04S 10/126 (20130101) |
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| US 09365432 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to nanomaterials and assemblies including, a micrometer-scale spherical aggregate comprising: a plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures comprising titanium and oxygen, wherein the one-dimensional nanostructures radiate from a hollow central core thereby forming a spherical aggregate. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/872867 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 2311/18 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0026 (20130101) C01B 3/0031 (20130101) C01B 6/02 (20130101) C01B 6/24 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 13/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01G 23/04 (20130101) C01G 23/08 (20130101) C01G 23/047 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2002/85 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/13 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/34 (20130101) C01P 2004/50 (20130101) C01P 2004/61 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/327 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/811 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/298 (20150115) Y10T 428/24058 (20150115) |
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| US 09365487 | Snead et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | ELEVANCE RENEWABLE SCIENCES, INC. (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Snead (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Steven A. Cohen (Naperville, Illinois); Demond L. Gildon (Romeoville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for making dibasic esters and/or dibasic acids using metathesis are generally disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods comprise reacting a terminal olefin ester with an internal olefin ester in the presence of a metathesis catalyst to form a dibasic ester and/or dibasic acid. In some embodiments, the terminal olefin ester or the internal olefin ester are derived from a renewable feedstock, such as a natural oil feedstock. In some such embodiments, the natural oil feedstock, or a transesterified derivative thereof, is metathesized to make the terminal olefin ester or the internal olefin ester. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/048673 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 67/343 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 67/343 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 67/475 (20130101) C07C 69/533 (20130101) C07C 69/593 (20130101) Cracking Hydrocarbon Oils; Production of Liquid Hydrocarbon Mixtures, e.g by Destructive Hydrogenation, Oligomerisation, Polymerisation; Recovery of Hydrocarbon Oils From Oil-shale, Oil-sand, or Gases; Refining Mixtures Mainly Consisting of Hydrocarbons; Reforming of Naphtha; Mineral Waxes C10G 3/42 (20130101) C10G 29/205 (20130101) C10G 45/00 (20130101) C10G 45/58 (20130101) C10G 50/00 (20130101) C10G 65/043 (20130101) C10G 69/123 (20130101) C10G 2300/30 (20130101) C10G 2300/1014 (20130101) C10G 2300/1018 (20130101) C10G 2300/1088 (20130101) C10G 2400/02 (20130101) C10G 2400/04 (20130101) C10G 2400/08 (20130101) C10G 2400/20 (20130101) C10G 2400/22 (20130101) Fuels Not Otherwise Provided for; Natural Gas; Synthetic Natural Gas Obtained by Processes Not Covered by Subclasses C10G, C10K; Liquefied Petroleum Gas; Adding Materials to Fuels or Fires to Reduce Smoke or Undesirable Deposits or to Facilitate Soot Removal; Firelighters C10L 1/02 (20130101) C10L 1/08 (20130101) C10L 1/026 (20130101) C10L 2200/0469 (20130101) Producing, e.g by Pressing Raw Materials or by Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining or Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g Lanolin, Fatty Oils or Waxes; Essential Oils; Perfumes C11B 3/00 (20130101) Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils or Waxes; Candles; Fats, Oils or Fatty Acids by Chemical Modification of Fats, Oils, or Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom C11C 3/003 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/13 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/582 (20151101) |
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| US 09365623 | Ulijasz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Ulijasz (Twickenham, United Kingdom); Richard D. Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically-engineered cyanochrome fluorophore molecules (fluorophores) with increased fluorescence and with absorbing fluorescence in the blue and green (blue/green) portion of the light spectrum are provided. These fluorophores are derived from the domains of phytochromes, and in particular cyanobacterial phytochromes. Methods for generating these fluorophores and various applications of these fluorophores are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464751 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0045 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5035 (20130101) |
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| US 09365676 | Daily et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Daily (Richland, Washington); Jay W. Grate (Richland, Washington); Kai-For Mo (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Monomer embodiments that can be used to make polymers, such as homopolymers, heteropolymers, and that can be used in particular embodiments to make sequence-defined polymers are described. Also described are methods of making polymers using such monomer embodiments. Methods of using the polymers also are described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 28, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/556021 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 73/065 (20130101) C08G 73/0644 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365685 | Vautard et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Frederic Vautard (Knoxville, Tennessee); Soydan Ozcan (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Felix Leonard Paulauskas (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederic Vautard (Knoxville, Tennessee); Soydan Ozcan (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Felix Leonard Paulauskas (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A functionalized carbon fiber having covalently bound on its surface a partially cured epoxy or amine-containing sizing agent, wherein at least a portion of epoxide or amine groups in the sizing agent are available as uncrosslinked epoxide or amine groups, which corresponds to a curing degree of epoxide or amine groups of no more than about 0.6. Composites comprised of these functionalized carbon fibers embedded in a polymeric matrix are also described. Methods for producing the functionalized carbon fibers and composites thereof are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/406732 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 5/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 5/24 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2918 (20150115) Y10T 428/249948 (20150401) |
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| US 09365691 | Seo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong-Kyun Seo (Chandler, Arizona); Alex Volosin (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong-Kyun Seo (Chandler, Arizona); Alex Volosin (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous materials are fabricated using interpenetrating inorganic-organic composite gels. A mixture or precursor solution including an inorganic gel precursor, an organic polymer gel precursor, and a solvent is treated to form an inorganic wet gel including the organic polymer gel precursor and the solvent. The inorganic wet gel is then treated to form a composite wet gel including an organic polymer network in the body of the inorganic wet gel, producing an interpenetrating inorganic-organic composite gel. The composite wet gel is dried to form a composite material including the organic polymer network and an inorganic network component. The composite material can be treated further to form a porous composite material, a porous polymer or polymer composite, a porous metal oxide, and other porous materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/814031 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/32 (20130101) C01B 31/02 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 7/34 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 19/02 (20130101) C01G 25/02 (20130101) C01G 30/004 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/14 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/068 (20130101) C07F 7/003 (20130101) C07F 7/006 (20130101) C07F 9/902 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2361/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09365722 | Lindsey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Olga Mass (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Olga Mass (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Bacteriochlorin of Formula I: wherein R is H or silyl are described, along with compositions containing the same and methods of making and using the same. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/240860 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 405/14 (20130101) C07D 487/22 (20130101) Organic Dyes or Closely-related Compounds for Producing Dyes; Mordants; Lakes C09B 47/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365725 | Sarrafi-Nour et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Reza Sarrafi-Nour (Clifton Park, New York); Peter Joel Meschter (Niskayuna, New York); Curtis Alan Johnson (Niskayuna, New York); Krishan Lal Luthra (Niskayuna, New York); Larry Steven Rosenzweig (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reza Sarrafi-Nour (Clifton Park, New York); Peter Joel Meschter (Niskayuna, New York); Curtis Alan Johnson (Niskayuna, New York); Krishan Lal Luthra (Niskayuna, New York); Larry Steven Rosenzweig (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An article for use in aggressive environments is presented. In one embodiment, the article comprises a substrate and a self-sealing and substantially hermetic sealing layer comprising an alkaline-earth aluminosilicate disposed over the bondcoat. The substrate may be any high-temperature material, including, for instance, silicon-bearing ceramics and ceramic matrix composites. A method for making such articles is also presented. The method comprises providing a substrate; disposing a self-sealing alkaline-earth aluminosilicate layer over the substrate; and heating the sealing layer to a sealing temperature at which at least a portion of the sealing layer will flow. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941415 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 9/04 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/36 (20130101) Lime, Magnesia; Slag; Cements; Compositions Thereof, e.g Mortars, Concrete or Like Building Materials; Artificial Stone; Ceramics; Refractories; Treatment of Natural Stone C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/52 (20130101) C04B 41/0072 (20130101) C04B 41/89 (20130101) C04B 41/4527 (20130101) C04B 41/4527 (20130101) C04B 41/4527 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5024 (20130101) C04B 41/5096 (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 1/02 (20130101) C09D 5/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 26/00 (20130101) C23C 28/042 (20130101) C23C 30/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09365728 | Heintz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Amy M. Heintz (Delaware, Ohio); Steven Risser (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Joel D. Elhard (Hilliard, Ohio); Bryon P. Moore (Dublin, Ohio); Tao Liu (Tallahassee, Florida); Bhima R. Vijayendran (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy M. Heintz (Delaware, Ohio); Steven Risser (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Joel D. Elhard (Hilliard, Ohio); Bryon P. Moore (Dublin, Ohio); Tao Liu (Tallahassee, Florida); Bhima R. Vijayendran (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) |
| ABSTRACT | In this invention, processes which can be used to achieve stable doped carbon nanotubes are disclosed. Preferred CNT structures and morphologies for achieving maximum doping effects are also described. Dopant formulations and methods for achieving doping of a broad distribution of tube types are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/282173 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| 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 31/0253 (20130101) C01B 31/0273 (20130101) C01B 2202/28 (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 17/007 (20130101) C03C 17/22 (20130101) C03C 17/3441 (20130101) C03C 2217/42 (20130101) Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 3/04 (20130101) Coating Compositions, e.g Paints, Varnishes or Lacquers; Filling Pastes; Chemical Paint or Ink Removers; Inks; Correcting Fluids; Woodstains; Pastes or Solids for Colouring or Printing; Use of Materials Therefor C09D 5/24 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C09D 7/1216 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/04 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/25 (20150115) Y10T 428/30 (20150115) |
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| US 09365843 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Zhang (Beijing, China PRC); Junxin Duan (Beijing, China PRC); Lan Tang (Beijing, China PRC); Wenping Wu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing 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 | Friday, May 08, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/707660 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 14/37 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 9/2434 (20130101) C12N 9/2437 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 5/002 (20130101) C12P 5/02 (20130101) C12P 5/026 (20130101) C12P 7/02 (20130101) C12P 13/04 (20130101) C12P 19/14 (20130101) C12P 2201/00 (20130101) C12P 2203/00 (20130101) Enzymes C12Y 302/01004 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 50/343 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 20/52 (20151101) |
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| US 09365874 | Burk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Genomatica, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genomatica, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Burk (San Diego, California); Priti Pharkya (San Diego, California); Stephen J. Van Dien (Encinitas, California); Anthony P. Burgard (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania); Christophe H. Schilling (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of producing acrylic acid. The method includes contacting fumaric acid with a sufficient amount of ethylene in the presence of a cross-metathesis transformation catalyst to produce about two moles of acrylic acid per mole of fumaric acid. Also provided is an acrylate ester. The method includes contacting fumarate diester with a sufficient amount of ethylene in the presence of a cross-metathesis transformation catalyst to produce about two moles of acrylate ester per mole of fumarate diester. An integrated process for process for producing acrylic acid or acrylate ester is provided which couples bioproduction of fumaric acid with metathesis transformation. An acrylic acid and an acrylate ester production also is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/887140 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 51/38 (20130101) C07C 51/353 (20130101) C07C 51/353 (20130101) C07C 57/04 (20130101) C07C 57/04 (20130101) C07C 67/08 (20130101) C07C 67/08 (20130101) C07C 67/32 (20130101) C07C 67/333 (20130101) C07C 67/333 (20130101) C07C 69/54 (20130101) C07C 69/60 (20130101) Fermentation or Enzyme-using Processes to Synthesise a Desired Chemical Compound or Composition or to Separate Optical Isomers From a Racemic Mixture C12P 7/40 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12P 7/46 (20130101) C12P 7/62 (20130101) |
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| US 09365939 | Anderson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Marc A. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin C. Leonard (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin C. Leonard (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an electrolyzer including an electrode including a nanoporous oxide-coated conducting material. Also disclosed is a method of producing a gas through electrolysis by contacting an aqueous solution with an electrode connected to an electrical power source, wherein the electrode includes a nanoporous oxide-coated conducting material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/149298 |
| ART UNIT | 1754 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/02 (20130101) C25B 1/24 (20130101) C25B 1/26 (20130101) C25B 1/245 (20130101) C25B 11/035 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C25B 11/041 (20130101) C25B 11/0452 (20130101) C25B 11/0478 (20130101) |
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| US 09366443 | Laster et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Peter Szedlacsek (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for lean/rich combustion in a gas turbine engine (10), which includes a combustor (12), a transition (14) and a combustor extender (16) that is positioned between the combustor (12) and the transition (14) to connect the combustor (12) to the transition (14). Openings (18) are formed along an outer surface (20) of the combustor extender (16). The gas turbine (10) also includes a fuel manifold (28) to extend along the outer surface (20) of the combustor extender (16), with fuel nozzles (30) to align with the respective openings (18). A method (200) for axial stage combustion in the gas turbine engine (10) is also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/739316 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 3/286 (20130101) F23R 3/346 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09366574 | Pereverzev |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Pereverzev (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system designed to suppress thermal radiation background and to allow IR single-photon sensitive spectromicroscopy of small samples by using both absorption, reflection, and emission/luminescence measurements. The system in one embodiment includes: a light source; a plurality of cold mirrors configured to direct light along a beam path; a cold or warm sample holder in the beam path; windows of sample holder (or whole sample holder) are transparent in a spectral region of interest, so they do not emit thermal radiation in the same spectral region of interest; a cold monochromator or other cold spectral device configured to direct a selected fraction of light onto a cold detector; a system of cold apertures and shields positioned along the beam path to prevent unwanted thermal radiation from arriving at the cold monochromator and/or the detector; a plurality of optical, IR and microwave filters positioned along the beam path and configured to adjust a spectral composition of light incident upon the sample under investigation and/or on the detector; a refrigerator configured to maintain the detector at a temperature below 1.0K; and an enclosure configured to: thermally insulate the light source, the plurality of mirrors, the sample holder, the cold monochromator and the refrigerator. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/642631 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 3/18 (20130101) G01J 3/021 (20130101) G01J 5/061 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09366576 | Hwang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold Y. Hwang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mengkun Liu (Boston, Massachusetts); Richard D. Averitt (Newton, Massachusetts); Keith A. Nelson (Newton, Massachusetts); Aaron Sternbach (Larchmont, New York); Kebin Fan (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for detecting electromagnetic radiation within a target frequency range is provided. The apparatus includes a substrate and one or more resonator structures disposed on the substrate. The substrate can be a dielectric or semiconductor material. Each of the one or more resonator structures has at least one dimension that is less than the wavelength of target electromagnetic radiation within the target frequency range, and each of the resonator structures includes at least two conductive structures separated by a spacing. Charge carriers are induced in the substrate near the spacing when the resonator structures are exposed to the target electromagnetic radiation. A measure of the change in conductivity of the substrate due to the induced charge carriers provides an indication of the presence of the target electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/634307 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Intensity, Velocity, Spectral Content, Polarisation, Phase or Pulse Characteristics of Infra-Red, Visible or Ultra-violet Light; Colorimetry; Radiation Pyrometry G01J 5/20 (20130101) G01J 5/28 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01J 2005/0077 (20130101) G01J 2005/202 (20130101) G01J 2005/283 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/09 (20130101) |
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| US 09366668 | Rao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Rupa S. Rao (Stockton, California); Stephen M. Lane (Oakland, California); Dennis L. Matthews (Moss Beach, California); Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rupa S. Rao (Stockton, California); Stephen M. Lane (Oakland, California); Dennis L. Matthews (Moss Beach, California); Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and array coupled to capture molecules are provided. Specifically, the device and array can be used for detecting the presence and concentration of biomarkers in a sample from a subject. The device and array can also allow the use of a method for scoring a sample for, e.g., the purpose of diagnosing a disease. The method can also be advantageous to applications where there is a need to accurately determine the disease stage of a subject for the purpose of making therapeutic decisions. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/465796 |
| ART UNIT | 1678 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 19/0046 (20130101) B01J 2219/00385 (20130101) B01J 2219/00549 (20130101) B01J 2219/00612 (20130101) B01J 2219/00621 (20130101) B01J 2219/00626 (20130101) B01J 2219/00637 (20130101) B01J 2219/00725 (20130101) Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/5025 (20130101) B01L 3/5027 (20130101) B01L 3/50273 (20130101) Combinatorial Chemistry; Libraries, e.g Chemical Libraries C40B 60/12 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/543 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09366689 | Booten et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Booten (Arvada, Colorado); Jeff Tomerlin (Denver, Colorado); Jon Winkler (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for thermal imaging for measuring mixing of fluids are provided. In one embodiment, a method for measuring mixing of gaseous fluids using thermal imaging comprises: positioning a thermal test medium parallel to a direction gaseous fluid flow from an outlet vent of a momentum source, wherein when the source is operating, the fluid flows across a surface of the medium; obtaining an ambient temperature value from a baseline thermal image of the surface; obtaining at least one operational thermal image of the surface when the fluid is flowing from the outlet vent across the surface, wherein the fluid has a temperature different than the ambient temperature; and calculating at least one temperature-difference fraction associated with at least a first position on the surface based on a difference between temperature measurements obtained from the at least one operational thermal image and the ambient temperature value. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/224302 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 5/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09366736 | Cho et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Herman M. Cho (Richland, Washington); Nancy M. Washton (Richland, Washington); Karl T. Mueller (Richland, Washington); Jesse A. Sears, Jr. (Kennewick, Washington); Mark R. Townsend (Kennewick, Washington); R. James Ewing (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herman M. Cho (Richland, Washington); Nancy M. Washton (Richland, Washington); Karl T. Mueller (Richland, Washington); Jesse A. Sears, Jr. (Kennewick, Washington); Mark R. Townsend (Kennewick, Washington); R. James Ewing (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A magic-angle-spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe is described that includes double containment enclosures configured to seal and contain hazardous samples for analysis. The probe is of a modular design that ensures containment of hazardous samples during sample analysis while preserving spin speeds for superior NMR performance and convenience of operation. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/106441 |
| ART UNIT | 2866 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 24/08 (20130101) G01N 24/084 (20130101) Measuring Electric Variables; Measuring Magnetic Variables G01R 33/30 (20130101) G01R 33/307 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01R 33/465 (20130101) |
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| US 09366769 | Clonts et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-BATTELLE, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lloyd G. Clonts (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yacouba Diawara (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Cornelius Donahue, Jr. (Knoxville, Tennessee); Christopher A. Montcalm (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Richard A. Riedel (Knoxville, Tennessee); Theodore Visscher (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | For each photomultiplier tube in an Anger camera, an R×S array of preamplifiers is provided to detect electrons generated within the photomultiplier tube. The outputs of the preamplifiers are digitized to measure the magnitude of the signals from each preamplifier. For each photomultiplier tube, a corresponding summation circuitry including R row summation circuits and S column summation circuits numerically add the magnitudes of the signals from preamplifiers for each row and for each column to generate histograms. For a P×Q array of photomultiplier tubes, P×Q summation circuitries generate P×Q row histograms including R entries and P×Q column histograms including S entries. The total set of histograms include P×Q×(R+S) entries, which can be analyzed by a position calculation circuit to determine the locations of events (detection of a neutron). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/376018 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Measurement of Nuclear or X-radiation G01T 3/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09366787 | Lu |
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| APPLICANT(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Songwei Lu (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A light extraction substrate includes a glass substrate having a first surface and a second surface. A light extraction layer is formed on at least one of the surfaces. The light extraction layer is a coating, such as a silicon-containing coating, incorporating nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/198980 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 5/0242 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 5/0268 (20130101) G02B 5/0278 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0096 (20130101) H01L 51/5268 (20130101) H01L 2251/5369 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/549 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/26 (20150115) Y10T 428/268 (20150115) |
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| US 09366822 | Lentine et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony L. Lentine (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rohan Deodatta Kekatpure (Sunnyvale, California); William A. Zortman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel J. Savignon (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic resonator system is designed to use thermal tuning to adjust the resonant wavelength of each resonator in the system, with a separate tuning circuit associated with each resonator so that individual adjustments may be made. The common electrical ground connection between the tuning circuits is particularly formed to provide thermal isolation between adjacent resonators by including a capacitor along each return path to ground, where the presence of the capacitor's dielectric material provides the thermal isolation. The use of capacitively coupling necessarily requires the use of an AC current as an input to the heater element (conductor/resistor) of each resonator, where the RMS value of the AC signal is indicative of the amount of heat that is generated along the element and the degree of wavelength tuning that is obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/869482 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12004 (20130101) G02B 6/29343 (20130101) G02B 6/29395 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02B 6/29398 (20130101) |
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| US 09367372 | Lyashevsky et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Lyashevsky (Cupertino, California); Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Watertown, Massachusetts); Vilas Sridharan (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and computer program product to execute a first and a second work-item, and compare the signature variable of the first work-item to the signature variable of the second work-item. The first and the second work-items are mapped to an identifier via software. This mapping ensures that the first and second work-items execute exactly the same data for exactly the same code without changes to the underlying hardware. By executing the first and second work-items independently, the underlying computation of the first and second work-item can be verified. Moreover, system performance is not substantially affected because the execution results of the first and second work-items are compared only at specified comparison points. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/920574 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/52 (20130101) G06F 9/3851 (20130101) G06F 11/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 11/1633 (20130101) G06F 2201/83 (20130101) G06F 2201/825 (20130101) |
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| US 09368238 | Theofanous et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Theo G. Theofanous (Santa Barbara, California); Nam Truc Dinh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Richard M. Wachowiak (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS LLC (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theo G. Theofanous (Santa Barbara, California); Nam Truc Dinh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Richard M. Wachowiak (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Example embodiments provide a Basemat-Internal Melt Arrest and Coolability device (BiMAC) that offers improved spatial and mechanical characteristics for use in damage prevention and risk mitigation in accident scenarios. Example embodiments may include a BiMAC having an inclination of less than 10-degrees from the basemat floor and/or coolant channels of less than 4 inches in diameter, while maintaining minimum safety margins required by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/640399 |
| ART UNIT | 3646 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Nuclear Reactors G21C 9/016 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G21C 11/08 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 30/40 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09368311 | Moody 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) | Nathan A. Moody (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David C. Lizon (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photocathode device may replenish its photoemissive coating to replace coating material that desorbs/evaporates during photoemission. A linear actuator system may regulate the release of a replenishment material vapor, such as an alkali metal, from a chamber inside the photocathode device to a porous cathode substrate. The replenishment material deposits on the inner surface of a porous membrane and effuses through the membrane to the outer surface, where it replenishes the photoemissive coating. The rate of replenishment of the photoemissive coating may be adjusted using the linear actuator system to regulate performance of the photocathode device during photoemission. Alternatively, the linear actuator system may adjust a plasma discharge gap between a cartridge containing replenishment material and a metal grid. A potential is applied between the cartridge and the grid, resulting in ejection of metal ions from the cartridge that similarly replenish the photoemissive coating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/870072 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Discharge Tubes or Discharge Lamps H01J 1/34 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09368670 | Boettcher et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shannon Boettcher (Eugene, Oregon); Andrew Ritenour (Sunnyvale, California); Jason Boucher (Eugene, Oregon); Ann Greenaway (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are embodiments of methods for making GaAs thin films, such as photovoltaic GaAs thin films. The methods disclosed herein utilize sources, precursors, and reagents that do not produce (or require) toxic gas and that are readily available and relatively low in cost. In some embodiments, the methods are readily scalable for industrial applications and can provide GaAs thin films having properties that are at least comparable to or potentially superior to GaAs films obtained from conventional methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/692421 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal-growth; Unidirectional Solidification of Eutectic Material or Unidirectional Demixing of Eutectoid Material; Refining by Zone-melting of Material; Production of a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Single Crystals or Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; After-treatment of Single Crystals or a Homogeneous Polycrystalline Material With Defined Structure; Apparatus Therefor C30B 23/066 (20130101) C30B 29/42 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/0257 (20130101) H01L 21/02546 (20130101) H01L 21/02576 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) H01L 31/184 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 31/186 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/03042 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/50 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies in the Production or Processing of Goods Y02P 70/521 (20151101) |
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| US 09368671 | Wojtczuk et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MASIMO SEMICONDUCTOR, INC. (Irvine, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | MASIMO SEMICONDUCTOR, INC. (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Wojtczuk (Lexington, Massachusetts); Philip T. Chiu (Arlington, Massachusetts); Xuebing Zhang (Acton, Massachusetts); Edward Gagnon (Bedford, Massachusetts); Michael Timmons (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating on a semiconductor substrate bifacial tandem solar cells with semiconductor subcells having a lower bandgap than the substrate bandgap on one side of the substrate and with subcells having a higher bandgap than the substrate on the other including, first, growing a lower bandgap subcell on one substrate side that uses only the same periodic table group V material in the dislocation-reducing grading layers and bottom subcells as is present in the substrate and after the initial growth is complete and then flipping the substrate and growing the higher bandgap subcells on the opposite substrate side which can be of different group V material. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/507607 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 31/0684 (20130101) H01L 31/0687 (20130101) H01L 31/0693 (20130101) H01L 31/1844 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 10/544 (20130101) Y02E 10/547 (20130101) |
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| US 09368677 | Wierer, Jr. et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan J. Wierer, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrew A. Allerman (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Selective layer disordering in a doped III-nitride superlattice can be achieved by depositing a dielectric capping layer on a portion of the surface of the superlattice and annealing the superlattice to induce disorder of the layer interfaces under the uncapped portion and suppress disorder of the interfaces under the capped portion. The method can be used to create devices, such as optical waveguides, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, solar cells, modulators, laser, and amplifiers. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/540686 |
| ART UNIT | 2898 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 21/44 (20130101) H01L 21/0242 (20130101) H01L 21/0254 (20130101) H01L 21/0262 (20130101) H01L 21/324 (20130101) H01L 21/02433 (20130101) H01L 21/02458 (20130101) H01L 21/02507 (20130101) H01L 21/02576 (20130101) H01L 21/02579 (20130101) H01L 21/02664 (20130101) H01L 31/1856 (20130101) H01L 31/035236 (20130101) H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/0066 (20130101) H01L 33/0075 (20130101) Devices Using the Process of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation [LASER] to Amplify or Generate Light; Devices Using Stimulated Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in Wave Ranges Other Than Optical H01S 5/34333 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/89 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong Lin Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Youfan Hu (Atlanta, Georgia); Long Lin (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A traffic sensor includes a flexible substrate having a top surface. A piezoelectric structure extends from the first electrode layer. The piezoelectric structure has a top end. An insulating layer is infused into the piezoelectric structure. A first electrode layer is disposed on top of the insulating layer. A second electrode layer is disposed below the flexible substrate. A packaging layer is disposed around the substrate, the first electrode layer, the piezoelectric structure, the insulating layer and the second electrode layer. In a method of sensing a traffic parameter, a piezoelectric nanostructure-based traffic sensor is applied to a roadway. An electrical event generated by the piezoelectric nanostructure-based traffic sensor in response to a vehicle interacting with the piezoelectric nanostructure-based traffic sensor is detected. The electrical event is correlated with the traffic parameter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/022407 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 15/00 (20130101) B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Weighing G01G 19/08 (20130101) Measuring Linear or Angular Speed, Acceleration, Deceleration, or Shock; Indicating Presence, Absence, or Direction, of Movement G01P 3/02 (20130101) Traffic Control Systems G08G 1/0104 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 27/20 (20130101) H01L 41/082 (20130101) H01L 41/183 (20130101) H01L 41/319 (20130101) H01L 41/0805 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 41/1136 (20130101) Electric Machines Not Otherwise Provided for H02N 2/18 (20130101) H02N 2/181 (20130101) H02N 2/186 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/948 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arumugam Manthiram (Austin, Texas); Il Tae Kim (Austin, Texas); Eric Allcorn (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to an anode material for a sodium-ion battery having the general formula AOx—C or ACx—C, where A is aluminum (Al), magnesium (Mg), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), zirconium (Zr), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), silicon (Si), or any combinations thereof. The anode material also contains an electrochemically active nanoparticles within the matrix. The nanoparticle may react with sodium ion (Na+) when placed in the anode of a sodium-ion battery. In more specific embodiments, the anode material may have the general formula MySb-M′Ox—C, Sb-MOx—C, MySn-M′Cx—C, or Sn-MCx—C. The disclosure also relates to rechargeable sodium-ion batteries containing these materials and methods of making these materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/253509 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/38 (20130101) H01M 4/62 (20130101) H01M 4/134 (20130101) H01M 4/362 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/054 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09368798 | Kostecki et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert Kostecki (Lafayette, California); Thomas Richardson (Oakland, California); Ulrike Boesenberg (Hamburg, Germany); Elad Pollak (Rehovot, Israel); Simon Lux (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kostecki (Lafayette, California); Thomas Richardson (Oakland, California); Ulrike Boesenberg (Hamburg, Germany); Elad Pollak (Rehovot, Israel); Simon Lux (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lithium (Li) ion battery comprising a cathode, a separator, an organic electrolyte, an anode, and a carbon black conductive additive, wherein the carbon black has been heated treated in a CO2 gas environment at a temperature range of between 875-925 degrees Celsius for a time range of between 50 to 70 minutes to oxidize the carbon black and reduce an electrochemical reactivity of the carbon black towards the organic electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/274458 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/02 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2006/40 (20130101) Treatment of Inorganic Materials, Other Than Fibrous Fillers, to Enhance Their Pigmenting or Filling Properties; Preparation of Carbon Black; C09C 1/565 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/625 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0525 (20130101) H01M 2220/30 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related to Transportation Y02T 10/7011 (20130101) |
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| US 09368824 | Xia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Richland, Washington) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guanguang Xia (Richland, Washington); Zhenguo Yang (Bellevue, Washington); Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); Soowhan Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Jun Liu (Richland, Washington); Gordon L Graff (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Iron-sulfide redox flow battery (RFB) systems can be advantageous for energy storage, particularly when the electrolytes have pH values greater than 6. Such systems can exhibit excellent energy conversion efficiency and stability and can utilize low-cost materials that are relatively safer and more environmentally friendly. One example of an iron-sulfide RFB is characterized by a positive electrolyte that comprises Fe(III) and/or Fe(II) in a positive electrolyte supporting solution, a negative electrolyte that comprises S2− and/or S in a negative electrolyte supporting solution, and a membrane, or a separator, that separates the positive electrolyte and electrode from the negative electrolyte and electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/079135 |
| 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 2/1653 (20130101) H01M 4/96 (20130101) H01M 4/926 (20130101) H01M 4/9083 (20130101) H01M 8/18 (20130101) H01M 8/20 (20130101) H01M 8/188 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/528 (20130101) |
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| US 09368827 | Bartos et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew L. Bartos (Clarkston, Michigan); Yhu-Tin Lin (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Raymond D. Turner, III (Lake Orion, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for stacking battery cells or related assembled components. Generally planar, rectangular (prismatic-shaped) battery cells are moved from an as-received generally vertical stacking orientation to a generally horizontal stacking orientation without the need for robotic pick-and-place equipment. The system includes numerous conveyor belts that work in cooperation with one another to deliver, rotate and stack the cells or their affiliated assemblies. The belts are outfitted with components to facilitate the cell transport and rotation. The coordinated movement between the belts and the components promote the orderly transport and rotation of the cells from a substantially vertical stacking orientation into a substantially horizontal stacking orientation. The approach of the present invention helps keep the stacked assemblies stable so that subsequent assembly steps—such as compressing the cells or attaching electrical leads or thermal management components—may proceed with a reduced chance of error. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 21, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/972224 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Transport or Storage Devices, e.g Conveyors for Loading or Tipping, shop Conveyor Systems Or pneumatic Tube Conveyors B65G 57/32 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 2/0217 (20130101) H01M 2/1077 (20130101) H01M 10/0404 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/53135 (20150115) |
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| US 09368832 | Zhang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Jian Dong (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengcheng Zhang (Naperville, Illinois); Jian Dong (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin); Khalil Amine (Oak Brook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrolyte electrochemical device includes an anodic material and an electrolyte, the electrolyte including an organosilicon solvent, a salt, and a hybrid additiving having a first and a second compound, the hybrid additive configured to form a solid electrolyte interphase film on the anodic material upon application of a potential to the electrochemical device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/552219 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 10/052 (20130101) H01M 10/0564 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01M 10/0565 (20130101) H01M 10/0567 (20130101) H01M 10/0569 (20130101) H01M 2300/0028 (20130101) H01M 2300/0082 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/122 (20130101) |
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| US 09369866 | Moradi et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hussein Moradi (Ammon, Idaho); Behrouz Farhang (Salt Lake City, Utah); Carl A. Kutsche (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmitter includes a synthesis filter bank to spread a data symbol to a plurality of frequencies by encoding the data symbol on each frequency, apply a common pulse-shaping filter, and apply gains to the frequencies such that a power level of each frequency is less than a noise level of other communication signals within the spectrum. Each frequency is modulated onto a different evenly spaced subcarrier. A demodulator in a receiver converts a radio frequency input to a spread-spectrum signal in a baseband. A matched filter filters the spread-spectrum signal with a common filter having characteristics matched to the synthesis filter bank in the transmitter by filtering each frequency to generate a sequence of narrow pulses. A carrier recovery unit generates control signals responsive to the sequence of narrow pulses suitable for generating a phase-locked loop between the demodulator, the matched filter, and the carrier recovery unit. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/498035 |
| ART UNIT | 2633 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission H04B 1/69 (20130101) H04B 1/707 (20130101) H04B 1/709 (20130101) H04B 1/7093 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 1/04 (20130101) H04L 5/0021 (20130101) H04L 9/0816 (20130101) H04L 27/264 (20130101) H04L 2209/24 (20130101) H04L 2209/80 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09370122 | 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 cooling structure including a thermally conducting central element having a channel formed therein, the channel being configured for flow of cooling fluid there through, a first pressure plate, and a first thermally conductive resilient member disposed between the thermally conducting central element and the first pressure plate, wherein the first pressure plate, the first thermally conductive resilient member, and the thermally conducting central element form a first heat transfer path. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/738961 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/044 (20130101) G06F 2203/04108 (20130101) G06F 2203/04805 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 7/20009 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 7/20772 (20130101) |
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| US 09364169 | West et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. West (Sandy, Utah); Anton E. Bowden (Lindon, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for in-situ sensing of longitudinal and transverse strain in biological tissue (e.g. tendons and ligaments) includes a set of sensing electrodes that contact biological tissue and enable measurement of an electrical property of the biological tissue along two or more directions. The apparatus may also include a sensing module that senses the electrical property of the biological tissue along the two or more directions to provide multi-directional measurements that are captured by a logging module. The apparatus may also include a transmission module that transmits the captured measurements to a data analysis workstation or the like. The data analysis workstation may include a strain estimation module that receives the multi-directional measurement and estimates a longitudinal strain and a transverse strain therefrom. A corresponding system and method for in-situ sensing of longitudinal and transverse strain in biological tissue is also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/769089 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0004 (20130101) A61B 5/053 (20130101) A61B 5/0538 (20130101) A61B 5/1126 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61B 5/4523 (20130101) A61B 5/4533 (20130101) A61B 5/7278 (20130101) A61B 2562/0209 (20130101) |
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| US 09364174 | Lin et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qiao Lin (New York, New York); Xian Huang (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for monitoring a target analyte in a sample using a polymer capable of binding to the target analyte are disclosed. A microdevice useful for the disclosed techniques includes a semi-permeable membrane structure, a substrate, a first and second microchambers formed between the membrane structure and the substrate. The first microchamber can be adapted to receive a solution including the polymer, and the second microchamber can be adapted to receive a reference solution. Environmental target analyte can permeate the semi-permeable membrane structure and enters the first microchamber and the second microchamber. Based on the difference in a property associated with the polymer solution that is responsive to the target analyte-polymer binding, and the corresponding property associated with reference solution, the presence and/or concentration of the target analyte can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/160092 |
| ART UNIT | 1677 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Diagnosis; Surgery; Identification A61B 5/0015 (20130101) A61B 5/14532 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502753 (20130101) B01L 2200/10 (20130101) B01L 2200/147 (20130101) B01L 2200/148 (20130101) B01L 2300/023 (20130101) B01L 2300/0645 (20130101) B01L 2300/0663 (20130101) B01L 2300/0874 (20130101) B01L 2300/1822 (20130101) B01L 2400/043 (20130101) B01L 2400/0433 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/226 (20130101) G01N 27/327 (20130101) G01N 33/66 (20130101) G01N 33/5438 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09364449 | Sadowski et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin J. Sadowski (New York, New York); Kent Kirshenbaum (New York, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin J. Sadowski (New York, New York); Kent Kirshenbaum (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel peptide/peptoid oligomers are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following formula Ia or Ib: The peptide/peptoid oligomers demonstrate the ability to inhibit fibrillization and oligomerization of Aβ and may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions and used for the prevention or treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals, including humans, associated with Aβ oligomerization. The present peptidomimetic oligomers are particularly valuable for the treatment of subjects with AD. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/134547 |
| ART UNIT | 1675 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/135 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 38/08 (20130101) A61K 38/12 (20130101) A61K 38/16 (20130101) Peptides C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) |
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| US 09364555 | Floreancig et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Paul Edward Floreancig (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Billy W. Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Shuangyi Wan (Shanghai, Switzerland); Fanghui Wu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Edward Floreancig (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Billy W. Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Shuangyi Wan (Shanghai, Switzerland); Fanghui Wu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that include a pederin, psymberin or pederin/psymberin chimera scaffold. The pederin scaffold includes a substituent at the C10 and/or C13 position that may include a linker that may be conjugated to a targeting moiety. The psymberin scaffold includes a substituent at the C8 and/or C11 positions that may include a linker that may be conjugated to a targeting moiety. The pederin/psymberin chimera scaffold includes a substituent at the C10 and/or C13 position that may include a linker that may be conjugated to a targeting moiety. The pederin, psymberin or pederin/psymberin chimera scaffold may be modified to include substituents at positions other than the C10 or C13 of pederin, or the C8 and C11 of psymberin. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/234133 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 47/48384 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 407/06 (20130101) C07D 407/12 (20130101) C07D 407/14 (20130101) |
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| US 09364831 | Chiou et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Ting-Hsiang Wu (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Ting-Hsiang Wu (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments this invention provides a pulsed-laser triggered microfluidic switching mechanism that can achieve a switching time of 70 μs. This switching speed is two orders of magnitude shorter than that of the fastest switching mechanism utilized in previous μFACS. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852320 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) B01L 2400/0454 (20130101) B01L 2400/0622 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) F16K 99/004 (20130101) F16K 99/0026 (20130101) F16K 99/0028 (20130101) F16K 99/0061 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0391 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) |
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| US 09364895 | Hosek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin Hosek (Lowell, Massachusetts); Sripati Sah (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Persimmon Technologies Corporation (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Hosek (Lowell, Massachusetts); Sripati Sah (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for making a material having domains with insulated boundaries is provided. The system includes a droplet spray subsystem configured to create molten alloy droplets and direct the molten alloy droplets to a surface, a spray subsystem configured to direct a spray of an agent at deposited droplets on the surface. The agent creates insulation layers on the deposited droplets such that the droplets form a material having domains with insulated boundaries on the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507447 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 23/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/115 (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 4/18 (20130101) C23C 6/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/24 (20130101) H01F 3/08 (20130101) H01F 41/0246 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24413 (20150115) |
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| US 09364988 | Maia et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joao Maia (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Jorge Silva (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Patrick Harris (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joao Maia (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Jorge Silva (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Patrick Harris (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating interfacial surfaces within a first composite stream having a generally planar layer interface lies generally in an x-z plane of an x-y-z coordinate system. The method includes dividing the first composite stream into a plurality of branch streams along the x-axis such that the pair of discrete overlapping layers and the generally planar layer interface are distributed among at least two branch streams. Within each individual branch stream of the at least two branch streams, the width dimension of the branch stream is expanded along the x-axis and the thickness dimension of the branch stream is simultaneously contracted along the y-axis. The branch streams are recombined in an overlapping relationship, after each of the at least two branch streams is simultaneously expanded and contracted, to form a second composite stream having a greater number of discrete overlapping layers of polymeric material than the first composite stream. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/424023 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — 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 47/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B29C 47/0021 (20130101) B29C 47/92 (20130101) B29C 47/702 (20130101) B29C 47/707 (20130101) B29C 2947/92514 (20130101) |
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| US 09365013 | Fink et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Zheng Wang (Austin, Texas); Shunji Egusa (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Noémie Chocat (Paris, France); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Zheng Wang (Austin, Texas); Shunji Egusa (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Noémie Chocat (Paris, France); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fibers that include a composite of at least three different materials, where the at least three different materials include a conductor, an insulator, and a non-centrosymmetric material, and where each material is disposed in one or more different cross-sectional regions of the fiber, with each region extending along a common length of the fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/178109 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Devices for Introducing Media Into, or Onto, the Body; Devices for Transducing Body Media or for Taking Media From the Body; Devices for Producing or Ending Sleep or Stupor A61M 5/14 (20130101) Producing Particular Articles From Plastics or From Substances in a Plastic State B29D 99/0078 (20130101) Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 1/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/22 (20130101) H01B 1/24 (20130101) H01B 3/30 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 41/45 (20130101) H01L 41/082 (20130101) H01L 41/193 (20130101) Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups or Like Acoustic Electromechanical Transducers; Deaf-aid Sets; Public Address Systems H04R 17/00 (20130101) H04R 17/10 (20130101) H04R 2217/03 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/2935 (20150115) Y10T 428/2944 (20150115) Y10T 428/2964 (20150115) Y10T 428/2967 (20150115) |
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| US 09365432 | Wong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaus S. Wong (Stony Brook, New York); Yuanbing Mao (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to nanomaterials and assemblies including, a micrometer-scale spherical aggregate comprising: a plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures comprising titanium and oxygen, wherein the one-dimensional nanostructures radiate from a hollow central core thereby forming a spherical aggregate. |
| FILED | Monday, April 29, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/872867 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Layered Products, i.e Products Built-up of Strata of Flat or Non-flat, e.g Cellular or Honeycomb, Form B32B 18/00 (20130101) B32B 2311/18 (20130101) Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 30/00 (20130101) B82Y 40/00 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/0026 (20130101) C01B 3/0031 (20130101) C01B 6/02 (20130101) C01B 6/24 (20130101) Compounds of Alkali Metals, i.e Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium, or Francium C01D 13/00 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 23/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C01G 23/04 (20130101) C01G 23/08 (20130101) C01G 23/047 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/82 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2002/85 (20130101) C01P 2004/03 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2004/13 (20130101) C01P 2004/16 (20130101) C01P 2004/34 (20130101) C01P 2004/50 (20130101) C01P 2004/61 (20130101) C01P 2004/62 (20130101) C01P 2004/64 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/327 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/762 (20130101) Y10S 977/773 (20130101) Y10S 977/811 (20130101) Y10S 977/896 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/298 (20150115) Y10T 428/24058 (20150115) |
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| US 09365493 | Myers 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) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark G. Charest (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Christian D. Lerner (Binningen, Switzerland); Jason D. Brubaker (Cheshire, Connecticut); Dionicio R. Siegel (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The modular synthesis of tetracyclines and tetracycline analogs described provides an efficient and enantioselective route to a variety of tetracycline analogs and polycyclines previously inaccessible via earlier tetracycline syntheses and semi-synthetic methods. These analogs may be used as anti-microbial agents or anti-proliferative agents in the treatment of diseases of humans or other animals. |
| FILED | Friday, October 25, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/063868 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Acyclic or Carbocyclic Compounds C07C 231/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C07C 237/26 (20130101) Heterocyclic Compounds C07D 209/56 (20130101) C07D 209/58 (20130101) C07D 213/56 (20130101) C07D 221/18 (20130101) C07D 235/02 (20130101) C07D 237/26 (20130101) C07D 239/70 (20130101) C07D 241/38 (20130101) C07D 261/20 (20130101) C07D 263/52 (20130101) C07D 277/30 (20130101) C07D 277/56 (20130101) C07D 277/64 (20130101) C07D 277/66 (20130101) C07D 307/77 (20130101) |
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| US 09365600 | Maayan et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Galia Maayan (Technion, Israel); George Christou (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Galia Maayan (Technion, Israel); George Christou (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for polynuclear manganese cluster compounds, methods of making, methods of use, method of producing hydrogen and oxygen from water, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/009828 |
| ART UNIT | 1671 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Processes, e.g Catalysis or Colloid Chemistry; Their Relevant Apparatus B01J 31/2226 (20130101) Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 3/042 (20130101) C01B 13/0207 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 13/005 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Processes for the Production of Compounds or Non-metals; Apparatus Therefor C25B 1/04 (20130101) Reduction of Greenhouse Gas [GHG] Emissions, Related to Energy Generation, Transmission or Distribution Y02E 60/364 (20130101) |
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| US 09365622 | Schmidt et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric W. Schmidt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Hathaway (Salt Lake City, Utah); James T. Nelson (South Euclid, Ohio); Mohamed S. Donia (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric W. Schmidt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Hathaway (Salt Lake City, Utah); James T. Nelson (South Euclid, Ohio); Mohamed S. Donia (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for cyclization of polymers such as peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/281373 |
| ART UNIT | 1676 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Peptides C07K 5/12 (20130101) C07K 7/02 (20130101) C07K 7/06 (20130101) C07K 7/64 (20130101) C07K 14/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365623 | Ulijasz et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew T. Ulijasz (Twickenham, United Kingdom); Richard D. Vierstra (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically-engineered cyanochrome fluorophore molecules (fluorophores) with increased fluorescence and with absorbing fluorescence in the blue and green (blue/green) portion of the light spectrum are provided. These fluorophores are derived from the domains of phytochromes, and in particular cyanobacterial phytochromes. Methods for generating these fluorophores and various applications of these fluorophores are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/464751 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 49/0045 (20130101) Peptides C07K 14/195 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Measuring or Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids or Microorganisms; Compositions or Test Papers Therefor; Processes of Preparing Such Compositions; Condition-responsive Control in Microbiological or Enzymological Processes C12Q 1/02 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 33/542 (20130101) G01N 33/5035 (20130101) |
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| US 09365674 | Coates et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); Peter C. B. Widger (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); Peter C. B. Widger (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Isotactic polyethers, methods of making polyethers, and uses of polyethers. The polyethers have a chain transfer group formed from a chain transfer agent. The methods of making the polyethers use monoalcohol chain transfer agents or multifunctional chain transfer agents. The polyethers can be used in materials, such as polyurethanes, elastomers, thermoset plastics, and thermoplastics, and as non-ionic surfactants. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/122407 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 18/4825 (20130101) C08G 65/266 (20130101) C08G 65/2606 (20130101) C08G 65/2609 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09365867 | Rao |
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| APPLICANT(S) | THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Catholic University of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venigalla B. Rao (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Complex viruses are assembled from simple protein subunits by sequential and irreversible assembly. During genome packaging in bacteriophages, a powerful molecular motor assembles at the special portal vertex of an empty prohead to initiate packaging. An aspect of the invention relates to the phage T4 packaging machine being highly promiscuous, translocating DNA into finished phage heads as well as into proheads. Single motors can force exogenous DNA into phage heads at the same rate as into proheads and phage heads undergo repeated initiations, packaging multiple DNA molecules into the same head. This shows that the phage DNA packaging machine has unusual conformational plasticity, powering DNA into an apparently passive capsid receptacle, including the highly stable virus shell, until it is full. These features allow for the design of a novel class of nanocapsid delivery vehicles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/796263 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 31/711 (20130101) A61K 31/7088 (20130101) A61K 47/48776 (20130101) A61K 48/00 (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) Original (OR) Class C12N 15/87 (20130101) C12N 15/88 (20130101) C12N 2795/10042 (20130101) C12N 2795/10122 (20130101) C12N 2795/10142 (20130101) C12N 2795/10152 (20130101) |
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| US 09365946 | Busnaina et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Busnaina (Needham, Massachusetts); Hanchul Cho (Revere, Massachusetts); Sivasubramanian Somu (Natick, Massachusetts); Jun Huang (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Damascene templates have two-dimensionally patterned raised metal features disposed on an underlying conductive layer extending across a substrate. The templates are topographically flat overall, and the patterned conductive features establish micron-scale and nanometer-scale patterns for the assembly of nanoelements into nanoscale circuits and sensors. The templates are made using microfabrication techniques together with chemical mechanical polishing. These templates are compatible with various directed assembly techniques, including electrophoresis, and offer essentially 100% efficient assembly and transfer of nanoelements in a continuous operation cycle. The templates can be repeatedly used for transfer of patterned nanoelements thousands of times with minimal or no damage, and the transfer process involves no intermediate processes between cycles. The assembly and transfer processes employed are carried out at room temperature and pressure and are thus amenable to low cost, high-rate device production. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 14/356328 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Nanostructures Formed by Manipulation of Individual Atoms, Molecules, or Limited Collections of Atoms or Molecules as Discrete Units; Manufacture or Treatment Thereof B82B 3/0042 (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) Processes for the Electrolytic or Electrophoretic Production of Coatings; Electroforming; Apparatus Therefor C25D 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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) Technical Subjects Covered by Former USPC Cross-reference Art Collections [XRACs] and Digests Y10S 977/882 (20130101) |
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| US 09366886 | Digonnet 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) | Michel J. F. Digonnet (Palo Alto, California); Anuranjita Tewary (Palo Alto, California); Mark Brongersma (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical switch includes a microresonator comprising a silicon-rich silicon oxide layer and a plurality of silicon nanoparticles within the silicon-rich silicon oxide layer. The microresonator further includes an optical coupler optically coupled to the microresonator and configured to be optically coupled to a signal source. The microresonator is configured to receive signal light having a signal wavelength, and at least a portion of the microresonator is responsive to the signal light by undergoing a refractive index change at the signal wavelength. The optical switch further includes an optical coupler optically coupled to the microresonator and configured to be optically coupled to a signal source. The optical coupler transmits the signal light from the signal source to the microresonator. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/449029 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Specific Uses or Applications of Nanostructures; Measurement or Analysis of Nanostructures; Manufacture or Treatment of Nanostructures B82Y 20/00 (20130101) Manufacture, Shaping, or Supplementary Processes C03B 19/1055 (20130101) C03B 19/1095 (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 12/00 (20130101) C03C 17/245 (20130101) C03C 2217/213 (20130101) C03C 2218/32 (20130101) C03C 2218/153 (20130101) Optical Elements, Systems, or Apparatus G02B 6/12007 (20130101) G02B 6/29341 (20130101) Devices or Arrangements, the Optical Operation of Which Is Modified by Changing the Optical Properties of the Medium of the Devices or Arrangements for the Control of the Intensity, Colour, Phase, Polarisation or Direction of Light, e.g Switching, Gating, Modulating or Demodulating; Techniques or Procedures for the Operation Thereof; Frequency-changing; Non-linear Optics; Optical Logic Elements; Optical Analogue/digital Converters G02F 1/0115 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G02F 1/0126 (20130101) G02F 1/0147 (20130101) G02F 2001/0113 (20130101) G02F 2202/36 (20130101) G02F 2203/055 (20130101) |
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| US 09367601 | Babu et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shivnath Babu (Durham, North Carolina); Herodotos Herodotou (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Cost-based optimization of configuration parameters and cluster sizing for distributed data processing systems are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving at least one job profile of a MapReduce job. The method also includes using the at least one job profile to predict execution of the MapReduce job within a plurality of different predetermined settings of a distributed data processing system. Further, the method includes determining one of the predetermined settings that optimizes performance of the MapReduce job. The method may also include automatically adjusting the distributed data processing system to the determined predetermined setting. |
| FILED | Friday, March 15, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/843347 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 9/5066 (20130101) G06F 11/3404 (20130101) G06F 11/3409 (20130101) G06F 11/3419 (20130101) G06F 11/3428 (20130101) G06F 11/3442 (20130101) G06F 11/3452 (20130101) G06F 11/3457 (20130101) G06F 11/3466 (20130101) G06F 17/30595 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06F 2201/865 (20130101) |
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| US 09367729 | Schuckers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephanie Schuckers (Canton, New York); Aditya Abhyankar (Maharashtra, India); Lawrence Hornak (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a plurality of image analysis data of a fingerprint image; condensing the plurality of image analysis data; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the condensed data. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/291342 |
| 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 9/001 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06K 9/00107 (20130101) G06K 9/00114 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Klaus Mueller (Rocky Point, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Klaus Mueller (Rocky Point, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Location-mapped environments that provide panoramic and immersive views of street scenes are augmented with modern data visualization displays, to communicate additional information of interest. Specifically, illumination statistics information is mapped onto building facades in the location-mapped environments. The illumination statistics information can include variations of illumination as a function of time of a day and as a function of the season. The illumination statistics information can also include direct illumination statistics information and indirect illumination statistics information. Further, the illumination statistics can be calculated for any window on a building façade to determine natural lighting through that window. The illumination statistics can be employed, for example, to aid users in selection of real estate properties for rental or purchase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/813775 |
| ART UNIT | 2616 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image Data Processing or Generation, in General G06T 11/001 (20130101) G06T 15/04 (20130101) G06T 15/50 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G06T 17/05 (20130101) G06T 19/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09368273 | Ram Rakhyani et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Anil K. Ram Rakhyani (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gianluca Lazzi (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anil K. Ram Rakhyani (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gianluca Lazzi (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, system, and method for multicoil telemetry are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an intermediate coil disposed between a driving coil and a receiving coil, where the intermediate coil is configured to act on magnetic fields between the driving coil and receiving coil in order to provide improved coupling efficiency. The improved coupling may assist in providing efficient power transfer and/or data transfer utilizing the magnetic fields. In some embodiments the receiving coil may be in direct communication with the intermediate coil, without any other intermediate coils. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a second intermediate coil disposed between the driving coil and receiving coil to improve the transfer efficiency between the driving and receiving coils. The intermediate coils may have a high quality factor and be configured to decouple the resistance between the driving and receiving coils. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/417145 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 38/14 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01F 2038/143 (20130101) Circuit Arrangements or Systems for Supplying or Distributing Electric Power; Systems for Storing Electric Energy H02J 5/005 (20130101) H02J 7/025 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 29/4902 (20150115) |
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| US 09368676 | Myers et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Roberto C. Myers (Columbus, Ohio); Thomas F. Kent (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto C. Myers (Columbus, Ohio); Thomas F. Kent (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A diode comprises nanowires compositionally graded along their lengths with an active region doped with gadolinium sandwiched between first and second compositionally graded AlxGa1-xN nanowire regions. The first graded AlxGa1-xN nanowire region is graded from gallium-rich to aluminum-rich with the compositional grading defining n-type polarization doping and the aluminum-rich end proximate the active region. The second graded AlxGa1-xN nanowire region is graded from aluminum-rich to gallium-rich with the compositional grading defining p-type polarization doping and with the aluminum rich end proximate the active region. The active region may include a GdN layer sandwiched between AlN layers, or an Al1-yGdyN layer with y≧0.5. The nanowires may be disposed on a silicon substrate having a GaN surface, with the gallium-rich end of the first graded AlxGa1-xN nanowire region proximate to the GaN surface, and a semitransparent electrical contact disposed on the gallium-rich end of the second graded AlxGa1-xN nanowire region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/463142 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 33/06 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/18 (20130101) H01L 33/32 (20130101) |
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| US 09368723 | Arnold et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Arnold (Middleton, Wisconsin); Padma Gopalan (Madison, Wisconsin); Gerald Joseph Brady (Madison, Wisconsin); Yongho Joo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | High density films of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes having a high degree of nanotube alignment are provided. Also provided are methods of making the films and field effect transistors (FETs) that incorporate the films as conducting channel materials. The single-walled carbon nanotubes are deposited from a thin layer of organic solvent containing solubilized single-walled carbon nanotubes that is spread over the surface of an aqueous medium, inducing evaporative self-assembly upon contacting a solid substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/177828 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 31/0246 (20130101) Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0048 (20130101) H01L 51/0512 (20130101) H01L 51/0558 (20130101) |
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| US 09368737 | Hwang et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Do Kyung Hwang (Duluth, Georgia); Jungbae Kim (Alpharetta, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Do Kyung Hwang (Duluth, Georgia); Jungbae Kim (Alpharetta, Georgia); Canek Fuentes-Hernandez (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A field-effect transistor includes a gate, a source and a drain; a semiconductor layer between the source and the drain; and a gate insulator between the gate and the semiconductor layer. The gate insulator comprises a first layer adjoining the semiconductor layer; and a second layer. The first layer is formed from an amorphous fluoropolymer having a first dielectric constant and a first thickness. The second layer has a second dielectric constant and a second thickness. The first dielectric constant is smaller than 3, the first thickness is smaller than 200 nm, the second dielectric constant is higher than 5, and the second thickness is smaller than 500 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/877441 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 51/0053 (20130101) H01L 51/0071 (20130101) H01L 51/0529 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 51/0533 (20130101) H01L 51/0545 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Stuart Licht (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Licht (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery and methods of forming vanadium boride nanoparticles of an anode within a battery, and a method for recharging an air battery. The battery comprises an anode and a cathode in electrochemical contact with each other through an electrically neutral ionic conductor (an electrolyte). The cathode may comprise a catalyst effective for the reduction of dissolved oxygen. An electrical discharge of the anode is performed via multiple electron oxidation of vanadium boride. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/814904 |
| ART UNIT | 2851 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Crushing, Pulverising, or Disintegrating in General; Milling Grain B02C 17/00 (20130101) B02C 23/18 (20130101) Processes or Means, e.g Batteries, for the Direct Conversion of Chemical Energy into Electrical Energy H01M 4/5825 (20130101) H01M 10/44 (20130101) H01M 12/06 (20130101) H01M 12/08 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
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| US 09369275 | Yao et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, California); PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongyi Yao (Pasadena, California); Tracey C. Ho (Pasadena, California); Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A network and related methods for transmitting processes in a network secretly and securely is described. The network use keys, through path-key establishment and a key pool bootstrapping, to ensure that packets are transmitted and received properly and secretly in the presence of one or more adversarial nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/696304 |
| ART UNIT | 2493 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/0802 (20130101) H04L 9/0827 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/34 (20130101) H04L 2209/80 (20130101) Wireless Communication Networks H04W 12/04 (20130101) |
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| US 09369318 | Lee 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) | Sheau Jiung Lee (Saratoga, California); Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Yanghyo Kim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A serializer and de-serializer circuit which is particularly well-suited for use in communicating digital data from one integrated circuit (chip) to another for implementing chip-to-chip communications is presented. The circuits are scalable and utilize a multi-frequency quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mechanism for converting digital data bits from a parallel form into a serial analog stream for communication over a chip I/O connection. The serializer has multiple digital-to-analog converters (DACs) whose outputs are directed to QAM mixer inputs, within QAMs at multiple frequencies, whose outputs are summed into a single analog signal for communication over an I/O connection. The de-serializer amplifies the analog signal which is received by QAM mixers at different frequencies, whose outputs are low pass filtered and converted back to parallel digital data bits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/704653 |
| ART UNIT | 2632 — Digital Communications |
| CURRENT CPC | Coding; Decoding; Code Conversion in General H03M 9/00 (20130101) Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 27/0002 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 27/38 (20130101) H04L 27/362 (20130101) |
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| US 09370096 | Frey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret Frey (Ithaca, New York); Daehwan Cho (Ithaca, New York); SangGap Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Chae Un Kim (Ithaca, New York); Nikolas Hoepker (Ithaca, New York); Mark W. Tate (Ithaca, New York); Meryem Oznur Pehlivaner Kara (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are conducting polymer nanofibers, methods of making conducting polymer nanofibers, and uses thereof. The conducting polymer nanofibers can be formed by, for example, electrospinning, force spinning, and centrifugal spinning using a spinning dope. The conducting polymer nanofibers can be used in devices, such as a radiation detecting device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863548 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2261/51 (20130101) C08G 2261/94 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 25/18 (20130101) C08L 29/04 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0038 (20130101) D01D 5/0046 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/44 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/127 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/16 (20130101) H05K 2201/0278 (20130101) H05K 2201/0281 (20130101) H05K 2201/10151 (20130101) |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Ting-Hsiang Wu (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pei-Yu Chiou (Los Angeles, California); Ting-Hsiang Wu (Los Angeles, California); Michael A. Teitell (Tarzana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In certain embodiments this invention provides a pulsed-laser triggered microfluidic switching mechanism that can achieve a switching time of 70 μs. This switching speed is two orders of magnitude shorter than that of the fastest switching mechanism utilized in previous μFACS. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852320 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical or Physical Laboratory Apparatus for General Use B01L 3/502738 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B01L 3/502761 (20130101) B01L 2200/0636 (20130101) B01L 2200/0652 (20130101) B01L 2300/123 (20130101) B01L 2300/0816 (20130101) B01L 2300/0864 (20130101) B01L 2400/0442 (20130101) B01L 2400/0454 (20130101) B01L 2400/0622 (20130101) B01L 2400/0655 (20130101) Valves; Taps; Cocks; Actuating-floats; Devices for Venting or Aerating F16K 99/0001 (20130101) F16K 99/004 (20130101) F16K 99/0026 (20130101) F16K 99/0028 (20130101) F16K 99/0061 (20130101) F16K 2099/0084 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 15/1459 (20130101) G01N 2015/149 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 137/0391 (20150401) Y10T 137/2224 (20150401) |
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| US 09365302 | Gibson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 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) | Tracy L. Gibson (Melbourne, Florida); Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Mark E. Lewis (Merritt Island, Florida); Luke B. Roberson (Titusville, Florida); Sarah J. Snyder (Terre Haute, Indiana); Pedro J. Medelius (Merritt Island, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems may provide for a structure having a plurality of interconnected panels, wherein each panel has a plurality of detection layers separated from one another by one or more non-detection layers. The plurality of detection layers may form a grid of conductive traces. Additionally, a monitor may be coupled to each grid of conductive traces, wherein the monitor is configured to detect damage to the plurality of interconnected panels in response to an electrical property change with respect to one or more of the conductive traces. In one example, the structure is part of an inflatable space platform such as a spacecraft or habitat. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/982369 |
| ART UNIT | 3647 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Cosmonautics; Vehicles or Equipment Therefor B64G 1/52 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B64G 2001/224 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 27/20 (20130101) |
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| US 09365756 | Jolley et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | 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) | Scott T. Jolley (Titusville, Florida); Tracy L. Gibson (Melbourne, Florida); Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Clyde F. Parrish (Trinity, Florida); Sarah J. Snyder (Terre Haute, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are low-melt polyimides and poly(amic acids) (PAAs) for use as adhesives, and methods of using the materials for attaching two substrates. The methods typically form an adhesive bond that is hermetically sealed to both substrates. Additionally, the method typically forms a cross-linked bonding material that is flexible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 11, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/915407 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesives; Non-mechanical Aspects of Adhesive Processes in General; Adhesive Processes Not Provided for Elsewhere; Use of Materials as Adhesives C09J 177/00 (20130101) C09J 179/085 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09365917 | Chen et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronatics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Po-Shou Chen (Huntsville, Alabama); Carolyn Kurgan Russell (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for heat treating aluminum-lithium alloys to improve their formability. The alloy is heated to a first temperature, maintained at the first temperature for a first time period, heated at the conclusion of the first time period to a second temperature, maintained at the second temperature for a second time period, actively cooled at the conclusion of the second time period to a third temperature, maintained at the third temperature for a third time period, and then passively cooled at the conclusion of the third time period to room temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/223649 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Modifying the Physical Structure of Ferrous Metals; General Devices for Heat Treatment of Ferrous or Non-ferrous Metals or Alloys; Making Metal Malleable, e.g by Decarburisation or Tempering C21D 1/84 (20130101) Alloys C22C 21/00 (20130101) C22C 21/16 (20130101) Changing the Physical Structure of Non-ferrous Metals and Non-ferrous Alloys C22F 1/04 (20130101) C22F 1/057 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09366189 | Hong et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Zekai Hong (Altamont, New York); Joel Meier Haynes (Schenectady, New York); Keith Robert McManus (Clifton Park, New York); John Thomas Herbon (Loveland, Ohio) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zekai Hong (Altamont, New York); Joel Meier Haynes (Schenectady, New York); Keith Robert McManus (Clifton Park, New York); John Thomas Herbon (Loveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system for reducing pressure oscillations within a gas turbine engine includes at least one fuel injector configured to inject fuel into a combustor. The system also includes a valve fluidly coupled to the at least one fuel injector. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the valve. The controller is configured to cycle the valve between an open position and a closed position at a first frequency and a first duty cycle while a magnitude of pressure oscillations within the combustor is less than a threshold value, to cycle the valve between the open position and the closed position at a second frequency and a second duty cycle while the magnitude of the pressure oscillations within the combustor is greater than or equal to the threshold value, and to adjust the second frequency based on a measured frequency of the pressure oscillations. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/538836 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas-turbine Plants; Air Intakes for Jet-propulsion Plants; Controlling Fuel Supply in Air-breathing Jet-propulsion Plants F02C 7/232 (20130101) Original (OR) Class F02C 9/26 (20130101) Indexing Scheme for Aspects Relating to Non-positive-displacement Machines or Engines, Gas-turbines or Jet-propulsion Plants F05D 2270/14 (20130101) Generating Combustion Products of High Pressure or High Velocity, e.g Gas-turbine Combustion Chambers F23R 2900/00013 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 09364895 | Hosek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Martin Hosek (Lowell, Massachusetts); Sripati Sah (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Persimmon Technologies Corporation (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Hosek (Lowell, Massachusetts); Sripati Sah (Wakefield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for making a material having domains with insulated boundaries is provided. The system includes a droplet spray subsystem configured to create molten alloy droplets and direct the molten alloy droplets to a surface, a spray subsystem configured to direct a spray of an agent at deposited droplets on the surface. The agent creates insulation layers on the deposited droplets such that the droplets form a material having domains with insulated boundaries on the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/507447 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Casting of Metals; Casting of Other Substances by the Same Processes or Devices B22D 23/003 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Working Metallic Powder; Manufacture of Articles From Metallic Powder; Making Metallic Powder B22F 3/115 (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 4/18 (20130101) C23C 6/00 (20130101) Magnets; Inductances; Transformers; Selection of Materials for Their Magnetic Properties H01F 1/24 (20130101) H01F 3/08 (20130101) H01F 41/0246 (20130101) Technical Subjects Covered by Former US Classification Y10T 428/24413 (20150115) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09365825 | Turner et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Taiga Biotechnologies, Inc. (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | TAIGA BIOTECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Aurora, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Curtis Turner (Denver, Colorado); Yosef Refaeli (Denver, Colorado); Gregory Bird (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for manipulating and expanding stem cell populations, including adult stem cells, the cells produced by such methods, and various protein constructs related thereto. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/795659 |
| 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 | Peptides C07K 14/82 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 5/0647 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12N 2501/22 (20130101) C12N 2501/26 (20130101) C12N 2501/125 (20130101) C12N 2501/145 (20130101) C12N 2501/606 (20130101) C12N 2501/998 (20130101) C12N 2501/2303 (20130101) C12N 2501/2306 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09367127 | Schaefer |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Raymond Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system enables a user to control an electronic device by moving parts of the face, including the eyes. Optical emitters and optical detectors are used to reflect light from the relevant parts of the user's face. Pattern matching or approximation of a pointing location are used to define the control input to the electronic device based on the user's motions. Visual feedback is optionally provided to the user during the controller's actions. Additional sensor elements are optionally provided to improve performance of the system. Hardware and software elements are combined to provide for the specified control actions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 13/999891 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 3/013 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Recognition of Data; Presentation of Data; Record Carriers; Handling Record Carriers G06K 9/00597 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09367488 | Ardalan |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Sasan Ardalan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microelectronics Research Development Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sasan Ardalan (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to both a method and device for booting up a device and online scrubbing utilizing a system on chip appliqué sensor interface module in a Space Plug-and-Play Avionics environment that incorporates Radiation Hardened by Design components. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/288955 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 09368208 | Marshall et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Research Foundation for the State University of New York STOR University at Buffalo (Amherst, New York); Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); The Research Foundation For The State University of New York University At Buffalo (Amherst, New York); Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marshall (Dallas, Texas); Jonathan P. Bird (Buffalo, New York); Uttam Singisetti (East Amherst, New York); Dmitri E. Nikonov (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-volatile memory circuit includes an SRAM cell with magnetoelectric or ferroelectric structures for maintaining data within the SRAM cell even with power off. In some implementations, the magnetoelectric and ferroelectric structures can be programmed using a NOR or tristate gate coupled to an internal state of the SRAM cell. In other implementations, the magnetoelectric and ferroelectric structures can be configured as programmable resistors in the cross-coupled signal path of the SRAM inverters. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2015 |
| APPL NO | 14/690923 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static Stores G11C 5/08 (20130101) G11C 11/419 (20130101) G11C 14/0081 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09368428 | Chitnis et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Ashay Chitnis (Goleta, California); James Ibbetson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | CREE, INC. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashay Chitnis (Goleta, California); James Ibbetson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating semiconductor and electronic devices at the wafer level is described. In this method, dielectric material is used to wafer bond a device wafer to a submount wafer, after which vias can be structured into the submount wafer and dielectric bonding material to access contact pads on the bonded surface of the device wafer. The vias may subsequently be filled with electrically and thermally conducting material to provide electrical contacts to the device and improve the thermal properties of the finished device, respectively. The post-bonding process described provides a method for fabricating a variety of electronic and semiconductor devices, particularly light emitting diodes with electrical contacts at the bottom of the chip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732559 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor Devices; Electric Solid State Devices Not Otherwise Provided for H01L 23/481 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H01L 33/64 (20130101) H01L 33/0079 (20130101) H01L 33/382 (20130101) H01L 33/647 (20130101) H01L 2924/00 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/0002 (20130101) H01L 2924/3011 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09370096 | Frey et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margaret Frey (Ithaca, New York); Daehwan Cho (Ithaca, New York); SangGap Lee (Daejeon, South Korea); Chae Un Kim (Ithaca, New York); Nikolas Hoepker (Ithaca, New York); Mark W. Tate (Ithaca, New York); Meryem Oznur Pehlivaner Kara (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are conducting polymer nanofibers, methods of making conducting polymer nanofibers, and uses thereof. The conducting polymer nanofibers can be formed by, for example, electrospinning, force spinning, and centrifugal spinning using a spinning dope. The conducting polymer nanofibers can be used in devices, such as a radiation detecting device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 13/863548 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than by Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds C08G 2261/51 (20130101) C08G 2261/94 (20130101) C08G 2261/1424 (20130101) C08G 2261/3223 (20130101) Compositions of Macromolecular Compounds C08L 25/18 (20130101) C08L 29/04 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) C08L 65/00 (20130101) Mechanical Methods or Apparatus in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons D01D 5/0038 (20130101) D01D 5/0046 (20130101) Chemical Features in the Manufacture of Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles or Ribbons; Apparatus Specially Adapted for the Manufacture of Carbon Filaments D01F 6/44 (20130101) Cables; Conductors; Insulators; Selection of Materials for Their Conductive, Insulating or Dielectric Properties H01B 1/127 (20130101) Printed Circuits; Casings or Constructional Details of Electric Apparatus; Manufacture of Assemblages of Electrical Components H05K 1/09 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H05K 1/16 (20130101) H05K 2201/0278 (20130101) H05K 2201/0281 (20130101) H05K 2201/10151 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| APPLICANT(S) | Qinglin Wu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qinglin Wu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing lost circulation in drilling wells employs composite materials containing an engineering thermoplastic polymer and mineral fibers. Optionally the composites may also include other components such as calcium carbonate and blending agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/375835 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 8/487 (20130101) C09K 8/508 (20130101) C09K 8/5045 (20130101) C09K 2208/08 (20130101) Earth Drilling, e.g Deep Drilling; Obtaining Oil, Gas, Water, Soluble or Meltable Materials or a Slurry of Minerals From Wells E21B 21/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP26833 | Deng et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Marianna, Florida) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Marianna, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhanao Deng (Riverview, Florida); Brent K. Harbaugh (Bradenton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Fiesta’, characterized by its compact mounding growth habit, fancy-type heart-shaped leaves that have a large white center, multiple red to greyed purple mid and primary veins, netted greyed-purple secondary veins, and bright red coloration along the mid and primary veins, and relatively dwarf plants that are attractive in containers and perform well in sunny landscapes. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 30, 2016 |
| APPL NO | 14/998661 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 09364563 | Fujii et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | MOLECULAR EXPRESS, INC. (Rancho Dominquez, California); THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (Oakland, California); MOLECULAR EXPRESS, INC. (Rancho Dominguez, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Fujii (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Francis C. Szoka, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Douglas S. Watson (Harrisonburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to liposomal vaccine compositions, methods for the manufacture thereof, and methods for the use thereof to stimulate an immune response in an animal. These compositions comprise dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (“DMPC”); either dimyristoylphosphatidylglycerol (“DMPG”) or dimyristoyltrimethylammonium propane (“DMTAP”) or both DMPC and DMTAP; and at least one sterol derivative providing a covalent anchor for one or more immunogenic polypeptide(s) or carbohydrate(s). |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/320278 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Preparations for Medical, Dental, or Toilet Purposes A61K 9/1272 (20130101) A61K 39/07 (20130101) A61K 39/12 (20130101) A61K 39/145 (20130101) A61K 39/385 (20130101) A61K 47/48046 (20130101) A61K 47/48123 (20130101) A61K 47/48815 (20130101) Original (OR) Class A61K 47/48823 (20130101) A61K 2039/60 (20130101) A61K 2039/627 (20130101) A61K 2039/6018 (20130101) A61K 2039/55555 (20130101) A61K 2039/55572 (20130101) Steroids C07J 9/00 (20130101) C07J 41/0055 (20130101) C07J 43/003 (20130101) Microorganisms or Enzymes; Compositions Thereof; Propagating, Preserving, or Maintaining Microorganisms; Mutation or Genetic Engineering; Culture Media C12N 7/00 (20130101) C12N 2740/16134 (20130101) C12N 2760/16134 (20130101) C12N 2770/00011 (20130101) C12N 2770/00034 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09369441 | Lal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reshma Lal (Hillsboro, Oregon); Pradeep M. Pappachan (Hillsboro, Oregon); Krystof C. Zmudzinski (Forest Grove, Oregon); Micah J. Sheller (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed to an end-to-end secure communication system wherein, in addition to encrypting transmissions between clients, communication-related operations occurring within each client may also be secured. Each client may comprise a secure processing environment to process encrypted communication information received from other clients and locally-captured media information for transmission to other clients. The secure processing environment may include resources to decrypt received encrypted communication information and to process the communication information into media information for presentation by the client. The secure processing environment may also operate in reverse to provide locally recorded audio, image, video, etc. to other clients. Encryption protocols may be employed at various stages of information processing in the client to help ensure that information being transferred between the processing resources cannot be read, copied, altered, etc. In one example implementation, a server may manage interaction between clients, provision encryption keys, etc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 04, 2013 |
| APPL NO | 14/127533 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 9/14 (20130101) H04L 9/3223 (20130101) H04L 63/08 (20130101) H04L 63/062 (20130101) H04L 63/0428 (20130101) Original (OR) Class H04L 2209/60 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 09367293 | Halim et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Hawthorne, New York); Kung-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sai Wu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Vibhore Kumar (Hawthorne, New York); Kung-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Sai Wu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enabling compiler assisted parallelization of one or more stream processing operators in a stream processing application, which consists of a data flow graph with operators as vertices connected by streams. The method includes specifying a parallelized version of one or more of the operators, with a parameterized degree of parallelism, in the stream application, evaluating whether or not to use the parallelized operator, deciding the degree of parallelism of the parallelized operator, if there is a need for a parallelized operator. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/525917 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 8/45 (20130101) Original (OR) Class |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09367501 | Idziorek et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Joseph R. Idziorek (Ames, Iowa); Vibhore Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Idziorek (Ames, Iowa); Vibhore Kumar (Atlanta, Georgia); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of data streams from plurality of sources, distributing the data streams to a plurality of sinks on multiple hosts, receiving load information indicating a load on at least one of the plurality of sinks and adjusting the distribution of the data stream accordingly and instructing the plurality of sinks to write the data streams to a distributed data store. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/293822 |
| ART UNIT | 2458 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric Digital Data Processing G06F 13/385 (20130101) Original (OR) Class Transmission of Digital Information, e.g Telegraphic Communication H04L 47/125 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 09365691 | Seo et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Dong-Kyun Seo (Chandler, Arizona); Alex Volosin (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, A BODY CORPORATE OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong-Kyun Seo (Chandler, Arizona); Alex Volosin (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous materials are fabricated using interpenetrating inorganic-organic composite gels. A mixture or precursor solution including an inorganic gel precursor, an organic polymer gel precursor, and a solvent is treated to form an inorganic wet gel including the organic polymer gel precursor and the solvent. The inorganic wet gel is then treated to form a composite wet gel including an organic polymer network in the body of the inorganic wet gel, producing an interpenetrating inorganic-organic composite gel. The composite wet gel is dried to form a composite material including the organic polymer network and an inorganic network component. The composite material can be treated further to form a porous composite material, a porous polymer or polymer composite, a porous metal oxide, and other porous materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/814031 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Non-metallic Elements; Compounds Thereof; C01B 13/32 (20130101) C01B 31/02 (20130101) Compounds of the Metals Beryllium, Magnesium, Aluminium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium, Thorium, or of the Rare-earth Metals C01F 7/34 (20130101) Compounds Containing Metals Not Covered by Subclasses C01D or C01F C01G 19/02 (20130101) C01G 25/02 (20130101) C01G 30/004 (20130101) Indexing Scheme Relating to Structural and Physical Aspects of Solid Inorganic Compounds C01P 2002/54 (20130101) C01P 2002/72 (20130101) C01P 2002/84 (20130101) C01P 2004/04 (20130101) C01P 2006/12 (20130101) C01P 2006/14 (20130101) C01P 2006/16 (20130101) Acyclic, Carbocyclic or Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium or Tellurium C07F 5/068 (20130101) C07F 7/003 (20130101) C07F 7/006 (20130101) C07F 9/902 (20130101) Working-up; General Processes of Compounding; After-treatment Not Covered by Subclasses C08B, C08C, C08F, C08G or C08H C08J 3/075 (20130101) C08J 9/00 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C08J 2361/00 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09365893 | Johnson et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Eric A. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Guowen Liu (Cary, North Carolina); Michael R. Miller (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Guowen Liu (Cary, North Carolina); Michael R. Miller (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for the high-throughput discovery and genotyping of nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA, including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) and short deletions and insertions. These methods take advantage of the fact that differences in DNA sequence result in the differential presence of restriction endonuclease digestion sites. Approaches involve isolation of short DNA fragments (“tags”) near restriction endonuclease sites. The presence of one (or two) of these tags indicates that a site was present. Regions of DNA with a restriction site in only one individual create an opportunity for primer extension to produce labeled material, which can be assayed on a platform that employs a collection of nucleic acids. Efficient variant detection microarrays and bead libraries are provided that contain genomic tags with different representations between two populations, so that most elements in the collection of nucleic acids contain a SNP between populations of interest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/914099 |
| 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 1/683 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C12Q 1/683 (20130101) C12Q 1/683 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2525/191 (20130101) C12Q 2533/101 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2563/131 (20130101) C12Q 2565/501 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 09365701 | Nick et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Robert J. Nick (Pepperell, Massachusetts); John R. Linton (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | QD VISION, INC. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Nick (Pepperell, Massachusetts); John R. Linton (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle comprising nanoparticles encapsulated within a host material is disclosed, wherein the particle includes a coating disposed over at least a portion of the outer surface of the particle. In certain embodiments, nanoparticles have light-emissive properties. In certain embodiments, the coating covers all or substantially all of the outer surface of the particle. The coating can comprise a resin having low oxygen permeability. In certain embodiments, the coating comprises a polyvinyl alcohol compound. In certain embodiments, the coating comprises a polyvinylidene dichloride compound. Other embodiments relate to a powder comprising a particle of the invention, a composition including a particle of the invention, a formulation including a particle of the invention, a coating comprising a particle of the invention, a method for making a particle of the invention, and products and applications including a particle of the invention. In preferred embodiments, a nanoparticle comprises a semiconductor nanocrystal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2012 |
| APPL NO | 13/414417 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Use of Inorganic or Non-macromolecular Organic Substances as Compounding Ingredients C08K 9/10 (20130101) Original (OR) Class 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 5/22 (20130101) Materials for Miscellaneous Applications, Not Provided for Elsewhere C09K 11/02 (20130101) C09K 11/025 (20130101) C09K 11/70 (20130101) C09K 11/565 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 09365456 | Shah et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Surendra P. Shah (Evanston, Illinois); Maria S. Konsta-Gdoutos (Wilmette, Illinois); Zoi S. Metaxa (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Surendra P. Shah (Evanston, Illinois); Maria S. Konsta-Gdoutos (Wilmette, Illinois); Zoi S. Metaxa (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite cement material is prepared from cement material and carbon nanotubes, wherein the carbon nanotubes are present from about 0.02 wt % to about 0.10 wt % based on weight of cement material. The process for preparing such cement compositions includes sonicating a mixture of a surfactant, water, and carbon nanotubes; and blending the dispersion and the cement material to form a cementitious paste. The process may also include curing the cementitious paste. The composite cement materials are useful in a variety of cement applications where a reduction in nanoscale flaws and fractures is desired. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322842 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| 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 14/026 (20130101) C04B 14/026 (20130101) C04B 24/2647 (20130101) C04B 28/02 (20130101) Original (OR) Class C04B 28/02 (20130101) C04B 28/02 (20130101) C04B 40/0028 (20130101) C04B 40/0028 (20130101) C04B 2103/40 (20130101) C04B 2111/34 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 09364951 | De Sapio et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent De Sapio (Westlake Village, California); Heiko Hoffmann (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a system for controlling motion and constraint forces in a robotic system, the system infers constraints, at each time step, from a sensed state of robot/environment interactions. The inferred constraints are appended to known internal robot constraints to generate constrained dynamics. Properties associated with the constrained dynamics are determined provided to a controller. Inequality conditions associated with maintaining desired robot/environment interactions are also determined. A set of equality conditions based on the inequality conditions are then specified. The set of equality conditions are aggregated with any internal robot constraints to generate aggregated conditions that are provided to the controller. Joint torque commands are then generated for the robot based on the aggregated conditions and a specified task and null space motion command. Finally, the robot is actuated based on the joint torque commands. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/513583 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 9/0006 (20130101) B25J 9/16 (20130101) Original (OR) Class B25J 9/1633 (20130101) Control or Regulating Systems in General; Functional Elements of Such Systems; Monitoring or Testing Arrangements for Such Systems or Elements G05B 19/19 (20130101) G05B 2219/34351 (20130101) G05B 2219/36432 (20130101) G05B 2219/40359 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 09366611 | Jung |
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| APPLICANT(S) | Noah Jung (California, Maryland) |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary at the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah Jung (California, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for mapping liner wear of a bearing around the circumference of the bearing which includes a rotary indexer that can hold the bearing, a shaft, a force applying mechanism, a rotating mechanism, a digital displacement indicator, and a recorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2014 |
| APPL NO | 14/496736 |
| ART UNIT | 2854 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Shafts; Flexible Shafts; Elements or Crankshaft Mechanisms; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing Elements; Bearings F16C 41/007 (20130101) F16C 2233/00 (20130101) Testing Static or Dynamic Balance of Machines or Structures; Testing of Structures or Apparatus, Not Otherwise Provided for G01M 13/04 (20130101) Investigating or Analysing Materials by Determining Their Chemical or Physical Properties G01N 3/56 (20130101) Original (OR) Class G01N 2203/0033 (20130101) |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
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FUNDED BY
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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